A Sampling of Clips for May 12, 2010

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Forecast: Next Few Days Crucial in Capping Gulf Oil Spill
Miami Herald, May 12 -- With a quick solution ominously uncertain, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is on track to become an unprecedented economic and environmental disaster with millions of gallons of oil destroying an ecosystem as well as a way of life. (Quotes Jeremy Jackson, a professor of oceanography at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More

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'Dancing With the Stars' Results: Shake It Off
Los Angeles Times, May 12 -- This week’s results hour  played host to the first-ever College Dance Championship, which pitted UC San Diego’s Tritons against the Purdue Boilermakers, introduced the lay viewer to formation team dancing and turned the Rectagon set into some sort of raucous coed pep rally.
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Underwater Vehicle Can Go Forever
Scientific American, May 12 -- It’s every good American’s dream to be able to hop into your car and drive. And drive and drive and drive. Without having to fill up. Well, now it’s possible with one important caveat … you have to be underwater. After five years of development the Sounding Oceanographic Lagrangrian Observer Thermal RECharging underwater vehicle has just completed three months of extensive testing off the Hawaii islands. The Scripps Institution of Oceanography  at UC San Diego helped develop the vehicle. More

“X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X”
New Yorker, May 11 -- Anthony Davis, one of the most prominent African-American composers, rose to fame with this searing musical drama, which was premièred by New York City Opera in 1986. To mark the forty-fifth anniversary of the civil-rights leader’s assassination, City Opera joins with the Schomburg Center to present an abridged concert version of the piece (with piano accompaniment), with the title role sung by Sidney Outlaw. Davis is on the UC San Diego faculty. More

What Is Wisdom?
Globe and Mail, Canada, May 11 -- Two professors of psychiatry at UC San Diego have asked a group of international experts to characterize the traits of intelligence, wisdom and spirituality, Psych Central News reports. More

How Internet Pioneer Larry Smarr Lost
20 Pounds by Becoming a “Quantified Self”
Xconomy, May 12 -- Larry Smarr is one of the people who had a vision in the 1980s for a high-speed computer network that grew to become the Internet of today. So sharing data is important to him. Now he has found a new source of data that he believes has great potential if shared widely: information from his own body. Smarr is the founding director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. More

UCSD Names New Athletic Performance Director
La Jolla Light, May 11 -- Rudy Thomas, a former assistant strength and conditioning coach at Marquette University, has been named UC San Diego's new director of athletic performance, Director of Athletics Earl W. Edwards announced Tuesday. More

Academic Honors
SDNN, May 11 -- The 53rd annual High School Honors Math Contest, held April 17, saw 174 students competing from 23 local high schools. Sponsored by UC San Diego, the Greater San Diego Math Council and SDCOE, the contest is designed to stimulate interest and recognize achievement in mathematics and to honor teachers who encourage their students to excel in math. First place honors were won this year by Canyon Crest Academy and Torrey Pines High School, both in the San Dieguito Union High School District. More 

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