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Special to the Los Angeles TimesLightning Jean Echenoz, translated from the French by Linda Coverdale New Press: 142 pp., $19.95 Gregor, Echenoz's character based on the life of Nikola Tesla, the eccentric Serbian inventor, is born as a bolt of lightning sets the surrounding forest...Tags: Thomas Edison
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Obama on immigration: System's broken, fence won't work, Arizona's wrong, beware demagoguery
Top of the TicketFull text of the Democrat's latest remarks on immigration. No specifics or timetable for fixing it. will Congress have the courage?... -
At LACMA, a playground for Machine Project
A girl, tarred and feathered, and strangled by a bullwhip, was found in the corner of a quiet garden. Nearby, at the top of a two-story glass-brick facade, was a speed-metal guitarist pounding out Ted Nugent-like jams before a gothic archway -- complete...Tags: Crimes, Alexander Calder, Sam Francis, Museum of Modern Art, Ted Nugent
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Christopher Priest's 'Inverted World' imagines a city that crawls
Spoiler alert: Plot surprises in Christopher Priest's novel "Inverted World" are discussed in the following column.
It's nearly impossible for me, a native Angeleno, to imagine a city like the one in Christopher Priest's newly reissued novel "Inverted...Tags: Moving and Storage, Building Material, Death, Science and Technology, Moving
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Best book title of the year?
Jacket CopyAuthor Judy Wearing deserves kudos for the title of her popular science book, "Edison's Concrete Piano: Flying Tanks, Six-Nippled Sheep, Walk-on-Water Shoes and 12 Other Flops from Great Inventors." It immediately conjures questions: Could a concrete... -
Famed Santa Monica prop house and curiosity shop prepares to shutter
L.A. NOWThe window- cleaning bill at Main Street shop Jadis in Santa Monica must be huge. So many people have leaned against the glass to peer at Parke Meek's seldom-open, oddity-packed domain. The word jadis in French refers to a period...... -
The long au revoir
The window- cleaning bill at Main Street shop Jadis in Santa Monica must be huge. So many people have leaned against the glass to peer at Parke Meek's seldom-open, oddity-packed domain. The word jadis in French refers to a period that is romantically...Tags: Frank Lloyd Wright, Death, Robin the Boy Wonder (fictional character), Science and Technology, Charlie Chaplin
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This stove cooks -- but burns
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIn a makeshift laboratory equipped with little more than a battered chair and a cheap kitchen scale, inventor Rene Nuņez Suarez displays the contraption that has become his life's obsession. It's a stainless-steel cooker that uses about 95% less fuel...Tags: Crimes, Companies and Corporations, Energy Saving, Natural Resources, Science and Technology
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September 25, 2011: Can I Get a Witness
The state legislature is holding hearings on Connecticut Light & Power's response to Hurricane Irene. Right now they're talking to municipal leaders, but on Monday, citizens will get their shot.
For the first time in history, the state will allow...Tags: Social Media, Hurricane Irene (2011), Northeast Utilities, Arts and Culture, Wethersfield
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August 31, 2011-Electricity! When Do We Want It? Now!
We still don't have power on South Main Street in Middletown. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, it was a big storm. Historical, right? I was in it. I heard on the radio this morning that CL&P admits that it does not have even as many linemen as it did when...Tags: Middletown
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September 1, 2011-FEMA@GOP HDQTRS
I knew it! I knew this would happen. Tuesday afternoon, I drew a cartoon about CL&P not getting power restored in a timely fashion, and Presto! We have power at my house as of Tuesday night at 7:30PM.
It's the same principle I use when it's been...Tags: Long Island, FEMA, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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Wireless electricity: The wave of the future?
Dan Rodricks's commentary "Big fix: Buried power lines, anyone?" (Sept. 4) offered a creative idea to improve America's infrastructure. But something more radical is needed. Flooding or other environmental problems could still disturb buried power lines....
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