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Jeff Lemire on ‘street-level’ Green Arrow, superhero inspiration
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesSuperheroes were never in Jeff Lemire’s plans. The Canadian cartoonist read DC and Marvel comics as a boy, but when ...... -
Ray Bradbury dies at 91; author lifted fantasy to literary heights
Ray Bradbury, the writer whose expansive flights of fantasy and vividly rendered space-scapes have provided the world with one of the most enduring speculative blueprints for the future, has died. He was 91. Bradbury died Tuesday night in Los Angeles,...
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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: Gaming, Nazi Party, Family, Entertainment, Leonardo da Vinci
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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 "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.\"")
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: Radio Industry, University of Oklahoma, Vatican City, Disasters, Sam Harris
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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: Charles Laughton, Gaming, Social Issues, Fiction, Entertainment
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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: Space Programs, Richard Nixon, Bill Nye the Science Guy (tv program), Rocketry, Science
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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: Janis Joplin, Rental Service, Sid Vicious, Tennessee Williams, Larry Rivers
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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: Richard Ford, Periodicals, The Washington Post, Central Intelligence Agency, England
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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: George Lucas, Government, Fiction, Jefferson Airplane (music group), 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: Janis Joplin, Hotels and Accommodations, Chelsea (Manhattan, New York), Chelsea (Staten Island, New York), Metal and Mineral
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Arthur C. Clarke, 90; scientific visionary, acclaimed writer of '2001: A Space Odyssey'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterArthur C. Clarke, who peered into the heavens with a homemade telescope as a boy and grew up to become a visionary titan of science-fiction writing and collaborated with director Stanley Kubrick on the landmark film "2001: A Space Odyssey," has died. He...Tags: Armed Forces, Television, Periodicals, Government, Applied Physics
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