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Deborah Harkness' 'A Discovery of Witches' started with airport bookstores
Special to the Los Angeles TimesSometimes inspiration comes in the unlikeliest places. While vacationing in Puerto Vallarta in fall 2008, USC professor Deborah Harkness, a historian of science, was consumed with the upcoming bicentenary of Charles Darwin's birth, but the rest of the...Tags: Harry Potter (fictional character), Fantasy (genre), Pasadena (Los Angeles, California), Arts and Culture, John Milton
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Summer family travel from A to T
Summertime and traveling can be easy -- but for families there are special considerations. Are itineraries and lodgings comfortable? Before we started a family, many of us hiked and backpacked through Europe or Asia, eating on the go and sleeping in...Tags: Cruises, Landforms, Gardens and Parks, Paul Revere, Hotels and Accommodations
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Book review: 'Seeing Further,' edited by Bill Bryson
Special to the Los Angeles TimesSeeing Further The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the Royal Society Edited by Bill Bryson William Morrow: 506 pp., $35 There are about 1,400 people currently entitled to tack on "F.R.S." to the end of their names, possibly the world'...Tags: Los Angeles Times, Science, Benjamin Franklin, Science and Technology, Paul Davies
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Sounding Off: More than 300 job applications and counting
Editor's note: This is the first of two parts. The latest description of the employment challenged is the term "in transition." According to the Advanced English Dictionary, "transition" means, "A change from one place or state or subject or stage to...Tags: Career and Workplace, U.S. Navy, Defense, Science and Technology, Technology
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Blue Balliett switches setting but not adventure in 'The Danger Box'
Los Angeles TimesWhen Blue Balliett burst onto the tween literary scene with her first action-packed intellectual art mystery six years ago, it was, in every sense, a puzzler. An unknown Chicago teacher had propelled herself to the top of the country's bestseller lists...Tags: Los Angeles Times, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Arts, Frank Lloyd Wright, New York
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'Creation'
Zap2ItIt's little problem for Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly to fill the roles of husband and wife on screen, since they also have that relationship in real life ... but the couple they play in this drama is notable. Bettany is cast as Charles Darwin, but...Tags: Paul Bettany, Entertainment, Documentary (genre), Jennifer Connelly, Creation (movie)
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Frog without lungs, 'love dart'-shooting slug among species discovered in Borneo
L.A. UnleashedA lungless frog, a frog that flies and a slug that shoots love darts are among 123 new species found in Borneo since 2007 in a project to conserve one of the oldest rain forests in the world. A report...... -
Unnatural selection: Darwin's family tree had twisted roots
Brand XIrony of ironies: He may have been the father of evolutionary theory, but when it came to practicing what he preached, Charles Darwin seemed to have missed his own memo. Charles Darwin often expressed his worries that rather close and widespread... -
Dana Carvey IS Charles Darwin!
Frankly My Dear» Orlando Sentinel – Frankly My DearAnd this Darwin kicks some serious creationist keister… Dana Carvey is “DARWIN” – watch more funny videos... -
Group petitions U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to offer Endangered Species Act protections to bumblebee
L.A. UnleashedGRANTS PASS, Ore. — A conservation group filed a petition Wednesday to add a bumblebee from Southern Oregon and Northern California to the endangered species list. The Society for Invertebrate Conservation and University of California at Davis... -
Extension 720 Audio Archives, January 2007
Staff reporterMilt leads and overview of Victorian literature--including discussion of Charles Dickens, Matthew Arnold, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Darwin and more--with Lawrence Poston, professor emeritus of English at the University of Illinois Chicago, and Micael...Tags: Matthew Arnold, Ronald Reagan, Columbia University, University of Chicago, Mel Gibson
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