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Milestone emphasizes the appeal of CARTA, a unique, human origins-focused campus ORU, and its local partners Salk Institute, San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), and UCTV.
By Lindsay Hunter, CARTA Community Engagement & Advancement Director
UC San Diego/Salk Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA) marks 40 million online video views milestone and celebrates enduring partnerships with UC San Diego, Salk Institute, San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), and UCSD-TV/UCTV.
The Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA: UC San Diego/Salk), a UC San Diego Organized Research Unit (ORU) established in 2008, promotes trans-disciplinary research into human origins and presents free public symposia featuring presentations by scholars eminent in their fields. Prior to the advent of the current SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19 ) pandemic, CARTA's public symposia at Salk drew live audiences of up to 800 people as well as being accessible across the globe via live webcast. Since Spring 2020, CARTA's public symposia have continued online without interruption, reaching a live broadcast audience of 500-600 viewers from ~30 different countries for each symposium. Each CARTA symposium is video recorded and later edited, closed captioned, and rebroadcast by UCTV before being archived in the online video library at the CARTA website, as well as on the UCSD-TV website, iTunes, and YouTube.
In December 2021, CARTA's symposium videos exceeded 40 million online views, a significant milestone in UCSD-TV digital viewership. For those who already enjoy the thrice-yearly public symposia, it will come as no surprise that CARTA ranks as UCTV's most popular "Science" series and their second most popular series overall. CARTA acknowledges that this success is a direct result of the strong, ongoing partnerships with Salk Institute, San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), UCSD-TV/UCTV, and of course, CARTA Viewers.
CARTA's 2022 Virtual Public Symposium series opened this year with "Human Origins and Humanity's Future: Past, Present and Future of the Anthropocene," on March 05, 2022, and continues on May 13, 2022, from 12:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. with companion event, "Humans: The Planet-Altering Apes."
While CARTA's virtual symposia have had many positive benefits, such as reducing our carbon footprint, increasing production values, allowing greater participation from global scholars, and introducing CARTA's offerings to fresh online audiences, we also value our in-person human connections. And like you, we look forward to resuming in-person functions and have been working hard behind the scenes to find the best way to produce a hybridized format that provides an optimal experience whether you're viewing from a venue in La Jolla or a couch in Johannesburg. So, please stay tuned for further announcements regarding the resumption of in-person CARTA activities.
In the News
40 Million Online CARTA Views:
Bruch, K.M. "CARTA Achieves Rare Milestone via Key Partnerships." San Diego Supercomputer Center News, March 28, 2022.
Buschman, H. DID YOU KNOW?: "CARTA surpasses 40 million video views." UCSD Health: Internal Organ, January 12, 2022.
Buschman, H. "CARTA Maps Humanity’s Distinctive Evolution." UC San Diego Today [formerly This Week @ UC San Diego], February 18, 2022.
Kiderra, I. "CARTA Maps Humanity's Distinctive Evolution." Social Sciences News Highlights [SocSciNews], March 02, 2022.
Top Playlists
To celebrate this milestone achievement, you are invited to check out CARTA's "Greatest Hits" below:
Top Five CARTA Videos of All Time:
- Birth to Grandmotherhood: Childrearing in Human Evolution – Breast Milk and Breastfeeding, Oxytocin Pathways and Human Evolution, and Hunter-Gatherer Childhood and Human Evolution (916,177 Hits/Views Across All Archives)
- Culture-Gene Interactions in Human Origins: Genomic Basis for Dietary Shifts, Adaptations to Human Adult Milk Intake, and A Nutritional Basis for the Spread of Indo-European Languages (903,548 H/V)
- Is the Human Mind Unique? -- Entering the "Soul Niche;" An Evolved and Creative Mind; and Humor (892,656 H/V)
- Birth to Grandmotherhood: Childrearing in Human Evolution – Sharing Childcare and Knowledge in Infancy, Grandmothers and the Extended Family, and Human Fathers (797,822 H/V)
- CARTA: The Evolution of Human Nutrition - Diets and Microbes in Primates, Australopith Diets, and Neanderthal Diets (745,982 H/V)
Five Most Popular CARTA Series:
- The Evolution of Human Nutrition (2,890,742 H/V)
- Birth to Grandmotherhood: Childrearing in Human Evolution (2,719,158 H/V)
- Culture-Gene Interactions in Human Origins (2,664,857 H/V)
- Male Aggression and Violence in Human Evolution (2,182,375 H/V)
- Is the Human Mind Unique (2,162,745 H/V)
Four CARTA videos ranked in UCTV's top 100 (out of nearly 10,000 UCTV videos) and ranked in UCSD-TV's top 25 UC San Diego programs:
- Birth to Grandmotherhood: Childrearing in Human Evolution – Breast Milk and Breastfeeding, Oxytocin Pathways and Human Evolution, and Hunter-Gatherer Childhood and Human Evolution (916,177 Hits/Views Across All Archives)
- Culture-Gene Interactions in Human Origins: Genomic Basis for Dietary Shifts, Adaptations to Human Adult Milk Intake, and A Nutritional Basis for the Spread of Indo-European Languages (903,548 H/V)
- Is the Human Mind Unique? -- Entering the "Soul Niche;" An Evolved and Creative Mind; and Humor (892,656 H/V)
- Birth to Grandmotherhood: Childrearing in Human Evolution – Sharing Childcare and Knowledge in Infancy, Grandmothers and the Extended Family, and Human Fathers (797,822 H/V)
