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Refining the search for extraterrestrial life
Gregory Benford, his brother James and his nephew Dominic decided to combine their knowledge of astrophysics, space, microwaves and economics to look at the search for extraterrestrial life from a money perspective. They posed a simple question: What...Tags: Gregory Benford, Education, Arts and Culture, Science, Science and Technology
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Comments & Curiosities: Telling turkey trivia
Thursday is Thanksgiving. You probably knew that. But how is that possible? I Googled Albert Einstein, Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking, and not one of them said anything about time and space being compressed between Halloween and New Year's. But I'm...Tags: IMAX, Lifestyle and Leisure, Health, Turkey, North Carolina
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Mailbag: Synagogues also comprise Family Promise
I wish to offer both a clarification and an update to the article written by Gretchen Meier on Family Promise of East San Fernando Valley ("Family Promise making progress," Sept. 25). It is indeed a network of 23 congregations serving homeless families...Tags: Family, Burbank (Los Angeles, California), Judaism
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Stephen Hawking gets to the bottom of everything
"The Grand Design." Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow. Random House. $28. 198 pp. "The Grand Design" may sharpen appetites for answers to questions like "Why is there something rather than nothing?" and "Why do we exist?" — questions that have...Tags: Albert Einstein, Science and Technology
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Book review: 'The Grand Design' by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe Grand Design Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow Bantam: 200 pp., $28 Robert Oppenheimer was fond of proposing that physics and poetry were becoming indistinguishable. In "The Grand Design," Cambridge theorist Stephen Hawking and Caltech physicist...Tags: Applied Physics, Philosophy, Crime, Law and Justice, Science, Science and Technology
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Stephen Hawking: Don't talk to the aliens!
The Dish RagStephen Hawking advises earthlings not to talk to the aliens. And with good reason! He thinks they will be more like the acid-blooded critters in "Alien" than the cuddly E.T.... -
Obama's Medals of Freedom: 'Change'
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated President Barack Obama, attempting to spotlight several "agents of change,'' today announced that he will bestow the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian honor, on a cast of living and deceased figures...Tags: Film Festivals, Major League Baseball, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Leukemia, Crime, Law and Justice
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God, in books: Richard Dawkins, R. Crumb and making the case for God
Jacket CopyIn books this Sunday, we look at God. And may lightning not strike us by beginning with Richard Dawkins, mobbed by fans at an atheist convention. Susan Salter-Reynolds talks to him about his new book. In "The Greatest Show on...... -
Opera review: Philip Glass' 'Kepler' has U.S. premiere at BAM
Culture MonsterThe starry sky is regular subject, spiritual circumstance or actual setting of Philip Glass’ work. His latest opera, “Kepler,” given its American premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Wednesday night, is about the German astronomer who... -
For precocious kids: Santa Claus and wormholes
Jacket CopySanta has a thriving holiday subgenre: As Web columnist Sonja Bolle wrote in last Sunday’s Word Play column, many new books are devoted not just to retelling old, familiar tales but also to telling about his “secret life” — where...... -
Looking forward to time in 2010
Jacket CopyDespite the fact that I read more fiction than theoretical physics, one of the books I'm most looking forward to in 2010 is Sean Carroll's "From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time." It's coming out...... -
TCA Press Tour: Stephen Hawking's celestial TV journey on Discovery
Show TrackerWho would have thought that one of the world's most famous living scientists finds time to take in a little television? Whether it's crime dramas or "The Simpsons," Stephen Hawking tunes in. He'd even like to participate in a certain......
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