A Sampling of Clips for
February 5th, 2007
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Game Over on Global Warming?
Los Angeles Times, Feb. 5 -- A landmark report from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released Friday, warns that there is so much carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that even if concentrations held at current levels, the effects of global warming would continue for centuries. (Quotes Richard Somerville, a theoretical meteorologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD) More
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The King of Alter Egos Is Surprisingly Humble Guy
USA Today, Feb. 4 – UCSD alumnus Philip Rosedale didn't create Second Life to be a game or a toy. He thinks he is remaking the Internet — taking it on a giant leap forward, much like the invention of the Mosaic browser or World Wide Web. More
O, Villain, Villain, Loosed in Elizabethan Minds
The New York Times, Feb. 5 -- Welcome, ladies and gents, to the Theater for a New Audience’s smackdown between two of the most notorious villains of the Elizabethan stage. In this corner is F. Murray Abraham as Barabas, the vicious caricature of a vengeful businessman in Christopher Marlowe’s rarely seen “Jew of Malta.” In the other, it’s F. Murray Abraham once again, as mighty Will Shakespeare’s infamous Jewish moneylender, Shylock, from “The Merchant of Venice,” directed by Darko Tresnjak, a member of the UCSD Theatre and Dance faculty. More
New Flights in Ontario, Palmdale Expected to Take Load Off LAX
Los Angeles Times, Feb. 3 -- Providing lift to a decades-long effort to redistribute air traffic among the region's airports, a new airline will announce Monday the largest expansion in LA/Ontario International Airport's history, with nonstop service to 14 cities not currently served by carriers there. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Steve Erie) More
Leon Thal, UCSD Alzheimer's Researcher, Dies in Small Plane Crash
San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 5 -- Dr. Leon J. Thal, a renowned researcher in Alzheimer's disease at UCSD, died over the weekend after his small plane crashed in the mountains. He was 62. More
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Suffering Oceans of Abuse
San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 4 -- Humans can't live underwater, so we tend to overlook the fact that most life on this planet exists not on land but in the oceans. (Quotes Nancy Knowlton, director of the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD) More
El Niño All Washed-up, Forecasters Say
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 5 -- El Niño is now officially El No Show. If San Diego still manages to get a wet winter, don't blame, or credit, El Niño. The phenomenon has “collapsed,” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center in Camp Springs, Md., declared Thursday. If it has any effect on North America's winter and spring weather, it will be negligible. (Quotes David Pierce, a climate researcher at UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More
Adolescents at Risk from Poor Diet, Inactivity
Reuters, Feb. 2 -- Most adolescents do not get enough exercise each day or maintain a healthy diet, according to UCSD and Spanish researchers who analyzed the diet and exercise behaviors of 878, adolescents, 11 to 15 years old, and found that nearly 80 percent had multiple physical activity and dietary risk behaviors. More
Human Genome Study Breakthrough Reported
UPI, Feb 5 -- U.S. cancer researchers say they've made a breakthrough in identifying functional elements in the human genome. The scientists from the New York-based Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and UCSD say while DNA sequencing can identify genes within the genome, it cannot answer the more fundamental questions of how, when and where gene products are expressed. More
Athletic Fee Hike Approved at UCSD
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 3 -- UCSD students went to the polls in record numbers this week and voted decisively to more than triple their athletic fees to create sports scholarships and revitalize their teams. More
A Changed Climate
North County Times, Opinion, Feb. 3 -- The time is past when global climate change could be dismissed as a "liberal" issue, or even a political one. The phenomenon grimly described Friday by a team of 3,700 researchers from around the world, including several from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD, must be seen as a matter of survival. For we have built, and in all likelihood, overbuilt in this coastal desert with too little concern for the fragility of the ecosystem on which we rely. More
Nuclear Letter
Fox6 News, Feb. 2 -- Some of the nations top physicists are calling on Congress to limit the President's ability to launch a nuclear attack. "A lot of us are concerned about what we are hearing, the possibility of a military confrontation with Iran," said UCSD Physics Professor Jorge Hirsch during an interview with Fox6 News. More
Movement Against War Is Growing, Activists Say
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 5 -- It hasn't exactly been easy over the past few years for San Diego's anti-war activists. They've been heckled. Dismissed by the media. A few have been arrested. Many of their events have attracted only a few dozen people or so. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Samuel Popkin) More