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Jeff Lemire on ‘street-level’ Green Arrow, superhero inspiration
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesSuperheroes were never in Jeff Lemire’s plans. The Canadian cartoonist read DC and Marvel comics as a boy, but when ...... -
Armstrong's small step a giant leap for humanity
When man first harnessed fire, no one recorded it. When the Wright Brothers showed man could fly, only a handful of people witnessed it. But when Neil Armstrong took that first small step on the moon in July 1969, an entire globe watched in grainy black-...
Tags: Michael Jackson, Science and Technology, Human Interest, Smithsonian Institution, NASA
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Science Fiction Visionary Ray Bradbury Dead at 91
KTLA NewsLOS ANGELES (KTLA) - Ray Bradbury, a science fiction visionary whose singular imagination regarding space travel and worlds of the future set the standard for writers and dreamers worldwide, has died at age 91. Bradbury's agent Michael Congdon...Tags: Science and Technology, Gregory Benford, Fiction, Science, Genres
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Ray Bradbury dies at 91; author lifted fantasy to literary heights
Ray Bradbury, the writer whose expansive flights of fantasy and vividly rendered space-scapes have provided the world with one of the most enduring speculative blueprints for the future, has died. He was 91. Bradbury died Tuesday night, his daughter,...
Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Lifetime (tv network), Book, William Shakespeare, Christopher Isherwood
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Fans create unofficial new trailer for Disney's 'John Carter'
Company Town"John Carter" fans created their own unauthorized version of the new film trailer for Walt Disney Studios' upcoming space adventure movie.... -
At summer's end, adventure
![Nothing in life is certain anymore — not even death and taxes, thanks to cryonics and a Republican Congress. Thus I can't give you an absolute, ironclad, airtight guarantee that if you hold "The Magician King" (Viking) at just the right angle at just the right time of day and intone a precise series of mysterious words, you will be instantly transported to a new dimension, one filled with beauty and wonder, with danger and joy.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2011-08/63928217-12091624-187105.jpg "Nothing in life is certain anymore — not even death and taxes, thanks to cryonics and a Republican Congress. Thus I can't give you an absolute, ironclad, airtight guarantee that if you hold "The Magician King\" (Viking) at just the right angle at just the right time of day and intone a precise series of mysterious words, you will be instantly transported to a new dimension, one filled with beauty and wonder, with danger and joy.")
Nothing in life is certain anymore — not even death and taxes, thanks to cryonics and a Republican Congress. Thus I can't give you an absolute, ironclad, airtight guarantee that if you hold "The Magician King" (Viking) at just the right angle at...Tags: Lily Tomlin, Starbucks Corp., Apple iPhone, Entertainment, Julia Keller
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Benoit Mandelbrot dies at 85; mathematician known as the father of fractals
What do coastlines, clouds, cauliflower and the stock market have in common?
Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot may not have conceived the question, but he provided an answer — one that was compelling in its originality and startling in its usefulness...Tags: Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), New York, Mathematics, Nazi Party, Music
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The Siren's Call: We Three Kings?
![What are we supposed to think when someone claims he's getting important life-changing news in a dream or from an angel? For some, the reaction is: Get the straitjacket ready. Others, however, will turn to someone like Richard Dawkins, who says such experiences are a byproduct of our organic wiring, a demonstration, he writes in "The God Delusion," of the "formidable power of the brain's simulation software." That's all. Elsewhere, in "The End of Faith," Sam Harris writes with obvious scorn that "it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that [God] is communicating with you by having the rain tap in Morse code on your bedroom window."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-12/58317719-16172617.jpg "What are we supposed to think when someone claims he's getting important life-changing news in a dream or from an angel? For some, the reaction is: Get the straitjacket ready. Others, however, will turn to someone like Richard Dawkins, who says such experiences are a byproduct of our organic wiring, a demonstration, he writes in "The God Delusion,\" of the \"formidable power of the brain's simulation software.\" That's all. Elsewhere, in \"The End of Faith,\" Sam Harris writes with obvious scorn that \"it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that [God] is communicating with you by having the rain tap in Morse code on your bedroom window.\"")
Los Angeles TimesWhat are we supposed to think when someone claims he's getting important life-changing news in a dream or from an angel? For some, the reaction is: Get the straitjacket ready. Others, however, will turn to someone like Richard Dawkins, who says such...Tags: Sam Harris, Nature Religion, Disasters, University of Oklahoma, Mystery (genre)
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NASA since Apollo: failures and successes
Today's topic: What has NASA done right since Apollo? Where has it erred? Are there other space programs in the world that perform certain functions better than NASA?
The two agencies within NASA Point: Bill Nye
Were we to bring a citizen from the...Tags: Satellite Technology, Richard Nixon, NASA, Rocketry, Apollo Moon Mission (1961-1975)
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Bohemian tenants shown the door
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNEW YORK -- Overheard on the Chelsea Hotel stairway one recent Sunday: Question: "Is Rita still here?" Reply: "Rita's dead." A pause between footsteps. "Rita was a sweetheart." Only in this hotel could such an exchange take place as calmly as if two...Tags: Sid Vicious, New York, Larry Rivers, Chelsea (Staten Island, New York), Harry S. Truman
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Writers and editors
Writers and editors George MacDonald Fraser, 82; author of the "Flashman" series of historical adventure novels (Jan. 2) Gilbert A. Harrison, 92; editor of the New Republic, helped launch new talent (Jan. 3) Philip Agee, 72; former CIA official wrote...Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Mystery (genre), England, Culture, Poetry
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L.A.'s Nostradamus
BRIAN DOHERTY is a senior editor of Reason magazine and the author of "Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement."THE science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein was born in Missouri, and his fiction was mostly set in the future and on distant planets. But there's no question that Heinlein — born 100 years ago this week — was one of Southern California's...Tags: California, Fiction, Los Angeles, Patrick Henry, George Lucas
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