A Sampling of Clips for
March 29 to
April
01, 2002
UCSD
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For
California Poet Laureate
Los
Angeles Times, Mar.
29 – UCSD’s Quincy
Troupe is one of three in the running for California
Poet Laureate.
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The
Associated Press, Mar.
29
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The New York Times, Mar 30
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San
Diego Union-Tribune,
Mar
31
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Perilous
Waters
U.S.
News & World Report, Apr.
1 – Scientists discuss a shift in the salt content of the water
in the North Atlantic. Some
say this is the biggest oceanographic change seen anywhere in the
modern instrumental era, as the debate whether this is good news,
bad news, or just interesting news continues.
(Quotes Scripps
Institution of Oceanography researcher Tim
Barnett).
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Huge
dust cloud over West Coast
San
Diego Union-Tribune, Mar.
29, Pg. A-3 – A
dust cloud from Asia covered the west coast from San Diego to the
Canadian border this week. Although
it had no perceptible effects on San Diego County, it rasied
sceintists’ concerns about possible pollutants.
(Quotes Scripps
Institution of Oceanography
climatologist V.I. Ramanathan).
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Sally
Ride wants girls out of this world
St.
Petersburg Times, Apr.
1, Pg. 3D – UCSD physicist
Sally Ride
encourages girls to study science and math as their pathway to the
stars.
http://www.sptimes.com/2002/04/01/Xpress/Sally_Ride_wants_girl.shtml
Pentagon
cuts off SD-based research group
San Diego Union-Tribune,
Mar.
31 – Since the Cold War days, a group of scientists have met in
secret to ponder the Pentagon’s most vexing challenges. But a
rift between the group, known as JASON, and its Defense Department
sponsor may threaten the meeting this summer. (Mentions UCSD
members of JASON, and quotes Scripps
Institution of Oceanography’s director from
1986-1996, Edward Frieman).
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A
nice day today? Charles Kennel looks grimly to the future
San Diego Union-Tribune, Neil
Morgan Column, Mar. 29 – At a recent rotary meeting Scripps
Institution of Oceanography scientist Charles
Kennel pointed out some of SIO’s
accomplishments and the importance of further research.
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The
worst kind of infidelity
Montreal Gazette, Health
Fax, Mar. 30, Pg. H-7 – Features a study by UCSD’s
Christine Harris on
emotional and sexual infidelity.
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Can
you see what I’m saying? Synaesthetes really can SENSORY
PERCEPTION
Sunday
Telegraph (London), Mar.
31 – Vanderbilt University study supports UCSD
research on synaesthesia by Drs. Vilayanur
Ramachandran and Edward
Hubbard.
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First
Words
New Scientist, Mar.
30 – For decades, linguists, anthropologists and biologists have
debated whether new languages evolve from specialized linguistic
structures in our brains, or if developing new languages is simply
a matter of learning. Scientists
discuss the research of Luc Steels, who has created robots to
study how language might have evolved.
Dr. Steels’ research supports his theory that rules for
new languages may be gradually invented, negotiated, built upon
and spread. He uses
pairs of robots to illustrate his belief that language is a
complex adaptive system. (Quotes
UCSD scientist Jeff
Elman).
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UCSD’s
COI policy doesn’t result in genetic risk
San
Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion,
Mar. 31 – UCSD
assistant professor Nathaniel
S. Finney responds to Richard Louv’s
March 12 column on Genetic engineering and UCSD’s
conflict of interest policy.
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U.S
presidents and the foreign media
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion,
Mar. 29, Pg. B-8 – President Bush failed to convince Latin
Americans about the wisdom of the U.S. Policies at the
anti-poverty summit. (Quotes UCSD’s
Richard Feinberg).
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