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Hot Takes by the UCLA Heat Lab

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by UCLA Heat Lab

5.0(24 reviews)
10 episodes
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<p>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.</p>

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Recent Episodes

Episode thumbnail for Season 2 Ep 3 - Breaking Down Metropolitan Heat with Dr. Daniel Cumming

May 8, 2026

Season 2 Ep 3 - Breaking Down Metropolitan Heat with Dr. Daniel Cumming

This episode, join us as we explore heat in the city with Dr. Daniel Cumming, a postdoctoral fellow at Queens College. As an urban and environmental historian of the 20th-century United States, Dr. Cumming examines the powerful intersection of housing and heat and the inequalities that emerged in post-World War II New York City. Through his research and his involvement in the international collaborative project Melting Metropolis, we’ll uncover how heat shapes urban environments, influences i...

Episode thumbnail for Season 2 Ep 2 - There's Nothing Chill About These Pills: Discussing Polypharmacy and Rising Heat Risk with the Pharma Heat Team

April 17, 2026

Season 2 Ep 2 - There's Nothing Chill About These Pills: Discussing Polypharmacy and Rising Heat Risk with the Pharma Heat Team

As extreme heat becomes more frequent and severe, certain medications increase vulnerability during these times. Older populations, in particular, continue to face this interference with their thermoregulation, with their layered vulnerability in a warming climate. Using county-level data across California, the Pharma Heat team created a more granular assessment of pharmaceutical risks using demographic and social factors that are not often analyzed together in existing literature. The Hot Ta...

Episode thumbnail for Season 2 Ep 1 - Sporting New Temperatures with High School Athletics

April 3, 2026

Season 2 Ep 1 - Sporting New Temperatures with High School Athletics

As temperatures continue to rise, high school student-athletes are among the populations most vulnerable to extreme heat. In today's episode, the UCLA Heat Lab explores how heat affects athletes across multiple sports through the perspectives of athletes themselves. We discuss football and cross country, where athletes face intense outdoor heat exposure, and explore how heat can also impact indoor spaces through sports like volleyball. We even explore swimming, an unexpected but important con...

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What is Hot Takes by the UCLA Heat Lab?
<p>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.</p>
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