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How Tanghulu Went From a Chinese Street Snack to a Colorful Controversy
Culinary magazine Bon Appétit spoke with Anthropology Professor Nancy Chen about the history and medicinal uses for traditional Tanghulu skewers made from hawthorn.
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Successful reforestation is keeping the Eastern U.S. cooler
For an article about the positive impacts of reforestation, Scientific American interviewed Environmental Studies Professor Karen Holl to clarify under which conditions reforestation campaigns are appropriate and most likely to provide benefits.
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By running again, Biden gambling with American democracy
Professor and Chair of Politics Daniel Wirls wrote an opinion column for the Santa Cruz Sentinel about the Democratic Party's 2024 election strategy.
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TEDxSantaCruz announces speakers for first conference in five years
Economics Professor Galina Hale and Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela are among the selected speakers for an upcoming TEDxSanta Cruz event, which will also feature UCSC alumni and a current graduate student.
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Dozens of Artists, 3 Critics: Who’s Afraid of the Whitney Biennial 2024?
University of California, Santa Cruz Arts and Humanities Professor Sir Isaac Julien’s masterful video and sculpture installation is a highlight of the show. It remakes the dialogue between the Harlem Renaissance philosopher Alain Locke and the collector-philanthropist Albert C. Barnes, and there is an absorbing discussion of how Europeans and Americans viewed African sculpture — and the responses of…
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New succulent species named by UC Santa Cruz botanist
Emeritus Director of Research at the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum & Botanic Garden Stephen McCabe has helped name yet another succulent species in the genus Dudleya, called Dudleya chasmophyta, or the crevice-loving Dudleya, which is found exclusively on a cliff band in Orange County. Additional coverage in the East Bay Times and Mercury News.
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Rare screening of Talking Heads concert film coming to Santa Cruz
UC Santa Cruz partnered with San Francisco’s Noise Pop Industries for unique showing of the remastered version of the Talking Heads concert-movie "Stop Making Sense"
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Does Jupiter’s moon Europa have a habitable ocean, or not?
Francis Nimmo, a planetary scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, noted that our own moon is still seismically active, even though models suggested it shouldn’t be. He said: "The moon is one place where we know we have tidally driven quakes."
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Proposed fishing bans spark debate in Santa Cruz County
UC Santa Cruz ecologist Mark Carr completed some of the analyses of how Marine Protected Areas have impacted the Central Coast over the past decade. Carr said fishing bans might help kelp forests in Southern California, but won’t have the same impact in Monterey Bay.
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Planet-Eating Stars Are Surprisingly Common, New Study Suggests
The circumstantial evidence tentatively suggests that 8 percent (or more) of all stars likely to be planet-devourers, says Ricardo Yarza, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. But “estimating this rate is quite challenging.”