Stories in the Ice

27845Much like the rings of a tree can tell us about its particular history, air bubbles trapped within large bodies of ice reveal secrets about our past climate and atmospheric composition.

Scientists can extract a wealth of information by drilling thousands of meters down into earth’s massive continental ice sheets and extracting ice cores. By examining the cores, they can go back in time to periods much colder and considerably warmer than today.

Jeff Severinghaus from Scripps Institution of Oceanography describes how he delves into earth’s climate past and what he’s learned. “Humans have changed the atmosphere due to burning fossil fuels and you see that very clearly in the ice core records,” he explains. While we may not see dramatic climate changes during our lifetimes, our grandchildren most certainly will.

Don’t miss this eye-opening look into our past — and our future.

Watch Stories in the Ice: What can past climate tell us about our future?

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The Good Life: Final Episodes

What’s the key to a good life? A quality education, according to UC San Diego Chancellor, Pradeep Khosla. Engineering Dean, Al Pisano, takes it a step further and presents his case for good works in engineering. Don’t miss the final episodes of The Good Life.

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Communicating Through the Cancer Journey

Communication professor Wayne Beach of San Diego State University and Deborah Mayer, an advanced practice oncology nurse from the University of North Carolina, explore why talking about cancer is so difficult for patients, their families and their healthcare providers.

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Careers in Biotech Patent Law

Learn about current issues facing intellectual property (IP) professionals in the life science industry and explore career opportunities for scientists seeking to remain close to cutting edge discovery without being in the lab.

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World Cinema Saturdays:Fritz Lang

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Former architecture student Fritz Lang used cinema to explore a personal fascination with, in his words, “cruelty, fear, horror and death.” His film-making style is characterized by grandeur of scale, striking visual compositions and sound effects, suspense, and narrative economy — including minimalist techniques for enlisting the audience’s imagination to evoke horror. A progenitor of the films noir of the 1950’s, Lang was preoccupied throughout his oeuvre with the dark side of human nature: vengeance, violence, and the criminal mind. His heroes are brought down by injustice, bad women, or the iron laws of fate. In the world of Fritz Lang, hilarity does not ensue.

Don’t miss this week’s movies:

1761 Spies
Agent No 326 is ordered to stop a spy-ring, but he falls in love with one of the spies, Sonja.
(Germany, 1928, 142 mins, dir. Fritz Lang, with Rudolph Klein-Rogge & Gerda Maurus, Silent)


1754Metropolis
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city’s mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
(Germany, 1926, 118m., d. Fritz Lang, w/Brigitte Helm & Alfred Abel, Silent)


1742Siegfried
The teutonic Knight Siegfried, son of King Sigmund, has many grand quests. Full of magic swords, enchanted hoods, and powerful amulets, at a time when the world is full of dragons, dwarves, and valiant knights. Told like Spencer’s “The Fairy Queen.”
(Germany, 1924, B&W, 96 mins, dir. Fritz Lang, Paul Richter & Margareta Schoen, Silent with English titles)


1742Kriemhilde’s Revenge
After Siegfried’s death kreimhild, mourns, but soon the grande old tale picks up pace when she is wooed by the conquerer Etzel (or Attila), king of the Huns. Now Kreimhild plots revenge against Siegfried’s killer.
(Germany, 1924, 91 mins, dir. Fritz Lang, Paul Richter & Margareta Schoen, Silent with English titles)


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Cesar Chavez and the Farmworker Movement

28138It began with 70 strikers.

On March 17, 1966 after a stand-off with the Delano police, Cesar Chavez led La Peregrinacíon (The Pilgrimage), a march of Delano grape strikers and volunteers onto the highway en route to Sacramento. Their goal was to meet with the governor of California to protest the hazardous working conditions of farm workers and to call attention to their struggle for union recognition. They walked nearly 340 miles in 25 days.

By Easter Sunday, the march reached Sacramento and the crowd had swelled to more than 10,000 supporters.

In this presentation of The Library Channel, The UC San Diego Library announces the purchase of the Farmworker Movement Documentation Project, an online archive containing thousands of documents related to the history of the United Farm Workers’ union and related events. A short video on the historic March to Sacramento in 1966 is shown followed by a discussion with two participants in the march: Roberto Bustos and LeRoy Chatfield, key advisors to Cesar Chávez.

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World Cinema Saturdays: Yasujiro Ozu

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The stylistically austere films of Yasujiro Ozu examine the basic struggles that we all face in life: the cycles of birth and death, the transition from childhood to adulthood, and the tensions between tradition and modernity. The changing seasons, often represented in the film titles, are a symbolic backdrop for the evolving transitions of human experience. Seen together, Ozu’s influential oeuvre amounts to one of the most profound visions of family life in the history of cinema.

Don’t miss this week’s movies:

1761 Floating Weeds
A troupe of travelling players arrive at a small seaport in the south of Japan. Komajuro Arashi, the aging master of the troupe, goes to visit his old flame Oyoshi and their son . But Jealousy in one of the actors leads to problems.
(Japan, 1953, 134 mins, dir. Yasujiro Ozu, with Ganjiro Nakamura & Machiko Kyo, Japanese with English subtitles).


1754 Late Spring
Noriko is 27 years old and still living with her widowed father. Everybody tries to talk her into marrying, but Noriko wants to stay taking care of her father.
(Japan, 1949, B&W, 108 mins, dir. Yasujiro Ozu Chisu Ryu & Setsuko Hara, Japanese with English subtitles)


1742Tokyo Story
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their children and are confronted by indifference, ingradtitude and selfishness. When the parents are packed off to a resort by their impatient children, the film deepens into an unbearably moving meditation on mortality.
(Japan, 1953, 134 mins, dir. Yasujiro Ozu, with Chishu Ryu & Chieko Higashiyama, Japanese with English subtitles).


1742 Good Morning
This movie takes a look at a very Westernized suburban Japan in the late 50’s. It focuses mainly on the daily lives of a small community that is dramatically effected when two boys stop speaking in protest to their parents not giving them a tv.
(Japan, 1959, B&W, 94 mins, dir. Yasujiro Ozu, with Keiji Sada & Yoshiko Kuga, Japanese with English subtitles)


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