Monthly Archives: March, 2010
Stepping Into Your Future
Public education in the U.S. is going through a crisis. Throughout the state the controversial California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE) has been accused of disadvantaging females and minorities. Dr. Beth Yeager, director of the Center for Literacy & Inquiry in Networking Communities at UC Santa Barbara and Stephanie Couch director of [...]
Reconsidering religion, science and the mind
For centuries religion and science have sat at opposite ends of the academic table. UC Santa Barbara professor and president of the American Academy of Religion Dr. Ann Taves aims to bring the two fields a little closer. She was in studio today to discuss her new book Religious Experience Reconsidered: A Building-Block Approach to [...]
UCSB online security group foils criminal network
Zombie computers lurking in the dark corners of the Internet form a matrix of data-snatching machines. These botnets are constantly trolling for banks account numbers, passwords and personal data. Dr. Giovanni Vigna, one of the UC Santa Barbara researchers who recently took down one of the largest of these online criminal networks explained just how [...]
Privacy & social networking in Web 2.0
Online social media has brought the digitization of our lives to new heights in just a few short years with the explosion of tools like Facebook and the adoption of Internet-ready smart-phones. But all of this information sharing comes at a price: privacy. Today on the show, UC Santa Barbara Computer Science Professor Dr. Ben [...]
UCSB team discovers likely kidney disease drug
Worldwide, 12 million people suffer from autosomal-dominant polycystic kidney disease or ADPKD. In the U.S. the number is larger than those affected by Down syndrome, cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy and sickle cell anemia combined. UC Santa Barbara’s Dr. Thomas Weimbs, associate professor and director of the Weimbs Lab joined Levi and Tim this morning to [...]
