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	<description>Rising to my level of incompetence</description>
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		<title>Devolution in Texas</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Texas School Board Set to Vote on Challenge to Evolution
The Texas Board of Education will vote this week on a new science curriculum designed to challenge the guiding principle of evolution, a step that could influence what is taught in biology classes across the nation.
The proposed curriculum change would prompt teachers to raise doubts that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living with Parkinson&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2009/03/12/living-with-parkinsons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Frontline series on PBS recently ran a program produced by Dave Iverson. He&#8217;s a reporter and Friday host of Forum on KQED, San Francisco&#8217;s public radio station.
The documentary, My Father, My Brother, and Me, is all about Parkinson&#8217;s Disease, but from a very personal perspective. Dave&#8217;s father died of Parkinson&#8217;s, his brother contracted the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new look for 8.01</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2009/01/19/a-new-look-for-801/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NYT reports how  at M.I.T., Large Lectures Are Going the Way of the Blackboard.
The physics department has replaced the traditional large introductory lecture with smaller classes that emphasize hands-on, interactive, collaborative learning. Last fall, after years of experimentation and debate and resistance from students, who initially petitioned against it, the department made the change [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overheard at CERN</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2008/09/12/overheard-at-cern/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Large Hadron Collider Switch-on Fears Are Completely Unfounded 
“Each collision of a pair of protons in the LHC will release an amount of energy comparable to that of two colliding mosquitoes, so any black hole produced would be much smaller than those known to astrophysicists.” They conclude that such microscopic black holes could not grow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The science of doping</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2008/08/15/the-science-of-doping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I heard an interesting interview on NPR with biostatitian Donald A. Berry. He argues that current drug tests for athletes have not passed scientific muster. Here is his article in Nature: The science of doping.
In my opinion, close scrutiny of quantitative evidence used in Landis&#8217;s case show it to be non-informative. This says nothing about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global warming and great tits</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2008/05/09/global-warming-and-great-tits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 20:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s best headline is from the BBC News science desk:
Great tits cope well with warming
The research uses a long record of great tits in a breeding site at Wytham Woods near Oxford, where observations began in 1947.
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		<title>Rubik&#8217;s Cube Proof Cut To 25 Moves</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2008/03/27/rubiks-cube-proof-cut-to-25-moves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The internet is abuzz over the latest mathematical proof by Tomas Rokicki, former HP Lab researcher.
This article posted to SlashDot provoked a huge response:
A scrambled Rubik&#8217;s cube can be solved in just 25 moves, regardless of the starting configuration. Tomas Rokicki, a Stanford-trained mathematician, has proven the new limit (down from 26 which was proved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canadians in Space</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2007/08/13/canadians-in-space/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Space Shuttle Endeavour took off on August 8 for a two week mission to work on the International Space Station. It was a perfect liftoff for STS-118, to the relief of all of us watching.

I have a special  interest in this shuttle mission, since it carries Canadian astronaut Dave Williams on his second [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friends don&#8217;t let friends orbit drunk</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2007/07/26/friends-dont-let-friends-orbit-drunk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2007/07/26/friends-dont-let-friends-orbit-drunk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Aviation Week reports that NASA allowed at least 2 astronauts to fly after &#8220;heavy use of alcohol&#8221;. Even though flight surgeons warned that they were so drunk that they posed a flight risk.
Maybe we should cut them some slack. After all, if I knew I might spend the next 10 minutes as a pretty fireball [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dreams of pulp scifi finally coming true</title>
		<link>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2007/07/16/dreams-of-pulp-scifi-finally-coming-true/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redwoodlake.net/principle/2007/07/16/dreams-of-pulp-scifi-finally-coming-true/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 01:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Another breakthough from MIT this week. Professor Dava Newman has developed a prototype skintight spacesuit for future Mars missions.

Instead of the traditional gas pressurized suit, Newman&#8217;s design relies on wrapping tight layers of material around the body. It&#8217;s much lighter and more flexible. And as modeled by Prof. Newman, it&#8217;s much more flattering too!

The suit [...]]]></description>
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