A Sampling of Clips for April 2^th, 2009

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Report Outlines Possible
Effects of Warming on California
Los Angeles Times, April 2 -- As California warms in coming decades, farmers will have less water, the state could lose more than a million acres of cropland and forest fire rates will soar, according to a broad-ranging state report released Wednesday. (Quotes Dan Cayan, a climate researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD) More

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'Gore-Sat' Climate Probe
May Get Second Chance
Discovery Channel, April 2 -- NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory was designed to monitor Earth from the vantage point of distant space. It was to be the first probe to give scientists a holistic, global view of temperatures and environmental conditions. Francisco Valero, a researcher with Scripps Institution of Oceanography, is the mission’s lead scientist. More

Japan, Sweden May Offer
Economic Recovery Lessons
CNN, April 2 -- As President Obama discusses the economic crisis with world leaders at the G-20 summit this week, two nations' experience wrestling with similar financial troubles in recent history could offer recovery lessons for the United States. (Quotes UCSD economist Takao Hoshi) More

A Much-Debated Neuroscience
Paper Has Lost Its Voodoo
Chronicle of Higher Education, April 1 -- One of the most-debated psychology papers of the last few years is finally about to enjoy its official print publication — but without the provocative title that helped spark the debate in the first place. Last year four scholars at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and UCSD began to circulate a preprint version of “Voodoo Correlations in Social Neuroscience.” More

Doctors Attack the Disease Called Trauma
KPBS, April 2 -- Traumatic injury is one of the leading causes of death. But most of us don't consider it a disease. A new research center at UCSD is based on the notion that it is a disease. And if we treat it like one, we'll save lives and make all people safer. More

STREET PEOPLE: Evona Wascinski
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 2 -- It’s a long way from punk and noise-rock to Latin and Brazilian jazz, and an even longer way from Poland to San Diego. But UCSD alumna Evona Wascinski has made both journeys with her adventurous spirit and upright bass in good shape. More

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