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L.A. Now Live: More Americans consider themselves multiracial
The number of Americans who consider themselves multiracial has grown faster than any other racial group nationwide, new Census Bureau data reveal. The change is a sign of slow but momentous shifts in the way Americans think about race. Mixed-race...
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More Americans consider themselves multiracial
The number of Americans who consider themselves multiracial has grown faster than any other racial group nationwide, new Census Bureau data reveal, a sign of slow but momentous shifts in the way that Americans think about race. Mixed or multiracial...
Tags: Mariah Carey, Minority Groups, Barack Obama, Culture, University of California, Los Angeles
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4.6 Santa Barbara earthquake woke people, but no damage reported
This post has been corrected. See the note below for details.There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries after a magnitude-4.6 earthquake shook the Santa Barbara coast Wednesday morning, officials said. The temblor struck at 7:38 a.m. about three miles west of Isla Vista, the U.S. Geological Survey...Tags: Natural Disasters, Justin Bieber, U.S. Geological Survey
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Santa Barbara earthquake upgraded to magnitude 4.8
The magnitude of Wednesday's earthquake off the Santa Barbara coast has been upgraded to 4.8, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake -- which struck at 7:38 a.m. about five miles west of UC Santa Barbara -- was initially reported at...
Tags: Natural Disasters, U.S. Geological Survey
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Do Obama's small biceps explain his liberal politics?
Here’s a scientific news flash about our recent presidential election: You could assume that President Obama was more kindly disposed to redistribution of wealth than Mitt Romney just by looking at them. Not because Obama is African American and...
Tags: Science and Technology, Conservation, Environmental Issues, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama
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Letters: It's UC, not McDonald's
Re "Brown urges UC to speed graduations," May 16 Over the 15 years I have taught at UC Santa Barbara, I have seen repeated budget cuts and tuition increases. And yet most students are graduating in four years, not six. I am not sure what Gov. Jerry...Tags: Government, Politics, Jerry Brown
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Heinrich Rohrer dies at 79; a father of nanotechnology
The electron microscope revolutionized biology in the 1930s by providing magnifications thousands of times higher than that of light microscopes, allowing scientists to discern the inner workings of cells for the first time. But it was not nearly as...
Tags: Applied Physics, Nanotechnology, Invention and Innovation, Awards and Prizes, Entertainment Events
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Cosmology's future lies with the dark side, Stephen Hawking says
Want to discover the next big breakthrough in cosmology? Turn to the dark side, says renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. “The missing link in cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy,” Hawking said Tuesday night...
Tags: Science and Technology, Applied Physics, Cosmology, Higgs Boson Search, Large Hadron Collider Experiments
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School district sued over voting rights issues
A school district in southeastern Los Angeles County is illegally diluting the voting clout of Latinos and barring them from elective office by using an at-large electoral system for school board races, according to a lawsuit filed this week. No Latino...Tags: Trials, The Home Depot, Minority Groups, Voting, Laws
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Rick Warren says gun in son's suicide was unregistered
The gun Rick Warren’s son used to kill himself was unregistered and purchased on the Internet, the pastor tweeted Thursday afternoon. Warren’s tweet read: Someone on the internet sold Matthew an unregistered gun.I pray he seeks God's...
Tags: Suicide, Rick Warren, Gun Control, Human Interest, Interior Policy
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Hackers ridicule LAPD on USC digital traffic sign
An electronic sign near USC whose display was changed to flash inappropriate messages about the Los Angeles Police Department was unlocked and the message altered using a control panel, the USC police chief said Thursday. Various pictures of the sign...Tags: Science and Technology, Los Angeles Police Department, Electronics, Safety of Citizens, Government
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UC Santa Barbara student leaders vote down divestment resolution
This post has been corrected. See the note at the bottom for details Elected student leaders at UC Santa Barbara voted down a resolution early Thursday that would have urged the UC system to divest from companies said to profit from anti-Palestinian...Tags: Palestine, General Electric Company, Raytheon Company, Human Rights, University of California, Berkeley
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