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<title>Black hole music in B flat - 12 Jan 2009</title>
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<title>Not a Swindle - 2 Jun 2008</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I’m sure I’m not alone in feeling slightly confused by the contradictory newspaper headlines about global warming. These massive headlines overshadow other important green issues&nbsp;and...<p><sub><i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i></sub></p>
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<title>Virtual worlds open their borders - 24 May 2008</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Online characters will soon be able to walk from one virtual world into another, no longer trapped in the reality in which they were created. The plan by IBM and Second Life aims to increase the...<p><sub><i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i></sub></p>
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<title>Lecherous Robots - An Israeli scientist has taught a computer to recognise beautiful women. - 23 May 2008</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, even if the beholder is a robot. Amit Kagian from Tel Aviv University has taught a computer to recognise attractive women using a combination of...<p><sub><i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i></sub></p>
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<title>Finding Moon Water - 31 Mar 2008</title>
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<description><![CDATA[NASA has just released information about its exciting new project to find water on the moon. The moon is a dry, inhospitable place. During the lunar day its boiling hot surface temperatures...<p><sub><i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i></sub></p>
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<title>An Hour for Planet Earth - 30 Mar 2008</title>
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<description><![CDATA[At 8 pm yesterday, my family and I joined the world for an hour as we turned off the lights as part of Earth Hour, an initiative launched last year by World Wildlife Fund Australia in Sydney.&nbsp;...<p><sub><i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i></sub></p>
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<title>The Recycling Challenge - Week 1 - 18 Mar 2008</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I was recently quite upset to read about a Plastic Soup twice the size of the US floating in the Pacific Ocean. This vast expanse of debris is held in place by swirling underwater currents and...<p><sub><i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i></sub></p>
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<title>An economist for the future - 14 Mar 2008</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The great American mechanical engineer Frederick W. Taylor once said “It’s easier to make a reporter into an economist than an economist into a reporter.”&nbsp; I must confess I’ve often...<p><sub><i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i></sub></p>
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<title>OH NOES!!! DRUGS IN OUR TAP WATER!!!!11 *sigh* - 10 Mar 2008</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Evening all, first of all read this from Associated Press, one of the two major agencies who supply all our national papers with their material (the other one being Reuters). Scared that you're...<p><sub><i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i></sub></p>
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<title>Bosnian Ear Aches - 31 Jan 2008</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Being hospitalised when overseas is always difficult. But being hospitalised in a building fresh with bullet and shell holes from a war only a few years ago, where the signs are in Cyrillic, and...<p><sub><i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i></sub></p>
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<title>Energy efficient scare stories - 13 Jan 2008</title>
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<description><![CDATA[How many people here use energy efficient light bulbs? You know those oddly shaped things that take a little longer to warm up than your standard bulb but last for years. Well did you know they can...<p><sub><i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i></sub></p>
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<title>Slipping standards in UK science education - 7 Dec 2007</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The last week has been a busy one in the world of science education with the release of results from the 2006 PISA science survey. The UK has slipped 10 places which is a complete...<p><sub><i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i></sub></p>
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<title>The secret to eternal youth… - 24 Nov 2007</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Shall I ask Father Christmas for anti-wrinkle cream this year? Unconvinced by the faux science in the TV adverts for anti-wrinkle cream I turned to google in my hour of need. I was quickly...<p><sub><i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i></sub></p>
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<title>Misconceptions in Science Education - 18 Nov 2007</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The 1st of August marked the start of the Professional Association of Teachers conference. Now for a let us forget the motion passed on closing down You Tube; which according to the PAT...<p><sub><i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i></sub></p>
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<title>The science of lap dancing - 7 Nov 2007</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scientists at the University of new Mexico have found that lap dancers earn more during estrous - the time when female mammals are at their most fertile. &nbsp; Researchers often claim...<p><sub><i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i></sub></p>
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<title>Smoke Signals from the Past - 2 Nov 2007</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Imagine a world of wildly escalating temperatures, apocalyptic flooding, devastating storms and catastrophic sea level rise.&nbsp; This might sound like a prediction for the future or the storyline...<p><sub><i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i></sub></p>
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<title>Does dark matter exist? - 22 Oct 2007</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Does dark matter exist? Well yes, but MOND is a humdinger of an alternative theory. I�m not going to mislead you � many scientists wouldn�t give it the time of day, but it certainly is not...<p><sub><i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i></sub></p>
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<title>The York Science Festival and Biometrics - 2 Oct 2007</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sorry all for being a bit quiet on the blog recently. Moving to the UK, finding houses, work, working too hard - these things slow you down!&nbsp; I have recently become an editor of Plus Magazine...<p><sub><i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i></sub></p>
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<title>Sex before Sport? - 23 Aug 2007</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The All Blacks get cranky when there is no sex It is the virile sports-person's eternal question - should one abstain from a little bit of nookie before a big sporting event? The question...<p><sub><i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i></sub></p>
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<title>A Terrible Tragedy - 13 Aug 2007</title>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the great tragedies in modern memory is the extinction of the Yangtze Dolphin. Indeed, it is something about which mankind should be ashamed. The Yangtze Dolphin is the first large...<p><sub><i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i></sub></p>
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<title>A very cold war - 7 Aug 2007</title>
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<description><![CDATA[&nbsp; Russia has claimed one of the most inaccessible areas on Earth with a feat of magnificent science and engineering that tests international law, explores hitherto unexplored geography and...<p><sub><i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i></sub></p>
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<title>Book Review - The God Delusion - 24 Jul 2007</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Having time on my hands has given me the opportunity to do something that in the past I have had little time to do, and that's read. The most recent book that I have finished is the much...<p><sub><i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i></sub></p>
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<title>The Great Global Warming Swindle - 20 Jul 2007</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Last night I attended the Australian screening of a rather strange �documentary� called The Great Global Warming Swindle.&nbsp; This film contains a bizarre mixture of half-truths, misinformation...<p><sub><i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i></sub></p>
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<title>Ancient forests - 11 Jul 2007</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Seeing a New Zealand kauri sitting implacably in dense forest is an awe-inspiring sight.&nbsp; A Gondwanaland relic, these conifers are massive in scale and age: individuals can be several metres...<p><sub><i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i></sub></p>
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<title>UK Wi-Fi Scandal - 8 Jul 2007</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Wi-Fi in the UK is prominent, offered by cafes, bars, book stores and very often found in schools. Commonly used to wirelessly connect to the Internet, Wi-Fi hit the headlines when the BBC...<p><sub><i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i></sub></p>
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<title>A Hearty Glass (or two�) - 29 Jun 2007</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I have what is politely described as a portfolio job, or to be more honest a diverse set of jobs based loosely around the theme of talking about science.&nbsp; Its never boring and...<p><sub><i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i></sub></p>
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<description><![CDATA[Why did the chicken cross the ocean?&nbsp; It sounds like a bad joke but some Chilean chicken remains are causing a rethink of Pacific exploration. The Polynesian people of the Pacific were...<p><sub><i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i></sub></p>
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<title>Iceland is the Coolest place on Earth - 19 Jun 2007</title>
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<description><![CDATA[There is a sure fire-way to cure yourself of boredom; joblessness and that nagging feeling that you should possibly be doing more with yourself and engaging with reality, and that's by doing the...<p><sub><i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i></sub></p>
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<title>Siding with the Amphibian - 19 Jun 2007</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As a boy at summer camp in southern Ontario I used to frequent the railroad tracks, one side of which had a water-filled ditch where frogs, toads, dragonflies and an occasional snake lurked. I...<p><sub><i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i></sub></p>
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<title>Time for a Bath - 7 Jun 2007</title>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the next stops along the way was the ancient and beautiful Roman town of Bath, in the south-west of England. It is famous for its geothermally heated hot-springs - the only naturally...<p><sub><i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i></sub></p>
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