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  • Blogs

    May 11, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2011

    Monday Morning Food News: Happy Halloween

    Guzzle & NoshChocolate!​Happy Halloween. Here's the food news you need to know this fine morning. The rise & fall (& return?) of Mr. Jelly Belly. [Business Week]Barney's Beanery has ghosts, maybe. [LAT]Alton Brown on hosting Iron Chef & the end of Good Eats [WSJ]Chocolate's bittersweet legacy: ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2011

    Drink Like a Mad Man, Sleep Like a Mad Man

    Flickr/Muy YumThink twice about that nightcap.​ If you watch Mad Men too much and make a habit of drinking a Scotch or two before going to bed, Don Draper-style, you might want to consider warm milk instead. And your drinking habits in general. Scientific American gives us at least one reaso ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2011

    USDA Unveils New Food Chart: No More Pyramid Schemes

    ​ This morning the USDA unveiled their new food chart, finally replacing the food pyramid which first debuted -- and was trashed pretty much since -- in 1992. The new chart also comes with its own new website, ChooseMyPlate.gov. The food pyramid, you will doubtless remember, is that irritating ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2011

    Saveur, Cooking Light are National Magazine Awards Finalists

    WordRidden/Flickr​The National Magazine Awards finalists were announced yesterday, and aside from the usual suspects (The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire), never-before-nominated Cooking Light was a finalist in the Leisure Interests category -- alongside Golf Digest, Runner's World and Los ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2010

    #Snowpocalypse Replaced By #SnowLoko As Official Hashtag Of New York Blizzard; Sweet Time-Lapse Video; Rare 'Thundersnow' Sighting

    KOMOnews.comWhadya know -- a Snow Loko!​Hey there, New York. How's the weather? Hehe. Anywho, while we were collectively kicking it by the pool out here in Los Angeles -- half scoping Twitter for real-time updates on your misery and half gazing up at the heavens in partly-cloudy satisfaction, ... More >>

  • News

    December 2, 2010

    FAIRY-y Tales

    KOMOnews.comWhadya know -- a Snow Loko!​Hey there, New York. How's the weather? Hehe. Anywho, while we were collectively kicking it by the pool out here in Los Angeles -- half scoping Twitter for real-time updates on your misery and half gazing up at the heavens in partly-cloudy satisfaction, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2010

    Today in WTF: Cyberpunk Remix of Bob Dylan's "Masters of War" Pops Up in Violent Videogame

    Bob Dylan, one pair of aviator goggles away from full Cyberpunk uniform​The "Dylan camp," the mysterious circle of consiglieri that makes sometimes baffling decisions about the hallowed backcatalog of Malibu resident Bob Dylan, has occasionally authorized remixes of Dylan's songs. A few years ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    December 21, 2006

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    Best of 2006

  • Columns

    September 23, 2004

    Einstein’s Sky

    Of saints and scientists

  • Columns

    March 4, 2004

    The Great Race

    25 cars, no drivers, racing toward Las Vegas for a $1 million prize — and the future of the U.S. military

  • News

    November 27, 2003

    The Zombie Within

    Christof Koch and the Science of Consciousness

  • Stage

    December 5, 2002

    Blinded With Really Big Science

    Talking to L.A.'s burning men of comedy

  • News

    December 6, 2001

    The Back Story

    A week 11 reading list

  • Art+Books

    October 14, 1999

    Black Hole Sonsabitches

    The world is about to end with a giant sucking sound

  • Art+Books

    June 24, 1999

    Y2K Ready, Set, Doh!

    Microsoft's home remedy for the millennium bug: download more products

  • Art+Books

    May 20, 1999

    Life Is Binary

    The mathematical biology of John Horton Conway

  • Art+Books

    May 13, 1999

    The Quest for the Cosmic Donut

    One man's search for toroidal meaning

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