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Book review: 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World' by William Rosen
The Most Powerful Idea in the World
A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
William Rosen
Random House: 372 pp., $28
A young Steampunk's dream, William Rosen's "The Most Powerful Idea in the World" manages to make sense of the many threads that...Tags: Fiction, Entertainment, Invention and Innovation, Ecosystems, Science and Technology
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David Warren dies at 85; inventor of the 'black box' flight data recorder
David Warren, an Australian scientist who invented the flight data recorder famously known as the "black box" to help investigate aircraft accidents, died Monday in a Melbourne nursing home. He was 85. Australian defense officials announced the death but...Tags: Melbourne (Australia), Science and Technology, India, Plastic Surgeons, Australia
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Ivins stood to gain financially from anthrax scare
Bruce E. Ivins, the government biodefense scientist linked to the deadly anthrax mailings of 2001, stood to gain financially from the huge federal spending in the fear-filled aftermath of those killings, the Los Angeles Times has learned. Ivins is listed...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Science and Technology, U.S. Department of Justice, Health, New York City
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Meet the Robinsons
!["Meet the Robinsons," a goofy, gadget-packed kid's science-fiction comedy based on William Joyce's invention-happy "A Day with Wilbur Robinson," is a frenetic, sometimes too-dizzying experience that nevertheless left me impressed. It's a real technical breakthrough, a cartoon feature done in 3D computer images of unusual depth and plasticity that creates its own crazy world and then dunks you in it.](http://www.zap2it.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2007-03/28687577.jpg ""Meet the Robinsons,\" a goofy, gadget-packed kid's science-fiction comedy based on William Joyce's invention-happy \"A Day with Wilbur Robinson,\" is a frenetic, sometimes too-dizzying experience that nevertheless left me impressed. It's a real technical breakthrough, a cartoon feature done in 3D computer images of unusual depth and plasticity that creates its own crazy world and then dunks you in it.")
Zap2It.com"Meet the Robinsons," a goofy, gadget-packed kid's science-fiction comedy based on William Joyce's invention-happy "A Day with Wilbur Robinson," is a frenetic, sometimes too-dizzying experience that nevertheless left me impressed. It's a real technical...Tags: Entertainment, Animation (genre), Invention and Innovation, Tom Selleck, Science and Technology
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Edison as the first tech-celeb
Times Staff WriterAMERICANS disdain abstraction, but they adore practical genius. Hence the long and reverential infatuation with Thomas Edison. There is no shortage of Edison biographies, and at least 10 adult accounts of his life are in print, along with a nearly...Tags: Celebrities, Invention and Innovation, The New York Times, Henry Ford, Judaism
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Igor (D)
87 min. Rated PG Directed by Anthony Leondis (Director; Lilo & Stich 2) Have you ever seen a kid's movie that was completely not for kids? But not in that, "oh, the humor is for adults, and it's too sophisticated for kids" kind of way... but...Tags: John Cleese, Fiction, Entertainment, Invention and Innovation, Igor (movie)
Jul 4, 2010
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Jul 22, 2010
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Aug 2, 2008
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Mar 30, 2007
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Mar 21, 2007
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Sep 18, 2008
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