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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Rebekah Higgett: "As a historian, I am always likely to be suspicious of the use of history to serve particular purposes, whether that is to get more women into or more funding for British science. Laudable though those aims might be, there is a risk that the historical evidence will be selected or distorted to suit the current purpose."]]></description>
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'There is strong evidence that making abortions available will allow women to be healthier, with brighter economic outlooks.']]></description>
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    <title>‘Open Science’ Challenges Journal Tradition With Web Collaboration | NYTimes.com</title>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Dr. Nielsen and other advocates for “open science” say science can accomplish much more, much faster, in an environment of friction-free collaboration over the Internet. And despite a host of obstacles, including the skepticism of many established scientists, their ideas are gaining traction." Interesting stuff on Arxiv et al.]]></description>
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    <title>Carsten Höller: Experience | NewMuseum.org</title>
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    <title>The Anthropocene: A man-made world | The Economist</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-03T05:58:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.economist.com/node/18741749?story_id=18741749</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Science is recognising humans as a geological force to be reckoned with." This is a good read on why the Anthropocene is a useful way of thinking about the why and hows people are changing the ("natural") world.]]></description>
<dc:subject>economist anthropocene geology science technology nitrogen climatechange ecology</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/fall-2010/fiction-the-lifecycle-of-software-objects-by-ted-chiang/">
    <title>The Lifecycle of Software Objects | Subterranean Press</title>
    <dc:date>2011-07-15T20:10:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/fall-2010/fiction-the-lifecycle-of-software-objects-by-ted-chiang/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[via Damien Walter's Guardian column: "Ted Chiang's brilliant and insightful novella about the emergence of Artificial Intelligence was originally published in a beautiful limited edition from Subterranean Press. It is now available as a free read from the publisher's website. Chiang explores a terrifyingly plausible scenario for the arrival of a new form of life in our midst."]]></description>
<dc:subject>sciencefiction science artificialintelligence books toread software</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:f333eaa2f2e7/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:books"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2011/jul/11/james-webb-space-telescope">
    <title>To scrap the JWST would be short-sighted | guardian.co.uk</title>
    <dc:date>2011-07-11T22:17:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2011/jul/11/james-webb-space-telescope</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In the early stages of the project, Hubble was plagued by technical delays and budgetary problems. Its troubles continued after launch, and a manned rescue mission was sent to fix Hubble's optics at huge expense. Twenty years on, it is hard to overstate the impact that Hubble has had on science, and on the public imagination. Yet today the US government is on the brink of scrapping Nasa's successor to Hubble, the multi-billion dollar James Webb Space Telescope."]]></description>
<dc:subject>guardian space science telescope jwst hubble</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:5ace1bda9611/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.economist.com/node/18897425">
    <title>The end of the Space Age | The Economist</title>
    <dc:date>2011-06-30T16:57:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.economist.com/node/18897425</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["It is quite conceivable that 36,000km will prove the limit of human ambition. It is equally conceivable that the fantasy-made-reality of human space flight will return to fantasy. It is likely that the Space Age is over."]]></description>
<dc:subject>economist editorial space shuttle science iss history</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:ba5611a326fe/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article7171325.ece">
    <title>DELUSIONS OF GENDER by Cordelia Fine reviewed by Carol Tavris - TLS</title>
    <dc:date>2011-03-01T17:18:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article7171325.ece</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Cordelia Fine has produced a witty and meticulously researched exposé of the sloppy studies that pass for scientific evidence in so many of today's bestselling books on sex differences]]></description>
<dc:subject>times tls gender science psychology neuroscience books</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:1967ff6110c0/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/3/1/1/5/6/p311567_index.html">
    <title>A World Beyond Ecological Limits | All Academic</title>
    <dc:date>2011-02-09T01:41:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/3/1/1/5/6/p311567_index.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['In his "Culture" novels, science fiction author Iain M. Banks describes a civilization that has moved beyond ecological limits. This is a universe in which energy and resources need not be rationed, and in which every aspect of the non-human world can be readily managed. In some important ways, this fictional universe looks like a best-case extension of our present technological trajectory.']]></description>
<dc:subject>iainbanks theculture science technology criticism</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:5cdfe5fd0683/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.slate.com/id/2283469/pagenum/all/">
    <title>Space stasis: What the strange persistence of rockets can teach us about innovation. - By Neal Stephenson - Slate Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2011-02-03T17:18:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.slate.com/id/2283469/pagenum/all/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The phenomena of path dependence and lock-in can be illustrated with many examples, but one of the most vivid is the gear we use to launch things into space.]]></description>
<dc:subject>science space history rockets innovation technology via:everyone</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:2beddb5c5a45/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.islandone.org/Propulsion/ProjectOrion.html">
    <title>Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth | Project Orion</title>
    <dc:date>2011-02-02T03:28:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.islandone.org/Propulsion/ProjectOrion.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Project Orion was a space vehicle propulsion system that depended on exploding atomic bombs roughly two hundred feet behind the vehicle. The seeming absurdity of this idea is one of the reasons why Orion failed; yet, many prominent physicists worked on the concept and were convinced that it could be made practical." Speaking of Freeman Dyson, this Michael Flora article is well worth a read.]]></description>
<dc:subject>science space nuclear technology article history</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:575631d0a558/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/12/the-danger-of-cosmic-genius/8306/">
    <title>The Danger of Cosmic Genius - Magazine - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2011-02-01T17:14:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/12/the-danger-of-cosmic-genius/8306/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["“The main point is religious rather than scientific,” [Dyson] writes, yet never acknowledges that this proposition cuts both ways, never seems to recognize the extent to which his own arguments proceed from faith. Environmentalism worships the wisdom of Nature. Dysonism worships the indomitable ingenuity of Man." This is a good read.]]></description>
<dc:subject>science politics environment history space physics climatechange freemandyson article</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:c7b70ee7f9b9/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://whewellsghost.wordpress.com/2011/01/23/astrology-is-rubbish-but/">
    <title>“Astrology is rubbish”, but… | Whewell's Ghost</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-24T22:42:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://whewellsghost.wordpress.com/2011/01/23/astrology-is-rubbish-but/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Astronomers, skeptics and fans of science are doing themselves a disservice by focusing on the wrong grounds for dismissing astrology."]]></description>
<dc:subject>astronomy astrology science history via:foe</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:3a85a1e67ea7/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2010/12/20/cold-burn/">
    <title>Cold Burn | Monbiot.com</title>
    <dc:date>2010-12-22T05:05:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2010/12/20/cold-burn/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Sod all that, my correspondents insist: just look out of the window. No explanation of the numbers, no description of the North Atlantic Oscillation or the Arctic Dipole, no reminder of current temperatures in other parts of the world, can compete with the observation than there’s a foot of snow outside."]]></description>
<dc:subject>weather climatechange comment science observationbias</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:771998ffb8e3/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/jun/29/national-gallery-art-exhibition-fakery">
    <title>The exhibition where nothing is as it seems | guardian.co.uk</title>
    <dc:date>2010-06-29T19:42:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/jun/29/national-gallery-art-exhibition-fakery</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries is the first major exhibition devoted to the work of the gallery's scientists. The laboratory was founded in 1934 and is now a world leader." Closes 12 September.]]></description>
<dc:subject>london exhibiton art fake science forensics guardian via:andym todo/done</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:56f56434fcb1/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/hayward-gallery-and-visual-arts/tickets/festo-airpenguins-and-airjelly-52652">
    <title>Festo AirPenguins and AirJelly | Southbank Centre</title>
    <dc:date>2010-06-21T15:30:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/hayward-gallery-and-visual-arts/tickets/festo-airpenguins-and-airjelly-52652</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Come and marvel at the mechanical penguins and jellyfish as they swim through the auditorium of Royal Festival Hall." July 4th, morning only. Part of a season of science events at the South Bank Centre: see also Homo Computers, Brian Greene and Marcus du Sautoy talks, Flood Tide, and Science of the City walks.]]></description>
<dc:subject>london exhibition science engineering art todo/done</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:702c48461c81/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://rhodesmill.org/pyephem/">
    <title>Welcome! | PyEphem</title>
    <dc:date>2010-06-21T10:26:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://rhodesmill.org/pyephem/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["PyEphem provides scientific-grade astronomical computations for the Python programming language. Given a date and location on the Earth’s surface, it can compute the positions of the Sun and Moon, of the planets and their moons, and of any asteroids, comets, or earth satellites whose orbital elements the user can provide."]]></description>
<dc:subject>python code library module science space astronomy iss development sciencehackday</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:0c358f2931f2/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/03/03/080303fa_fact_holt?currentPage=all">
    <title>Annals of Science: Numbers Guy | The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2010-06-18T17:44:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/03/03/080303fa_fact_holt?currentPage=all</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I was reminded of this today on Twitter, but I don't seem to have a bookmark, so: on mathematics, with an interesting bit about how the differences in how languages render numbers affecting the speed on which we learn numeracy.]]></description>
<dc:subject>mathematics newyorker culture education language science via:russelldavies</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:6548446c872b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://sundaymagazine.org/2010/04/the-science-of-weather-forecasting/">
    <title>The Science Of Weather Forecasting | Sunday Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2010-04-13T19:17:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://sundaymagazine.org/2010/04/the-science-of-weather-forecasting/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["How did they do it before satellites and radar? It was a large scale coordinated effort involving telegraph messages sent from station to station across the country, used to compile a weather map." From the new site by Ironic Sans, looking at the most interesting stories from the weekend 100 years ago.]]></description>
<dc:subject>weather history science meteorology toread</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:61d00d3ac423/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm">
    <title>Scott and Scurvy | Idle Words</title>
    <dc:date>2010-03-08T09:45:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Somehow a highly-trained group of scientists at the start of the 20th century knew less about scurvy than the average sea captain in Napoleonic times. What happened?" A(nother) fascinating essay by Maciej Cegłowski.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>science history medicine scott antarctica limeys</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:f0f19271232c/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:antarctica"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527452.600-let-the-sunlight-in-on-climate-change.html">
    <title>Let the sunlight in on climate change | New Scientist</title>
    <dc:date>2010-01-31T12:29:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527452.600-let-the-sunlight-in-on-climate-change.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Public attitudes to science are changing. The IPCC was established before the internet revolution. Like it or not, its closed world of peer review is no longer possible, let alone desirable." The most recent New Scientist leader calls for the IPCC to report more often and with more openness about its internal processes.
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<dc:subject>newscientist comment ipcc climatechange science</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:2ab35ab1dea2/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:climatechange"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jan/10/nuclear-power-irrational-fears">
    <title>Irrational fears give nuclear power a bad name | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2010-01-11T12:11:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jan/10/nuclear-power-irrational-fears</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The health dangers from nuclear radiation been oversold, stopping governments from fully exploiting nuclear power as a weapon against climate change, argues a professor of physics at Oxford University." I suspect Wade Allison is right, but the comments prove the way nuclear power is feared by the population.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>energy nuclear radiation science physics</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:565f8fa3fa4b/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:radiation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:science"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:physics"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://web.me.com/stewartbrand/DISCIPLINE_footnotes/Contents.html">
    <title>Contents | Whole Earth Discipline</title>
    <dc:date>2010-01-11T12:09:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://web.me.com/stewartbrand/DISCIPLINE_footnotes/Contents.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An annotated, free, online version of Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Discipline. I've only really read the nuclear chapter so far but that one alone is good stuff.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>book future environment nuclear energy science stewartbrand</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:01262500c540/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:environment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:nuclear"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:energy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:science"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:stewartbrand"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/sep/22/peter-landin-obituary">
    <title>Peter Landin obituary | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2009-09-24T12:19:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/sep/22/peter-landin-obituary</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Peter Landin ... was a complex character: a political radical, a gay-rights campaigner and an outstanding academic computer scientist." "Towards the end of his life, Peter became convinced that computing had been a bad idea, giving support to profit-taking corporate interests and a surveillance state, and that he had wasted his energies in promoting it."
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<dc:subject>guardian obituary computing science politics sexuality culture history</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:a3160cbc2b34/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:science"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:sexuality"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327252.700-reasons-to-be-optimistic-for-the-future.html">
    <title>Reasons to be optimistic for the future | New Scientist</title>
    <dc:date>2009-09-14T10:30:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327252.700-reasons-to-be-optimistic-for-the-future.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Coming out against collapsitarian thinking and for SCIENCE. "It is in this spirit that we launch a four-week campaign exploring ways to make the world a better place. It will come as no surprise that our starting point is the power of reason. From that springs an ironclad belief that the world can be made better through the application of science and rational thinking."
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<dc:subject>newscientist editorial science technology climatechange environment</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:1115a22182c2/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.wired.co.uk/wired-magazine/archive/2009/10/start/thunderbirds-will-grow-a-generation-of-mad-engineers.aspx">
    <title>Thunderbirds will grow a generation of mad engineers | Wired UK</title>
    <dc:date>2009-09-07T09:59:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.wired.co.uk/wired-magazine/archive/2009/10/start/thunderbirds-will-grow-a-generation-of-mad-engineers.aspx</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Warren Ellis: "As an antidote to this audiovisual paraquat they intend to spray into our children's eyes, I say the BBC should re-run Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds. Bear with me."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>television technology education science bbc wired wireduk</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:d0f7144e8f75/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:bbc"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://slash7.com/articles/2009/8/25/oh-yeah-there-s-a-sugar-pill-for-that">
    <title>Oh yeah, there's a sugar pill for that | Slash 7</title>
    <dc:date>2009-08-25T12:15:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://slash7.com/articles/2009/8/25/oh-yeah-there-s-a-sugar-pill-for-that</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Interesting musings by Amy Hoy on placebos and advertising.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>us europe drugs health advertising science wired via:kellan</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:1c2efe4a7ac6/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:drugs"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:health"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:advertising"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:science"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:wired"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327211.000-why-humans-cant-navigate-out-of-a-paper-bag.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&amp;nsref=online-news">
    <title>Why humans can't navigate out of a paper bag | New Scientist</title>
    <dc:date>2009-08-20T18:10:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327211.000-why-humans-cant-navigate-out-of-a-paper-bag.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&amp;nsref=online-news</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["the volunteers happily passed through these shortcuts to end up at a point that even a halfway-decent geometric reckoning would have told them was impossible. "The punchline," Warren says, 'is that people didn't even notice anything amiss.'" Interesting stuff.
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<dc:subject>science brains navigation via:gnat</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:c98437adea30/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:navigation"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/your-body-wasnt-built-to-last-a-lesson-from-human-mortality-rates/">
    <title>Your body wasn’t built to last | Gravity and Levity</title>
    <dc:date>2009-08-11T10:44:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/your-body-wasnt-built-to-last-a-lesson-from-human-mortality-rates/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Your probability of dying during a given year doubles every 8 years." On the Gompertz law.
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<dc:subject>science mathematics statistics biology health</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:55cc5b8f9cd5/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:mathematics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:statistics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:biology"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://dailyclique.com/2009/04/02/definition-of-black-boxing/">
    <title>Definition of “black-boxing” | The Daily Clique</title>
    <dc:date>2009-08-06T17:31:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://dailyclique.com/2009/04/02/definition-of-black-boxing/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["'Thus, paradoxically, the more science and technology succeed, the more opaque and obscure they become.' Uncovering what’s inside these black-boxes could become an important task for people researching the processes by which we construct everything from budgets to automobiles to maps."
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<dc:subject>blackbox science technology hacking</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:de7c48a2d704/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:technology"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/jul/27/guerilla-science-secret-garden-party">
    <title>Scientists gatecrash Secret Garden Party | guardian.co.uk</title>
    <dc:date>2009-08-02T15:59:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/jul/27/guerilla-science-secret-garden-party</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Lured by Red Stripe and other totally legal substances, the scientists wowed festivalgoers with the delights of space travel and Jupiter's moons, the neuroscience of music and the propagation of waves in conga lines"
]]></description>
<dc:subject>uk science education festival event via:gnat</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:f69b395b3c04/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:festival"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:event"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227101.100-what-you-should-know-about-chiropractic.html?full=true">
    <title>What you should know about chiropractic | New Scientist</title>
    <dc:date>2009-05-31T16:17:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227101.100-what-you-should-know-about-chiropractic.html?full=true</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Edzard Ernst, who co-wrote a book on alternative medicine with Simon Singh, examines the history of chiropractic and the evidence for its medical efficacy, both for back pain and for the wider range of ailments some of its practitioners claim it can deal with. For back pain, "there is some encouraging evidence", but that's as good as it gets.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>newscientist chiropractic medicine evidence science comment</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:e0562e16dabe/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/may/31/simon-singh-science">
    <title>Why are they trying to gag a science writer? | The Observer</title>
    <dc:date>2009-05-31T16:13:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/may/31/simon-singh-science</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A good Nick Cohen opinion piece on the Simon Singh case, concluding with the rallying cry that "the greatest threat to freedom of speech in Britain is not the state or the security services or the press barons, but a fusty and illiberal legal system, which has become a public menace".
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<dc:subject>uk guardian news science media law censorship chiropractic</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:2f2bf8010923/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.economist.com/members/persona.cfm?econuid=3263034">
    <title>Evan Harris | The Economist</title>
    <dc:date>2009-05-17T18:20:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.economist.com/members/persona.cfm?econuid=3263034</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Comments by Evan Harris; the only one at the time of posting is on the subject of the Simon Singh vs BCA case.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>science law uk criticism comment</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:371d461ecd47/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://jackofkent.blogspot.com/2009/05/bca-v-singh-astonishingly-illiberal.html">
    <title>BCA v Singh: An Astonishingly Illiberal Ruling | Jack of Kent</title>
    <dc:date>2009-05-17T18:14:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://jackofkent.blogspot.com/2009/05/bca-v-singh-astonishingly-illiberal.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I'd been blissfully unaware of this until this weekend, when the New Scientist and Economist both covered it, but this is perhaps the best summary I've seen of a ridiculous legal ruling on a piece Simon Singh wrote in the Guardian about chiropratic treatments of illnesses in babies.
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<dc:subject>uk law science health criticism guardian</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:f3859737b48b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596523206/">
    <title>The Geek Atlas | O'Reilly Media</title>
    <dc:date>2009-05-15T11:03:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596523206/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["With this unique traveler's guide, you'll learn about 128 destinations around the world where discoveries in science, mathematics, or technology occurred or is happening now."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>science book travel tourism geektourism</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:120be815aeb4/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:tourism"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://io9.com/5169232/the-robot-who-helps-astronomers-identify-stars">
    <title>The Robot Who Helps Astronomers Identify Stars | io9.com</title>
    <dc:date>2009-03-13T18:21:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://io9.com/5169232/the-robot-who-helps-astronomers-identify-stars</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Yay Foe! A short video on IO9 discussing the Astrometry bot and its use on Flickr and with the NMM's group there.
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<item rdf:about="http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/getting_past_the_pie_chart/">
    <title>Getting Past the Pie Chart | Seed Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2009-03-12T10:36:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/getting_past_the_pie_chart/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Understanding the shortcomings of the pie chart can help us make sense of and improve the emerging scientific aesthetic of the 21st century."
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<dc:subject>science visualisation information design seedmagazine</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:d68b656e7f83/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:information"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:design"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:seedmagazine"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13226733">
    <title>The bees are back in town | The Economist</title>
    <dc:date>2009-03-11T18:44:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13226733</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The economic crisis has contributed to a glut of bees in California. That raises questions about whether a supposed global pollination crisis is real" The Economist on bees, almonds, supply and demand. Possibly too anecdotal? Not really qualified to judge.
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:2dbb8310e793/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:science"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:biology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:agriculture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:bees"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:california"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/starttheweek_20090119.shtml">
    <title>Start the Week, 19 January 2009 | BBC Radio 4</title>
    <dc:date>2009-01-25T16:09:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/starttheweek_20090119.shtml</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" The scientist Graham Farmelo argues that Dirac has been overlooked due to his extreme distaste for publicity, which may have been a manifestation of his autism." A day left to download. Also that week, Ben Goldacre.
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/jan/07/autism-test-genius-dirac">
    <title>Autism test would deprive world of geniuses | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2009-01-25T16:05:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/jan/07/autism-test-genius-dirac</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Dirac was prone to very long silences and was famous for his apparently emotionless responses to events. He also often took a very literal interpretation of statements by other people. All are characteristics of autism."
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126905.400-review-the-hidden-life-of-paul-dirac-by-graham-farmelo.html">
    <title>Review: The hidden life of Paul Dirac | New Scientist</title>
    <dc:date>2009-01-25T16:03:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126905.400-review-the-hidden-life-of-paul-dirac-by-graham-farmelo.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Dirac was the theoretician's theoretician, responsible for a crucial piece of the explanation of fundamental particles and forces." "Farmelo has used a stash of Dirac's letters and notes to build an enthralling yet deeply depressing narrative." It's worth following through to the quotes.
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<item rdf:about="http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12970834">
    <title>A new biography of Paul Dirac | Theoretical physics | The Economist</title>
    <dc:date>2009-01-25T16:01:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12970834</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["[There] are extraordinary geniuses [whose] insights are so astonishing and run so counter to received wisdom that it is hard to imagine anyone else devising them. Einstein was one such genius. Paul Dirac, whose equations predicted the existence of antimatter and who died in 1984, was another."
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:3a628690e62c/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:physics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:quantumphysics"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/history-lets-hear-it-scientists">
    <title>Let's hear it for the scientists | More Intelligent Life</title>
    <dc:date>2009-01-25T16:00:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/history-lets-hear-it-scientists</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Living, intelligent biography should connect, somehow, to the central concerns of civilisation. Ours is a science-based one." Andrew Marr makes a plea for biographies of scientists.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>science biography article comment</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:5ad023c1176d/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:article"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/11/light-pollution/klinkenborg-text">
    <title>Light Pollution | National Geographic Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2009-01-08T13:02:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/11/light-pollution/klinkenborg-text</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It's not as good as the New Yorker article on light pollution from a year or so ago, but it'll probably reach a wider audience, and that's a good thing. Nice photos too.
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<dc:subject>astronomy science photography article environment lightpollution</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:5a2eab67d16a/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:article"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:environment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:lightpollution"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.edge.org/q2009/q09_index.html">
    <title>The World Question Center 2009 | edge.org</title>
    <dc:date>2009-01-01T20:07:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.edge.org/q2009/q09_index.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What will change everything?" Some themes, from the headlines: climate change (especially melting ice caps); augmented minds and IT-led learning; extra-terrestrial intelligence; nuclear weapon use (in various ways). There's also a general "biological engineering" theme, but that's harder to pin down. Lots to delve into, for the interested. (I wish they'd put each response on its own page, though.)
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<dc:subject>edge science culture technology future climatechange</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:b9c3089e3e91/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:culture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:technology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:future"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/dec/11/kingsnorth-green-banksy-saboteur">
    <title>Campaigner breached fortress Kingsnorth | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2008-12-11T14:14:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/dec/11/kingsnorth-green-banksy-saboteur</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[[ Within minutes, says E.On, "he had tampered with some equipment" - believed to be a computer at a control panel - "and tripped unit 2, one of the station's giant 500MW turbines". ]] Unless I deeply misunderstand power stations, didn't this just mean that tonnes of coal were still burnt, still heated steam, but that the steam stopped generating electricty? This is a deeply flawed news report.
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<dc:subject>politics uk news environment coal badscience science</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:c412443ce902/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:uk"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:news"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:environment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:coal"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:badscience"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.artangel.org.uk/pages/present/present0808_seizure.htm">
    <title>Artangel Present | Seizure</title>
    <dc:date>2008-11-20T13:42:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.artangel.org.uk/pages/present/present0808_seizure.htm</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["British artist Roger Hiorns makes exceptional use of unlikely materials: detergent, disinfectant, perfume, fire and copper sulphate crystals." Really must make an effort to get there from work one (long) lunchtime.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>london architecture art science exhibition todo/gone</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:3995a222c6da/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:art"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:science"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:exhibition"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:todo/gone"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://science.nrao.edu/index.php/Data%20Vault">
    <title>Data Vault | NRAO</title>
    <dc:date>2008-11-15T19:41:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://science.nrao.edu/index.php/Data%20Vault</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The NRAO Data Vault is a web-accessible collection of NRAO science data from the GBT, VLA and VLBA, which aims to provide convenient access to browse and download data products that have related keywords which match a free-text (Google-like) search query."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>nrao science data openaccess astronomy telescope radiotelescope via:quantumcandace</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:7e4beb5539ed/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:openaccess"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:astronomy"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:radiotelescope"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14757-science-fiction-special-the-future-of-a-genre.html">
    <title>Science fiction special: The future of a genre | New Scientist</title>
    <dc:date>2008-11-15T14:22:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14757-science-fiction-special-the-future-of-a-genre.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["These days, science can be stranger than science fiction, and mainstream literature is increasingly futuristic and speculative. So are the genre's days numbered?" Speaking of 'speculative', I do wish they hadn't let Atwood off the hook so easily, but then I do get grumpy. There's more on the web than in the magazine, and it all seems to be free (usually NS have a paywall), so that's good, at least.
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<dc:subject>sciencefiction culture science newscientist literature writing future</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:2fd786f06dea/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.kottke.org/08/11/star-location-service">
    <title>Star location service | kottke.org</title>
    <dc:date>2008-11-06T12:07:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.kottke.org/08/11/star-location-service</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["If you submit your astronomy photo to the Astrometry group on Flickr, a tool of the same name will look at the image, tell you the location of the field of view, and label all of the celestial objects contained within it." "Your assignment: use the Astrometry and Exif data to stitch all these photos together into a huge Hockney-esque map of the sky."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>photography flickr science astronomy hack todo? maps? kottke</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:dc2ca406f54d/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:todo?"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/nov/02/enlightenment-science-art">
    <title>Review: The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes | Observer</title>
    <dc:date>2008-11-02T11:44:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/nov/02/enlightenment-science-art</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The book's subtitle is "How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science". From the review: "200 years ago, poets, writers and scientists shared a common vision of Nature. There is no reason why they should not do so again."
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<dc:subject>science culture history observer review book via:preoccupations</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:f3716be26259/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?id=7879">
    <title>Rafael Lozano-Hemmer | Barbican</title>
    <dc:date>2008-10-13T10:18:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?id=7879</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A really interesting interactive visualisation of the radio spectrum at the Curve (so it's free, and open late).
]]></description>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:48b911d42595/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/architecture/unseen_hands/index.html">
    <title>100 Years of Structural Engineering | V&amp;A</title>
    <dc:date>2008-08-17T13:53:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/architecture/unseen_hands/index.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Why did I not know this was on? "Marking the centenary of the founding of the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE), this exhibition celebrates the importance of engineering in creating some of the most iconic buildings of the past 100 years."
]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/21/080721fa_fact_wallacewells?currentPage=all">
    <title>Reporting &amp; Essays: Surfing the Universe | The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2008-07-25T02:30:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/21/080721fa_fact_wallacewells?currentPage=all</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A profile of Garrett Lisi, the E8-set unification theorist and surfer who made the headlines last year. Ironically I read this in a university library while waiting for candace to finish talk about PhDs.
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<dc:subject>newyorker physics science profile</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.tiscali.co.uk/telectroscope/home.php">
    <title>Joining London and New York | The Telectroscope</title>
    <dc:date>2008-05-17T09:07:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.tiscali.co.uk/telectroscope/home.php</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["an extraordinary optical device called a Telectroscope will be installed at both ends which will miraculously allow people to see right through the Earth from London to New York" Tower Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge, £1 a go.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>london newyork art science engineering todo/gone via:blackbeltjones</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:2bb0c5bc1cbd/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.wellcomecollection.org/exhibitionsandevents/exhibitions/fromatomstopatterns/index.htm">
    <title>From Atoms to Patterns | Wellcome Collection</title>
    <dc:date>2008-04-27T22:22:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.wellcomecollection.org/exhibitionsandevents/exhibitions/fromatomstopatterns/index.htm</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["At the instigation of Dr Helen Megaw, a leading Cambridge scientist, diagrams of atomic structures inspired an eclectic array of patterns" "reunited en masse for the first time since the Festival" Also free.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>london museum science culture design art exhibition history todo/done</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:f850901ca2b4/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/galleries/dan_dare_and_the_birth_of_high-tech_britain.aspx">
    <title>Dan Dare &amp; the Birth of High Tech Britain | Science Museum</title>
    <dc:date>2008-04-27T22:21:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/galleries/dan_dare_and_the_birth_of_high-tech_britain.aspx</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Together they reveal a fascinating ‘lost world’ of British design and invention – a glimpse of a time when the TV in the corner was a Murphy, not a Sony" Sounds like it's worth a visit. Helpfully free.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>london museum science culture design exhibition history todo/done</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:79bdda487f3f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7359258.stm">
    <title>Muslim call to adopt Mecca time | BBC News</title>
    <dc:date>2008-04-22T09:54:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7359258.stm</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Another day, another bunch of fundamentalist idiots crop up. How can a point on the surface on a sphere be its centre? Throw in some bad science with magnetism and you've got perfect rant material. (Yes Greenwich is arbitrary; so's any meridian.)
]]></description>
<dc:subject>religion science time morons via:foe</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:cbd1845df4a6/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/reviews/preview-stardust-riflemaker-soho-square-london-808587.html">
    <title>Stardust, Riflemaker, Soho Square | The Independent</title>
    <dc:date>2008-04-15T13:39:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art-and-architecture/reviews/preview-stardust-riflemaker-soho-square-london-808587.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Preview/review of a show in London featuring the aerogel used in a comet sample capture/return mission. Could be just the sort of thing to make me angry; could be good; probably just going to be eh. Should try anyway.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>london art science todo/gone</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:fef1a1f28c78/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=122716&amp;in_page_id=34&amp;expand=true">
    <title>Churchill flew to the moon... right? | Metro.co.uk</title>
    <dc:date>2008-03-20T11:35:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=122716&amp;in_page_id=34&amp;expand=true</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["CORRECTION: The article originally said that there were nine planets in the solar system, which of course there aren't, following the demotion of Pluto" At least they acknowledged it...
]]></description>
<dc:subject>science public astronomy poll advertising</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:211a00f1f6d5/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/224">
    <title>WorldWide Telescope (video) | TED Talks</title>
    <dc:date>2008-03-01T15:26:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/224</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Not a bad teaching tool, I suppose, but it's not unique (Google Sky) and the hyperbole is nauseating. A revolution on a par with Galileo? Please. The name's awful, too, candace points out: a telescope gives you new data, not just new combinations.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>science astronomy microsoft visualisation maps video planetarium via:plasticbag via:foe</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:faade290edab/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:microsoft"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://mssv.net/2008/02/25/can-the-science-museum-be-up-to-date/">
    <title>Can the Science Museum be up-to-date? | Mssv</title>
    <dc:date>2008-02-25T11:21:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mssv.net/2008/02/25/can-the-science-museum-be-up-to-date/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Adrian Hon suggests that the only way for museums like the Science Museum to present topical information is to employ a group of people dedicated to rapid development of exhibits.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>science sciencemuseum london news blogcomment</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:ac85e2046232/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://io9.com/343451/why-is-science-fiction-going-back-to-the-near-future">
    <title>Ken MacLeod on the near future | io9.com</title>
    <dc:date>2008-01-11T15:16:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://io9.com/343451/why-is-science-fiction-going-back-to-the-near-future</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I've liked MacLeod since The Star Fraction (the socialist remnants of a British republic fighting back; how could I not?) and I'm looking forward to the Execution Channel, albeit in paperback.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>io9 sciencefiction interview science politics</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:753bf3a1fac0/</dc:identifier>
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