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	<title>Crikey &#187; science</title>
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		<title>Obama shoots marshmallows from a cannon</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/09/obama-marshmallow-cannon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/09/obama-marshmallow-cannon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video of the Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At the White House Science Fair, US President Barack Obama met a year eight kid who had built an air cannon that shoots marshmallows. Of course, Obama had to give it a go &#8230;]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Research funding cuts: scientists should be making a noise</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/24/research-funding-cuts-scientists-should-be-making-a-noise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/24/research-funding-cuts-scientists-should-be-making-a-noise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science & Tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christchurch earthquake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hepatitus c]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan earthquake]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rumours that the federal government is considering cutting $400 million over three years from the National Health and Medical Research Council are concerning, writes science blogger and author <b>Stephen Luntz</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Academy of Science: how to deal with the uncertainty in the science</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/15/academy-of-science-how-to-deal-with-the-uncertainty-in-the-science/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/15/academy-of-science-how-to-deal-with-the-uncertainty-in-the-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 02:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change: The Long View]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=210477</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A balanced assessment of the available evidence and prior knowledge allows us to attach levels of confidence to the findings of climate science.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>36</slash:comments>
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		<title>The entire universe&#8230;in one website</title>
		<link>http://primaxstudio.com/stuff/scale_of_universe/</link>
		<comments>http://primaxstudio.com/stuff/scale_of_universe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Buckmaster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science & Tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[universe]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=191814</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Science geeks, eat your heart out! This website endeavors to encapsulate the scale of the universe. And it damn near succeeds. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Should science journalists pick science?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/09/23/should-science-journalists-take-sides/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/09/23/should-science-journalists-take-sides/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 06:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science & Tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science journalism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=174396</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It's a nice concept that journalists are objective and neutral. But journalism need to report the truth and provide the additional analysis and context that readers don't always have in scientific debates, argues science journo <b>Ed Yong</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Predicting Election Dates by Sciencing them</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/06/16/predicting-election-dates-by-sciencing-them/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/06/16/predicting-election-dates-by-sciencing-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First Dog on the Moon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AEC Quokka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antony Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Hudson's Beard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eggs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret the Chicken]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psephology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=146088</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The First Dog On The Moon way!]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Do gay animals exist?</title>
		<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/magazine/04animals-t.html?hpw</link>
		<comments>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/magazine/04animals-t.html?hpw#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 06:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People & Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science & Tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[albatrosses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homosexuality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=129240</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Albatrosses are known for being the most monogamous birds in the animal kingdom, but don't assume they're all male and female couples. <b>Jon Mooallem</b> explores the taboo topic of homosexuality in the animal kingdom.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/magazine/04animals-t.html?hpw/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Krill ask the tough questions&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/14/krill-ask-the-tough-questions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/14/krill-ask-the-tough-questions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Firstdog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[First Dog on the Moon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[giant squid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[japanese whaling fleet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Krill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[whales]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=109572</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Whales, are they our adorable, bigboned aquafriends or cynical, obese, mass-murderers?]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/14/krill-ask-the-tough-questions/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>The lack of good journalism</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/12/the-lack-of-good-journalism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/12/the-lack-of-good-journalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death star]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[executive pay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lazy journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=109005</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<em>Crikey</em> readers weigh in on lazy summer journalism, hate groups of Facebook -- how can they be stopped? -- and the PR abuse of science.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/12/the-lack-of-good-journalism/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>PHOTO GALLERY: The dying, derelict Biosphere 2</title>
		<link>http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/remnants-of-biosphere.html</link>
		<comments>http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/remnants-of-biosphere.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biosphere 2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noah Sheldon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photo galleries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=108669</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Photographer <b>Noah Sheldon</b> captures the rotting and semi-derelict <em>Biosphere 2</em>, a US$200m bio-architectural experiment in the Arizona desert, an example of one of science's big experimental failures. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Meat sits in your colon for 40 years and other celebrity myths</title>
		<link>http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/celebrity/article6974658.ece</link>
		<comments>http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/celebrity/article6974658.ece#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People & Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science & Tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[celebrities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[myths]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=108398</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From Roger Moore claiming that foie gras gives you Alzheimers, to claims that chemotherapy poisoned Patrick Swayze to death, <em>The Telegraph</em> debunks the crazy scientific myths that celebrities spout.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/celebrity/article6974658.ece/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The science of Chinese whispers gone wrong</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/the-science-of-chinese-whispers-gone-wrong/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/the-science-of-chinese-whispers-gone-wrong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science & Tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian Science journal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media hoax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reuters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/the-science-of-chinese-whispers-gone-wrong/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It all started when Reuters published a story about the positive cognitive effects of bad moods. Too bad the "study" doesn't exist and neither does the journal it reportedly comes from, says science blogger <b>Michael Slezak</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/the-science-of-chinese-whispers-gone-wrong/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Has the sun lost its spots?</title>
		<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/science/space/21sunspot.html?_r=1&#038;partner=rss&#038;emc=rss</link>
		<comments>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/science/space/21sunspot.html?_r=1&#038;partner=rss&#038;emc=rss#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 06:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[astronomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[planets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solar power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weather patterns]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=75790</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Among some global warming sceptics, there is speculation that the Sun may be on the verge of falling into an extended slumber similar to the so-called Maunder Minimum, several sunspot-scarce decades during the 17th and 18th centuries.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/science/space/21sunspot.html?_r=1&#038;partner=rss&#038;emc=rss/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>How to find fraud in science</title>
		<link>http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13776974&#038;source=hptextfeature</link>
		<comments>http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13776974&#038;source=hptextfeature#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 23:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science & Tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=64808</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A meta-analysis of scientific studies has found that many scientists are guilty of engaging in some subtle number tweaking -- but just what is "cleaning up" data and what is outright fraud?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Man without fingerprints confounds US customs</title>
		<link>http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-05-27-fingerprints_N.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-05-27-fingerprints_N.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 05:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fingerprints]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oncology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pharmaceuticals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weird]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=62228</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An estimated one in 50 people around the world lack matchable fingerprints. One cancer patient's fingerprints were so eroded by the medication he was taking that the US authorities couldn't let him into the country. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-05-27-fingerprints_N.htm/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Lessons from the bones of Ida</title>
		<link>http://spectator.org/archives/2009/05/21/chimp-change</link>
		<comments>http://spectator.org/archives/2009/05/21/chimp-change#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 20:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People & Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fossils]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prehistory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=60664</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A 47 million-year-old fossil gives a new sense of mankind's enduring adaptability.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://spectator.org/archives/2009/05/21/chimp-change/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Big bang boffins&#8217; black hole to swallow earth on Wednesday</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/08/big-bang-boffins-black-hole-to-swallow-earth-on-wednesday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/08/big-bang-boffins-black-hole-to-swallow-earth-on-wednesday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[black hole]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The world will be destroyed on Wednesday, writes <b>Neil Walker</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/08/big-bang-boffins-black-hole-to-swallow-earth-on-wednesday/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Crikey essay: The fiction of impartial Australian science</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/12/crikey-essay-the-fiction-of-impartial-australian-science/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/12/crikey-essay-the-fiction-of-impartial-australian-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[research institutes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our society lives with a couple of open fictions. One of those fictions is the idea that science is impartial, that it can be relied upon to form the best possible basis for public policy, writes <b>Ben Gilna</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/12/crikey-essay-the-fiction-of-impartial-australian-science/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>The 8 bad meta-arguments against global warming</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/07/13/the-8-bad-meta-arguments-against-global-warming/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/07/13/the-8-bad-meta-arguments-against-global-warming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
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