A Sampling of Clips for March 17^th, 2009

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Southpaw Solar System
ScienceNOW, March 15 -- Right-handed people may predominate here on Earth, but all of us are built from amino acids that are chemically "left handed." Now two NASA scientists studying meteorites older than our planet have found a majority of left-handed amino acids, suggesting that our solar system has always had a preference for southpaws. (Quotes UCSD cosmogeochemist Jeffrey Bada) More

A Victory in the Global Warming Fight?
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, March 17 -- Soot and pollutants like it are among the last climate change agents to be fully appreciated by science, but their control could lead to the first international victory in the fight against global warming. (Written by Tony Haymet, director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD) More

Giving Aid and Comfort
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 17 -- For years, doctors and nurses at Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego have sought ways to make their young patients feel comfortable. The latest addition is a vitamin-sized plastic capsule that contains a tiny wireless camera. Once swallowed, the camera takes nearly 60,000 pictures as it travels through the digestive tract for eight hours. (Quotes Dr. Martin Stein, a pediatrics professor at Rady and UCSD) More

Emerging Tech
Wired, March 17 -- This week, Gadget Lab editor Dylan Tweney waxes enthusiastic about MIT's programming language for kids, Scratch, which works with a $50 sensor board so you can make programs and animations that interact with the real world. And we also talk about a bunch of UCSD students' ambitious plan to make $12, 8-bit computers -- already widely available in the developing world -- into workable education PCs. Best of all, these $12 computers really exist! More

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A Working Slum
St. Petersburg Times, March 15 -- In the weeks before Hollywood bestowed its highest honor on a love story set in the teeming lanes of Asia's largest slum, the residents of Dharavi became increasingly wary of their sudden celebrity. (Mentions the work of architect Teddy Cruz, associate professor of visual arts at UCSD, who has been inspired by the shanty towns of Tijuana.) More

Sholem Aleichem, Gogol Show Two Views of Shtetl Jews
The Jewish Journal of Los Angeles, March 11 -- Russians, Jews and literature scholars get excited about jubilee years, and for those who fit any of these categories, 2009 is a big year. (Written by Amelia Glaser, assistant professor of literature at UCSD.) More

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