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DarwinTunes finds the natural selection in music styles
Pop & HissIn a project called DarwinTunes, two Imperial College London gathered a series of 100 randomly generated noise loops and allowed them to recombine in a process of natural selection, during which time they began to approximate music. August Brown... -
With 'The Pirates! Band of Misfits,' the treasure's in the details
Maniacally inventive and tightly packed, if not overpacked, "The Pirates! Band of Misfits" comes from the Aardman animation folks behind Wallace & Gromit, "Chicken Run" and, more recently, "Arthur Christmas." Their latest may be easier to admire than to...
Tags: Movies, Peter Lord, Piracy, Entertainment, DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated
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Car review: Porsche 911 takes an evolutionary leap
One hundred years from now, when auto historians go all Charles Darwin dissecting the evolution of Porsche's 911 sports car, they may notice a bit of a dogleg in the year 2012.
The car's progress since its inception in 1963 has been carefully modulated....Tags: Passenger Cars, Porsche, Sports Cars, Luxury Vehicles, Car Engine Repair
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Reel Critics: Two for the money
The great stuff of superheroes This could also be called "Cash of the Titans." Featuring many classic Marvel Comics characters and a fun cast, "The Avengers" is the Super Bowl of superheroes. It's nearly 2 ½ hours of wisecracking, overblown annihilation....
Tags: Jane Austen, New York City, Samuel L. Jackson, Susan Lucci, Super Bowl
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Ben Carson and the evolution-morality debate
Almost 500 Emory University faculty and students have expressed their dismay that their commencement speaker on Monday does not toe the ideological line when it comes to evolutionary biology. Yes — gasp — the renowned Johns Hopkins...
Tags: Science, Neurosurgery, Crime, Law and Justice, Teaching and Learning, University of Oxford
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En cartelera: The Pirates: Band of Misfits, The Raven
The Pirates: Band of Misfits ***
Aunque quizás los niños puedan divertirse viendo este filme de dibujos animados, quienes no pararán de reír serán sus padres porque la película está repleta de bromas y alusiones que sólo entenderán los adultos.
Basado...Tags: Jeremy Piven, Jane Austen, Salma Hayek, John Cusack, Piracy
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National Day of Prayer v. National Day of Reason
The Religion WorldReligion News Service writer Kimberly Winston has this story about atheists countering the National Day of Prayer on Wednesday with their own National Day of Reason: As millions of Americans bow their heads Thursday, May 3, for the annual National Day... -
En cartelera: Darling Companion y Chimpanzee
Darling Companion **
Para contar una historia sobre el desamor que se apodera de las parejas casadas, el director Lawrence Kasdan reúne a artistas como Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline, Sam Shepard, Dianne Wiest y Richard Jenkins. Pero este elenco de...Tags: Dianne Wiest, Sam Shepard, Lawrence Kasdan, Genes and Chromosomes, Richard Jenkins
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Aardman's Peter Lord explains one frame from 'The Pirates!'
Chicago Tribune reporterAsked to explain the Aardman Animations sensibility, asked if he could put a finger on the house style of the idiosyncratic little studio he co-founded in England 40 years ago, Peter Lord, left, dithered, then finally blurted: . There's really no other...Tags: Animation (genre), The Pirates! Band of Misfits (movie), Coraline (movie), Movies, Pixar Animation
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News briefs: Divers look for the missing at cruise ship wreck off Tuscan coast in Italy
Divers explode holes in stricken ship's hull in race to search for 29 missing off Tuscan coast
ROME (AP) -- Italian naval divers on Tuesday exploded holes in the hull of a cruise ship grounded off a Tuscan island to speed the search for 29 missing people...Tags: Lindsay Lohan, Science, Paleontology, U.S. Senate, White House
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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: Politics, Mitt Romney, Science, Crime, Law and Justice, Ron Paul
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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....
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