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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: Brown University, Chicago Public Schools, Culture, Education, Malawi
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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, Culture, Matthew McConaughey, PBS (tv network), Seth MacFarlane
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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 ...... -
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... -
An entertainment attorney's sci-fi heart
Air Force Capt. Harry "Skip" Brittenham was stranded in officers' quarters in Washington, D.C., during a snowstorm in 1964 when he found a copy of "The Fellowship of the Ring," the first installment of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings." He...
Tags: Investments, Joe Roth, Robert Heinlein, Ridley Scott, Tom Hanks
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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 ...... -
Paul Kurtz dies at 86; secular humanist philosopher
Philosopher Paul Kurtz was called many unflattering names during his long career, including "Satanic free-thinker" and "dangerous corrupter of young minds." But the name some of his critics considered most damning was the one he most prized. They called...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Union (Tolland, Connecticut), Newspaper and Magazine, Chicago Tribune, Philosophy
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
5:30 - 9 a.m. Jonathon Brandmeier 7:05 a.m. Billy Dec joins Johnny B to talk about his new bar and how you can make it your own. 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. Mike McConnell 11:35 a.m. Mike McConnell finds out from a marketing professor if size really...Tags: Baseball, Science Fiction (genre), Sports
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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: Marketing, Companies and Corporations, Manufacturing and Engineering, Media Industry, Economy, Business and Finance
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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: New York Dragons, Entertainment, Patrick Leahy, NBC (tv network), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (tv program)
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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...... -
Overpopulation is overlooked threat
Ron Smith is surely right when he writes, "There are now too many people to manage." ("Population, debt problems so big, they defy solutions," July 15). But his assertion that global population is projected to increase by 50 percent by mid-century is a...Tags: United Nations
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