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Want a sculpture? A new jaw? Pizza? Just print it
Thanks to 3D printing, American society may be about to boldly go where no one has gone before. A Johns Hopkins scientist is seeking to adapt the technology to grow human jaw bones — potentially revolutionizing implant procedures. A Halethorpe...
Tags: Technology, Star Trek: The Next Generation (tv program), Baltimore Museum of Art, Barack Obama, Sculpture
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Poe House reopening planned for October
Baltimore's Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum should reopen Oct. 4, the group responsible for making it profitable announced this week. "That's the official goal. That's the date," said Baltimore-based actor and author Mark Redfield, vice president of Poe...
Tags: Enoch Pratt Free Library, Museums, Prosecution, Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum, Digital Harbor High School
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What's novel is not the story, but how it's told
When it comes to books, I guess you could call me a voracious listener. I have been commuting about an hour to and from work for more than 30 years, and during that time I bet I've listened to a couple of thousand books. First on tape, now on compact...
Tags: Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Literature, Labor Day, Central Intelligence Agency, Netherlands
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Sci-fi worthy of Malthus
In the new sci-fi movie "Oblivion," Earth's most precious resource is Tom Cruise. But running a close second (spoiler alert) is water. Aliens want it. All of it. This is old hat, science fiction-wise. In "The War of the Worlds," H.G. Wells had...
Tags: Conservation, Tom Cruise, James Cameron, V (tv program), Avatar (movie)
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Books and beer could be winning combo
The recent announcement that Atomic Books will expand and make beer available at special events is an intriguing -- and promising -- development for all indie bookstores. We've all seen how hard it is for the small stores to compete these days. They'...
Tags: Lobbying, Walmart, Bars and Clubs, Dining and Drinking, Harbor East
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Author George Saunders headlines 10th annual CityLit Festival
Author George Saunders is having the kind of year that could lead the former roofer and slaughterhouse worker to imagine that someone is spritzing the air around him with a giant bottle of perfume. "The way things have been going recently, it's as if...
Tags: Petroleum Industry, Syracuse, GEICO, John Updike, The New York Times
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A smart investment
The human brain is a marvelous instrument, capable of the subtlest thoughts, feelings and perceptions, and of dreams even the gods might envy. Yet for all our cleverness in other areas, we still know embarrassingly little about how our own brains actually...
Tags: Schizophrenia, National Institutes of Health, DARPA, Alzheimer's Disease, Research
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Grammarnoir 5: The Shame of the Prose, complete
The Baltimore SunBy request, and because in a few days I will be at the American Copy Editors Society's national conference with several people who, by the uncanniest of coincidences, bear the same names as certain characters, here is the fifth Grammarnoir serial in one...Tags: Blindness, Newspaper and Magazine, Scrabble (game)
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Naval Academy astronauts return to inspire next generation
The course is Human Space Flight. The subject for today: analogues — the scenarios found in the world or contrived in the laboratory that NASA uses to simulate work and life aboard a space ship. Naval Academy professor Ken Reightler leads the...
Tags: Annapolis, United States Naval Academy, Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Technology, Vice (movie)
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Living on the bay and loving it
Driving the back roads that hug the periphery of Maryland's shoreline, there is no singular characteristic that defines the homes. The ones that date back to summer-only retreats are usually one-story clapboard structures with the give-away air...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Baltimore County, Land Price, Peace Corps, Nairobi (Kenya)
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Al Pacino, Helen Mirren and David Mamet pool their collective talents in HBO's 'Phil Spector'
Executive producer Barry Levinson urges viewers to think of his HBO film "Phil Spector" as a two-person play —not a docudrama about the first murder trial of the rock producer. "It really is a two-person piece," Levinson said in a telephone...
Tags: David Mamet, Culture, Celebrities, Lawyers, Phil Spector
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Novelist Taiye Selasi, hailed as next big literary star, visits Baltimore
Taiye Selasi's debut novel has been in publication for less than a week. But even before a single copy was sold, the glamorous 33-year-old was being hailed as the newest star of the literary world. Selasi's publisher, The Penguin Group, is promoting...
Tags: Literature, University of Oxford, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Ghana, The New York Times
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