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Science fiction meets rehabilitation with ekso skeleton
In tonight's medical watch, science fiction meets rehabilitation. With the flip of a switch someone who is paralyzed stands up, moves forward and feels the sensation of being able to walk again. The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago conducted study...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Fiction
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The final reviews from this year's Read & Write program
"Liesl & Po" by Lauren Oliver "Liesl and Po" is about a girl, a boy, a ghost, and a ghost pet. Will (the boy), confuses a box containing ashes of Henry Morbower, who is Liesl's father, with the most powerful magic in the world. Liesl is locked in the...
Tags: Travel, Suzanne Collins, Trips and Vacations, Ghosts (supernatural entities), Authors
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Best-Selling Author Micah Nathan creates graphic anthology in "Jack the Bastard"
Best-selling author Micah Nathan likes pushing the boundaries of storytelling. Recipient of the Saul Bellow Prize in Fiction in 2011, he's also been a finalist for the Tobias Wolff Award and the Innovative Fiction Award for his short stories. With his...
Tags: Artists, Music, Twitter, Inc., Entertainment, Authors
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Robot & Frank
Fox 5 San Diego staffRead the following paragraph in that deep voice-over you hear in movie trailers: In the not so distant future, when robots have taken over the old-folks home… In this charming little sci-fi, buddy comedy meets indi film, we meet a guy named Frank....Tags: Peter Sarsgaard, Frost Nixon (movie), Robot and Frank (movie), Academy Awards, Alzheimer's Disease
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Yale Cabaret Opens With World Premiere of Sci-Fi Play
HThe world premiere of an adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's 1925 sci-fi novella, "The Fatal Eggs" will open the 45th season of New Haven's Yale Cabaret. The new play will run Sept. 20 to 22. Dustin Wills and Ilya Khodoshm, adapted the work with Wills...Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Yale Cabaret
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PASSINGS: Harry Harrison, Nellie Gray
Harry Harrison Science fiction author's work inspired 'Soylent Green' Harry Harrison, 87, an author whose space-age spoofs delighted generations of science fiction fans, died Wednesday in southern England, according to his friend and fellow sci-fi...
Tags: Abortion, Obituaries, Literature, Authors, U.S. Army
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Guillermo del Toro wants ‘Pacific Rim’ kaiju to ‘start from scratch’
Hero Complex - movies, comics, fanboy fare - latimes.comDirector Guillermo del Toro deliberately avoided watching classic Japanese monster films when he was making “Pacific Rim,” his upcoming robots-versus-kaiju ...... -
Comic-Con: Eddie McClintock talks ‘Warehouse 13′
Hero Complex - movies, comics, fanboy fare - latimes.comThe Syfy series “Warehouse 13” kicks off its fourth season July 23 and there's plenty of change in the air ...... -
Comic-Con: Joss Whedon thanks Browncoats at tearful ‘Firefly’ reunion
Hero Complex - movies, comics, fanboy fare - latimes.comFans of “Firefly” keep the imagined sci-fi Western universe alive, Joss Whedon told more than 4,000 people (many of whom ...... -
Comic-Con: Neill Blomkamp lifts mystery on ‘Elysium’
Hero Complex - movies, comics, fanboy fare - latimes.comIn the future, Matt Damon toils on an overpopulated, diseased and polluted earth, while the one-percenters — or .00001-percenters — ...... -
Review: Kim Stanley Robinson's '2312' a masterful, moving vision
-------------------- 2312 A Novel Kim Stanley Robinson Orbit: 576 pp., $25.99 -------------------- As the author of the "Mars" trilogy, among other novels, Kim Stanley Robinson has established a superlative reputation for science fictional...
Tags: Literature, Authors, Arts and Culture, Fiction
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Review: 'How to Build an Android' by David F. Dufty
How to Build an Android The True Story ofPhilip K. Dick's Robotic Resurrection David F. Dufty Henry Holt: 288 pp., $26 In 2005, at the edge of robotics, a curious project took shape: an android that was an eerily realistic copy of science fiction...
Tags: FedEx Corporation, Teaching and Learning, Google Inc., Colleges and Universities, Albert Einstein
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