Hot Takes by the UCLA Heat Lab
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As global warming worsens, heat increasingly impacts people's daily lives - influencing health, behavior, and more. But, we often aren’t very conscious about heat and knowledge of it doesn’t get shared beyond academia and specialized fields. In every episode, our hosts engage different researchers, activists, or community members to share their work and how it can be applied in the real world.
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S1E7 Ep 7 - Winter Warmerland
In this Hot Takes special mini-episode, we take a look at the concerning weather events of 2025, and how they led to the heartbreaking destruction within the Los Angeles community due to the…
S1E6 Ep 6 - Getting the Scoop on Metropolitan Heat with Dr. Kara Schlichting
This episode, join us as we learn more about heat through a sensorial and historical lens from our guest Dr. Kara Schlichting. Through her research, Dr. Schlichting delves into the individual’s…
S1E5 Ep 5 - Bringing the Heat to Early Education with the Heat Lab Education Team
There is a critical need for more in-depth environmental curricula to prepare students for the climate-impacted world they'll soon inherit. The UCLA Heat Lab's education team creates digestible…
S1E4 Ep 4 - Dismantling Carceral Ecologies with Dr. Nicholas Shapiro and Kate McInerny
Although many of us are familiar with mass incarceration and environmental injustice as separate issues, we often don’t put the two together. Through his Carceral Ecologies lab, Dr. Nicholas Shapiro…
S1E3 Ep 3 - Unveiling the Hot Truth about Food Trucks with Sofia Sabra and Olivia Toledo
Many of us love food trucks, but the food we enjoy often conceal a hidden reality—the workers enduring extreme heat. This is thermal inequality, the idea that some people bear the heat so others…
S1E2 Ep 2 - Throwing Shade at Shade Inequality with Sam Bloch
If you live in Los Angeles, or another super-hot city, you know how important shade is. Whether it’s a dog-owner trying to hop from one patch of shade to another to prevent burned paws, or an…
S1E1 Ep 1 - (re)Defining Heat with Dr. Bharat Venkat
Heat continues to increase in frequency, duration, and intensity. Yet it remains an overlooked (and under researched) part of our lives. Dr. Bharat Venkat is the founder and director of the UCLA Heat…
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Hot Takes by the UCLA Heat Lab has published 7 episodes since June 2023, covering topics in Education, Science.
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