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3 days 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 week 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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2 weeks 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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3 weeks ago |
kpbs.org | Thomas A. Fudge |Tom Fudge
Plant biologist Lena Mueller emerges from a brightly-lit room in a Salk Institute lab, holding a small plant rooted in a very small container of soil. “This is our little legume that we work with and it looks very sad here because we don’t give it a lot of nutrients because we want it to interact with the fungus,” Mueller said. But when fungus and plant interact, that’s when the plant gets a lot happier.
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1 month ago |
kpbs.org | Thomas A. Fudge |Tom Fudge
A bipartisan federal commission has called the engineering of biological systems the next transformative leap for human potential. This includes discovering new medicines, creating hardy, fruitful plants and manufacturing products based on organic structures. But the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology said in its new report that the government’s approach to research lacks coordination and needs better leadership.
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