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Oscars 2015: Eddie Redmayne says he was 'weirdly not that nervous'
Fresh off his Oscar win for playing Stephen Hawking in “The Theory of Everything,” Eddie Redmayne reflected on the pressure that he and his cast mates felt playing people who are still alive. “Our responsibility to tell their story truthfully and authentically, we felt it,” Redmayne said backstage at the Academy Awards. “It was essential to me that I was authentic to what that experience was like. There were so many things that terrified me … but, of course, it galvanizes you.” FULL COVERAGE: Oscars 2015 Redmayne said he would be emailing Hawking in England that night and might visit the University of Cambridge physicist in the near...
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Oscars 2015: Eddie Redmayne says he was 'weirdly not that nervous'
Fresh off his Oscar win for playing Stephen Hawking in “The Theory of Everything,” Eddie Redmayne reflected on the pressure that he and his cast mates felt playing people who are still alive.
“Our responsibility to tell their story truthfully and...
Getty's Potts: Richest museum can't outbid far richer collectors
Nowadays, not even the J. Paul Getty Trust, the world’s richest art institution, can afford to outbid the ultra-rich when they’ve set their hearts and wallets on a masterpiece, according to one of the Getty's key figures in that competition.
“There are...
Did Michelangelo create these nude bronze sculptures?
An international team of experts published evidence on Monday that suggests two bronze sculptures of hazy origin are actually works by Michelangelo. The pair of bronzes, which depict nude men riding panthers, are nearly 500 years old and are believed to...
Study: Facebook knows you as well as your spouse
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The computer's judgments aren't perfect, but they're often just as good at...
Of mice and men: Researchers point to differences in cell development
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In a paper published Wednesday in the...
Men and violence: Sizing up how men size up one another
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Guy Scott of Zambia now sub-Saharan Africa's only white head of state
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Scott took office in the southern African...
Christopher Hogwood dies at 73; conductor gave new life to early music
Christopher Hogwood, an eminent English conductor, musicologist and harpsichordist who took a scholarly approach to early-music and Baroque repertoires, has died. He was 73.
Hogwood died Wednesday at his home in Cambridge, England, after an illness...
British banker charged with killing two women in Hong Kong
Hong Kong police Monday charged a British banker with killing two women, including an Indonesian woman whose body was found inside a suitcase on the balcony of the man's upscale apartment, authorities said.
The killings have shocked Hong Kong, an Asian...
A brief history of the making of 'Everything'
In 1988, along with 10 million others, I spent several days trying to decipher, decode and demystify "A Brief History of Time" by professor Stephen Hawking, the world-renowned physicist.
Failed.
Reading is not the same thing as...
England: Museum tour explores the air war against Germany
The National WWII Museum in New Orleans is presenting a new tour of wartime England led by Donald L. Miller, author of “Masters of Air,” about the U.S. Eighth Air Force that engaged in some of the riskiest fighting against Nazi Germany.
The weeklong tour...
Caltech again ranked world's top research campus by British magazine
For the fourth year in a row, Caltech is being rated the best research university in the world by the Times Higher Education magazine of Great Britain, according to a survey released Wednesday.
Three other California schools were in the journal’s top...
The Scots have little to gain and a whole lot to lose with independence
The gravest immediate threat to the West's long-term security does not emanate from Vladimir Putin or from the militants of the Islamic State. Rather, surprisingly, it comes from peace-loving Scots.
With polls now showing a majority of Scots supporting...
Wolf-crying from England over Scottish independence
To the editor: Cambridge University professors Brendan Simms and Jason Pack think that the "gravest immediate threat to the West's long-term security" comes from "peace-loving Scots." Peace-loving? Have the lads looked at a single page...
Clever trout rival chimpanzees at choosing good allies, study finds
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The findings, described in Current...
Passings: Hamish Maxwell; Kenneth Bunting
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China's Tibet conundrum: how to conquer a myth
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Simon Schama takes on a big topic: the history of the Jews
When telling a tale that includes centuries of endurance, moments of triumph, bursts of humor and sudden, unspeakable atrocities, what's the right tone with which to articulate it all?
That's the trick historian Simon Schama had to figure out in his...
'Jesus' Wife' papyrus a forgery? You're a sexist!
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Meet Mary Anning, 'greatest fossil hunter' honored with Google doodle
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