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Fans create unofficial new trailer for Disney's 'John Carter'
Company Town"John Carter" fans created their own unauthorized version of the new film trailer for Walt Disney Studios' upcoming space adventure movie.... -
Benoit Mandelbrot dies at 85; mathematician known as the father of fractals
What do coastlines, clouds, cauliflower and the stock market have in common?
Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot may not have conceived the question, but he provided an answer — one that was compelling in its originality and startling in its usefulness...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Science and Technology, Diseases and Illnesses, Gaming, IBM
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The Siren's Call: We Three Kings?
![What are we supposed to think when someone claims he's getting important life-changing news in a dream or from an angel? For some, the reaction is: Get the straitjacket ready. Others, however, will turn to someone like Richard Dawkins, who says such experiences are a byproduct of our organic wiring, a demonstration, he writes in "The God Delusion," of the "formidable power of the brain's simulation software." That's all. Elsewhere, in "The End of Faith," Sam Harris writes with obvious scorn that "it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that [God] is communicating with you by having the rain tap in Morse code on your bedroom window."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-12/58317719-16172617.jpg)
Los Angeles TimesWhat are we supposed to think when someone claims he's getting important life-changing news in a dream or from an angel? For some, the reaction is: Get the straitjacket ready. Others, however, will turn to someone like Richard Dawkins, who says such...Tags: Mystery (genre), Vatican City, Jesus Christ, Radio Industry, Nature Religion
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Writers and editors
Writers and editors George MacDonald Fraser, 82; author of the "Flashman" series of historical adventure novels (Jan. 2) Gilbert A. Harrison, 92; editor of the New Republic, helped launch new talent (Jan. 3) Philip Agee, 72; former CIA official wrote...Tags: Amy Tan, Science and Technology, Literature, Jackie Robinson, Bernard Malamud
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'Decoding the Heavens' by Jo Marchant
Decoding the Heavens A 2,000-Year-Old Computer -- and the Century-Long Search to Discover Its Secrets Jo Marchant Da Capo: 328 pp., $25 A friend and I can't discuss archaeology without arguing over the greatest wonder of the ancient world. Is it the...Tags: Mystery (genre), Death, Science and Technology, Entertainment, Science
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'The Last Theorem' by Arthur C. Clarke and Frederik Pohl
The most exciting part of "The Last Theorem" (Del Rey: 304 pp., $27), the novel by the late Arthur C. Clarke and fellow science fiction veteran Frederik Pohl, has nothing to do with the titular titillation of finding a proof for Fermat's famous marginal...Tags: Douglas Adams, Politics, Sex, Death, Science and Technology
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Frank Herbert's 'Dune' holds timely - and timeless - appeal
Half a century ago, a middle-aged newspaperman with a few obscure books to his name sat down to pursue a pet obsession based on a story that had never sold.
The ensuing 1965 novel -- in which his agent had no confidence -- sagged at first. But within a...Tags: Isaac Asimov, District 9 (movie), Orson Welles, Science and Technology, Science Fiction (genre)
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Ursula K. Le Guin's work still resonates with readers
Forest Park is one of the largest patches of urban wilderness in the United States, and the Victorian homes and gardens nearby create an air of Tolkienesque enchantment. Right around here in fact, one of Tolkien's heirs labors in a century-old house....Tags: University of Michigan, Genres, Science and Technology, Science Fiction (genre), Literature
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NASA since Apollo: failures and successes
Today's topic: What has NASA done right since Apollo? Where has it erred? Are there other space programs in the world that perform certain functions better than NASA?
The two agencies within NASA Point: Bill Nye
Were we to bring a citizen from the...Tags: Richard Nixon, Companies and Corporations, Documentary (genre), Death, Science and Technology
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Bohemian tenants shown the door
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNEW YORK -- Overheard on the Chelsea Hotel stairway one recent Sunday: Question: "Is Rita still here?" Reply: "Rita's dead." A pause between footsteps. "Rita was a sweetheart." Only in this hotel could such an exchange take place as calmly as if two...Tags: Photography, Rental Service, Bob Dylan, Arthur Miller, Hotels and Accommodations
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L.A.'s Nostradamus
BRIAN DOHERTY is a senior editor of Reason magazine and the author of "Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement."THE science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein was born in Missouri, and his fiction was mostly set in the future and on distant planets. But there's no question that Heinlein — born 100 years ago this week — was one of Southern California's...Tags: Republican Party, Ray Bradbury, Walter Cronkite, Isaac Asimov, Genres
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A crucial chapter for the storied Chelsea Hotel
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe Chelsea Hotel had a beleaguered look. A tenant had draped several banners across the legendary establishment's red brick facade: "Stanley Bard is my hero," one banner proclaimed. The signs referred to the hotel's part-owner and longtime manager who...Tags: Chelsea (Manhattan, New York), Dylan Thomas, Death, Personal Service, Rental Service
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