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This TV writer crafted her most powerful narrative yet — in the form of a board game

I knew “The Morrison Game Factory” had its hooks in me when I started talking back to it. There I was, alone...

Q&A: Make the most of your workouts by training like the athletes of Team USA

The past two weeks of Olympic competition in Paris have brought us amazing stories of athletic skill, speed, triumph and redemption.Perhaps they’ve...

How do Olympic skateboarders catch serious airtime? Physicists crunched the numbers

Skateboarders call it “pumping,” and it’s a skill that both Olympic medalists and aspiring thrashers use to build launch speed from...

8 of the best L.A.-area hikes, according to our readers

Truism No. 1: Los Angeles is a patchwork of vast hiking terrain, with about 1 million acres in the L.A. area....

Caring for condor triplets! Record 17 chicks thrive at L.A. Zoo under surrogacy method

A new method of rearing California condors at the Los Angeles Zoo has resulted in a record-breaking 17 chicks hatched this year,...

The spinning of Earth's inner core is slowing down. Is this how it all ends?

Geophysicist John Vidale noticed something striking while tracking the way seismic waves move from Earth’s crust through its core. The very...