Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury

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  Special effects master Ray Harryhausen dies at 92

  When Ray Harryhausen was 13, he was so overwhelmed by "King Kong" that he vowed he would create otherworldly creatures on film. He fulfilled his ... 

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  Future science: Using 3D worlds to visualize data

  Take a walk through a human brain? Fly over the surface of Mars? Computer scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago are pushing science ... 

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  Lord brings Caribbean voice to science fiction

  "The Best of All Possible Worlds" (Del Rey), by Karen Lord Science fiction gets a Caribbean perspective in Barbados-based Karen Lord's "The Best of ... 

• Harvard Medical School launches series of e-books

  The publishing arm of the Harvard Medical School is planning a series of short, original e-books on work, parenting, yoga and how to be a surgeon. 

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  Final goodbye: Roll call of some who died in 2012

  Neil Armstrong would always be taking that first step onto the moon, and Dick Clark was forever "the world's oldest teenager." Some of the notables ...