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Where We Are:
For a few hours this week, we (meaning our avatar Voyager 1) might had slipped the surly bonds of the solar system. It turns out we didn't.
Where We Are:
Californians buy one out of every ten new cars sold in America. Southern Californians buy most of those.The L.A. Auto Show has been packing them in since 1907 to show what their future on wheels will be.
Where We Are:
Less outdoor lighting is the goal of a new county ordinance and the aim of those who see darker night skies as benefiting both people and wildlife.
Technology:
Live updates for the landing of Curiosity, the roving Mars Science Laboratory.
Where We Are:
Late Saturday evening, NASA will learn if Curiosity survived the landing and is waiting for JPL's command to rove Mars, where the Space Age lingers still.
Where We Are:
In a welter of choices, how to choose?
Technology:
Scarecrow was brought to the Dumont Dunes to give rover operators a little more data to aid in negotiating the sand traps of the Red Planet when the Mars Science Laboratory Lands in August.
Where We Are:
150,000 visitors, 400 authors, and dread occupy the 17th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
Where We Are:
The "sense of wonder" that propelled discovery has become a feeling of frustration as the Space Age unwinds.
Where We Are:
Robotic exploration of the solar system is losing out in the tug-of-war for funding, and it may never recover.
Where We Are:
1950s science fiction speculated on the answers, both tragic and majestic, but today only Newt Gingrich seems convinced.
Transportation:
The most requested on-board feature has arrived on three Amtrak routes in California.
Commentary:
Social media is a limitless, bottomless world. With each keystroke we swim further away from the land that grounded us.
Commentary:
With the way information and change happens so quickly, I feel like I am living numerous lifetimes in one.
LA as Subject:
Long before a helium-filled balloon from Japan touched down in California, balloons, dirigibles, and their many variations took to the skies in service of sport, the military, advertising, and of course show business throughout Southern California.
Guest Commentary :
My decision to purchase an electric car was driven by a variety of reasons, but the simplest reason was this: The cost of filling up with gas is just too much. Not just the price at the pump, but also the cost to our future generations, our national security, and our economy.
Environment:
The Electric Vehicle has already come and gone, but it's likely to get another big chance on the market, especially here in L.A. A report released today by UCLA predicts that the city will be a U.S. leader in EV adoption by 2015.
Around SoCal:
It may seem impossible that a conference with topics as far reaching as astronomy, nanotechnology, quantum physics, and an appearance by Stephen Hawking himself, could be overshadowed by the legacy of a university professor who died 22 years ago, but that's exactly what happened last Friday at CalTech's first ever TEDx event.
Technology:
At 1:10 p.m., the 235-foot tall rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County to deliver a satellite (for unknown purposes) into orbit for the National Reconnaissance Office.
Technology:
The Delta IV Heavy is scheduled to launch Thursday afternoon with the mission of delivering a satellite into orbit for the National Reconnaissance Office.
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I Am Los Angeles: Strings of Success
Sasha is content just to be living his life on his own terms, doing something he thoroughly enjoys: building and playing guitars.
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