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The origin of the Falkland Island wolf: A Darwin mystery solved
Nearly 200 years after Charles Darwin wondered how a fox-looking wolf came to live on South American islands hundreds of miles from the mainland, scientists think they have the answer. The Falkland Islands wolf, the only land animal believed to have...
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Tributes to Mary Pickford, Michel Legrand among week's highlights
It's a big weekend for fans of legendary screen star Mary Pickford and Oscar-winning composer Michel Legrand ("Summer of '42"). Christine Schmidt, editor of "Mary Pickford: Queen of the Movies," Â will be talking about the new book and singing copies...
Tags: Robert Mitchum, Entertainment, Point Blank (movie), Music Industry, Arts and Culture
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Is 'Downton Abbey's' middle child just like your family's?
Laura Carmichael is not an aristocrat, but she plays one on television: Lady Edith, the middle daughter on “Downton Abbey.” And I’m not a psychologist, but in the same spirit, I can play one when it comes to a television character, and...
Tags: Julian Fellowes, Harriet Tubman, Fishing, Nobel Prize Awards, Environmental Issues
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Timothy Potts has ideas for Getty Museum
When Timothy Potts became the director of the Getty Museum in September, he knew he was stepping into an anomaly of a job, unusual within the ranks of America's most prestigious museums. Other museum heads, bound by tight budgets, must essentially beg...
Tags: Larry Ellison, Awards and Prizes, Indiana Jones (fictional character), The Getty, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
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Pirates and animals made it a big year for animated films
Among the year's major animated releases (and award contenders) are sequels in billion-dollar franchises, an expansion of a beloved Dr. Seuss book and an irreverent claymation pirate adventure. There are prehistoric animals battling other pirates who sail...
Tags: Piracy, Peter Lord, Entertainment, Dr. Seuss' The Lorax (movie), Madagascar
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Jane Austen ring goes up for auction
Jacket CopyA ring once owned by Jane Austen, which has been in her family for centuries, will be offered for sale for the first time.... -
Sir Andrew Huxley dies at 94; Nobel-winning physiologist
Sir Andrew Huxley, the British researcher who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries of how nerve impulses are transmitted through cells, died May 30. He was 94.
His death was announced by the University of Cambridge'...Tags: Physiology, Unrest, Conflicts and War, University of Cambridge, Awards and Prizes, Science
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DarwinTunes finds the natural selection in music styles
Pop & HissIn a project called DarwinTunes, two Imperial College London gathered a series of 100 randomly generated noise loops and allowed them to recombine in a process of natural selection, during which time they began to approximate music. August Brown... -
Car review: Porsche 911 takes an evolutionary leap
One hundred years from now, when auto historians go all Charles Darwin dissecting the evolution of Porsche's 911 sports car, they may notice a bit of a dogleg in the year 2012.
The car's progress since its inception in 1963 has been carefully modulated....Tags: Porsche, Passenger Cars, Sports Cars, Luxury Vehicles, Car Engine Repair
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Biology test omits creation theory, complains Kentucky educator
Nation NowKentucky evolution challenge: A county schools superintendent in Kentucky is upset that a statewide biology test puts too much emphasis on evolution.... -
Word Play: Where the Wild Things still are
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe idea of caring for the environment seems to be easier to get across to kids than to adults. Many adults just think the world is too complicated. "What difference does one light bulb or one plastic water bottle make in the wide world?" they think. For...Tags: Science, Endangered Species, Bee (insect), Biology, Wetlands
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Archaeopteryx may have been more dinosaur than bird
Archaeopteryx, believed for 150 years to have been the first bird, was probably only a feathered dinosaur that had great difficulty getting off the ground when it lived 150 million years ago, researchers reported this week in the journal PLoS One....Tags: Physiology, Science and Technology, Education, Science, Museum of Natural History
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