Sciences

Triassic Parq: The Musical

Chance Theater

Tim Thompson Puts Stars in Your Eyes Tonight

Astronomer Tim Thompson is so jazzed by NASA's Kepler Mission, which is searching part of the Milky Way for planets much like ours, that he wants to tell you all about its current progress.And he'll share this tonight. For free! Screw clubbing, Stefon.

The Planet Pluto

Chain Reaction

Santa Ana Set to Sizzle by Mid-Century, Says New Climate Change Report

The realities of global warming have just become a lot more local. "Mid-Century Warming in the Los Angeles Region," released yesterday just as summer begins, is touted as the first study to make unique regional and city climate change predictions. The research findings by UCLA's Institute of the Env ... More >>

Dolphin Trapped at Bolsa Chica and Whale Entangled in Fishing Line Believed Out to Sea

Two marine mammals whose plights led to much nail biting by human mammals on shore have apparently returned to the open sea, hopefully unscathed.The bottlenose dolphin that had been swimming in circles in shallow water within the Bolsa Chica wetlands is believed to have left some time this weekend. ... More >>

Mayan Lecture Series

Hotel Maya

Meet the Scientists Trying to Grow Meat in a Petri Dish

​News has bubbled into the mainstream over the past decade about scientists trying to grow meat in a petri dish for mass human consumption, to save us from our reliance on methane-releasing, grain-devouring, water-wasting livestock. But no one has quite presented the characters behind the movement ... More >>

Bad Religion's Greg Graffin to Teach at Cornell; Has Bird Fossil Named After Him

Chad Sengstock/OC WeeklyGreg Graffin at not a lecture​Remember that one cool professor you had in college, who let you skip classes as long as you turned in awesome papers and never minded if you came to lectures hung over? Well, now that Bad Religion frontman Greg Graffin is teaching Evolution ... More >>

Telomere Repair

Alex's Bar

Ry Cooder, You've Never Been Cooler

The artwork for the single features the piece Nuthin' to See Here, Keep on Movin'! by Vincent Valdez. ​Famous slide guitar player and singer-songwriter Ry Cooder isn't just boycotting Arizona--he wrote a song, called "Quicksand," as a response to Arizona's anti-immigrant law, SB 1070. Cooder de ... More >>

Icelandic Volcano Claims More (Coachella) Victims

​The official Coachella Twitter has just confirmed that Talvin Singh, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble and Gary Numan all will not be able to make the festival, due to travel restrictions brought about by the volcanic ash from the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull (no, seriously, that's the name of the volcano ... More >>

Aging to End in Manhattan Beach

​Call it an anti-death panel. We just received a press release saying that the world's top aging scientists will converge on Manhattan Beach from November 13 through 15 to figure out how to put off that whole getting-old-and-dying thing.The scientists, supposedly, will "predict the end of aging by ... More >>

Meat Free Monday Goes Mainstream

Of course, by 'mainstream' I mean that celebrities are now endorsing the campaign. Paul, Stella and Mary McCartney today launched a new website, Meat Free Monday, which encourages everyone to, yes, you guessed it, give up meat on Mondays. Other famous names weighing in include Kevin Spacey, Sheryl C ... More >>

Last Night: We Are Scientists, the Blood Arm at Detroit Bar

Andrew YoussefLast Night: We Are Scientists, the Blood Arm at Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa, May 31, 2009.Better than: Staying home and watching the MTV Movie Awards--even though Akiva Schaffer, the Lonely Island mate of host Andy Samberg who popped up on the award show's "Doubt for Sega Genesis" sketch ... More >>

Fitness Hike

Laguna Coast Wilderness Park

Why Women Can't Read Maps: a Theory of Evolution

Research headed by UC Irvine science superstar Francisco Ayala that found the brains of the two sexes react differently to beauty also may help explain why women can't read maps and men can't see what's right under their noses.Ayala -- the Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences, Ecology & ... More >>

Kilimanjaro: To the Roof of the World

Bowers Museum

As State OK's Tough Global Warming Rules Should Diesel Be Next?

As expected, the state this afternoon put teeth in its landmark regulations enacted in 2006 to combat global warming, adopting the nation's most comprehensive plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Such emissions must be cut 30 percent by 2020. But that is not enough for the editorial board ... More >>

[CD Review] Nebula, 'Peel Sessions' (Sweet Nothing Records)

Native Plant Hike

Laguna Coast Wilderness Park

Intermediate Mountain Bike Ride

Intermediate Mountain Bike Ride

Because You're Ugly: Knitting in Biology 101

Okay, so I admit I never did get to dissect a lab rat or frog for high school biology—though, I did have my go at a formaldehyde-soaked mink and fetal pig, which wasn't nearly as disgusting as I thought it'd be—and I never did opt for the conscientious alternate assignment to write a 50-page res ... More >>

Say You Will Build It, and They Will Come . . . If the 'It' Is a Toll Road Over Trestles Parkland

No. 1 on the Palin/Hewitt/Colbert Threat Down: (Polar) Bears!

Sarah Palin invigorated the conservative base with her surprisingly poised speech to GOP delegates last night, kicking new life into what had been a ho-hum convention previously “highlighed” by the Dead Man Talking triad (George W. Bush, Fred Thompson and Joe Lieberman). Clockwork's favorite sce ... More >>

Sex Seduces Science in Author Mary Roach's New Book, 'Bonk'

Rohrabacher's Appalling Flatulence

In case you missed it, you can find video of Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Surfin') speculating about the effects of dinosaur flatulence here. And no, booze was not involved in the congressman's ramblings. Probing the effects of dinosaur farting is just something Rohrabacher sees as part of his officia ... More >>

Flipper Rules OK

Scientists testing/messing with dolphins at Disney EPCOT have taught them to sing the Batman theme song: "The dolphin was reinforced for producing a specific rhythm to a specific object," says Harley. "For example, when we presented him with a Batman doll, he received a fish for producing a spec ... More >>

Mostly, No

WEB EXCLUSIVE! Ladies and gentlemen, the propositions!

The Distance Between Things

Who knew Newton's laws of motion applied to flying politicians? Consider the case of President Bush, Governor Schwarzenegger, and Newton's third law, which states: "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." President Bush flies into California to campaign for two Republican poli ... More >>

Blog Bands

The Spinto Band

Real Gene-ius

A conversation with OCs most elusive expert on race mixing

Commie Girl

Is It Hot in Here: A week among Republicans

Fahrenheit 2050

Al Gore takes on the other imminent threat to America

Monkey Love

Intimacy on the primate family tree

The Fertile Sea

This years red tide is killing the fishing season, but surfers are stoked

Diary of a Mad County

Death Row Defender

UC Irvines William Thompson exposes the soft underbelly of ironclad DNA evidence

One Person, More Than One Vote

UC Irvine math professor counts on fairer elections

Its Snot Unusual

Im George W. Bush, and I Approve This Destruction

The Ecstasy Factor

Bad science slandered a generations favorite drug. A new study aims to undo the damage.

Burning Bush-Whacked

Design Matters

You can sit on irony, but its hard and unyielding

Diary of a Mad County

Not So Natural Selection

Annie Tran is a future doctor, current creationist

A Nation of Consumers

From global foolishness to microimperialism, the rich own you. And you like it that way

Alternative Groove

Study shows sun, wind, geothermal power would solve 'crisis'

You Say You Want an Evolution

IMAXs Galapagos offers a rare view

Total Rehash

Cloning Arnold Schwarzenegger

The Bad Old Days

If we knew then what we know now, theres a chance Brea Olinda High School would not exist

The Death Ray

Welcome to South Orange County, home of uranium 238, illegal immigrants, rare trout, and the most powerful military laser in the world