A Sampling of Clips for
February 24, 2005
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Life: How
Time Flies
London Guardian, Feb. 24-For the Aymara
people living in the Andes, the past lies ahead and the future
lies behind, according to new research by Rafael Nunez,
a cognitive scientist at UCSD, who is researching
how people develop abstract ideas like time. More
Beginning
of the End?
Hindustan Times, Feb. 24-From Kashmir
to California, from Britain to Bahrain, the weather pattern
has seen some unprecedented disturbances lately in the most
unlikely of places and it has brought untold hardship to millions
across the world. You don't have to be a genies to figure out
that climate change is already increasing the frequency and
intensity of natural disasters, and the trend is likely to accelerate.
(Refers to research led by the Scripps Institution of
Oceanography.) More
COSMOS Expands
for High Schoolers
Sacramento Bee, Feb. 23-California's
summer school for high school students interested in math and
science is expanding to a fourth campus, even as its state funding
shrinks. Officials who run COSMOS -- a loose acronym for the
California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science --
credit private contributions with enabling them to set up a
program at UCSD this summer. More
"Introduce
a Girl to Engineering
Day" is a Little More Festive this Year
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Opinion,
Feb. 23- Thursday is "Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day,"
also known this year as "Beat up on Harvard University
President Lawrence Summers Day," due to the recent comments
Summers made about women in science. The comments were heavily
criticized by prominent leaders in science from around the world,
including UCSD professor Sally Ride.
More
Early Bloomers
San Jose Mercury News, Feb. 23-Nature's
wake-up call is early this year, triggering a flurry of activity
after a cool and wet winter. (Quote by Daniel R. Cayan,
a climate researcher with Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
More
The Prince's
Game
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion,
Feb. 24-UCSD students directed by Darko Tresnjak,
are staging a solid production of 'La Dispute'. More
