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Out of Africa and into the Ivy League
Parents often flock to books dispensing advice about how to rear children who possess both the social skills to be well liked among their peers and the academic chops to make it to the Ivy League. Hyde Park residents Grayson Kachingwe and Donna...
Tags: Television Stations, Schools, Family, High Schools, Television Industry
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Taking science to the masses
Neil Shubin has the wide, happy eyes of a Muppet and the casual, ingratiating prattle of a car salesman. His thick, graying hair lends gravitas. He has written a new book, and on a bitter afternoon in Hyde Park he is explaining to me how he writes....
Tags: Entertainment, Billy Dee Williams, Harold Washington Library Center, Arts and Culture, Paleontology
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Predicting The Future
The environment in which we live was summed up neatly by Isaac Asimov when he wrote, "The only constant is change..." Keeping track of change is hard enough. Predicting it is even more challenging. For automakers, anticipating trends is a vital part of...Tags: Automotive Equipment, New Products, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Ford Motor Co., Passenger Cars
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Goldberg: The false modesty of 'nerds'
Washington is full of nerds. I know. I speak nerd, not fluently mind you, at least not anymore. But I certainly know more than a few phrases memorized from a Berlitz nerd-to-English phrase book. I can talk Dungeons & Dragons (both D&D and AD&D). I know...
Tags: Entertainment, Holly Hunter, Lindsay Lohan, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (tv program), Patrick Leahy
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A little bit of heaven on Earth
I have a bad habit of annoying Christians. Partly it's because I don't believe in Jesus, and partly it's because Jesus keeps letting me write columns about how I don't believe in Jesus. Last March, after some campaigning, I got Starbucks to put a quote...Tags: Religion and Belief, Martin Luther King Jr., Starbucks Corp., Christianity, Books and Magazines
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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 ...... -
Jewish legend sets stage for superheroes in ‘The Thirty Six’
Hero Complex - movies, comics, fanboy fare - latimes.comAccording to ancient Jewish mysticism, there are 36 people, called lamed-vavniks, who are divinely chosen to save the world. This ...... -
Fly me to the moon? It’ll cost a mere $1.4 B
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelBy Mark K. Matthews, Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — The idea sounds so preposterous that even its backers admit it seems lifted from the pages of an Isaac Asimov novel. But the architects of a new aerospace company plan to do what kids have... -
Carnivorism, parts II-IV
Change of SubjectBy Megan Crepeau Hey, remember that artificial meat post from Monday? The one we all agreed was nasty/awesome/awesomely nasty? Here's some more food for thought (THAT IS AN AWFUL JOKE I'M SO SORRY): "Headless Chickens" - An architecture student at...... -
President Obama tackles immigration near Mexican border
Hispanosphere - Orlando SentinelRemarks of President Barack Obama, Immigration and Border Security Tuesday, May 10, 2011, El Paso, Texas Hello, El Paso! It’s great to be back here with all of you, and to be back in the Lone Star State. I love coming to Texas. Even the welcomes are... -
Isaac Asimov was born 90 years ago today
The Hero ComplexHere it is, 2010, and I still don't have my flying car. When I was a youngster I was certain that the 21st century would live up to its bookshelf hype and that I would be visiting domed cities on...... -
'Android Karenina' writer says Tolstoy might not like remake: 'He seems to have taken himself very seriously.'
The Hero ComplexFIVE QUESTIONS: BEN H. WINTERS Ben H. Winters shares the author credit on his new book with literary lion Leo Tolstoy, who died 100 years ago this November. The book is called "Android Karenina" and, yes, that's right, it reimagines......
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