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Does your brain have a mind of its own?
How many times has this happened to you? You leave work, decide that you need to get groceries on the way home, take a cellphone call and forget all about your plan. Next thing you know, you've driven home and forgotten all about the groceries. Or this....Tags: Science, Marshmallows, Lion (animal), Machine Manufacturing, New York University
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Teach the controversy?
Today, Shermer and Lukianoff discuss efforts to include "intelligent design" and other such hypotheses in classroom curricula. Previously, they weighed allegations of instructor bias in college classrooms and debated what roles a school might have in...Tags: Constitutional Issues, Leni Riefenstahl, Entertainment, Biology, Columbia University
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A new chapter in science and technology at Huntington Library
Science historian Dan Lewis opened the green cloth cover of "The Origin of Species," Charles Darwin's classic work on evolutionary biology, and flipped to Page 20.
And there, in the 11th line of text, was the telltale typo: "Speceies."
That misprint...Tags: Science, England, Biology, Astronomy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Whale sightings off Chile raise hope
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFrom the earliest days of exploration, mariners in Chile's cool southern waters marveled at the abundance of whales. A Jesuit naturalist wrote of the sea "boiling" with the spouts of the leviathans. Among 19th century Nantucket boatmen, the island of...Tags: Nature, Hunting, Biology, Conservation, Petroleum Industry
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French Laundry chef Thomas Keller talks about his profession
Special to The TimesWhen I was learning to cook, I never dreamed I'd wind up designing a line of porcelain. In those days I believed I would be a chef at one restaurant with one menu and in one kitchen for my whole life. That was the way chefs had always worked. Instead, I...Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, James Beard, Michelin Group, Economy, Business and Finance, Restaurants
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James Q. Wilson: The power of his written word
Southern California is home to extremes — poverty, crime, wealth and immigration; shifting politics and emerging arts; ethnic vitality and conflict — and also to a wealth of imagination. To plumb that creativity, Editorial Page Editor Jim...Tags: Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, George W. Bush, Transportation, Sex
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Argentina's Ushuaia rides eco-tourism wave
Times Staff WriterUshuaia, Argentina — THIS is a place where "The End of the World" sells. The theme is celebrated in T-shirts, bumper stickers, coffee mugs and posters. You can't get away from it. "It's the magic of 'The End of the World,' " says Mayor Jorge...Tags: Prisons, Buenos Aires (Argentina), Career and Workplace, Antarctica, Argentina
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A very natural reaction
Special to The TimesENDLESS forms most beautiful. That's what gets to me. That's what gets to just about everybody. And that's also what gets to the greatest people who have ever looked out of a window and marveled at the sight of a bird, a buzzing fly, a bee. Not just the...Tags: Science, England, Biology, Wildlife, Natural Resources
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Pope John Paul II Dies at 84
Times Staff WriterPope John Paul II, whose indomitable will and uncompromising belief in human dignity helped bring down communism in Eastern Europe and reshaped Christianity's relationship to Judaism, died today. He was 84. The Polish-born John Paul, indisputably the...Tags: Church and State Relations, George W. Bush, England, Tragedy (genre), Sex
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Steve Allen, TV innovator, author, composer, dies at 78
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSteve Allen, the zany comedian and witty social commentator whose career zipped at warp speed from one occupation to the next--from hosting the original "Tonight" show to lecturing about morality to composing thousands of songs--has died in Encino at...Tags: St. Elsewhere (tv program), Drama (genre), Television Industry, Jose Jimenez, Elvis Presley
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Off the scale
Times Staff WriterOn the hottest day of the year, a chilly wind whips across the boat speeding south from Ventura. Cathy Schwemm, a veteran of such voyages, keeps her balance on the tilting deck as other spray-dampened passengers grab at railings and poles. -------------...Tags: Science, Nature, Wildlife, National Parks, Death
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Mayday, mayday
The mockumentary "Incident at Loch Ness," a film fest favorite that screened this month at the Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles, swirls around the enigma of one overexposed serpent.
Tabloid hog Nessie also rates the longest entry, 9 1/2 pages, in George...Tags: Science, Loch Ness Monster (cryptid), Cryptozoology, Newspaper and Magazine, Zoology
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