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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: Sydney (Australia), Rome (Italy), Arts and Culture, Artists, J. Paul Getty Trust
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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: Paleontology, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (movie), Ice Age: Continental Drift (movie), Madagascar, Entertainment
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Florida State's running game played key role in Seminoles' ACC title
TALLAHASSEE -- Florida State took a page out of Georgia Tech's page Saturday night, when it dedicated itself to running the football often against the Yellow Jackets in the ACC championship in Charlotte, N.C. Thanks in large part to that decision, the...
Tags: Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, Sports, Atlantic Coast Conference, Florida State Seminoles, College Sports
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Maybe give sanity a try
The Baltimore SunIt has been a fallow interval at the blog because of some hectic days at the paragraph factory, domestic exigencies, and the like, but I am back today to advocate, in my small way, sanity. Immediately after the late election, the outbreaks of...Tags: Christianity, Biology, Elections, Roman Catholicism, Geology
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Rep. A Bag of Rocks, I-GA
Change of SubjectBy Megan Crepeau Did you hear the one about the super-conservative Georgia Congressman who ran unopposed and inspired more than 4000 voters to write in "Charles Darwin?" But wait! There's more! Wonkette picked over the full list of write-in votes...... -
Revisit required reading
Paul W. Hankins remembers vaguely reading “The Grapes of Wrath” in high school, the same way he remembers vaguely reading “The Great Gatsby.” “That fake reading,” he recalls with a laugh. “Where you sat in class...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Arts and Culture, Literature, Suzanne Collins, Students
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So much to see and do in London
LONDON - The exterior of Westminster Abbey is imposing and grandiose.
Our plan was simple: Pay the admission, stick our heads inside to see what it looked like, and then quickly duck out and move on to a museum.
The museum never happened.
That...Tags: Westminster Abbey, Christianity, Harry Potter (fictional character), Samuel Johnson, Imperial and Royal Matters
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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.... -
Omarr's daily astrological forecast
Omarr's Astrological ForecastBIRTHDAY GAL: Actress Shawnee Smith was born in Orangeburg, S.C., today in 1970. This birthday gal portraued Amanda Young in the "Saw" movie franchise, and also Linda on "Becker" from 1998-2004. She's also starred in such films as "Desperate Hours,"...Tags: Shawnee Smith
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Lonesome George, last tortoise of his kind, dead at more than 100
CNNLonesome George, the last surviving Pinta Island giant tortoise, has died at his home in the Galapagos Islands. Scientists believe he was more than 100 years old. Staff at the Galapagos National Park in Ecuador say George, the only remaining member of...Tags: National Parks, Science and Technology
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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... -
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: World War II (1939-1945), Nobel Prize Awards, Biology, Unrest, Conflicts and War, University of Cambridge
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