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Spencer Ferguson Silver III was born in San Antonio on February 6, 1941. His father, Spencer Jr., was an accountant. His mother, Bernice (Wendt) Silver, was a secretary.Spencer was a teenager in 1957 when the Soviet Union launched the…

When 21 clockWhere livetalksla.org/events/michael_lewisThursdayFind out what net zero emissions could look like in a discussion by The New York Times and Morgan Stanley. The Times’s Andrew Ross Sorkin joins Dame Ellen MacArthur, founder of…

Mint has a lot to say. This stubborn perennial gives food and drink a refreshing coolness, often with a bittersweet edge and sometimes with notes of pepper. It's not subtle like some herbs and makes its presence known in everything from…

If you were a school-age kid in the 1980s, you likely spent countless hours in the background perfecting the chains of gum wrappers that once graced every strip of fruit (and other brands) you chewed through.Kirsten Frits, a reader from…

China's April launch of the main module for its newest orbiting space station attracted more international attention than expected for all the wrong reasons. After reaching orbit, the main rocket booster crashed threateningly back to Earth…

"It's a pretty difficult job for a dog to do when he's alone," Pongracz said.Dogs learn socially, which means they can see what someone else (dog or person) is doing and then learn to do the same. In the previous study, dogs in a dominant…

In May 1979, Los Angeles pathologists accused the death of Jerry Eugene Wright Jr., a 20-year-old black man who police officers had mistaken for a drug user, of "massive intravascular sickness." In fact, he was the victim of a violent…

The United States now has company on Mars.A Chinese spaceship descended through the thin Martian atmosphere and landed safely on a large plain on Saturday morning, state media reported, and achieved an achievement only two other nations had…

On December 29, a National Guard in Colorado became the first known case in the United States of a contagious new variant of the coronavirus.The news was unsettling. The variant, named B.1.1.7, had upset Britain, began to grow in Europe,…

For centuries man has been fascinated by the beauty of the betta. Their slender bodies and oversized fins that hang like silk studs come in a variety of bright colors that are seldom seen in nature.Bettas, also known as Siamese fighting…