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		<title>What Does an Ant Colony Look Like?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found this very cool video about scientists studying ant colonies. They found a large grass-cutter ants colony and studied how the colony is ventillated. In another colony, they poured a ridiculous amount of cement to freeze the colony's structure underground, which they then excavated.

What they found was utterly amazing. Check it out!



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		<title>Water Confirmed on Mars; Liquid Lake on Titan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
NASA just scored a double whammy: water is now confirmed for the first time ever on Mars and a liquid hydrocarbon lake, which is the only other place in the solar system that has liquid on its surface.

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First Mars: For the past few days, the Phoenix Mars Lander has been having problems getting icy soil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Way to Age?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A very interesting paper has just been published about aging in worms. The paper basically uncovers evidence that goes against the current thinking about how and why animals age and might in the future shed light on how and why humans age. Worms? Yes, because they are a good genetic model that is easy to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Dawkins Interview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally a sensible (and civil!) interview with Prof Dawkins in a mainstream news channel, AlJazeera English. The interviewer, Riz Khan, explores the whole evolution/creationism/intelligent design debate (as if we needed one...) in very broad strokes with Prof Dawkins and takes 2 questions via email and one by phone.
My favourite answer is the one that starts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Einstein Prediction Shown Correct&#8230; AGAIN!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago, I blogged about how Einstein's E=mc2 was supported by experimental evidence. Well now an international group of astronomers have observed evidence that supports another prediction from Einstein's General Relativity from 1915.

The video below explains the experiment, so I'll give some background and a quick explanation. When massive stars die and explode as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Double Slit Experiment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the key experiments in physics is called the double slit experiment. The experiment  very elegantly demonstrates why quantum physics is so counter intuitive. The double slit experiment shows that light is both particles and waves. It also tells us that electrons, subatomic particles themselves, can behave like waves. This so-called wave-particle duality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tail of Two BDNF Transcripts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
In animal brains, there is a gene called the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) that is important for neurons in the hippocampus to grow and connect to each other, processes that are the basis of memory and learning. The gene produces a growth factor that makes neurons grow which plays a key role in the initial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Academic Lectures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How many lectures and seminars have you attended that sounded a lot like this one?

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		<title>The Problem with Google&#8217;s Knol Initiative</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Five days ago, Google announced a new initiative they are calling the Knol. This post explains why I think this is a bad move as Knol currently stands.

This excerpt from the announcement sums up Knol, but of course read the whole thing:

Earlier this week, we started inviting a selected group of people to try a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogsci.com/if-they-can-publish-so-can-i/the-problem-with-googles-knol-initiative</link>
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		<title>Does Funding from Pharma Companies Affect Study Outcome?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new study published recently is bound to get some serious attention. Spanish researchers looked at over 500 studies that documented the effects of asthma drugs called inhaled corticosteroids: 275 studies weer funded by pharmaceutical companies (they called this group the PF studies; PF stands for Pharmaceutical Funding) and 229 were funded by other sources, [...]]]></description>
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