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Chronicle Podcasts : TVTM 58 shifting into “Top Gear”…
San Francisco Chronicle – May 22, 2008
” Or at least keep TV Talk Machine fans who exercise while they listen really really fit by blathering on about TV shows like “Top Gear” “Action” and “Battlestar Gallactica. Tim’s listeners want to know about NBC’s plans for its Digital Studio how networks like CBS The CW and Fox found their niches and what’s the latest on the potential sale of KRON-TV in San Francisco.
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The Age – May 22, 2008
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Organism Sets Record for Extreme Living Conditions
Scientific American – May 22, 2008
]It’s hot to research life in extreme environments. There are organisms that thrive in boiling hot thermal vents and in toxic stews. These extremophiles as they’re called might show how life could arise on other planets. Or they may provide info that helps solve environmental crises… Scientists think that more than two-thirds of all the earth’s prokaryotes might live beneath the ocean floor. So they need to dig even deeper for a fuller picture of life on earth—and under it. —Cynthia Graber 60-Second Science is a daily podcast. Subscribe to this Podcast:.
Unis must remain places of debate and dissent
The Age – May 22, 2008
What then is to be made of the University of Melbourne’sdemotion of an academic who has been a persistent critic oftransport policy in Victoria after an investigation prompted by acomplaint from the head of a State Government department?Paul Mees a senior lecturer in transport planning and a formerpresident of the Public Transport Users Association spoke at apublic forum in August in which he said the authors of a report onprivatisation including the then director of public transport JimBetts were “liars and frauds and should be in jail”. Mr Betts— who is now secretary of the Department of Transport —had covered up the failure of privatisation to advance his positionin the Government Dr Mees said. These comments were recorded in apodcast available from a university website. Two months later the head of the then Department ofInfrastructure Howard Ronaldson wrote to the university’svice-chancellor Professor Glyn Davis and to Professor Nick Low ofthe university’s transport research centre demanding that thepodcast be removed from the website and threatening legal action. Dr Mees was not initially told about this complaint but thepodcast was removed and Professor Low wrote in reply to MrRonaldson that Dr Mees’ comments had been “directly contrary to ourwish to conduct our relations with the State Government in a spiritof partnership and collaboration”. The university began an inquiry into Dr Mees’ remarks conductedby Michael King of Monash University’s law faculty who found thatDr Mees had “brought the university into disrepute by makingderogatory and insulting comments” about government officers andsaid that his “defence of truth should be dismissed”. Dr Mees wassubsequently informed his salary would be cut… Dr Mees was not initially told about this complaint but thepodcast was removed and Professor Low wrote in reply to MrRonaldson that Dr Mees’ comments had been “directly contrary to ourwish to conduct our relations with the State Government in a spiritof partnership and collaboration”. The university began an inquiry into Dr Mees’ remarks conductedby Michael King of Monash University’s law faculty who found thatDr Mees had “brought the university into disrepute by makingderogatory and insulting comments” about government officers andsaid that his “defence of truth should be dismissed”. Dr Mees wassubsequently informed his salary would be cut. He has appealed buthas also resigned from the university. Although Dr Mees told the inquiry that he was jesting when hesaid that Mr Betts and others should be in jail his choice ofwords was clearly intemperate. What matters for the question ofacademic freedom however is whether the university’s response tothe complaint was driven by a desire to placate the Government. Certainly some of Dr Mees’ colleagues see it that way.