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  • Blogs

    May 7, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2012

    Orange County Register Columnist Committed Libel, Climate Scientist Says

    ​A climate scientist has fired back at an Orange County Register columnist who suggested he could be at the center of another ClimateGate.Michael Mann, director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center, Tweeted that a March 2 Orange Punch blog post by Mark Landsbaum--in which the columnist wr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2012

    Fat NFL Players at High Risk of Brain Injuries, Says Newport Beach Head Examiner

    ​This is Navel Gazing but we also stare at heads, particularly the ones enveloping the brains of NFL players examined by Dr. Daniel G. Amen, the Newport Beach psychiatrist and brain-imaging researcher who strongly advocates better rules and helmets to protect noggins.But Amen's latest research als ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 15, 2011

    Binary Star

    House of Blues

  • Culture

    December 1, 2011

    'Louis Slotin Sonata' Has Its 19th Nuclear Breakdown

    Bizarre and all over the place, Cal Rep's latest is still a (atom) smash

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2011

    Goold's Gold Exposes an Inconvenient Truth About Global-Warming Opportunities

    ​In An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore told you about the consequences from global warming.In Goold's Gold, Jonathan Goold tells you about the opportunities from global warming.You can see the documentary, which was directed and produced by Orange Coast College English instructor Tucker Capps, for fr ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 21, 2011

    Silent Sky

    South Coast Repertory

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2011

    UCI Law Student-Run Conference Looks at Climate Justice

    ​UC Irvine law students are holding a first-ever, all-day conference today on climate justice. "A3 [Assemble. Advocate.Act]: A Conference on Climate Justice" examines "the social injustices faced by vulnerable populations who are disproportionately affected by climate change," according to organ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2010

    UC Irvine Cosmologist to Co-Host National Geographic TV Special

    UC Irvine Communications​In the vast mix of travel guides, the Milky Way always gets the shaft. What's new in the cosmos? What's the latest on those supermassive black holes? (Still dark, we presume.)

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2010

    Thank you, Global Warming: UCI-Led Study Shows Sea Levels Steadily Rising

    ​Frequent and extreme storms tied to global warming are causing more freshwater to flow into the Earth's oceans and sea levels to rise, concludes a team of researchers led by Jay Famiglietti, a UC Irvine Earth system science professor."All told, 18 percent more water fed into the world's oceans fr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2010

    How to Predict an Earthquake with a Doughnut

    ​There is a sweet new way to predict earthquakes and it's making waves throughout Southern California. Many scientists believe that predicting earthquakes is still impossible, but the Mogi Doughnut seems more credible than the Quake Quack's theory. Colorful charts do not a seismologist make. Acco ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2010

    Is "Quake Quack" Behind Bold Prediction of a Significant SoCal Shaker This Week?

    QuakePrediction.com​Twitter is all a-twitter with the revelation that a big earthquake will hit Southern California some time today through Friday, but those freaking out likely have no idea that the source of the ground-shaking news has been labeled a "Quake Quack."Luke Thomas has for years made ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2010

    Film Curator Brings Trashy Ocean Issue Home With Tonight's "Kaisei" Screening

    It's not often that a film series curator gets to present a motion picture she was intimately involved with the making of, but Keiko Beatie will do so tonight when the Laguna Beach Film Society presents Kaisei: Journey Into The Plastic Vortex.

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2010

    New UCI Research Will Have You Looking at Earthquakes and Lawns Differently

    UC Irvine researchers have discovered new ways to look at earthquakes and your front lawn. No, not how shakers rip up your green playground. We're talking one study that dispels notions about how experts estimate the potential for the next so-called "Big One," and a second that disproves the idea th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2010

    New Study: Nearly Half of Fast Food Soda Fountains Contaminated With Fecal Bacteria

    The Upstairs Room @ flickr.com CC BY-NC-SA 2.0​Not that I need to raise more alarms about food safety. We already have mercury in our sushi, unsafe airport food, and E-coli outbreaks which happen too often. We could go on for hours on the subject. But this one news item? Well, it's disturbin ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 16, 2009

    Charter Film Series: MADEINUSA

    MOLAA

  • Blogs

    June 12, 2009

    Global Warming Denier Rohrabacher Froths On

    Photo by Jack GouldRohrabacher, frothing in November.The way Scott Harper begins his story proves that he had correctly identified the speaker he was covering."U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher was in a froth . . ." Anyone who has witnessed the Mouth That Rohrabachered whip up the party faithful at GOP ele ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2009

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    May 14, 2009

    Fitness Hike

    Laguna Coast Wilderness Park

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2009

    Vespas Bring Musicians, Global Warming Message to Sutra

    Singer-songwriters Jason Reeves, Brendan James and Amber Rubarth, who today began a two-week ride up the California coast on Vespas to raise awareness of global warming, make a stop at 7 p.m. Friday at Sutra Lounge, 1870 Harbor Blvd., Costa Mesa. "It seems like back in the late '60s and early ... More >>

  • News

    September 25, 2008

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

    Singer-songwriters Jason Reeves, Brendan James and Amber Rubarth, who today began a two-week ride up the California coast on Vespas to raise awareness of global warming, make a stop at 7 p.m. Friday at Sutra Lounge, 1870 Harbor Blvd., Costa Mesa. "It seems like back in the late '60s and early ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2008

    Surf punks

    Social Distortion, the Adolescents and even bubblegummy Blink-182 are among the bands whose scheduled UC Irvine shows were canceled at the last minute over the years because fraighty cat campus security fretted onslaughts of scary, leather-clad, facially pincushioned punk rockers. A quick glance at ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 17, 2008

    Fossil Fuel

    A Dinosaur Book 
of World Records

  • Calendar

    April 10, 2008

    Earth Invaders

    Let's Celebrate Earth Day!

  • Calendar

    January 10, 2008

    Burning Up

    You're Getting Warmer

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2007

    Crabs Gone The Way Of The Dodo?

    Thanks to the ever-popular Brazilian bikini wax, crabs (public lice) are quite possibly the next critters to make it to the endangered species list. The Brazilian wax removes most or all of the hair from a woman’s, um, southern region. Since crabs need hair to survive, pubic enemy number one has ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2007

    Beirut In-store at Amoeba Tonight (Free)

    Much-hyped Euro-folk reviver Beirut plays a free show tonight at the Hollywood Amoeba Records at 6:30 p.m. He'll be supporting his new album The Flying Club Cup (Ba Da Bing), which OC Weekly reviewed here. Amoeba is located at 6400 Sunset Blvd. (323-245-6400). In the meantime, enjoy this video of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 28, 2007

    Total Eclispe of the Hearrrt! Er, Moon.

    Did anyone stay awake all through night to witness the total lunar eclipse? Not me. But for some reason I awoke at 5:20 a.m. and trudged to my backyard, half asleep to capture this grainy image. The tail end of a magnificent display of nature... If you get nerdy for this kind of thing the way I d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 15, 2007

    Irvine Starbucks Climate Crisis Discussion Today

    Just came over the wire: At 2 p.m. today, the Starbucks Coffee at 3995 Alton Pkwy. in Irvine is hosting a "National Day of Discussion" on the issue of "climate crisis" in support of a new Paramount/National Geographic-sponsored film, Arctic Tale. Filmmakers Adam Ravetch and Sarah Robertson, as wel ... More >>

  • News

    July 26, 2007

    The Drama of Math!

    Proof

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2007

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 26, 2006

    Your Little Round Belly (Bacteria edition)

    Stumbling out of a holiday food haze? Feeling fat? Wondering what separates you and your good intentions about your waistline from those who seem perpetually and effortlessly svelte? Well, maybe-- just maybe-- it's less your inability to resist Christmas cookies and your little used gym membersh ... More >>

  • Music

    September 28, 2006

    Blog Bands

    The Spinto Band

  • Blogs

    August 15, 2006

    Smart Kids, Not So Smart Adults, and DNA for Dinner

    The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau, "School-age children from Spanish-speaking households in San Diego County and throughout California are gaining English fluency at record rates". While this is excellent news, the news for adults is a little ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2006

    Dancing around a great problem at The Great Park

    The El Toro Shuffle? The Great Park Gavotte? The Irvine Ranch Water District Toxic Waltz? We should come up a name for the little dance. It's a simple four step dance, and very familiar one. Scientists point out a looming environmental threat and call for government action. The Bush administration, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2006

    Popcorn and Greenhouse Gases (non Al Gore edition)

    Hot on the heels of last night's Orange County Film Society's premier of Chris Paine's Who Killed the Electric Car?– a documentary that makes the "compelling case: that oil companies, automakers, lawmakers, consumers and the media killed a workable solution to air pollution, global warming, so ... More >>

  • Film

    June 1, 2006

    Fahrenheit 2050

    Al Gore takes on the other imminent threat to America

  • Calendar

    January 12, 2006

    Environment and Sports

    Al Gore takes on the other imminent threat to America

  • Culture

    January 23, 2003

    Wise Guys

    Al Gore takes on the other imminent threat to America

  • Unknown

    January 2, 2003

    Lost Year

    2002 was the year that sucked the chrome off the future

  • Culture

    June 20, 2002

    Poof!

    2002 was the year that sucked the chrome off the future

  • News

    May 30, 2002

    Gunk Science

    Ocean study says . . . nothing

  • News

    March 28, 2002

    Not So Natural Selection

    Annie Tran is a future doctor, current creationist

  • News

    January 18, 2001

    Christine Todd Witless

    Bushs EPA pick has much to learn

  • Culture

    May 11, 2000

    High Camp

    Bushs EPA pick has much to learn

  • News

    December 30, 1999

    Cancer Politics

    Radiation is good for youjust ask a scientist!

  • News

    November 4, 1999

    Crystal Method

    Irvine Co.s Crystal Cove project raises eco-disaster fears

  • Culture

    February 25, 1999

    Frankly Speaking

    Everyone's favorite 8-foot monster prowls the stage

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