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<title><![CDATA[A matter of Life and er... Matter]]></title>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:38:45 -0500</pubDate>
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  As I was stuffing my face today, I wondered if the Universe cared. The short answer is no. The slightly longer and more depressing answer is: my existence is more marginal than a speck of stray DNA on a grain of sand staring at vast oceans (that's literally true, oh the irony...). Clearly, there's no point to existence except amusement. So, here' ... 
(<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/thescian/2009/11/a_matter_of_life_and_er_matter.php">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Community Planning for Peak Oil: This Doesn't Look So Dark]]></title>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:57:49 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ <a href="http://megite.com/science/1257610467/1#item_2"><img border=0 src="/image.php/aHR0cDovL3d3dy50cmVlaHVnZ2VyLmNvbS9UcmFuc2l0aW9uLVdoaWRiZXkuanBn" style="float:left;margin-left:24px;margin-right:8px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;" alt="Community Planning for Peak Oil: This Doesn't Look So Dark"></a>
  Image credit: Transition Whidbey I posted on Friday about Worldchanging's critic of the Dark Side of Transition Towns , in which Alex Steffen argued that the Transition Town movement is effectively burying its head in the sand&mdash;promoting ineffectual, perhaps folksy [I paraphrase], individual action instead of systemic or political change,  ... 
(<a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/11/community-planning-for-peak-oil.php?dtc=th_rss">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Regarding Tamiflu, Doctors and Patients Face a Question of When to Act]]></title>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:57:49 -0500</pubDate>
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 When Dr. Matt Thompson, a pediatrician at the Kids Clinic in Spokane, Wash., found about a month ago that his six children had come down with H1N1, or swine flu, he did not give them the antiviral medication that might have made their sickness a bit shorter. 
(<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/health/07tamiflu.html">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Green Living: Leading by Example or Passive Aggressive Preaching?]]></title>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:14:24 -0500</pubDate>
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  Image credit: South Park / Comedy Central As I noted in my post on The Art of the Eco-argument , we're often better off leading our own lives than telling others how to lead theirs. In fact, if eco-snobbery is left unchecked , it could lead to a major backlash against the environmental movement. But, having recently noted some negative reactions  ... 
(<a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/11/green-living-leading-by-example.php?dtc=th_rss">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Vegetarian's Rebuttal to 'The Carnivore's Dilemma']]></title>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:00:34 -0500</pubDate>
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  Eat Me. You might possibly, perhaps be doing something good for the environment. Credit: Ethicurean Last week's NY Times featured an op-ed entitled " The Carnivore's Dilemma "--an ostensibly enlightened response to the chorus of voices promulgating a vegetarian diet as a way to significantly reduce one's emission of greenhouse gasses (not least  ... 
(<a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/11/vegetarians-rebuttal-to-the-carnivores-dilemma.php?dtc=th_rss">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[K.I.D.S./Fashion Delivers Gala Raises $1.2M]]></title>
<pubDate>2009-11-07T00:20:00-06:00</pubDate>
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 Subscribe today to WWD.com, now incorporating comprehensive menswear and footwear coverage with the new WWDMen's and Footwear News channels, for complete access to breaking news and events that shape the worldwide men's and women's fashion, footwear, retail and beauty industries. 
(<a href="http://www.wwd.com/lifestyle-news/k-i-d-s-fashion-delivers-gala-raises-1-2m-2363991">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Flu fears overwhelm B.C. hospital]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:14:07 EST</pubDate>
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 Parents who suspect their children have swine flu are putting so much pressure on the emergency room at BC Children's Hospital in Vancouver that officials are asking families to keep their children home unless they have severe symptoms. 
(<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/11/06/bc-childrens-hospital-swine-flu.html?ref=rss">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The iPhone, Free Markets, and Alternative Energy]]></title>
<pubDate>2009-11-07T04:54:32Z</pubDate>
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  In a comment on our recent discussion about energy , Harvey notes that "the free market is a myth." This is, of course, absolutely correct. The free market is a myth in the same way that freedom of speech is a myth and that freedom of religion is a myth. Ideally, anyone can say anything he or she wants. In reality, it's better to avoid  ... 
(<a href="http://www.blog.speculist.com/archives/002175.html">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Popular dissection pics]]></title>
<pubDate>2009-11-07T13:13:37Z</pubDate>
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  Guess what&#8217;s currently the most popular history of medicine topic among American science readers. Plague? Noops &#8212; it&#8217;s dissection and body parts: John Harley Warner and Jim Edmonson&#8217;s beautifully illustrated Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880-1930 (see earlier post about the book here )  
(<a href="http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2009/11/07/popular-dissection-pics">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sea lions killed, but Columbia salmon toll rises]]></title>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:50:21 GMT</pubDate>
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  AP - Killing or removing 25 California sea lions over the past two years has not reduced the toll on salmon at the base of Bonneville Dam in the Columbia River.  
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<title><![CDATA[Exit Stage Left? Most Challenging 2009 Joint Commission Standards]]></title>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:50:21 GMT</pubDate>
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 (Formerly MSSPNexus) News and information for those who work in healthcare administration, including medical staff leadership, patient safety, quality, accreditation, compliance, risk management, law, and provider credentialing. 
(<a href="http://www.supportingsaferhealthcare.com/2009/11/most-challenging-joint-commission-standards.html">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Thorns]]></title>
<pubDate>2009-11-07T12:31:00.004Z</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ <a href="http://megite.com/science/1257610467/1#item_12"><img border=0 src="/image.php/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zY2llbmNlbXVzaW5ncy5jb20vYmxvZy91cGxvYWRlZF9pbWFnZXMvVGhvcm5zLTcxMTU0Ny5qcGc" style="float:left;margin-left:24px;margin-right:8px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;" alt="Thorns"></a>
  Tell me, if you know, the name of this sprawling woodland plant with small paddle-shaped leaves, November-red, and bright red berries. And thorns. Thorns seemingly too thin and soft to be of much use deterring browsers. What deer would hesitate to nibble here? And yet, this lovely plant -- whose name I do not know -- bristles menacingly,  ... 
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<title><![CDATA[Blog - Spots &apos;n&apos; pimples]]></title>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 The Physics arXiv Blog produces daily coverage of the best new ideas from an online forum called the Physics arXiv on which scientists post early versions of their latest ideas. Contact me at KentuckyFC @ arxivblog.com 
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<title><![CDATA[Country diary]]></title>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 The other night, a deer stepped out in front of me as I drove past the tollhouse at Cople. The car headlights picked out the muntjac tiptoeing across the road, a ballerina on cloven points. The doe tripped out of the spotlight cast by my braking car and into the full beam glare of an oncoming vehicle. But this animal was a practised pedestrian.  ... 
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<title><![CDATA[Explore a solar world]]></title>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 Anything that&#8217;s 93 million miles away from my forehead, but still has the power to make it go postbox red in about thirty seconds must produce awesome amounts of energy. But until today, I had no idea how awesome. Take a guess how many years you could power the earth for with one second of the energy the sun produces. One year, ten years, a  ... 
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<title><![CDATA[A new workout for the Wii]]></title>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 Ubisoft's upcoming fitness game, YourShape, promises an experience a step up from Wii Fit. In the process, can it help revitalize the Nintendo console? 
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<title><![CDATA[Brainwave sofa by Unfold & Lucas Maassen]]></title>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:30:53 -0800</pubDate>
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  Brainwave sofa by Unfold & Lucas Maassen... modeled on your brainwaves! via BB . The design of the Brainwave Sofa is driven by a brain scan. Brain wave activities are being recorded by an electroencephalograph by placing electrodes on the bare skin on the head. Via BioExplorer, a computer program that records biophysical data, processes and  ... 
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<title><![CDATA[New survey finds 22 of the earliest galaxies]]></title>
<pubDate>Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:41:48 GMT</pubDate>
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  A new survey has found 22 of the earliest galaxies to form in the universe, confirming the age of one at just 787 million years after the theoretical Big Bang.  
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<title><![CDATA[Team wins $900K in Space Elevator Games]]></title>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:30:06 EST</pubDate>
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 Photovoltaic panels, which convert laser light into electrical energy similar to solar panels, are seen on the bottom of the LaserMotive entry in the $2 million Space Elevator Games at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon) 
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<title><![CDATA[Can libraries, bookstores, and Kindle peacefully coexist?]]></title>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
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 "Having fun isn't hard when you have a library card." Or so Peter Daining reminds us in his worthy post today on Tainted Green entitled "Libraries: The cheaper, greener alternative to  book stores" in which he notes that, "it takes around 30 million trees to produce all the books in ...  
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<title><![CDATA[Clock Quotes]]></title>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:00:28 -0500</pubDate>
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  Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember. - Anne Sullivan Read the comments on this post...  
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<title><![CDATA[Quebec boasts fastest vaccine system]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:07:03 EST</pubDate>
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 Quebec Health Minister Yves Bolduc says the province's decision to open special vaccination clinics is largely responsible for helping it distribute more of the H1N1 vaccine than any other province.  
(<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/11/06/qc-speedy-vaccination.html?ref=rss">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Prevention experts urge modification to 2009 H1N1 guidance for health care workers]]></title>
<pubDate>2009-11-06T17:50:02-07:00</pubDate>
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 Three leading scientific organizations specializing in infectious diseases prevention issued a letter to President Obama today expressing their significant concern with current federal guidance concerning the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) by healthcare workers in treating suspected or confirmed cases of 2009 H1N1 influenza. 
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<title><![CDATA[The Rum Diary]]></title>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
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 A book I take with me to school everyday is The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson. "The Rum Diary" is a hardened, straight-forward, novel that would make Hemingway proud.  
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<title><![CDATA[What Was Lost]]></title>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
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 I just finished What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn and I loved every page. I was so sad at the end, though, and have been thinking about it ever since.  
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<title><![CDATA[Imagine H2O Prize Competition to Drive Water Innovation]]></title>
<pubDate>2009-11-07T01:26:04Z</pubDate>
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  As 3p readers know, the growing scarcity of freshwater is causing significant social and environment problems around the world.  From a rise in cholera in parts of Africa to chronic water shortages in Australia as a result of drought, people everywhere are feeling the impact of the global water crisis.    Imagine H2O, a non-profit that [...] 
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<title><![CDATA[After Afghanistan election, governors seek distance from 'illegal' Karzai]]></title>
<pubDate>07 Nov 2009 01:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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 In Panjshir Province, Governor Bahij says he wants to thwart protest of Afghanistan election. But he wants more autonomy.  
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<title><![CDATA[Fort Hood eyewitness ran toward the shooting, capturing the scene]]></title>
<pubDate>07 Nov 2009 01:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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 At Fort Hood, Army filmmaker and Iraq war vet Elliot Valdez raced to the scene of the shooting, filming the aftermath of tragedy and heroism. What he recorded will help officials understand what happened.  
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<title><![CDATA[The Answer Factory: Demand Media and the Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell Media Model]]></title>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 A fiendishly clever startup knows what we are Googling &mdash! then churns out thousands of cheap videos and articles to meet our every whim and wish.  
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<title><![CDATA[Top 5 most popular products for November]]></title>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 We're getting close to the holidays and we know you're starting to make your wish lists. So we're treating this month's most popular products list as a request. You're spending a lot of your time viewing these products. We get it. Feel free to send this video around to friends and family as a hint. 
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<title><![CDATA[Gore's book a toolbox for fixing climate crises]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 23:52:17 GMT</pubDate>
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 Al Gore, the Nobel-Prize-winning former-vice president-turned-energy entrepreneur, offers tools in his latest book to crack the climate conundrum.  
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<title><![CDATA[Thanks to Triple Pundit&#8217;s Sponsors]]></title>
<pubDate>2009-11-07T00:45:41Z</pubDate>
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 As November rolls along, we&#8217;re happy to see our community of readers, contributors, and sponsors growing. Our sponsors in particular are what make it possible to continue to publish great content and continue to build the 3p movement. Please take some time to check out what they&#8217;re doing and if you&#8217;re in a [...]  
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<title><![CDATA[Review: 'Disney's A Christmas Carol']]></title>
<pubDate>07 Nov 2009 01:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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 A 3-D animated take on Charles Dickens's classic story, with Jim Carrey voicing Scrooge – and the Ghosts.  
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<title><![CDATA[Experts Criticize Nanoparticle Study]]></title>
<pubDate>2009-11-06T17:56:20-05:00</pubDate>
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 Paper that hints at dangers of nanoscopic particles has no relevance to human disease, they say [Read more]  
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<title><![CDATA[Obesity causes 100,000 US cancers every year: study]]></title>
<pubDate>2009-11-06T17:30:01-07:00</pubDate>
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  Obesity causes more than 100,000 incidents of cancer in the US every year, the American Institute for Cancer Research said in estimates published Friday. 
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<title><![CDATA[Reporters' Roundtable 9: The business of app stores]]></title>
<pubDate>2009-11-06T17:30:01-07:00</pubDate>
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 This week on the Roundtable: The App Store revolution. Something funny has happened to software. While the model we all grew up with for the distribution of software was to mostly buy it through retail channels or other resellers, or maybe direct from manufacturers, another model emerged and been proven successful, by Apple: The App Store. In  ... 
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<title><![CDATA[eStadium application brings multimedia sports features to smartphones]]></title>
<pubDate>2009-11-06T17:11:37-07:00</pubDate>
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 The intimate and spirited quarters of a stadium offer perhaps the most ideal venues to experience an athletic event. Or do they?  
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<title><![CDATA[Hunterian Museum Tour]]></title>
<pubDate>2009-11-06T17:11:37-07:00</pubDate>
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 Skip to content. | Skip to navigation 
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<title><![CDATA[Norway court snubs call to block The Pirate Bay]]></title>
<pubDate>2009-11-06T17:09:54-07:00</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ <a href="http://megite.com/science/1257610467/21#item_19"><img border=0 src="/image.php/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5waHlzb3JnLmNvbS9uZXdtYW4vZ2Z4L25ld3MvdGhlcGlyYXRlYmF5LmpwZw" style="float:left;margin-left:24px;margin-right:8px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;" alt="Norway court snubs call to block The Pirate Bay"></a>
 A court in Norway on Friday rejected calls from the entertainment industry to force communications giant Telenor to block its customers from accessing popular file sharing website The Pirate Bay. 
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<title><![CDATA[UWM study explores why women leave engineering careers]]></title>
<pubDate>2009-11-06T17:09:34-07:00</pubDate>
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 While only one in 10 male engineers leave their field by the time they reach their 30s, about one in four women are not working in engineering despite having completed the necessary education. 
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<title><![CDATA[Check Out Amazon's List of the Year's Best Science Books]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:57:39 -0500</pubDate>
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  Seriously! Go have a look. It seems my book The Monty Hall Problem: The Remarkable Story of Math's Most Contentious Brainteaser made the list! And to think I wasn't planning to do a blog post today. Browsing through the other entries, it looks like my reading list just got a bit longer. (Of course, they will have to get in line behind Stephen  ... 
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<title><![CDATA[Caribbean, Gulf spared widespread coral damage]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 23:53:35 GMT</pubDate>
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 Lower-than-feared sea temperatures this summer gave a break to fragile coral reefs across the Caribbean and the central Gulf of Mexico that were damaged in recent years, scientists said Thursday.  
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<title><![CDATA[More Support for Human Role in Chinese Quake]]></title>
<pubDate>2009-11-06T17:56:20-05:00</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ 
 When the Wenchuan earthquake killed some 80,000 people in southwest China in May of last year, suspicion immediately fell on the reservoir behind the nearby Zipingpu Dam. Seismologists knew that several hundred million tons of water had filled the reservoir in the preceding few years and that either the water itself or its weight might have  ... 
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<title><![CDATA[Full MIDI drumset with Guitar Hero and Rock Band drums]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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  A demo on how to create an 11-piece MIDI drum kit using Rock Band and Guitar Hero drum sets together. It includes velocity-sensitive triggers and a high-hat open/close pedal. Create a full MIDI Drumset with Guitar Hero and Rock Band Drums Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Music | Digg this!  
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<title><![CDATA[Dudamel unleashes Verdi's Requiem]]></title>
<pubDate>07 Nov 2009 01:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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 Conducting the LA Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel demonstrated his command and also his respect for silence when he restarted the piece after a cellphone ring jarred the opening bars.  
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<title><![CDATA[Review: 'Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" By Sapphire']]></title>
<pubDate>07 Nov 2009 01:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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 Sixteen-year-old Precious – illiterate, overweight, and pregnant again – is a study in quiet courage despite her nightmarish family life.  
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<title><![CDATA[Power Beaming Challenge &rarr;]]></title>
<pubDate>07 Nov 2009 01:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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 The Spaceward Foundation manages this competition for NASA by and you can read more about it at: http://www.spaceward.org 
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<title><![CDATA[Large Hadron Collider scuttled by baguette]]></title>
<pubDate>2009-11-06T21:59:37Z</pubDate>
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  The Register : A bird dropping a piece of bread onto outdoor machinery has been blamed for a technical fault at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) this week which saw significant overheating in sections of the mighty particle-punisher's subterranean 27-km supercooled magnetic doughnut. According to scientists at the project, had the LHC been  ... 
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<title><![CDATA[After Five Years on the Web, Firefox Preps for the Next Round]]></title>
<pubDate>07 Nov 2009 01:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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 MOUNTAIN VIEW, California &#8212; Vladimir Vukićević was working at the Mozilla office when Firefox was first released into the wild. &#8220;All of our servers melted instantly,&#8221; Vukićević says. &#8220;We spent an hour trying to get the downloads back up.&#8221; 
(<a href="http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/After_Five_Years_on_the_Web__Firefox_Preps_for_the_Next_Round">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[National Data Breach Laws Move Through Senate]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 The nation is closer to a national data-breach notification law and setting security standards for handling sensitive data. After legislation aimed at the problem languishes on Capitol Hill for four years, two bills make it out of Senate committee.  
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<title><![CDATA[Review: Military Dudes Abide in Funny 'The Men Who Stare at Goats']]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 George Clooney, Jeff Bridges and Kevin Spacey play psychic "Jedi Warriors" in a movie improbably inspired by a real Army program.  
(<a href="http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/11/review-military-dudes-abide-in-funny-men-who-stare-at-goats">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Photo of Carrie Fisher, Stunt Double from “Return of the Jedi”]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
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 If you&#8217;re a &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; fan of a certain age, you may recall a certain scene in &#8220;Return of the Jedi&#8221; in which Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia wore a certain metal bikini. Earlier this week, Kottke found this on-set image of the filming of the third installment in the original trilogy, showing Fisher and [...] 
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<title><![CDATA[Friday Sprog Blogging: checking in on last week's experiments.]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:17:03 -0500</pubDate>
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  A bit of follow-up on the two experiments we described last week : First off, the water cycle model. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...  
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<title><![CDATA[Hole punched art]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:00:28 -0800</pubDate>
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  Gorgeous! ... and likely a future ad campaign for Staples or OfficeMax... Steven Nicholson is a 2yr student at Plymouth university in the United Kingdom studying Graphic communications with typography. And apparently he is a genius with a hole punch? Check out this self portrait using 10 different sized single hole punches on a a1 piece of paper  ... 
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<title><![CDATA[Glow-in-the-Dark Shark Turned on by Hormones]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 The safe answer to how a lantern shark turns its luminescence on and off is: “Any way it wants.” Now researchers have looked into the belly of the beast and found that three hormones act as on-off switches for these glow-in-the-dark sharks. It is the first discovery of hormones controlling bioluminescence in animals, the scientists report in  ... 
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<title><![CDATA[Wadhams on sea ice]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:54:27 -0500</pubDate>
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  Nothing new, but M pointed me at Greenman on sea ice which has a quote from Wadhams (starts around 5:00, quote around 5:20 I think) that is the "the arctic will be ice free in summer in 20 years" or words to that effect (which got noted in my Arctic to be 'ice-free in summer'? . I still don't believe it, not that that matters. Watch the video  ... 
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<title><![CDATA[Developer uses cover of national holiday to clear rainforest near Colon, Panama]]></title>
<pubDate>2009-11-06T21:40:00Z</pubDate>
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  On Tuesday, November 3rd, while Panamanians celebrated Independence Day Holidays, heavy machinery unexpectedly entered and began cutting down tropical forest and mangroves near Galeta outside of Colon, Panama, report local sources. mongabay.com confirmed that the latest clearing has been carried out "almost in secret during national holidays so  ... 
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<title><![CDATA[Iran may have tested advanced warhead explosives says IAEA report]]></title>
<pubDate>2009-11-06T21:37:48Z</pubDate>
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  The Guardian : The International Atomic Energy Agency has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting that Iranian scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, says the Guardian . The very existence of the technology, known as a " two-point implosion " device, is officially secret in both the US and the UK, but according  ... 
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<title><![CDATA[1930s drug slows tumor growth]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
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  Drugs sometimes have beneficial side effects. A glaucoma treatment causes luscious eyelashes. A blood pressure drug also aids those with a rare genetic disease.  
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<title><![CDATA[US and European experts applaud new transatlantic task force on antibiotic resistance threat]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
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 Thursday, Nov. 5 -- Experts on both sides of the Atlantic applaud President Barack Obama and Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, representing the European Union (EU) Presidency, for establishing a transatlantic task force to address antibiotic resistance, an urgent and growing problem that threatens patient safety and public health worldwide. 
(<a href="http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/us-and-european-experts-applaud-new-transatlantic-task-force-antibiotic-resistance-threat-27019.html">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Segregation and the subprime lending crisis]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
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 New research shows a strong link between racial segregation and high-risk home lending. 
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<title><![CDATA[4 Ways Live and Digital Music Are Teaming Up]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 Music fans are increasingly watching live concerts without gassing up cars, driving to venues, or paying for expensive tickets and convenience fees. Music webcasting has shown promise for over a decade, but the stage is being set now for an online live-music renaissance. 
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<title><![CDATA[Minister 'backs adviser autonomy']]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:24:37 GMT</pubDate>
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 The government will produce guidelines on the independence of its scientific advisers, Science Minister Lord Drayson says. 
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<title><![CDATA[Friday Links]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:01:15 -0500</pubDate>
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  Thank the Intelligent Designer it's Friday; I've had a long week. Anyway, here are some weekend links for you. Science: Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...  
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<title><![CDATA[Aftershocks from slow faults may arrive centuries later]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:01:00 Z</pubDate>
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  I have a deep and rather personal interest in earthquake and volcano prediction. This comes from spending most of my youth within a few kilometers of an active fault line and less than 100km from a volcano that has, in the past, left a layer of ash over most of the surface of the Earth. In fact, events in just the last year (nevermind the last  ... 
(<a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/11/earthquakes-from-slow-moving-faults-last-much-longer.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Leaders 'likely' to go to summit]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:50:48 GMT</pubDate>
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 At least 40 world leaders are likely to attend December's UN climate summit in a bid to secure a new global treaty. 
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<title><![CDATA[Regarding Ft. Hood]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:58:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 I had actually started this as a comment at Grim&#39;s Hall, but I should put this up on my own site.Seething rage does not illustrate my feelings right now.I want to go after his family. Now that I know that he is alive, I want him to receive weekly 
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<title><![CDATA[What I did today]]></title>
<pubDate>2009-11-06T15:36:12-05:00</pubDate>
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 I just finished presenting Tim's (and Rob's and Kurt's) paper in our Department Seminar Series:Appalachian State University Department of Economics Seminars 2009-2010 All seminars are in Raley 3010 at 2:00 P.M. unless otherwise indicated. ... November 6, John Whitehead, "Angler Heterogeneity and the Species-Specific Demand for Marine Recreational  ... 
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<title><![CDATA[Video: Romanian Police Raid Card-Skimming Ring]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:33:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 Police in Romania swoop in on 19 members of an alleged international bank-card ring that's been active in Switzerland, Italy, France and the United States.  
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<title><![CDATA[Interview with Rajendra Pachauri: Amid Mounting Pessimism A Voice of Hope for Copenhagen]]></title>
<pubDate>2009-11-06T11:44:43-08:00</pubDate>
<link>http://megite.com/science/1257610467/61#item_10</link>
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 Yale Environment 360: With skepticism growing about the chances of reaching a climate agreement next month in Copenhagen, Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate... 
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<title><![CDATA[Postbulletin.com]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:33:00 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://megite.com/science/1257610467/61#item_11</link>
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 Kristy is a Rochester mother and breast cancer survivor. Access to affordable health insurance is a life-or-death matter for her and millions of other Americans. 
(<a href="http://www.postbulletin.com/newsmanager/templates/localnews_story.asp?z=12&a=424318">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Signature of Antimatter Detected in Lightning]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://megite.com/science/1257610467/61#item_12</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ <a href="http://megite.com/science/1257610467/61#item_12"><img border=0 src="/image.php/aHR0cDovL3d3dy53aXJlZC5jb20vaW1hZ2VzX2Jsb2dzL3dpcmVkc2NpZW5jZS8yMDA5LzExL2xpZ2h0bmluZ190aGVmb3N0LmpwZw" style="float:left;margin-left:24px;margin-right:8px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;" alt="Signature of Antimatter Detected in Lightning"></a>
 The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detects gamma rays in lightning that have the right energy for the decay of energetic positrons, which are the antimatter counterpart of electrons.  
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<title><![CDATA[Tweetlinks, 11-06-09]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:57:58 -0500</pubDate>
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  Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time (all my tweets are also imported into FriendFeed where they are much more easy to search and comment on, as well as into my Facebook wall where they are seen by quite a different set of people): Scientwists Twitter List by David Bradley on Listorious FLOTUS: Elevating  ... 
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<title><![CDATA[Can We Manipulate the Weather?]]></title>
<pubDate>2009-11-06T12:21:30-08:00</pubDate>
<link>http://megite.com/science/1257610467/61#item_14</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ <a href="http://megite.com/science/1257610467/61#item_14"><img border=0 src="/image.php/aHR0cDovL3d3dy53b3JsZGNoYW5naW5nLmNvbS9Tbm93ZmFsbC1pbi1CZWlqaW5nLXRoYXQtLTAwMS5qcGc" style="float:left;margin-left:24px;margin-right:8px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;" alt="Can We Manipulate the Weather?"></a>
 WorldChanging Team: Chinese scientists claim to be able to control the weather. But is so-called geoengineering more than wishful thinking? And, if so, should we be... 
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<title><![CDATA[Why I'm Not Getting a Droid Today]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
<link>http://megite.com/science/1257610467/61#item_15</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ <a href="http://megite.com/science/1257610467/61#item_15"><img border=0 src="/image.php/aHR0cDovL3d3dy53aXJlZC5jb20vaW1hZ2VzX2Jsb2dzL2dhZGdldGxhYi8yMDA5LzExL2Ryb2lkLWlwaG9uZS5qcGc" style="float:left;margin-left:24px;margin-right:8px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;" alt="Why I'm Not Getting a Droid Today"></a>
 Though I’m eager to ditch my iPhone and 86 AT&T, I’m not going to switch to Verizon for the Droid. Here's why.  
(<a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/11/no-droid-for-me">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[European Lawmakers To Give Free Carbon Credits to Heavy Industry]]></title>
<pubDate>2009-11-06T20:14:20Z</pubDate>
<link>http://megite.com/science/1257610467/61#item_16</link>
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 The EU, that bastion of environmental common sense, is giving away its carbon credits. For free. To some of their biggest polluters. Reuters reports that European Union lawmakers have approved a list of heavy industries, including metals, textiles, building materials and ceramics, that will be handed free carbon credits starting in 2013, rather  ... 
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<title><![CDATA[Babies May Pick Up Language Cues In Womb]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:45:00 -0500</pubDate>
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 A new study reveals that the melody of a newborn's cries seems to be influenced by the sound of the parents' native tongue. The findings suggest that crying infants may be imitating the patterns of the language they heard before they were born. 
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<title><![CDATA[A True Scotsman&trade; keeps his Bible in his sporran!]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:05:57 -0500</pubDate>
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  So why is the University of Edinburgh Christian Union pushing to have Bibles put in the students' rooms ? It seems like a slippery slope to me&mdash;before you know it, they'll have verses emblazoned on the caber, you won't be able to dive into your haggis without reciting a prayer, and they'll be replacing the whiskey with wine. It's an  ... 
(<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/11/a_true_scotsman_keeps_his_bibl.php">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Australian agency denies gagging researchers]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri Nov 06 15:04:47 EST 2009</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ <a href="http://megite.com/science/1257610467/61#item_19"><img border=0 src="/image.php/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5uYXR1cmUuY29tL25ld3MvMjAwOS8wOTExMDYvaW1hZ2VzL25ld3MuMjAwOS4xMDY4LmNsaXZlc3BsYXNoLmpwZw" style="float:left;margin-left:24px;margin-right:8px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;" alt="Australian agency denies gagging researchers"></a>
 Australia's national science agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), has this week denied accusations that it is preventing researchers from publishing work on politically-sensitive issues such as climate change. 
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<title><![CDATA[Friday Random Ten, 11/06]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:58:50 -0500</pubDate>
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  Porcupine Tree, "Kneel and Disconnect" : New Porcupine Tree! It's always great to get new stuff from these guys. It's good, but it's not up to the quality of their last two albums. (But given that their last two were utterly amazing, that's not much of a criticism.) Mind Games, "Royalty in Jeopardy" : Some prog that I recently found via eMusic.  ... 
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<title><![CDATA[Who does he think he is, Charles Dickens?]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:43:52 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ 
  Dan Casey has just posted the first installment in a story about the day Pat Robertson's bodyguard pulled a gun on him , which is so far an interesting perspective on the obscenely wealthy life of a televangelist. I wish I could afford to build a mighty mansion on an isolated hilltop that I would only visit once a month! It's a cruel tease,  ... 
(<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/11/who_does_he_think_he_is_charle.php">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago: You're doing it wrong]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:57:17 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ 
  The Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago revoked a speaking invitation to Sunsara Taylor , which led to much drama. I've already posted Taylor's version of events; now the society has sent me theirs, so here it is. It just confirms to me that they don't know what they're doing. We don't know if you know all of what has happened since your letter  ... 
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<title><![CDATA[The five tribal stages]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
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 I recently came across this TEDx video by David Logan talking about the five tribal stages and was glad on discovering another confirmation to my stage theoretic model. Dave along with King and Haleee have also written a book titled &#8220;Tribal Leadership&#8221; which summarizes their research, their tribal leadership model and how corporates  ... 
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<title><![CDATA[NOAA Commissions New Fisheries Survey Ship and Dedicates New Fisheries Service Building in Pascagoula, Miss.]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 13:21:28 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ <a href="http://megite.com/science/1257610467/81#item_4"><img border=0 src="/image.php/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5ub2FhbmV3cy5ub2FhLmdvdi9pbWFnZXMvaGVhZF90aXRsZS5wbmc" style="float:left;margin-left:24px;margin-right:8px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;" alt="NOAA Commissions New Fisheries Survey Ship and Dedicates New Fisheries Service Building in Pascagoula, Miss."></a>
 Senior NOAA officials today commissioned NOAA Ship Pisces, the nation’s most advanced fisheries research vessel, and dedicated a new fisheries laboratory in Pascagoula, Miss.  
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<title><![CDATA[Pray this doesn&#8217;t get passed]]></title>
<pubDate>2009-11-06T19:07:06Z</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ 
 I was going to write about how Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and John Kerry (D-MA) were trying to somewhat slimily slip a provision into the health care bill about paying for prayer-based health services, but then wouldn&#8217;tyouknowit, Steve Novella (who apparently does not need to sleep or eat or breathe) beat me to it. Besides his take-down of  ... 
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<title><![CDATA[Support for the patient centered medical home in the House health reform bill]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:00:02 PST</pubDate>
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 By Thomas C. Bent, MD As the House of Representatives prepares to vote on its historic health care reform bill on Saturday, family physicians are heartened to see the support it gives to the emerging new model of care, the patient centered medical home. The House bill is good news on many fronts. It would provide health [...] Posted at KevinMD. ... 
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 Bill DiBenedetto 
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<title><![CDATA[SC Johnson Ahead of GHG Reduction Target]]></title>
<pubDate>2009-11-06T18:49:02Z</pubDate>
<link>http://megite.com/science/1257610467/81#item_7</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ <a href="http://megite.com/science/1257610467/81#item_7"><img border=0 src="/image.php/aHR0cDovL3d3dy50cmlwbGVwdW5kaXQuY29tL3dvcmRwcmVzcy93cC1jb250ZW50L3VwbG9hZHMvMjAwOS8xMS9zY2pvaG5zb24tMzAweDIwMS5qcGc" style="float:left;margin-left:24px;margin-right:8px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;" alt="SC Johnson Ahead of GHG Reduction Target"></a>
 SC Johnson, maker of a variety of household products that include Glade, Drano and Scrubbing Bubbles, says in its latest sustainability report that it has reduced greenhouse gas emissions 27 percent at its worldwide factories over the last eight years. In the U.S., the Racine, WI, company reported a 17 percent reduction in GHG emissions since [...] 
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<title><![CDATA[Parents of two murdered French students begin claim for negligence]]></title>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 The parents of two French students murdered by an offender under probation supervision began a claim yesterday for “substantial damages” against the police and Ministry of Justice.  
(<a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6907157.ece">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Investigators try to understand reasons behind Major Hasan’s rampage]]></title>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ <a href="http://megite.com/science/1257610467/81#item_9"><img border=0 src="/image.php/aHR0cDovL3d3dy50aW1lc29ubGluZS5jby51ay9tdWx0aW1lZGlhL2FyY2hpdmUvMDA2NDEvbXVubGV5X3Bhbm9fNjQxMzA5YS5qcGc" style="float:left;margin-left:24px;margin-right:8px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;" alt="Investigators try to understand reasons behind Major Hasan’s rampage"></a>
 Investigators have begun piecing together a harrowing story of missed clues and sudden carnage left by an army psychiatrist who gunned down more than 40 people on a Texas army base, killing 13, when faced with the prospect of deploying to a war he wished President Obama had ended.  
(<a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6907088.ece">Read on Source</a>) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Prosthetics do not give sprinters unfair advantage]]></title>
<pubDate>2009-11-06T18:35:08Z</pubDate>
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  guardian.co.uk : Prosthetics worn by disabled sprinters confer no speed advantage, scientists have found. If anything, they may reduce the top speed a runner can achieve. The research supports the case made by the South African Paralympic runner Oscar Pistorius , who uses flexible carbon-fiber blades in races. Pistorius has long argued that he  ... 
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<title><![CDATA[Doctors Debate Anesthetics' Effect on Babies, Elderly]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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 Without general anesthesia, modern surgery and medical intervention would be crippled. But what do doctors really know about the long-term effects of these mysterious drugs?  
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<title><![CDATA[Poll: A Question of Character]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:26:40 -0500</pubDate>
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  "It's a question of character, of friendship. Hell, Leo, I ain't afraid to say it, it's a question of ethics." --Giovanni Gaspari I'm back to lunchtime hoops after a two-week layoff due to teaching responsibilities. And this has reminded me of one of the great character tests that sports provide. Imagine that you're playing basketball, but are  ... 
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<title><![CDATA[Illustrating the Potency of Hormesis]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:22:45 CST</pubDate>
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 Researchers are occasionally surprised when a genetic modification expected to reduce life span in fact extends it. In this example, a defense against lipid peroxidation is disabled in mice. (You might recall that lipid peroxidation is one of the ways in which oxidative damage originating in the mitochondria spreads throughout the body). Rather  ... 
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<title><![CDATA[Predicting exact monthly UAH anomalies up to the year 2109]]></title>
<pubDate>2009-11-06T19:08:00.020+01:00</pubDate>
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  What is the best method to forecast the future global mean temperatures? You may construct complicated climate models based on your currently believed set of important physical mechanisms and train these models. You should still make sure that their behavior agrees with the previously measured temperatures. An alternative route is  ... 
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<title><![CDATA[Building A Better Lightbulb]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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 The U.S. Department of Energy is offering $10 million to the first individual or company to develop an energy-efficient LED replacement for the standard 60-watt incandescent bulb. DOE lighting program manager James Brodrick discusses the L Prize, and what makes a better bulb. 
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<title><![CDATA[Students Build Living Microbial Machines]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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 At the 2009 International Genetically Engineered Machine competition, undergraduates from all over the world unveiled the living machines they'd created with snippets of DNA, from bacteria that change color when they detect pollutants to ones that secrete non-toxic superglue. 
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<title><![CDATA[Today on New Scientist:]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 Today's stories on newscientist.com, at a glance, including: how to end the epidemic of short-sightedness, the future of computer graphics, and why human microbes are total NIMBYs  
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<title><![CDATA[Yellow Card Scheme advert]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
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  Report here: http://www.yellowcard.gov.uk  
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<title><![CDATA[UB40 - U3]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:58:30 -0500</pubDate>
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 Speculations on astronomy, astrophysics, news I find interesting, theoretical issues, science and science policy. I will digress into computational physics, science fiction and general issues and basically whatever I feel like whenever. And, of course, cats. 
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<title><![CDATA[Rosetta]]></title>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:44 +0100</pubDate>
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 6 November 2009 After the trajectory correction manoeuvre on 22 October, Rosetta has lined up on a near-perfect Earth approach path. The manoeuvre was so precise that mission controllers decided not to use the additional manoeuvre slot that was available yesterday. 
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<title><![CDATA[Theorizing on the Role of Longevity Genes]]></title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:50:03 CST</pubDate>
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 It isn't completely clear exactly how many longevity genes affect our biochemistry. For example: "The researchers studied a family of transcription factors called FoxO known to be involved in proliferation, differentiation and programmed cell death . FoxO genes are required for the extreme longevity seen in some strains of laboratory roundworms ,  ... 
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