A Sampling of Clips for November 2^nd, 2009

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Musicians’ Collective Harks Back to ’70s Avant-Garde
The New York Times, Oct. 30 -- The rainstorm raging outside Never Ending Books, a modest space on State Street, seemed to echo the sonic deconstruction taking place inside as the New Haven Improvisers Collective held its monthly workshop dedicated to breaking down music into its basic parts and building it up again on the fly. The workshop focused on melodic fragments, metric patterns and the like as the basis for group improvisations that, to the casual listener, might have seemed subversive. But the collective, which welcomed 14 comers on this late-September night, was operating well within a tradition of free improvisation and open access that has a storied history in New Haven, and may have a future as well. (The Collective’s workshop was attended by Anthony Davis, a founder of the Creative Musicians Improvisers Forum and professor of music at UCSD) More

Experts Put Their Heads Together
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 1 -- Neuroscientists at UCSD have for the first time successfully regrown axons – fibers that connect nerve cells and conduct their essential communications – in the damaged spinal cords of rats with untreated injuries that are six weeks to more than a year old. More

Smashing Pumpkins at UCSD
KNSD, Oct. 30 -- A pair of 200-pound pumpkins were dropped from the 11th floor of Tioga Hall on UCSD's Muir College campus on Friday. Friday's was the 35th annual Monster Drop. More

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40 Years Ago: The Message that Conceived the Internet
Yahoo!, Oct. 29 -- On Oct. 29, 1969, UCLA student Charles Kline sent the first message over the ARPANET, the computer network that later became known as the Internet. Though only the "l" and "o" of his message ("login") were successfully transmitted, the interactive exchange ushered in a technological revolution that has - as anyone alive long enough to witness the shift knows - revolutionized human interaction. (Quotes Hans-Werner Braun of UCSD’s Supercomputer Center) More

History: 19th-Century Eruptions Sent a Chill across the Planet
North County Times, Nov. 2 -- A previously unknown volcanic eruption helped trigger a decade of global cooling 200 years ago, according to a new study published by a scientific team including a UCSD researcher. The eruption took place in 1809, according to the study, published last week in the scientific journal Geophysical Research Letters.
The team included Mark Thiemens, UCSD's dean of Physical Sciences. More

Swine Flu Puts Scare Into Locals' Halloween Plans
KGTV, Oct. 30 -- The spread of swine flu, especially among children, has put a scare into many Halloween plans. For Erica Rojas and 2-year-old Kiara, Halloween fun may be spent at Balboa Park. "This year is going to be a tough one," said Rojas. Monsters aside, Rojas said her biggest fright is swine flu, and she isn't taking any chances. There will be no large-scale parties; only a get-together with a few family members. (Quotes Janet Crow, a pediatrician at UCSD). More

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