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During his Nobel Prize banquet, Richard Feynman credited his imagination for continuously dumping him into unknown universes where "nature's pattern of beauty and true majesty [were] revealed." He often found this "true majesty" in fractals -- self-similar patterns often studied by Feynman and his f ... More >>

Lloyd S. Shapley: UCLA Gets A Sixth Nobel Prize, This One In Economics

Good news for UCLA this fall. Not only is its football team 5-2 (not bad), while its academic programs make it a top-13 school in the world, but it's now home to yet another Nobel Prize winner. He's the sixth Nobel laureate from the Westwood school, according to UCLA. The Nobel Prize folks announc ... More >>

Eat More Chocolate, Win a Nobel Prize

What is the secret to winning a Nobel prize? A genius IQ? Long, lonely hours in the lab or library? An unfaltering commitment to establishing peace in the Middle East (good luck with that)? Actually, it turns out that Nobel prizes are within reach for all of us, because the secret may be eating a ... More >>

The 20 Worst Hipster Bands: The Complete List

The 20 Worst Hipster Bands: 10-1 Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All Time Who are these hipsters we see each day in the streets, on our Tumblr feeds, and on the local news? And why are so many in bands? It's not the mere existen ... More >>

The 20 Worst Hipster Bands: 10-1

Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All Time 10. White Rabbits Why do bands need a second drummer? In recent years everyone from Local Natives to Bon Iver to fucking Radiohead has thrown a second kit out there, or at least a floor to ... More >>

Beef Experts Discover New Cut of Steak

If there was a Nobel prize for meat, the team of researchers at Oklahoma State University's Robert M. Kerr Food & Agricultural Products Center (FAPC) would probably be a shoe-in this year. The group has discovered an entirely new cut of beef they've named "The Vegas Strip Steak," which is being hail ... More >>

Institute For Figuring's New Space: An Art Gallery For Math and Science Nerds

A new space has opened its doors in Chinatown, and this time it's not your usual funky alternative art gallery. The Institute For Figuring is a center for hands-on discovery of cool scientific and mathematical concepts, with a strong artistic bent. Australian twin sisters Margaret Wertheim, a note ... More >>

Q & A With Bryant Ng: The Spice Table, Food & Wine's Best New Chef Award, Bears in Aspen The Joy of Pig's Tails

When you walk into The Spice Table, the Little Tokyo restaurant chef Bryant Ng and his wife Kim Luu-Ng opened just over a year ago, you are presented with a composition of place so complete that you might not even notice it. The wood-burning open fire behind the bar like a cabin hearth. The birdcage ... More >>

Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie

Alan Alda's Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie, Christmas 4 Bukowski, and other new reviews. . .

Michael LamontAlan Alda's "Radiance. . . " at the Geffen Playhouse​ Alan Adla's play, Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie is this week's Pick of the Week, running alongside a recommended review ​ of Christmas 4 Bukowski presented by Zombie Joe's Underground in North Hollywood.For all the l ... More >>

Reviews of A Widow of No Importance; The Vault: Unlocked; The Stories of Isaac Leib Peretz; and more . . .

Hector Cruz Salvador"The Vault: Unlocked"​"The gentrification of downtown Los Angeles is a sinister metamorphosis engineered by spoiled hipsters and well-heeled land grabbers in this whodunit parody by the Latino Theatre Company," writes Amy Lyons about The Vault: Unlocked, at Los Angeles Theatre ... More >>

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