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Exhibit brings together 'Eureka' moments in science
Earle Havens can almost hear their voices.
Each time Havens steps inside the George Peabody Library, he senses the muted exclamations, the murmured back-and-forth of a conversation that's been going on now for more than two millennia.
In one corner,...Tags: Religious Texts, Science, Libraries, Colleges and Universities, Astronomy
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Baltimore Messenger Calendar
Submit notices via email: messenger@patuxent.com; fax: 410-332-6336; or mail: Baltimore Messenger, 501 N. Calvert St., Third Floor, Baltimore, MD 21278. Include sponsor or host, date, time, address of event, contact name and phone number. Deadline is...Tags: Arts, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Peace Corps, Theater, Concerts
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Celebrating 10 years of Oktoberfest at fairgrounds
The Maryland Brewer's Oktoberfest will happen this year Saturday, Oct. 8, noon-6 p.m., at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium. This event, which is celebrating its 10th year, will feature over 80 beers, including 15 from area breweries. There...Tags: Timonium, Hospitals and Clinics, Lombard Street, Weight, Women's Health
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Best week ever: Baltimore events, music, movies and more
Here's your one-stop, handy list of everything going on this week
MOVIES OPENING (Friday; subject to change)
The Big Year
Footloose
Restless
The Thing
NOTABLE TV
MONDAY
The Rosie Show (talk-show premiere; 7 p.m.; OWN)
Oprah’s Lifeclass (series...Tags: Arts, Armed Forces, Bjork, Ryan Adams, Deer Tick (music group)
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Walters researchers decode the secrets of the Archimedes Palimpsest
Twelve years ago, Walters Art Museum curator Will Noel opened a parcel and discovered what he calls "Archimedes' brain in a box."
Thus began a search for buried treasure — in this case, the lost writings of Archimedes of Syracuse, a famed Greek...Tags: Philosophy, Fiction, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Auction Service, File Sharing
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Finding layers of 'Secrets' below the obvious
The ugliest exhibit in town just now is at the Walters Art Museum. Let me explain. "Lost and Found: The Secrets of Archimedes" is a fascinating show capping 12 years of scholarly research into a rare book that contains texts by that ancient Greek...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Arts, Fine Arts, Walters Art Museum, Christian Orthodoxy
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A Merry Owl Meatmas
Dining@LargeIt's always scary when our friend Owl Meat's regular Funtastic Thursday post happens to fall on a kinder, gentler day like Christmas. But here he is, mellower than usual. Perhaps he's gotten into the eggnog. ELHere at stately Owl Manor,......Tags: Holidays, Christmas, Hugh Jackman, Halloween, Religious Festivals
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Southington High School Finishes 7th In Division In National Robotics Competition
The Hartford CourantSouthington High School's Cyber Knights robotics team returned to national-level competition at last weekend's FIRST Championship with a performance that was the best of the 11 teams from Connecticut. The Cyber Knights were among 400 teams at the...Tags: Bridgeport (Fairfield, Connecticut), Winsted, Old Lyme, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Galileo Galilei
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Pi Day! Geeks eat pie, honor the circle today
Geeks, mathematicians, and lovers of all things circular today celebrate Pi Day -- a national holiday that honors π, one of world's most mysterious and awe-inspiring infinite mathematical constants.
Pi Day is celebrated annually on March 14 at 1:59:26...Tags: Black Swan (movie), Pies and Tarts, Thriller (genre), Pi Day, Albert Einstein
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Duo see more from waves than just great rides
NEWPORT BEACH — Waves at The Wedge are legendary for hurling bodysurfers into the air and sweeping tourists off their feet. But they also have a more practical purpose: producing electricity. A pair of Newport Beach entrepreneurs have been testing...Tags: Western Africa, Renewable Energy, YouTube, Petroleum Industry, Solar Energy
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'MythBusters' brings its live show to Los Angeles
Show TrackerThe "Mythbusters" guys have launched a cannonball at a car (OK, that experiment didn't exactly go as planned), aged 1000 years and tested Archimedes' death ray. Now they are taking on a new challenge: co-hosts Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage are taking a... -
Ben Bernanke does a Jack Nicholson on Capitol Hill
Opinion L.A.Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke tells it like it is -- sort of -- at a congressional hearing....
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