UCLA-Caltech collaboration demonstrates how we focus our thoughts Every day our brains are flooded by stimulation — sounds, sights and smells. At the same time, we are constantly engaged in an inner dialogue, ruminating about the past, musing about the future. Somehow the brain filters all this input instantly, selecting some things for long- or short-term storage, discarding others and focusing in on what's most important at any given instant. How this competition is resolved across multiple sensory and cognitive regions in the brain is not known; nor is it clear how internal thoughts and attention decide what wins in this continual contest of stimulation. Now a collaboration between UCLA scientists and colleagues from the California Institute of Technology has shown that humans can actually regulate the activity of specific neurons in the brain, increasing the firing rate of some while decreasing the rate of others. And study subjects were able to do so by manipulating an image on a computer screen using only their thoughts. Reporting in the Oct. 28 issue of the journal Nature, UCLA professor of neurosurgery Itzhak Fried and Caltech neuroscientist Christof Koch, along with colleagues, recorded the activity of single neurons in patients implanted with intracranial electrodes (for clinical reasons) and demonstrated that humans regulate the activity of their neurons to intentionally alter the outcome of all this stimulation. Learn more at www.neurosurgery.ucla.edu.

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Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a novel, continuously running camera that captures images roughly a thousand times faster than any existing conventional camera. In a paper in the April 30 issue of Nature, post-doctoral scholar Keisuke Goda, graduate student Kevin Tsia and team leader Bahram Jalali, a professor of electrical engineering, describe an entirely new approach to imaging that does not require a traditional CCD (charge-coupled device) or CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) video camera. Building on more than a decade of research on photonic time stretch, a technique for capturing elusive events, the team has demonstrated a camera that captures images at some 6 million frames per second. For more information, please visit: www.engineer.ucla.edu

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Yoram Cohen is a professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at UCLA. Follow him around UCLA's campus as he discusses water desalination and the possibilities of solving the global water crisis.

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Psychology M176 - Communication and Conflict in Couples and Families Lecture Title: "Course Introduction" April 1st, 2009 Professor Benjamin Karney lecture on families and couples. This course examines relationships and their connection to individual psychopathology, marital discord, and family disruption Some clips and images may have been blurred or removed to avoid copyright infringement. * See all the UCLA Psychology M176 - Communication and Conflict in Couples and Families classes in this series: www.youtube.com * See more courses from UCLA: www.youtube.com * See more from UCLA's main channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com

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Professor Richard Rumelt says its simply the focus of resources on business objectives. Visit UCLA Anderson School of Management www.anderson.ucla.edu Click here for more faculty videos from UCLA Anderson School of Management www.anderson.ucla.edu

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Psychology M176 - Communication and Conflict in Couples and Families Lecture Title: "Methods" April 3rd, 2009 Professor Benjamin Karney lecture on families and couples. This course examines relationships and their connection to individual psychopathology, marital discord, and family disruption Some clips and images may have been blurred or removed to avoid copyright infringement. * See all the UCLA Psychology M176 - Communication and Conflict in Couples and Families classes in this series: www.youtube.com * See more courses from UCLA: www.youtube.com * See more from UCLA's main channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com

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Terence Tao was a seven year-old high school student when he began taking calculus classes. By age 20 he had received a Ph.D. from Princeton and joined the UCLA faculty. In 2006 he won the Fields Medal in Mathematics and a MacArthur "genius" grant. Watch Tao talk about how he approaches problem-solving.

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Approximately 4000 students in the UCLA College of Letters & Science received their bachelor's degrees in Drake Stadium on June 10, 2011, before an audience of about 10000 friends and family members. The ceremony was dedicated to public service in the global community, and the keynote speaker was Aaron S. Williams, director of the Peace Corps. Commencement.ucla.edu

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William K. Black, the former litigation director of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board who investigated the Savings and Loan disaster of the 1980s, discusses the latest scandal in which a single bank, IndyMac, lost more money than was lost during the entire Savings and Loan crisis. He will examine the political failure behind this economic disaster, in which not only massive fraud has taken place, but a vast transfer of wealth from the poor and middle class continues as the federal government bails out the seemingly reckless, if not the criminal. Black teaches economics and law at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and is the author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One.

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UCLA alumnus Ira Ehrenpreis is helping Tesla Motors produce the first highway-ready electric sports car. Join Jeremy Snyder, Tesla's West LA General Manager, for a look at the red roadster: 135 miles per gallon and zero to 60 in 3.9 seconds.

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Jacob Marschak Memorial Lecture by Nobel Laureate Gerald Edelman. Visit UCLA Anderson School of Management www.anderson.ucla.edu Click here for more Distinguished Speaker Videos from UCLA Anderson School of Management www.anderson.ucla.edu

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UCLA computer science professor Judea Pearl was honored March 12, 2010 at an all-day workshop celebrating his influential contributions in artificial intelligence and related sciences. The event, held at the UCLA Faculty Center, coincided with the 25th anniversary in which Pearl introduced the term Bayesian Network -- a graphical model of probabilistic and causal relationships named after the 18th Century English mathematician Thomas Bayes. At the event, Pearl was presented with a Festschrift entitled "Heuristic, Probability and Causality: A Tribute to Judea Pearl" bayes.cs.ucla.edu

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Noah Goldstein on Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive. Visit UCLA Anderson School of Management www.anderson.ucla.edu Click here for more faculty videos from UCLA Anderson School of Management www.anderson.ucla.edu

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Psychology M176 - Communication and Conflict in Couples and Families Lecture Title: "Attraction" April 17th, 2009 Professor Benjamin Karney lecture on families and couples. This course examines relationships and their connection to individual psychopathology, marital discord, and family disruption. Some clips and images may have been blurred or removed to avoid copyright infringement. * See all the UCLA Psychology M176 - Communication and Conflict in Couples and Families classes in this series: www.youtube.com * See more courses from UCLA: www.youtube.com * See more from UCLA's main channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com

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Professor Felipe Caro describes dynamic assortment and inventory allocation models for fast fashion. Visit UCLA Anderson School of Management www.anderson.ucla.edu Click here for more faculty videos from UCLA Anderson School of Management www.anderson.ucla.edu

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Political Science 30: Politics and Strategy January 15th, 2008 Taught by UCLA's Professor Kathleen Bawn, this courses is an introduction to study of strategic interaction in political applications. Use of game theory and other formal modeling strategies to understand politics are also studied in order to gain a better understanding of politics at large. Winter 2008 * See all the UCLA Political Science 30: Politics and Strategy classes in this series: www.youtube.com * See more courses from UCLA: www.youtube.com * See more from UCLA's main channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com

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Psychology M176 - Communication and Conflict in Couples and Families Lecture Title: "Theories of Intimate Relationships Part 1" April 8th, 2009 Professor Benjamin Karney lecture on families and couples. This course examines relationships and their connection to individual psychopathology, marital discord, and family disruption. Some clips and images may have been blurred or removed to avoid copyright infringement. * See all the UCLA Psychology M176 - Communication and Conflict in Couples and Families classes in this series: www.youtube.com * See more courses from UCLA: www.youtube.com * See more from UCLA's main channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com

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5/15/07 -- The acclaimed filmmaker, performer and writer reads from her book of short stories "No One Belongs Here More Than You." A Q&A with the audience follows the reading. Learn more about the Hammer Museum at UCLA and Hammer Readings at www.hammer.ucla.edu.

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Kenneth Anger, avant-garde filmmaker and author of the infamous Hollywood Babylon series, discusses "The Wickedest Man in the World," Aleister Crowley. A British occultist, hedonist, and author, Crowley inspired a fanatical following in the 20th century through his occult writings.

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Psychology M176 - Communication and Conflict in Couples and Families Lecture Title: "Theories of Intimate Relationships Part 2" April 10th, 2009 Professor Benjamin Karney lecture on families and couples. This course examines relationships and their connection to individual psychopathology, marital discord, and family disruption Some clips and images may have been blurred or removed to avoid copyright infringement. * See all the UCLA Psychology M176 - Communication and Conflict in Couples and Families classes in this series: www.youtube.com * See more courses from UCLA: www.youtube.com * See more from UCLA's main channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com

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7/7/07 -- Amanda Palmer is the singer/songwriter/pianist for The Dresden Dolls, a Boston keyboard/drum duo famous around the globe for straddling the line between Weimar Cabaret and Punk. Originally known as the vocalist for the legendary band Black Flag, Henry Rollins has become a modern day Renaissance man touring the world performing with his own Rollins Band, as an engaging public speaker, and on behalf of the USO. Hammer Conversations is an ongoing series that pair thinkers from a range of disciplines for engaging provacative discussions on culture, science, and the arts. Learn more about the Hammer Museum at UCLA and Hammer Conversations at www.hammer.ucla.edu.

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The Arhoolie Foundation in El Cerrito, Calif., has an archive that includes more than 30000 78 rpm recordings of Mexican and Mexican American music and other performances. With the help of the Los Tigres del Norte Fund at UCLA and the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, those 78s, and a number of the Arhoolie Foundation's 45 rpm recordings, have been digitized as part of the online Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Music at UCLA. (Interviews: Chris Strachwitz, Antonio Cuellar)

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Psychology M176 - Communication and Conflict in Couples and Families Lecture Title: "Individuals in Intimate Relationships" April 22nd, 2009 Professor Benjamin Karney lecture on families and couples. This course examines relationships and their connection to individual psychopathology, marital discord, and family disruption. Some clips and images may have been blurred or removed to avoid copyright infringement. * See all the UCLA Psychology M176 - Communication and Conflict in Couples and Families classes in this series: www.youtube.com * See more courses from UCLA: www.youtube.com * See more from UCLA's main channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com

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In Janet Goodwin's classroom, small talk can be just as important as correct grammar. A lecturer in the Department of Applied Linguistics and TESL since 1986, Goodwin uses video clips of conversational language to instruct international teaching assistants in the oral skills they'll need for teaching - and for chatting. Produced for the New Language Classroom website at www.international.ucla.edu/languages/lab

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Best-selling author shares his vision of world-class products for the world's poorest customers. Visit UCLA Anderson School of Management www.anderson.ucla.edu Click here for more Distinguished Speaker Videos from UCLA Anderson School of Management www.anderson.ucla.edu

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A conversation with William Weldon, CEO and Chairman of Johnson & Johnson. Visit UCLA Anderson School of Management www.anderson.ucla.edu Click here for more Distinguished Speaker Videos from UCLA Anderson School of Management www.anderson.ucla.edu

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Joseph Teran, a professor of Applied Mathematics at UCLA, was named one of the "brightest people alive" by Discover Magazine. Follow him around UCLA's campus as he discusses virtual surgery and the power of applied math studies with Dr. Carmack Holmes of the Center for Advanced Surgical and Interventional Technology (CASIT).

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Professor Sanford Jacoby says significant differences remain in the ways that executives in these nations view employees, shareholders and other stakeholders. Visit UCLA Anderson School of Management www.anderson.ucla.edu Click here for more faculty videos from UCLA Anderson School of Management www.anderson.ucla.edu

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Lecture Title: "Black Political Thought Diversity and Continuity" January 8th, 2009 Mark Q. Sawyer lectures as a part of UCLA's African American Studies Program which seeks to provide students with a comprehensive and multidisciplinary introduction to the crucial sociocultural and social justice issues facing African Americans and their counterparts in other areas of the African diaspora today. Some clips and images may have been blurred or removed to avoid copyright infringement. * See all the UCLA African American Studies M114C classes in this series: www.youtube.com * See more courses from UCLA: www.youtube.com * See more from UCLA's main channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com

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BlackRock Chairman and CEO Larry Fink discusses culture and leadership in financial services. Visit UCLA Anderson School of Management www.anderson.ucla.edu Click here for more Distinguished Speaker Videos from UCLA Anderson School of Management www.anderson.ucla.edu

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A video produced in 2007 introducing the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at UCLA

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Professor Uday Karmarkar describes the rise of service industrialization. Visit UCLA Anderson School of Management www.anderson.ucla.edu Click here for more faculty videos from UCLA Anderson School of Management www.anderson.ucla.edu

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Lecture Title: "Quantum Mechanics" May 28th, 2009Professor Courtenay Raia lectures on science and religion as historical phenomena that have evolved over time. Examines the earlier mind-set before 1700 when into science fitted elements that came eventually to be seen as magical. THe course also question how Western cosmologies became "disenchanted." Magical tradition. Some clips and images may have been blurred or removed to avoid copyright infringement. * See all the UCLA History 2D: Science, Magic, and Religion classes in this series: www.youtube.com * See more courses from UCLA: www.youtube.com * See more from UCLA's main channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com

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Professor William Ouchi explains some basic concepts in corporate governance. Visit UCLA Anderson School of Management www.anderson.ucla.edu Click here for more faculty videos from UCLA Anderson School of Management www.anderson.ucla.edu

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