Hot Takes by the UCLA Heat Lab

May 24 2024 43 mins

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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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Ep 5 - Bringing the Heat to Early Education with the Heat Lab Education Team

May 24 2024 42 mins

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 lesson plans about thermal inequality for students ranging from 4th graders to high schoolers. From mapping schoolyard shade to brainstorming cool inventions, join us for a behind-the-scenes

Ep 4 - Dismantling Carceral Ecologies with Dr. Nicholas Shapiro and Kate McInerny

Feb 22 2024 51 mins

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 does just that - examining unjust environmental conditions in the prison industrial complex. Join us, Dr. Shapiro, and special guest Kate McInerny we discuss the lab’s community dri

Ep 3 - Unveiling the Hot Truth about Food Trucks with Sofia Sabra and Olivia Toledo

Dec 11 2023 41 mins

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 don't have to. Join us in an episode with Sofia Sabra and Olivia Toledo as we unravel the often-overlooked challenges faced by food truck workers and brainstorm potential solutions.Check

Ep 2 - Throwing Shade at Shade Inequality with Sam Bloch

Oct 13 2023 35 mins

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 exhausted commuter hoping to grab a seat under a shaded bus shelter on the way home from work, everyone needs shade. In this episode with journalist Sam Bloch, we learn that not everyone has

Ep 1 - (re)Defining Heat with Dr. Bharat Venkat

Jun 23 2023 44 mins

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 Lab, an interdisciplinary effort to study the experience of thermal inequality. His upcoming book project involves engaging with nearly 200 years of heat research to tell a synthetic s