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Timothy Potts has ideas for Getty Museum
When Timothy Potts became the director of the Getty Museum in September, he knew he was stepping into an anomaly of a job, unusual within the ranks of America's most prestigious museums. Other museum heads, bound by tight budgets, must essentially beg...
Tags: J. Paul Getty Trust, Arts and Culture, The Getty, Italy, Awards and Prizes
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Pirates and animals made it a big year for animated films
Among the year's major animated releases (and award contenders) are sequels in billion-dollar franchises, an expansion of a beloved Dr. Seuss book and an irreverent claymation pirate adventure. There are prehistoric animals battling other pirates who sail...Tags: Hugh Grant, Noah Baumbach, Piracy, Peter Dinklage, Movies
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Florida State's running game played key role in Seminoles' ACC title
TALLAHASSEE -- Florida State took a page out of Georgia Tech's page Saturday night, when it dedicated itself to running the football often against the Yellow Jackets in the ACC championship in Charlotte, N.C. Thanks in large part to that decision, the...
Tags: College Sports, College Football, Football, Atlantic Coast Conference, Florida State Seminoles
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Maybe give sanity a try
The Baltimore SunIt has been a fallow interval at the blog because of some hectic days at the paragraph factory, domestic exigencies, and the like, but I am back today to advocate, in my small way, sanity. Immediately after the late election, the outbreaks of...Tags: Politics, Roman Catholicism, Biology, Geology, Science and Technology
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Don't ask Marco Rubio how old the Earth is
How old is the Earth? Scientists say 4.5 billion years. But Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) isn’t a scientist, so he’s not sure. That’s what the Republican rising star told an interviewer for GQ who posed the question. “I’m not a...
Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Rick Santorum, Democratic Party, Parties and Movements
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Hampton Roads pirates: College of William and Mary founded on pirate loot
Few universities can look back on a history so venerable as the College of William and Mary.
Chartered by royal decree in 1693, America's second oldest college soon became home to its first law school — and it educated so many Founding Fathers that...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), Hampton Roads, Piracy, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia)
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Rep. A Bag of Rocks, I-GA
Change of SubjectBy Megan Crepeau Did you hear the one about the super-conservative Georgia Congressman who ran unopposed and inspired more than 4000 voters to write in "Charles Darwin?" But wait! There's more! Wonkette picked over the full list of write-in votes...... -
Revisit required reading
Paul W. Hankins remembers vaguely reading “The Grapes of Wrath” in high school, the same way he remembers vaguely reading “The Great Gatsby.” “That fake reading,” he recalls with a laugh. “Where you sat in class...Tags: Suzanne Collins, Arts and Culture, Literature, Gossip Girl (tv program), Viral Diseases and Infections
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Jane Austen ring goes up for auction
Jacket CopyA ring once owned by Jane Austen, which has been in her family for centuries, will be offered for sale for the first time.... -
US behind curve in accepting evolution science
According to a National Geographic news article from August 2006 (back to that date in a moment), of 34 “western” nations, Turkey was the only country with a smaller percentage of adults who believed in evolution theory than the United States....
Tags: Genes and Chromosomes, Republican Party, Biology, Abraham Lincoln, Science and Technology
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Sir Andrew Huxley dies at 94; Nobel-winning physiologist
Sir Andrew Huxley, the British researcher who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries of how nerve impulses are transmitted through cells, died May 30. He was 94. His death was announced by the University of Cambridge'...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Biology, Science and Technology, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Physiology
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"Prometheus" y "Elena": Retratos sobre la condición humana van del realismo a la ciencia ficción
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Hace tres décadas, Ridley Scott se convirtió en uno de los directores más respetados en el campo de la ciencia ficción al dirigir Alien y Blade Runner, cintas creativas que renovaron el género y se convirtieron en objeto de culto entre...Tags: Peter O'Toole, Charlize Theron, Elena (movie), Prometheus (movie), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (movie)
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