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science fiction
Lost L.A.
What Makes L.A. the "Capital of Science Fiction"?
Post date:A conversation about "Her," the Bradbury Building, JPL, Octavia Butler, and imagining utopic and dystopic futures for the City of Angels.
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climate change
Redefine
California Has Two Fire Seasons, and Climate Change Will Make Both Worse
Post date:A new study shows that both of California's fire seasons are getting more destructive as the planet warms.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
The Whimsy of Wood: The Pyrography of Suzanne Walsh
Post date:Pyrography plays a primary role in the practice of Suzanne Walsh. The Orange County-based artist uses fire to portray animal life, and the parallels between humans and animals.
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
How Art, Science, and Technology Interact in Southern California
Post date:Over the past few decades, artists and scientists have helped bring focus to the art-science-technology track of Southern California's present creative economy.
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Altadena
Earth Focus
Conservationists Take to Crowdfunding to Fight Hahamongna Watershed Plan
Post date:Conservationists say that the plan is a temporary solution that has 425 double dump trucks a day running through the project area, giving off noxious fumes, noise, and adding to traffic.
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intersections
History & Society
California Triangulation: Science, Religion, Industry, and the Birth of the Research Park
Post date:While undoubtedly influential and important, Northern California's Silicon Valley's rise rests heavily on its Southern California predecessor -- Caltech. Even today, this history remains obscured.
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Artbound
MOCAtv: Brian Butler and the Art of Darkness
Post date:Elevating mystic practices to the status of art -- or elevating art to the status of ritual --Brian Butler's films and performances are themselves Orphic ceremonies and Satanic rites.
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JPL
News
Smile! NASA Will Be Photographing Earth From Saturn
Post date:The portrait will be snapped by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which will take a photo of Earth between the rings of Saturn from a distance of 898 million miles.
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art center
Artbound
Beautifying Data with SoCal Art Schools and the Jet Propulsion Labs
Post date:Dan Goods' inventive projects are at the nexus of art and science, sparking the public's wonder about the depths of the universe.
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L.A. River
Earth Focus
Arroyo Seco Foundation Receives $3.3 Million for Hahamongna Improvements
Post date:A series of improvements are planned at the watershed near the JPL in the hills of Pasadena.
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JPL
Press Room
KCET Re-Launches Exciting Space Exploration Films in October
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jpl nasa
Artbound
A Moon-Age Daydream: The Collision of Arts and the Aerospace Industry
Post date:The Light and Space movement pushed LA into the forefront of art culture
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Arrival Stories
History & Society
Tom Mueller: From Idaho Logger To Space Explorer
Post date:Tom Mueller, VP of Propulsion Development for private spaceflight firm SpaceX, made his way through the Idaho woods to become a rocket engineer. And the results of his hard work is about to lift off.
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Space
SoCal Focus
Spaced: Planetary Exploration Headed Toward Irrelevance
Post date:The "sense of wonder" that propelled discovery has become a feeling of frustration as the Space Age unwinds.
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NASA
SoCal Focus
Lost Worlds: The Passing of an Age of Space Exploration
Post date:Robotic exploration of the solar system is losing out in the tug-of-war for funding, and it may never recover.
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Arrival Stories
History & Society
Bill Patzert: Surfing, Sextants and Spacecraft Plus 'Global Warming is the Real Deal'
Post date:Jet Propulsion Laboratory's research scientist and oceanographer Bill Patzert dreamed big and landed in Los Angeles.
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Press Room
JPL and KCET Present Special Trilogy of Documentaries on the Beginnings of the Space Age
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Commentary
JPL's Patzert Comments on El Niño and Climate Change
Post date:"Of course one of the biggest and most important signals for SoCal is the El Niño. Our climate is changing. This paper is another nail in the "intellectual" coffin of the climate change skeptics."
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Commentary
Life on Mars?
Post date:How's this for potentially earth-shattering news? NASA announced today that research shows that Mars' "envionrment may have been favorable for life." The data collectors are two robot rovers from the Southland.
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reason
Commentary
Think Tank Videos Aplenty
Post date:See: Eric Schmidt, Craig Venter, and Muhammad Yunus; Bill Patzert and Josh Willis, Robert Blackwill, and the Reason online staff.