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Spotlighting a terrorism risk, and profiting
WASHINGTON — Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Anthrax, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Crime, Law and Justice, Science
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Case study conservation on the Eames' Case Study House
Surprisingly, little has changed at the Eames House since 1949, when Charles and Ray Eames designed their Pacific Palisades home and studio as a model of affordable modern living. Most of the objects they lived with remain in place at the two-part,...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Museums, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Research, Arts
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Hedda Bolgar, renowned psychoanalyst, dies at 103
Hedda Bolgar, a psychologist old enough to have attended Sigmund Freud's lectures in Vienna but youthful enough to have treated patients until just a few weeks ago, has died. She was 103. Her mind was sharp, her zest for work keen, and her social...
Tags: Medical Specialization, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Health Treatments, Philosophy, Hospitals and Clinics
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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: Environmental Issues, Politics, Barack Obama, Conservation, University of California, Santa Barbara
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‘Sonic the Hedgehog:’ New game to be among Nintendo exclusives
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesThis post has been corrected, as indicated below. “Sonic Lost World,” the latest adventure to feature Sonic the Hedgehog, will […]... -
J.J. Abrams on ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’: ‘Spectacle is irrelevant’
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesWith 2009′s “Star Trek,” filmmaker J.J. Abrams breathed new life into one of science fiction's most venerable franchises. His sleek […]... -
Review: Daft Punk's 'Random Access Memories' is robotic with heart
For a sense of the random oddities that dot Daft Punk's strange, funky, cosmic new album, "Random Access Memories," consider a partial discography of the musicians employed by the two Frenchmen in service of its creation. The duo, Thomas Bangalter and...
Tags: The Eagles (music group), Music Industry, The Strokes (music group), Kanye West, Entertainment
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L.A. Philharmonic concerned about potential subway noise
Nothing in the Los Angeles Philharmonic's repertoire calls for 135-ton trains. The orchestra aims to keep it that way when Metro light rail cars start rumbling through a subway tunnel near Walt Disney Concert Hall. Experts who know the hall's...
Tags: Entertainment, Arts, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Culture
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The specter of human cloning
A breakthrough in stem cell research has again raised the specter of human cloning. The discovery by a team at Oregon Health and Science University moves the world incrementally closer to that result, but its more immediate effect will be to spur...
Tags: Research, Food and Drug Administration, Science, Medical Research
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USC made its offer to neuroscientists a no-brainer
The courtship that has riveted the neuroscience world blossomed at a Saturday night dinner in a tony Brentwood restaurant. USC provost Elizabeth Garrett and executive vice provost Michael Quick kept the conversation light. Over chicken with braised...
Tags: Research, Autism, Science, Medical Research, Teachers
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Watch: Space rock strikes moon with force of 5 tons of TNT
The biggest explosion ever recorded on the moon was caused by a space rock roughly the size of a beach ball. It weighed 80 pounds and was just over 1 foot wide, but it was going incredibly fast, traveling through space at speeds of 56,000 mph. And...
Tags: Explosions, Space Programs, Emergency Incidents, Weaponry, NASA
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MOCA architecture show opening pushed back to June 16
The Museum of Contemporary Art released a statement Friday saying it has moved back the opening date of its show about contemporary Los Angeles architecture, part of the Getty's "Pacific Standard Time Presents" initiative, by two weeks, to June 16....
Tags: Frank Gehry, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Arts, Standards, The Getty
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