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Stephen Hawking gets rock star treatment at Caltech
Jordan Hassay worked overtime Monday so he could leave his office early on Tuesday to watch Stephen Hawking speak at Caltech.
By the time Hassay, 26, drove from Hollywood to the Pasadena campus, the line outside Caltech’s Beckman Auditorium, which started forming at 8 a.m., was hundreds deep. The famed theoretical physicist wasn’t scheduled to go on until 8 p.m.
He eventually found himself outside the 1,100-person capacity auditorium in an overflow space to watch Hawking give a lecture on the origins of the universe and answer questions from Caltech students.
Like many others who attended the free event, he was happy just to have a seat.
“It was really fascinating,” he said. “I’d read his works, but it was a very special experience to hear him speak.”
Other attendees avoided the line completely and picnicked on the lawn outside Beckman, where the event was displayed on a giant screen. A food stand on the lawn sold coffee an
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Stephen Hawking toured a stem cell laboratory Tuesday where scientists are studying ways to slow the progression of Lou Gehrig's disease, a neurological disorder that has left the British cosmologist almost completely paralyzed.
After the visit, the 71-year-old Hawking urged doctors, nurses and staff at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to support the research.
Hawking recalled how he became depressed when he was diagnosed with the disease 50 years ago and initially didn't see a point in finishing his doctorate. But his attitude changed when his condition didn't progress quickly and he was able to concentrate on his studies.
"Every new day became a bonus," he told a packed room.
Cedars-Sinai received nearly $18 million last year from California's taxpayer-funded stem cell institute to study the debilitating disease also known as amyotrophic sido sclerosis. ALS attacks nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that control the muscles. People gradually have
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Stephen Hawking talks about unified theory and his biggest ‘blunder’
Humans are on the cusp of discovering how the universe works on its biggest and smallest scales, Stephen Hawking said during a lecture Tuesday in Los Angeles.
The renowned theoretical physicist made his name studying black holes, massive structures that anchor galaxies and whose gravity is so strong that not even light can escape.
But on Tuesday, he delved into the world of microscopic cell biology to see first-hand how researchers at the Cedars-Sinai Regenerative Medicine Institute are using stem cells to develop treatments for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, the disease Hawking was diagnosed with in 1963.
[For the Record, 9:03 a.m. PDT April 12: An earlier version of this post stated that ALS had kept Stephen Hawking in a wheelchair since 1963. He was diagnosed with the disease in that year.]
In an hourlong talk at Cedars-Sinai for hospital employees, ALS patients and their families, Hawking discu