A Sampling of Clips for
July 02, 2004
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Scientists
Analyze Perception of 'Self'
Newsday, July 2-If you think your
body ends with, well, your body ... think again. British scientists
have tricked volunteers into believing a rubber hand is part
of the "self," an illusion that is helping researchers
understand how the brain recognizes its own body. (Refers to
similar research conducted by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
M.D., director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the
University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hshand023877888jul02,0,1852184.story?coll=ny-health-headlines
News Briefs
from San Diego County
San Jose Mercury News, July 1-UCSD's
Scripps Institution of Oceanography and San
Francisco State University have been awarded a $20.4 million
grant to study nearshore ocean currents along the California
coast. The data, which will be updated hourly on the Internet,
will provide valuable information to fishermen, maritime shipping
companies seeking expedient routes, scientists tracking algae
blooms and the U.S. Coast Guard searching for downed planes
and missing boats.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/
9057289.htm?ERIGHTS=1698896032330111702mercurynews
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articles appeared in:
Monterey Herald, July 1
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/9057289.htm
City News Service,
July 1
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Copley News Service,
July 1
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No link available online.
Blood Filter Makes Kidney Transplant
Easier
KFMB Channel 8, San Diego,
July 1-Today alone, about ten people will be added
to the list of those who are waiting for an organ transplant.
Of the nearly 80,000 people on that list, most of them need
a new kidney. Even if a patient is lucky enough to find a donor,
there is always the risk that their body will reject the kidney.
But a blood filtering process has been developed that could
make a match more likely and transplants more common. (Mentions
plasma pheresis unit at UCSD Medical Center.)
http://www.kfmb.com/healthcast/details.php?storyID=26864
Will New
Lineup Transform or Deform Science?
Science Magazine, July 2-Last week
NASA made its biggest organizational change in more than a decade,
leaving scientists wondering about the fate of $6.5 billion
worth of research programs. Agency chief Sean O'Keefe dissolved
two of three science offices, replaced NASA's scrappy space
science chief, and promised sweeping changes to the agency's
dozen field centers scattered around the United States. (Quote
by Larry Smarr, chair of NASA's earth sciences
advisory panel and a computer science professor at the University
of California, San Diego.)
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/305/5680/28a
San Diego's
Economy Looking Up
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 2-San
Diego County's economy is partying almost like it's 1999. Local
companies' stocks are up, unemployment is down, and tourism
dollars are rolling in. Things haven't looked this good since
the boom years of the late 1990s, experts who follow the local
economy say. (Quote by Ross Starr, an economist
at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20040702-9999-1n2sdecon.html
