A Sampling of Clips for May 28, 2010

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Moon Dirt Mystery Piled Up Over Billions of Years
Yahoo!News, May 27 -- The powdery lunar surface contains isotopes of nitrogen that, for the most part, appear to have been carried there by still enigmatic sources. Scientists have long known there are different types of nitrogen on the moon, but how it all got there is unknown. "Somehow, we see a substantial amount of nitrogen on the moon, over and above the well-known solar wind, and we don't have a single clue as to where it comes from," said cosmochemist John Kerridge at UC San Diego in La Jolla, a co-investigator of the study into the lunar conundrum. "It's just baffling." More

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Carville Tees Off on White House Again
ABC News, May 26 -- This morning on Good Morning America James Carville delivered an impassioned plea for President Obama to take a more active role in the Gulf oil spill disaster. (Mentions Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego) More

Bill Walton Returning to Broadcasting With a Repaired Spine
USA Today, May 27 -- Bill Walton, who last month revealed to the San Diego Union-Tribune that his back pain drove him to the brink of suicide, is a new man after spinal surgery. The surgery was performed about 15 months ago, at UC San Diego, after Walton had retired from broadcasting in 2008 because of the pain. More

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Sacramento Bee

Tech Talk Podcast: Car Viruses
The New York Times, May 27 -- Computer security experts from UC San Diego and the University of Washington, backed by the National Science Foundation, were able to remotely take over car brakes and other critical controls. With modern vehicles increasingly dependent on computers, the researchers say, it’s important to address these issues before they become a problem. More

BP Oil Spill: An Unexpected Laboratory for Deep-Sea Disaster
Yahoo!News, May 27 -- Scientists are scrambling to study the BP oil spill now, knowing that it is, in many ways, a unique event. Never before has a leak from such depths vented so much oil for so long. Scientists have many questions, from how the use of massive quantities of dispersants affects nature's ability to break down an oil to why oil plumes from deep-sea spills act in unexpected ways. (Quotes Lisa Levin, a marine ecologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More

Crowd Science Reaches New Heights
Chronicle of Higher Education, May 28 -- Crowd Science, as it might be called, is taking hold in several other disciplines, such as biology, and is rising rapidly in oceanography and a range of environmental sciences. (Quotes John Orcutt, a professor of geophysics at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego) More

Tritons Reach D-II Baseball Championship
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 27 -- At long last, UC San Diego gets its title shot. The Tritons, national semifinalists a year ago, earned a spot in Saturday’s NCAA Division II national championship game with a 6-3 comeback win over Franklin Pierce on Thursday night at the USA Baseball national training complex. More

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North County Times

Scripps Robot to Study Gulf Oil Spill
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 27 -- The Scripps Institution of Oceanography  plans to send an undersea glider to the Gulf of Mexico next week to see if the robotic probe can help evaluate what's being called the worst oil spill in U.S. history. More

Special Moment for Former UC San Diego
Student Committed to Helping Children in Uganda
San Diego 6, May 28 -- A very special moment for a former UC San Diego student who is committed to helping children in Uganda. 28-year-old Laren Poole, co-founder of a non-profit group called Invisible Children watched President Obama sign legislation that will enable the U.S. State Department to help end the conflict in Uganda. More

Robots for Homeland Security
KUSI, May 27 -- Mike Castellucci was over at UC San Diego at the Jacobs School of Engineering, where they're developing ways to robots in homeland security. More

Native American Students Claim Mocking at UCSD Event
10News, May 27 -- Several UC San Diego students said they were mocked and degraded during a recent event held on campus. More

San Diego County Supervisors Compared:
Politics, Discretionary Funds, Salaries
KPBS, May 28 – Several weeks ago, I was assigned what seemed to be a simple task – collect basic demographic information from California’s 297 county supervisors who represent the state’s 58 counties. I was wrong about the simple part. (Quotes UC San Diego political scientist Thad Kousser) More

Plan in Works to Save Historic House
La Jolla Light, May 27 -- Now that University House, the historic La Jolla Farms home that has traditionally been the UC San Diego chancellor's residence and meeting facility, is to be rehabilitated rather than razed, the project is being "rebooted" with the release of a draft environmental impact report. More

Requiem' a Powerful Close to War and Chorus' Season
La Jolla Light, May 26 -- Soprano Kathleen Halm, tenor Chad Frisque, bass-baritone Abdiel Gonzalez and the St. Paul Cathedral Choristers' youth chorus will join the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus to close its 55th season with the local premiere of Benjamin Britten's monumental "War Requiem." Music director Steven Schick will conduct the work at large, but choral director David Chase will conduct the chamber orchestra, which will be set off to the side of the stage. Schick is on the UC San Diego faculty. More

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