A Sampling of Clips for
January 23rd, 2007
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Amnesiacs May Be Cut Off From Past and Future Alike
The New York Times, Jan. 23 -- In the real world, people with amnesia live in a mental universe at least as strange as fiction: new research suggests that they are marooned in the present, as helpless at imagining future experiences as they are at retrieving old ones. (Quotes Peter J. Bayley, a neuroscientist at UCSD) More
Jazz Trombonist, Teacher Jimmy Cheatham Dies at 82
International Herald Tribune, Jan, 22 -- Jazz trombonist and teacher Jimmy Cheatham, who played with Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton before forming his own blues band with his wife, has died. He was 82. He had led the jazz program at UCSD. More
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It Takes a Certain Special Feeling to Click with Robots
New Scientist, Jan. 23 -- Till now no one had probed whether the human brain responds to robots in the same way that it does to human helpers. To find out, Lindsay Oberman and colleagues at UCSD, decided to see what effect robots have on mirror neurons. More
A Video Portrait's Odd Inspiration
Los Angeles Times, Jan. 20 -- Random yearbook photographs from thrift stores and swap meets were the inspiration for artist Mike Kelley's first "musical," a 150-minute video featuring dance routines, talent shows and other high school extracurricular activities. (Quotes art professor John C. Welchman of UCSD) More
An Innovator in Bioengineering
San Diego Union Tribune, Jan. 23 -- Shu Chien's groundbreaking work has earned him exclusive membership in all three national academies – the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences – a feat accomplished by only eight other people. Chien holds an endowed chair in bioengineering at the Jacobs School of Engineering at UCSD. More
Stem Cell Scientists Shout out Hallelujah
San Diego Union Tribune, Jan. 23 -- Scientists expect access to human embryonic stem cells for research to improve thanks to new policies announced yesterday by a University of Wisconsin agency that controls the patents on the cells. (Quotes Larry Goldstein, a UCSD stem cell researcher) More
The Research Report
Columbia Journalism Review, December 2006 -- After White House-bound Bill Clinton donned shades and played the sax on The Arsenio Hall Show in June 1992, a small intellectual industry emerged to examine the relationship between entertainment and politics. (Co-authored by Michael Schudson, who teaches at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism and in the Department of Communication at UCSD) More
Raunchy Olde England
San Diego Union Tribune, Jan. 21 -- We often picture the 18th century as an elegant drawing room where aristocrats in silk waistcoats, luxuriant petticoats and powdered wigs perch upright on uncomfortable chairs making polite but witty small talk while nibbling dainty sandwiches and drinking tea served by liveried servants. We overlook the unwashed bodies beneath the lace, the decaying teeth, the bad breath, the lice. (Book review written by Kathryn Shevelow, who teaches in the Literature Department at UCSD) More