A Sampling of Clips for 
June 22, 2006

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Time Flies – Ahead of the Aymara
San Diego Union Tribune, June 22 — The future is in front of us, and the past is behind. It's an idea so ingrained in human thinking that most people don't think twice about it. Scientists, too, have long believed that everyone perceives the passage of time this way. But for the first time, UCSD researchers have documented a culture that uses words and gestures to describe how the past stands before an individual and the future lies behind – unseen. More

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Next Great California Quake
Is Building up, Say Experts
The Daily Telegraph, UK, June 22 -- A century after a great earthquake killed thousands and made 300,000 homeless in San Francisco, a study of local geology shows that another is due in California. Today, a researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD investigating the stress building up at the San Andreas Fault using satellite data concludes that there is now sufficient energy for the next "big one" - an earthquake of magnitude seven or greater at the southern end of the fault, near Los Angeles and San Diego. More

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Paul Gilna Moves on to
Tackle Ocean Microbes
Nature, June 21 -- A recurring theme of Paul Gilna's career has been to serve the scientific community while working at the cutting edge of computational biology. His work to set up computational tools and annotated genetic-sequence databases, such as GenBank, has aided the research of countless scientists. (Gilna is executive director of the CAMERA project, a partnership between the J. Craig Venter Institute, UCSD and the San Diego Supercomputer Center) More

Professor Stresses Academia's
Role in Fostering Biotech Innovation
San Diego Daily Transcript, June 21 -- It’s no great mystery that the country’s strongest biotech industry centers are located near large research universities: the San Francisco Bay area is right near Stanford and UC Berkley, the greater Boston area has Harvard and MIT and San Diego is home to UCSD, the Salk Institute and The Scripps Research Institute. More