
Thomas A. Fudge
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3 days ago |
kpbs.org | Thomas A. Fudge |Tom Fudge
Up until this week, the San Diego Police Department has broadcast police calls on an open channel. It’s been a resource for people who follow crime and monitor the police. But some say it has its drawbacks. “In the past we were not encrypted, which meant that by using police scanners anyone in the public, the media, etc. could listen in on all of our radio communications,” said San Diego Police Lt. Daniel Meyer.
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3 weeks ago |
kpbs.org | Thomas A. Fudge |Tom Fudge
In a lab at the UC San Diego School of Medicine a computer screen shows a video of a human lung with a form of fibrosis. Some parts of it have been dyed green and blue, with the deceased section in red. But this isn’t really a lung. It’s a very small model, made from human stem cells, and it’s called an organoid. “We now have a way to screen the drugs on this, to reverse this exact condition,” Professor Pradipta Ghosh said as she pointed at the screen.
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3 weeks ago |
kpbs.org | Thomas A. Fudge |Tom Fudge
When I met William Pink he was wearing a grey hoodie and a crushed hat that was lined with small pins. He held a stick with a string attached to the far end, and the string held a row of wooden rings. “This is an acorn ring game,” he said. “These are the acorn caps from the interior white oak. And the idea of the game is to catch the rings.”He tossed the row upward and a ring came down, impaled on his stick. “Got one,” he said.
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1 month ago |
kpbs.org | Thomas A. Fudge |Tom Fudge
About 10 years ago, Ana Moreno was a PhD student at UC San Diego when she had a free Sunday night and did what some serious students do. She started reading science papers. “I came across a paper that talked about these people in Pakistan, street performers, who could walk on fire and do different performances with no pain whatsoever," Moreno said.
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1 month ago |
kpbs.org | Thomas A. Fudge |Tom Fudge
On Friday volunteers and City of San Diego work crews planted trees in Colina del Sol Park and along nearby streets for Arbor Day. This week also marked another milestone in the beautification of San Diego’s right of ways. The community of Bay Park saw the city complete its undergrounding of power lines. The month before, the Rolando neighborhood was finished. Power lines and poles that remain a common site are a historic architecture that nobody wants to preserve.
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