A Sampling of Clips for August 26^th, 2008

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Manny Farber's Rough Criticism
The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 26 -- The American critic and painter Manny Farber, who died last week at the age of 91, was a maddening original. Never anything less than his own man, he wasn't smooth and didn't try to be. The slangy aggression of his paragraphs and the shifting perspectives of his canvases were attempts to keep alive the fast, sidewalk style of heated argument in which they were conceived. Farber taught at UCSD from 1970 to 1987. More

Your Body Is All in Your Head
ABC News, Aug. 26 -- While the old adage may say that "seeing is believing," new research shows that vision can lead the mind to do some unusual things -- like thinking a rubber hand is your own. (Quotes V.S. Ramachandran, a neuroscientist at UCSD) More

High Tech High School Pushes Hispanic Students to Become Top Achievers
The News Hour, PBS, Aug. 22 -- A San Diego charter high school is aiming to close the education gaps between students of immigrant families and their counterparts by motivating them to acquire business and science skills and pursue college degrees. Paul Solman offers the latest in a series of reports on this education initiative. (Quotes UCSD economist Julian Betts) More

Could 'Fat-Tree' Switch Setup Trim Data Center Costs?
PC World, Australia, Aug. 26 -- Buying faster switches might not be the only way to amp up performance across data center networks, according to researchers at UCSD, who this week proposed a network architecture that would enable commodity Ethernet switches to deliver better performance at a lower cost than their 10 Gigabit Ethernet counterparts. More

Obama for President?
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, Aug. 24 -- On the eve of his formal nomination as the standard-bearer of the Democratic Party, Sen. Barack Obama has a slight lead in the national polls and is generally favored to win the presidential election this fall. Even so, given the enormous advantages of the Democratic Party this year, Obama should be way ahead of Sen. John McCain in the polls but he is not. (Co-authored by UCSD political scientist Keith Poole) More

Vital Organs
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 26 -- You can be a hero. You don't need to rescue children from a burning building or bring a frightened kitten down from a tree. To save multiple lives, all you have to do is register as an organ donor. (Quotes Alexander Aussi, director of transplants at the UCSD Medical Center) More

Port is More Important Than Many May Realize
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, Aug. 24 -- In a recent column, I mentioned how Texas oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens was using the California initiative process to float a referendum to provide subsidies for natural gas use that would probably end up providing some pretty handsome benefits for his natural gas company. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Steve Erie) More

UCSD Challenge Course
CW6, San Diego, Aug. 22 – Channel 6 profiles the Outback Adventures Challenge Course at UCSD. More

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