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Life Sciences

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2012

    Dennis Hedgecock: The Oyster Is His World

    One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. Dennis Hedgecock wants to breed a better oyster to feed the world. Since 99 percent of the biosphere's volume is sea water, it's time to put it to work. Oysters are a nearly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2012

    Best Food Poisoning Remedy May Be Garlic

    For garlic-lovers, there's a new reason to love those cloves even more, and it doesn't have much to do with flavoring your food. A study out of Washington State University found that garlic is 100 times stronger than antibiotics when it comes to killing bacteria that causes food poisoning. Garlic co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2012

    Red Wine's Anti-Aging Properties Confirmed in Study

    What magic potion may improve the health of those on a high-fat diet and slow down the aging process? It's nothing new -- it's that same stuff Louis Pasteur called "the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages." Even the Bible recommended using a little of it "for thy stomach's sake and thine o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2011

    Amoeba Music's 10th Anniversary: When You're Broke and Need a Fix, This Legendary Hollywood Store Has Had Your Back

    Ted SoquiAmoeba Records: 10 years on Sunset Boulevard​"I just needed to get well," explains Frank Humphries, a 36-year-old punkabilly musician-turned-junkie who, since kicking the habit, works as an archaeologist. "My story is sad, but it's true. I used to have to take CDs and records to Am ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2011

    Study Links Eating Fish to Lower Alzheimer's Risk

    Anne Fishbeingrilled corvina at Olympic Cheonggukjang​Eating at least one serving a week of fish could improve memory function, increase brain volume and stave off Alzheimer's, according to a new study recently presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, Healt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2011

    Where to Eat Near the Natural History Museum's new Dinosaur Hall

    Kathy A. McDonaldA T. rex is poised to munch out at the Natural History Museum's new Dinosaur Hall​ Three Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons are posed dynamically, hovering over a skeletal carcass -- this is the dramatic centerpiece of the Natural History Museum of L.A. County's new Dinosaur Hall, wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2011

    Dinosaur Hall at the Natural History Museum, the LA Weekly Review: Best Set of Bones in the West Gets Interactive

    Karen Knauer, courtesy of the Natural History MuseumThomas the T. rex is ready for his debut at the L.A. Natural History Museum's new Dinosaur Hall. ​ In an exhibit ripped straight from the excavation pits, the L.A. County Natural History Museum's new Dinosaur Hall brings inquiring minds up cl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2011

    Shuttle Atlantis Launches with Yeast Onboard

    NASAThe launch of space shuttle Atlantis on the morning of July 8, 2011. It will be NASA's final space shuttle mission.​When NASA's final space shuttle mission successfully launched this morning, along with four astronauts and thousands of pounds of jet fuel Atlantis was carrying some unusual ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2011

    Scientists Discover Obesity "Master Switch" Gene: And No, It Does Not Control Your Car Window

    Flickr/Jeremy Brooksa drive-thru window view​ Yesterday Reuters reported that scientists have found a so-called "master switch" for obesity. And no, it is not the lock button on your car door window. Although given that the line of cars recently stacking up to order drive-thru at the first br ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2011

    Weird Science: Bad Hare Day

    Not N. rex. Even scarier, the Donnie Darko bunny.​Enormous bunny rabbits, six times the size of today's rabbits, roamed Minorca three to five million years ago, reports Discovery News. Too big to hop, the well-marbled creatures, ominously known as N. rex, dragged their cottontails around the C ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 24, 2011

    Sonic Nigeria

    Not N. rex. Even scarier, the Donnie Darko bunny.​Enormous bunny rabbits, six times the size of today's rabbits, roamed Minorca three to five million years ago, reports Discovery News. Too big to hop, the well-marbled creatures, ominously known as N. rex, dragged their cottontails around the C ... More >>

  • LA Life

    February 10, 2011

    The Man Who Assembles T. rexes for Museums

    Not N. rex. Even scarier, the Donnie Darko bunny.​Enormous bunny rabbits, six times the size of today's rabbits, roamed Minorca three to five million years ago, reports Discovery News. Too big to hop, the well-marbled creatures, ominously known as N. rex, dragged their cottontails around the C ... More >>

  • Columns

    November 11, 2010

    Bad Religion, the Book

    Not N. rex. Even scarier, the Donnie Darko bunny.​Enormous bunny rabbits, six times the size of today's rabbits, roamed Minorca three to five million years ago, reports Discovery News. Too big to hop, the well-marbled creatures, ominously known as N. rex, dragged their cottontails around the C ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2010

    What Records Did LA Buzzband Best Coast Get at Amoeba?

    LA buzzband Best Coast bring their buzz to Amoeba and choose buzzworthy alt-artifacts​Best Coast is a buzzworthy LA buzzband featuring Bethany Cosentino, who sometimes is referred to as "Best Coast" in the same way Carlos Santana from the band Santana is often referred to as Santana. Bobb Bru ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2010

    FDA May Approve First Genetically Modified Animal

    Flickr user woodleywonderworksWould you eat this salmon if it were genetically altered?​ The Washington Post is reporting that the FDA may be getting ready to approve the first genetically modified animal for human consumption. The FDA released a briefing document stating that the food from A ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 1, 2010

    PUT A BID ON IT

    Flickr user woodleywonderworksWould you eat this salmon if it were genetically altered?​ The Washington Post is reporting that the FDA may be getting ready to approve the first genetically modified animal for human consumption. The FDA released a briefing document stating that the food from A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2010

    Lily The Whale Is Back In Dana Point

    KTLA News​We watched television news coverage of the wayward gray whale inside Dana Point Harbor this week and wondered if marine biologists were right: All they could do is stand by, they said, even as onlookers asked if there was more that could be done. It turned out there was: The whale, ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 19, 2009

    Aisle Be Seeing You at Amoeba!

    KTLA News​We watched television news coverage of the wayward gray whale inside Dana Point Harbor this week and wondered if marine biologists were right: All they could do is stand by, they said, even as onlookers asked if there was more that could be done. It turned out there was: The whale, ... More >>

  • LA Life

    October 2, 2008

    Best L.A. Record Store: Amoeba Records

    KTLA News​We watched television news coverage of the wayward gray whale inside Dana Point Harbor this week and wondered if marine biologists were right: All they could do is stand by, they said, even as onlookers asked if there was more that could be done. It turned out there was: The whale, ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 14, 2008

    Dino-Mite!

    KTLA News​We watched television news coverage of the wayward gray whale inside Dana Point Harbor this week and wondered if marine biologists were right: All they could do is stand by, they said, even as onlookers asked if there was more that could be done. It turned out there was: The whale, ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    February 7, 2008

    Tyranny of the Natural: David P. Barash's Natural Selections

    "Dangerous David" on the wonderful complexities and conundrums of our evolutionary selves

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2007

    Beirut free show at Amoeba tonight

    Missed the sold out Beirut shows? Ahh, lucky you. They're playing at 6:30 tonight at Amoeba Records. Go on over and check it out or read Rena Kosnett's review to convince yourself not to miss it. Photo by Rena Kosnett Amoeba will have a webstream of the performance on their website, but come o ... More >>

  • Columns

    March 22, 2007

    Press Here

    Microediting to perfection at your Los Angeles Daily Benign-Gazette

  • Columns

    October 26, 2006

    A Good Spore

    Microediting to perfection at your Los Angeles Daily Benign-Gazette

  • Columns

    April 13, 2006

    Gut Reactions

    How the contents of a termite’s stomach may revolutionize your car

  • Music

    January 26, 2006

    A Love Song for Aron's

    Darwinian days for indie L.A. record stores — but maybe that’s okay

  • Columns

    September 29, 2005

    Battlefield Earth

    “Intelligent design” makes sense only if our higher power is a devious, brutal killer

  • Columns

    June 16, 2005

    Life Begins at “Want a Cigarette?”

    The increasing absurdity of the stem-cell debates

  • Stage

    April 14, 2005

    Wooly Bully

    The increasing absurdity of the stem-cell debates

  • News

    February 3, 2005

    Gen-X On Ice

    The increasing absurdity of the stem-cell debates

  • Columns

    October 21, 2004

    When Worlds Collide

    Film and science mix it up at the Egyptian

  • News

    July 15, 2004

    From Baghdad to Buffalo

    The saga of Steven Kurtz’s bacteria

  • Art+Books

    April 15, 2004

    Oh So Natural

    Sexual selection, the Good Book and why gay is good

  • News

    November 27, 2003

    The Zombie Within

    Christof Koch and the Science of Consciousness

  • Columns

    July 17, 2003

    Beetles and Boys

    Christof Koch and the Science of Consciousness

  • News

    February 6, 2003

    The Final Frontier

    Depending on whom you ask, stem-cell research is either a medical godsend or further proof that God is dead.

  • Columns

    November 7, 2002

    Creation Science

    The gospel according to Steven Pinker

  • Columns

    October 10, 2002

    Pharm Phresh

    Frankenfoods II

  • Columns

    September 19, 2002

    Demon Seed

    Can the Exorcist save us from genetically modified foods, or is it another freak in disguise?

  • Columns

    August 15, 2002

    Clones and Codes

    Life in these United States

  • News

    April 11, 2002

    Fetal Frenzy

    How the embryo in amnion became the strange icon of anti-abortionists

  • News

    January 3, 2002

    7 Singular Successesof Science

    How the embryo in amnion became the strange icon of anti-abortionists

  • News

    July 19, 2001

    Seeds of Wrath

    Silencing debate on biotech foods

  • News

    May 24, 2001

    Twisting Darwin

    Evolution, eugenics and racism, American style

  • News

    July 13, 2000

    Frankenfoods

    Should genetically modified produce frighten you?

  • News

    March 30, 2000

    The Boy Can’t Help It

    Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer’s reductionist theory of rape

  • Art+Books

    December 30, 1999

    Computer Mouse

    The perfect (test) beast lives in a Caltech lab

  • Columns

    October 8, 1998

    Fireflys and Fruit Flys

    The perfect (test) beast lives in a Caltech lab

  • News

    April 30, 1998

    Strata Blaster

    El Nińo proves a paleontological bonanza

  • News

    February 26, 1998

    AIDS Panic at the County

    Race politics threaten major federal research grant

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