scientists at the university of california san diego found breast cancer survivors who ate more foodsontaining starch were at a greater risk of recurrence of the disease. the study found carbohydrates in general could raise the chance of reoccurrence. >>> boosting your memory may soon be as easy as popping a pill. doctors at baylor college of medicine say they are a step closer to developing such a pill. they say the key is a molecule called pkr. when the brain molecule is blocked in mice, they developed super memories. they were able to learn a task in one training session. >>> cbs 5 has teamed up to fight hunger in the bay area and some people are pitching in to help, including this company which checked over 16,000 pounds of food. we are rabbi strauss and others, and from the clammed county food alameda county, suzanne. >> it was two huge trucks which people dropped off as they came into the building. it was exciting to see people walking up and kids carrying food and knowing they were go to have the opportunity to participate. >> that's almost 8 tons. were you blown away by all th

and international relations as well as law and study and visual arts studies at the university of california san diego and received his master's degree in international law and the protection of human rights from the university of in the now the ones axel joins us now from our studios in los angeles axl welcome. hired thank you friend you for having me on today thank you for joining us it's an honor to have you with us what's your story your personal story how did you become an act of us what brought you to this moment in time. my personal story i'm originally from mexico from northern part of mexico and sonora i was born and raised my first ten years there but i really am what do you consider a cross border child the new kind of generation that lived in bold size of the border and grew up in both sides of the border my dad's american my mom is is from mexico and i always went back and forth and i saw a lot of the issues that we're fighting for right now particularly within the latino community i saw it growing up while working in restaurants going through college while. work at home and seeing friend

like in san diego, which is now the genomics center at duty in america, has the largest number of nobel prize-winning scientist in any town in the country. they have the university of california, san diego. 700 other i.t. companies. they have all these other things. they have great runners foundation and other foundations that are investing. although mark together on a common plan. that actually works in the modern world. cooperation works in real life. conflict works in politics and news companies. it does. i am not being cutesy here. it does. i'm as guilty as the next person. i bet three cheap history is for everyone series but i get on the ngo work. but anyway come you get the idea. we need the ngos to fill the gap. and the robin hood foundation fills both kind of ngos. the harlem children's zone does both kind of work. so there are differences. do you get the picture. there's a real important role for ngos because they take a lot of heat off of businesses who had to turn a profit, particularly in this tough time. they take a lot of heat off government who want to try certain things, that may be scared of getting too much heat if it fails. >> says states with the laborator

patricia church churchland is a professor of philosophy at the university of california san diego and an adjunct professor at the salk institute. stanislas dehaene is a cognitive neuroscientist and the chair of experimental college of psychiatry at college defrance in paris. timothy wilson is a professor of psychology at the university of virginia and the author of "redirect, the surprising new science of change." nicholas schiff is the jerrod b. katz professor at weill cornell medical college. and once again my co-herself is dr. eric kandel. he is a nobel laureate, a professor at columbia university d a howard hughes medical investigator. this is going to be fun. tell me, is it really true that one of the great questions is about consciouess? >> it is the greatest question in all of science and certainly the deepest question in all of brain science. and the amazing thing is as we sensed in last year's program that this is an area of knowledge that we thought was very primitive and i think what we're going to learn today is that an amazing amount of progress has occurred in the last d

like in san diego which is now the genomics center of activity in america, as the largest number of nobel prize-winning scientist at any time in the country, they have the university of california san diego. they have qualcomm and 700 i.t. companies. at all these, other things, they have the craig venter's foundation and the other foundations that are investing in all of them work together on a common plan. that actually works in the modern world. cooperation works in real life, conflict works in politics and news coverage. it does. i'm not being cutesy here. it does. i'm as guilty as the next person person. spent i don't know if that is a conflict. >> but anyway, you get the idea. we need to ngo to fill the gap. the robin hood foundation funds both kind of ngos. the harlem children's zone does both kind of work. so there are differences, but you get the picture. there's a real important role for ngos here because they take a lot of heat off businesses who have to turn a profit, they take a lot of heat off government who want to try certain things but may be scared of getting too much eat if it failed. spent dates are the laboratory of democracy and the 18th century -- >> and c

. >> reporter: this doctor is a leading nerve disorder specialist at the university of california san diego. >> i've only seen two cases in the last 13 years where it would be appropriate to label a problem of a patient as an ought nom ib nervous system disorder. extremely rare. >> reporter: and it wasn't just a single disease. california watch found that prime hospitals reported unusually high rates of a long list of extremely serious medical conditions, from malignant hyper tension to severe malnutrition. we found one of the strangest examples in rural shaft a county where prime has reported a seeming outbreak of a rare disease. typically seen in children during famines. our investigation led us to this county resident. >> i've never heard that word before. i never heard a doctor, nurse or any other medical personnel tell me that i had that disease. >> reporter: when darlene went to the emergency room at the county regional medical center in early 2010 she was seeking treatment for complications from diabetes. >> my kidneys weren't functioning well. i was retaining fluids. it was causing

. >> reporter: this doctor is a leading nerve disorder specialist at the university of california san diego. >> i've only seen two cases in the last 13 years where it would be appropriate to label a problem of a patient as an ought nom ib nervous system disorder. extremely rare. >> reporter: and it wasn't just a single disease. california watch found that prime hospitals reported unusually high rates of a long list of extremely serious medical conditions, from malignant hyper tension to severe malnutrition. we found one of the strangest examples in rural shaft a county where prime has reported a seeming outbreak of a rare disease. typically seen in children during famines. our investigation led us to this county resident. >> i've never heard that word before. i never heard a doctor, nurse or any other medical personnel tell me that i had that disease. >> reporter: when darlene went to the emergency room at the county regional medical center in early 2010 she was seeking treatment for complications from diabetes. >> my kidneys weren't functioning well. i was retaining fluids. it was causing

nouri al roubini of -- and professor hamilton of the university of california in san diego and is a resultof my research into the nixon and ford eras, i too believe that soaring oil prices played an important part in the overloading u.s. economy in 2007 and severely destabilizing financial networks it wasn't the sole cause and it may not been the biggest cause but you can't ignore that as was one cause of this current financial crisis we are all stuck in. oil prices were and continue to be one of the top contributing factors to this crisis and the intensity and duration of this crisis. the parallels with the oil shocks of the mid-1970s are unmistakable and i would argue they were closer in it now says. professor hamilton has drawn a link between the 2007 mortgage foreclosure crisis and high oil prices. in testimony before the joint economic committee of the congress, he described how 4-dollar a gallon gas prices in 2007 led to a sudden change in consumer spending patterns and that these changes disrupted key economic factors. he gave the example of the automobile and auto parts that shave

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