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Darwin Day: Michigan State event honors Charles Darwin, rock star
![<span style="font-size: small;">EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Sunday <span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}">is Darwin Day, the 203rd anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin. Many science organizations, museums and schools throughout the world will hold events to celebrate the scientist</span> -- schools like Michigan State University, which wants the world to know the evolution science pioneer was a rock star first.</span>](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-02/68038279-12055058.jpg "<span style="font-size: small;\">EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Sunday <span class=\"messageBody\" data-ft=\"{"type":3}\">is Darwin Day, the 203rd anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin. Many science organizations, museums and schools throughout the world will hold events to celebrate the scientist</span> -- schools like Michigan State University, which wants the world to know the evolution science pioneer was a rock star first.</span>")
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Sunday is Darwin Day, the 203rd anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin. Many science organizations, museums and schools throughout the world will hold events to celebrate the scientist -- schools like Michigan State...Tags: Science, Arts and Culture, Museums
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In today's GOP, Social Darwinism reborn
Listen carefully to the Republican debates and you get a view of the kind of society many Republicans seek. The last time we had it was in the Gilded Age of the late 19th century.
It was an era when the nation was mesmerized by the doctrine of free...Tags: Biology, Ron Paul, Health Insurance, Unemployment Benefits, Politics
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Biology test omits creation theory, complains Kentucky educator
Nation NowKentucky evolution challenge: A county schools superintendent in Kentucky is upset that a statewide biology test puts too much emphasis on evolution.... -
15 ways to see the world on water
Three quarters of the world's surface is water, but nearly all of our vacations are based on land. It stands to reason that we must be missing out.
Luckily there are some fantastic ways to see the wet face of the planet.
1. Explore the pristine coves of...Tags: Glaciers, Bars and Clubs, Tourism and Leisure, Whale (animal), Travel
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CA Science Center To Pay $110K Over Anti-Darwin Film
KTLA NewsEXPOSITION PARK, Calif. (KTLA) -- The California Science Center has reached a settlement after a two-year legal dispute with the American Freedom Alliance over the 2009 cancellation of a controversial documentary criticizing Charles Darwin's theory of...Tags: File Sharing, Corporate Crime, IMAX, Contracts, Breach of Contract
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A New York state of signs
A fresh religious controversy is ripening in the Big Apple. Atheists there want to ban a word from the name of a street.
In the Red Hook neighborhood of New York City, residents got part of a street renamed to honor seven firefighters who died during the...Tags: Christianity, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Apollo Theater, Politics, Elections
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Close encounters in the Galapagos
For close encounters of the furry, feathered, or scaly kind, there's no place on the planet quite like the Galapagos Islands. "You just see some of the craziest things," said Jonathan Brunger, operations manager for Adventure Life, a Montana company that...Tags: Weather Statistics, Gardens and Parks, Tourism and Leisure, Travel, Cruises
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What would Darwin write if he were around today?
I have just completed re-reading "The Origin of Species," Charles Darwin's great 19th century book proposing a new explanation for how the world came to have such a remarkable array of plant and animal organisms. The first edition of the book was issued... -
Word Play: Where the Wild Things still are
![The idea of caring for the environment seems to be easier to get across to kids than to adults. Many adults just think the world is too complicated. "What difference does one light bulb or one plastic water bottle make in the wide world?" they think.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-07/62917166-01140955.jpg "The idea of caring for the environment seems to be easier to get across to kids than to adults. Many adults just think the world is too complicated. "What difference does one light bulb or one plastic water bottle make in the wide world?\" they think.")
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe idea of caring for the environment seems to be easier to get across to kids than to adults. Many adults just think the world is too complicated. "What difference does one light bulb or one plastic water bottle make in the wide world?" they think. For...Tags: Endangered Species, Arts and Culture, Bodies of Water, Manhattan (New York City), Bee (insect)
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Archaeopteryx may have been more dinosaur than bird
Archaeopteryx, believed for 150 years to have been the first bird, was probably only a feathered dinosaur that had great difficulty getting off the ground when it lived 150 million years ago, researchers reported this week in the journal PLoS One....Tags: Paleontology, Education, Science and Technology, Science, Museum of Natural History
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What's new in London since the last big royal wedding
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSo you hate royal weddings. Or you love them. Or maybe you've caught yourself attending to arcane details of Prince William and Kate Middleton's plans for April 29, but you can't say exactly why. Here's one reason: They defy time. Start with just the...Tags: Arts, Greece, David Livingstone, Laurence Olivier, Sam Wanamaker
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Mindo, Ecuador's cloud-forested wonderland
I've often fantasized about retracing the steps of such naturalists as Charles Darwin, Alexander von Humboldt and William Bartram, who saw exotic places and recorded, in detail, the plants and animals they described so vividly on their expeditions.
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