A Sampling of Clips for August 13^th, 2009

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Boozing Blunts Ability to Read Faces
U.S. News & World Report, Aug. 13 - Heavy drinking can affect the ability to recognize other people's facial emotions, according to a new study authored by Ksenija Marinkovic, an assistant professor in residence in the radiology department at UCSD. More

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Abandon E-Voting Dreams, Hackers Warn
Vancouver Sun, Aug. 12 -- Computer scientists from three prestigious U.S. universities managed to hack into and steal votes from an electronic voting machine that was designed to resist takeover attempts. "Based on our understanding of security and computer technology, it looks like paper-based elections are the way to go," said UCSD Prof. Hovav Shacham, who led the project. More

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Knossos: Fakes, Facts, and Mystery
The New York Review of Books, Aug. 13 -- One enormous virtue of Cathy Gere's “Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism” is that she leaves to one side the barren debate over whether Arthur Evans, the first to excavate the ruins of the palace of Knossos in Crete, was a good or a bad character, either archaeologically or politically. Gere is on the UCSD faculty. More

What You Don't Know About Dreams
Huffington Post, Aug 12 -- The popularity of dream studies goes in waves and right now the dream wave is cresting. As New York dream researcher Ross Levin told me recently, "Dreams are hot right now." It's not too surprising that in times of turmoil we dare to dream. But what are the practical applications? (Mentions research by Sara Mednick, a psychologist at UCSD and the author of “Take a Nap, Change Your Life”) More

Scripps Team Reaches
the Floating Garbage Patch
CBS News 8, San Diego, Calif., Aug. 12 -- A research team from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography arrived at the infamous Great American Garbage Patch Wednesday. Now, we're getting a first look at their new pictures. The patch has been estimated to be the size of Texas and cleanup won't be easy. More

Recession Hits Colleges' Endowments
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 13 -- University endowments nationwide have plunged an average of 23 percent since last July, the worst drop since the 1970s, according to the National Association of College and University Business Officers. (Mentions UCSD) More

Night School
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 13 -- Strolling along Scripps Pier, as the setting sun paints the La Jolla coastline with gilded light, it can be easy to forget what an ideal place it is for learning about marine life. That's where a team of volunteers and knowledgeable UCSD graduates comes in. During monthly full-moon walks on the pier, normally closed to the public, they teach visitors about events that led to the establishment of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. More

Hey Supes, You've Got Competition
Voice of San Diego, Aug. 11 -- Democrats have outnumbered Republicans by more than 15 percent since at least the mid-1990s in the county's Fourth District. The margin now has grown to a nearly two-to-one Democratic advantage. But there's Ron Roberts, a moderate Republican, winning four straight races for county supervisor in the district, one that appears stacked against him. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Steve Erie) More

UCSD Students Design Interior
of New Student Housing Project
San Diego Daily Transcript, Aug. 12 -- UCSD has taken a unique approach to decorating the interior of its new student housing project. The university allowed students to design six rooms in The Village, a new transfer student housing facility scheduled to open prior to the start of the fall semester. More

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