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• Loneliness contagious? An oxymoron?

  
  Social Capital Blog — Authority: 92
  It seems contradictory.  How can the lonely (who are largely outside of social networks) get their loneliness through social networks? It makes sense when you think of people’s movements in social networks over some period of time.  The lonely may not always have been lonely, but gradually, they tend to cluster ...
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• Mayank – UCSD – College Admissions

  
  Prepare For College — Authority: 158
  Mayank is sharing his experience at UCSD and what helped him get admission
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• Join the Grade Strike to Drop the Charges

  
  transreal.org — Authority: 117
  http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/ucgradestrike/ Please sign the petition if you are willing to participate in a grade strike and pass the word on! In the comment section where it says “I support this petition.” please add your school and title (lecturer, professor, TA, etc) ///// We are furious and so, so ...
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• Friday Night: UCSD is the place to be

  
  san diego: dialed in — Authority: 132
  Friday, December 4th - The Moviegoers, Girls, We Live Inside, Beaters and more: A night of goodness at UCSD! If youre looking for something to do to unwind after all that Thanksgiving madness, come up to UCSD Friday, December 4th for a night of art and music. First, stop by the Visual Arts Facility to see the ...
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• It’s Flu Season

  
  San Diego Blog — Authority: 128
  It’s flu season and you know you’re supposed to wash your hands, but don’t neglect your feet and your home’s indoor air quality. The germs on your shoes find their way into your home and carpets.  According to one study, 27 percent of the bacteria in the home are the E. Coli virus. For a ...
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• “Recession Gave Me A New Opportunity”

  
  San Diego Blog — Authority: 128
  The recession has hit Terry Zimmerman hard. He is out of work, on the verge of being homeless and barely has money for food. But the 47-year-old Army veteran from Sacramento still has something to be thankful for. "My health," says the software programmer. The recession forced Scott Winterton of Austin, Texas, to ...
  4 days ago

• A few links to interesting interfaces and interactions....

  
  The World Is My Interface — Authority: 119
  "Throw Your Data into Different Environments": UC San Diegos NexCAVE High High Definition Virtual Reality for Interactive VisualizationCultural Analytics of Mark Rothko Paintings on the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  5 days ago

• Happy Thanksgiving - November 26, 2009

  
  San Diego Blog — Authority: 128
  The day America sets aside for family, for remembrance. It’s a day of Pilgrims, Native Americans, turkey and pumpkin pie but if it wasn’t for a persistent female magazine editor, we may not have the day to celebrate today. It was Sarah Josepha Hale who really pushed hard for a permanent national Thanksgiving ...
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• Say “Thanks” To Our Troops

  
  San Diego Blog — Authority: 128
  Please click above, or go to this web site, www.LetsSayThanks.com you can pick out a thank you card and Xerox will print it and it will be sent to a soldier that is currently serving in Iraq. It will go to a member of the armed services. How AMAZING it would be if we could get everyone we know to send ...
  6 days ago

• Cranberry-Stuffed Turkey Breast

  
  San Diego Blog — Authority: 128
  When you want a quick holiday meal without having to prepare a large bird, or an additional choice for a bigger crowd, this delicious and easy recipe does the trick.   ½ yellow onion 2 stalks celery 1 cup sliced mushrooms ½ cup dried, sweetened cranberries ¼ cup walnut halves 2 slices potato bread ¼ teaspoon ...
  1 week ago

• HARP Mortgages To The Rescue

  
  San Diego Blog — Authority: 128
  A relatively unknown type of loan - the HARP mortgage - has been structured to help homeowners who are having a problem making their payments. Some are at the brink of foreclosure and losing their home. Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) loans are designed to help a specific type of homeowner - those who have ...
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• Scientists Developing Swarms of Miniature Drifting Robots to Patrol the Ocean

  
  CleanTechnica — Authority: 627
  The National Science Foundation has just awarded researchers at UC San Diego a $1million grant to develop small robotic devices that will drift with the ocean currents to study the mechanisms that support plankton and other tiny marine creatures.  Swarms of the autonomous underwater explorers (AUE’s) ...
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• Short Sales Get A Boost

  
  San Diego Blog — Authority: 128
  Home sale transactions that are categorized as a "short sales" will soon become more frequent and popular. A new incentive program is planned that will make these sales more appealing to lenders, thus making them more cooperative in arranging such sales. A short sale of a home is when the proceeds from the sale fall ...
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• Reverse Mortgages More Risky

  
  San Diego Blog — Authority: 128
  Reverse mortgages are becoming more risky for senior homeowners, due to the rising number of shady operators who are marketing these programs. The trend has prompted the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) to issue a special report, "Subprime Revisited: How the Rise in the Reverse Mortgage Lending Industry Puts Older ...
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• UC regents approved 32 percent tuition fee hike

  
  Daily Titan — Authority: 547
  Students, faculty and staff turned out at University of California Berkeleys Sproul Plaza on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 to protest tuition fee increases by the UC Board of Regents. Photo courtesy MCT SACRAMENTO (MCT) – Amid rowdy protests, a committee of the University of California regents voted Wednesday to ...
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• Green By Design

  
  San Diego Blog — Authority: 128
  You can design your mailings to be recyclable by printing with water-based inks, on uncoated paper stocks, and sending windowless envelopes.  Here’s another idea: Print on both sides of the paper to save resources and reduce mailing costs.  
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• A more radical proposal: Demand Nothing, Occupy Everything

  
  transreal.org — Authority: 117
  Who’s down to join in something more interesting in the next 3 days? http://theimaginarycommittee.wordpress.com/ A call to those who can hear it: We call for a wave of occupations and blockades to bring the university to a halt. The proposed fee hikes of 32 percent, to be ratified November 17-19, are only ...
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• Loan Modification Fraud Targeted

  
  San Diego Blog — Authority: 128
  A "Loan Modification Scam Alert" campaign has been launched by a coalition of federal agencies, non-profit organizations, Freddie Mac and others. Here’s what Hollis McLoughlin, senior vice president of Freddie Mac, said about the campaign: "We applaud this new coalition for standing together against con artists ...
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• Scalable City by Sheldon Brown

  
  VizWorld.com — Authority: 151
  I’m waiting for the SC09 Opening Address to begin (”The Rise of the 3D Internet”, by Intel’s Justin Rattner) and on the opening video reel they have a fantastic video from Sheldon Brown of the Experimental Game Lab at UCSD of a project called “Scalable City”. Scalable City creates an urban/suburban/rural ...
  2 weeks ago

• Study finds bees can learn differences in foods temperature

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 639
  Biologists at UC San Diego have discovered that honeybees can discriminate between food at different temperatures, an ability that may assist bees in locating the warm, sugar-rich nectar or high-protein pollen produced by many flowers.
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