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'Rewilding the World' by Caroline Fraser and 'Coyote at the Kitchen Door' by Stephen DeStefano
Rewilding the World
Dispatches From the Conservation Revolution
Caroline Fraser
Metropolitan Books: 402 pp., $28.50
Coyote at the Kitchen Door
Living With Wildlife in Suburbia
Stephen DeStefano
Harvard University Press: 224 pp., $24.95
"Over the...Tags: Science and Technology, Environmental Issues, Biology, Nature, Education
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Eddie Izzard works in 'boy mode'
Fans of Eddie Izzard and his over-the-top-fabulousness beware: His attire on stage at the Nokia Theatre this weekend will be a decided departure from his earlier flamboyance.
Wrapping up lunch at a Lower East Side bistro, Izzard warns that on this...Tags: FX (tv channel), Theater, Colleges and Universities, Madison Square Garden, New York
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Biologist Richard Dawkins on the evolution debate
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIn the 150 years since the publication of Charles Darwin's landmark book, "On the Origin of Species," researchers have accrued massive amounts of evidence in support of evolution and the mechanics behind the process. Yet today only 4 in 10 Americans...Tags: Science and Technology, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Biology, United Kingdom, World War II (1939-1945)
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Dana Carvey IS Charles Darwin!
Frankly My Dear» Orlando Sentinel – Frankly My DearAnd this Darwin kicks some serious creationist keister… Dana Carvey is “DARWIN” – watch more funny videos... -
Group petitions U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to offer Endangered Species Act protections to bumblebee
L.A. UnleashedGRANTS PASS, Ore. — A conservation group filed a petition Wednesday to add a bumblebee from Southern Oregon and Northern California to the endangered species list. The Society for Invertebrate Conservation and University of California at Davis... -
Extension 720 Audio Archives, January 2007
Staff reporterMilt leads and overview of Victorian literature--including discussion of Charles Dickens, Matthew Arnold, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Darwin and more--with Lawrence Poston, professor emeritus of English at the University of Illinois Chicago, and Micael...Tags: Matthew Arnold, Columbia University, Mel Gibson, Education, Illinois
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Extension 720 October 2009 Program Guide
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6TH SAMUEL JOHNSON In honor of the 300th anniversary of the birth of poet, essayist, critic, and lexicographer Samuel Johnson, we welcome to the studio June Sawyers, a Johnson expert and writer of a one-man play based on the life of...Tags: Science and Technology, Biology, Education, World War II (1939-1945), Colleges and Universities
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'Legion' star Paul Bettany raids the mini-bar: 'I can't be an angel. Ask my wife'
The Hero ComplexFor our entertainment this weekend, Paul Bettany will be waging his own personal battle between heaven and earth. The handsome Brit’s image as the assault-rifle-toting archangel Michael in the doomsday fantasy “Legion” has been inescapable of late.... -
Genius and hypochondria
Jacket CopyWhat do Charlotte Brontë, Marcel Proust and Charles Darwin have in common? They were all hypochondriacs, according to Irish author Brian Dillon. In our pages today, Heller McAlpin reviews "The Hypochondriacs: Nine Tormented Lives"; the book, she writes:... -
Lean, green killing machine: The inner life of the Venus flytrap
Brand XAs a kid, I tried to raise a Venus flytrap purchased from the back of a comic book, but tragically, I never got to see it in action. Nope, I never got to see it chew up and burp out an insect victim like that giant, homicidal Venusian in "Little Shop of... -
UC Irvine researcher Francisco Ayala wins Templeton Prize
L.A. NOWFrancisco Ayala, an acclaimed researcher at UC Irvine, has won the 2010 Templeton Prize, awarded annually in recognition of achievements in affirming spirituality, it was announced Thursday. The prize is worth $1.6 million, which Ayala said he would... -
Brain's Darwin Machine
Times Staff WriterLA JOLLA, Calif. — Alysson Muotri was looking for brain cells that glow in the dark. With growing frustration, the 31-year-old Brazilian cancer biologist stared through his microscope at slides of brain tissue for any evidence his experiment had...Tags: Science and Technology, Death, Diseases and Illnesses, Biology, Colleges and Universities
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