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The men began emerging like clockwork from Chile's San Jose Mine on Wednesday, embracing wives, children and rescue crews and looking remarkably composed after languishing for 69 days in the depths of a mine that easily could have been their tomb.

Culture Lust contributor Seth Marko says even though David Mitchell's "The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet" won't win the Man Booker Prize, it's still the best book of the year.

NIH $12.6 million grant to La Jolla Institute to build Genomic Lab & Library

The Nobel committee's decision to award the honor to imprisoned dissident Liu Xiaobo has angered Chinese officials. But analysts say the decision could provide opportunity for Chinese leaders who favor human rights reform.

Many Americans know Somalia as a lawless country controlled by warlords. Somalia has seen two decades of civil war, and the militant group Al-Shabab continues to fight government forces. NPR's Frank Langfitt, recently returned from Somalia, sheds light on what some call "the most-failed state."

American Richard Heck and Japanese researchers Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki developed a chemical method that has allowed scientists to make medicines and better electronics.

Two Russian-born scientists won the Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on graphene, the strongest and thinnest substance ever discovered. But one of them, Andre Geim, also holds a more dubious honor: He won an Ig Nobel prize in 2000 for his work on the magnetic levitation of frogs.

The British government declined to fund research on in vitro fertilization that led to the first successful test-tube baby in 1978. Robert Edwards was awarded a Nobel Prize for the work Monday.

Running between the Gaslamp district and the border may sound exhausting, but with the Film Festival and Tijuana's art festival, there is just so much Culture to Lust after, we're arranging carpool parties over here at KPBS.

From the Miramar Air Show to Oktoberfest in La Mesa and everything in between, we'll talk about events happening throughout San Diego county with our culture scouts.