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	<title>Acid Test &#187; science</title>
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	<description>Just another soapbox surfer</description>
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		<title>Toxicity and GM Food</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2010/01/toxicity-and-gm-food/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Genetically modified food was declared too safe to label years ago.  Greenpeace has been fighting to have Monsanto&#8217;s original data released.  Their RoundUp [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The color of night</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/11/the-color-of-night/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/11/the-color-of-night/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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Really.  That would be the general color of the night sky if the universe wasn&#8217;t expanding.  You&#8217;ve probably never wondered why the night [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be afraid. Be very afraid.</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/10/be-afraid-be-very-afraid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/10/be-afraid-be-very-afraid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[History shows that . . .

[CO2] Levels similar to those now commonly regarded as adequate to tackle climate change were associated with sea levels 25-40m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Bilby Day!</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/09/its-bilby-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/09/its-bilby-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thinking out loud]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few things are more worth celebrating than bilbies, and the second Sunday in September is their day.  It&#8217;s now nearly 7 AM on Sunday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mt. Wilson and the fire</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/09/mt-wilson-and-the-fire/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/09/mt-wilson-and-the-fire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The last couple of weeks, the world in all of Greater Los Angeles has looked like this:

I&#8217;m 70 miles further west.  The skyscrapers would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The underweight brain</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/08/the-underweight-brain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/08/the-underweight-brain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I give up.  Dealing with the media&#8217;s breathless messes when reporting on science feels like an endless game of whack-a-mole, and I&#8217;d decided [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Biology, Caster Semenya, Athletics, and Ignorance</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/08/biology-caster-semenya-athletics-and-ignorance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/08/biology-caster-semenya-athletics-and-ignorance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[gender]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the continuing flap over Caster Semenya, it may be interesting to get some background on the biology involved.  A recent article I saw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We all have one-track minds</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/08/we-all-have-one-track-minds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/08/we-all-have-one-track-minds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[why-did-I-do-that]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As a person who can only do one thing at a time (if that), all I have to say is:  HA!

BBC &#124; Multitaskers bad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This is how the world ends</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/08/this-is-how-the-world-ends/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/08/this-is-how-the-world-ends/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not with a financial collapse.  Not with death by insurance company.  Those are all just human disasters.  We hear them loud and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>I told you so: negawatts work</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/08/i-told-you-so-negawatts-work/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/08/i-told-you-so-negawatts-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not only have I told you so, repeatedly, but so did everybody else who&#8217;s capable of coming up with four when adding two plus two, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Time-wasting Nerd Fun</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/05/time-wasting-nerd-fun/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/05/time-wasting-nerd-fun/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 16:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hubble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NASA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shuttle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[STS-125]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/?p=423</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t got much done these last few days.  I&#8217;ve been too busy watching the Nasa TV live feed from the Hubble servicing mission.
Click [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Condemned to Repeat?</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/05/condemned-to-repeat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/05/condemned-to-repeat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 15:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science meets politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[limestone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wave power]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ecological disaster bad enough to destroy people has happened before.  The only difference was the limited technology of the times, and therefore the limited [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Swine flu: here we go again</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/04/swine-flu-here-we-go-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/04/swine-flu-here-we-go-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[update below
The news is spreading everywhere: Mexico flu &#8216;a potential pandemic&#8217;.  In the next few days we&#8217;ll probably have a replay of the bad [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Search for ET Intelligence</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/04/the-search-for-et-intelligence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/04/the-search-for-et-intelligence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 02:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Actually, what I&#8217;m about to discuss is the search for ET life, but you have to start somewhere and it&#8217;s getting more clear by the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Plants can make global warming worse</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/04/plants-can-make-global-warming-worse/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/04/plants-can-make-global-warming-worse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some of the codswallop on what to do about global warming &#8212; okay, ALL of the codswallop &#8212; is driving me nuts.  Nuts, I [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ada Lovelace Day</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/03/ada-lovelace-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/03/ada-lovelace-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC reminds me that it&#8217;s time to give a tip of the hat to one of history&#8217;s greats.

Augusta Ada Byron was born in 1815, [...]]]></description>
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