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<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:39:24 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Top Christmas Songs]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:39:24 -0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Charlie</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[I'm a sucker for christmas and all the lovely songs that come along. Some of them will even get me to tear up a bit. I don't know, they are just so upbeat and uplifting that I just can't help but to get in the mood. The only thing that tweaks me some though is I really don't want to hear them till after Thanksgiving. Other than that, I've got a lot of favorites.<br/><br/>1 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Basement Flooring]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:23:39 -0500</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Charlie</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[If you are looking to renovate or remodel that storage room you call a basement, here's a good guide to help you get started from the ground up. Check out all the basement flooring ideas and what you need to do to get that basement ready to accept some new flooring to give it the touch that you've been looking for.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Lone Star Scientists Posse Up to Defend Evolution in Schools]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:22:19 -0500</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Charlie</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[A debate over evolution education in Texas could shape science classes in the southern United States for years to come. The Texas Board of Education will vote Thursday and Friday on amendments to the state's proposed science curriculum. The amendments...<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microchip Mimics a Brain With 200,000 Neurons]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:49:46 -0500</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Charlie</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Al writes &quot;European researchers have taken a step towards replicating the functioning of the brain in silicon, creating new custom chip with the equivalent of 200,000 neurons linked up by 50 million synaptic connections. The aim of the Fast Analog Computing with Emergent Transient States (FACETS) project is to better understand how to construct massively parallel computer systems modeled on a biological brain. Unlike IBM's Blue Brain project, which involves modeling a brain in software, this approach makes it much easier to create a truly parallel computing system. The set-up also features a distributed algorithm that introduces an element of plasticity, allowing the circuit to learn and adapt. The researchers plan to connect thousands of chips to create a circuit with a billion neurons and 10^13 synapses (about a tenth of the complexity of the human brain).&quot;Read more of this story at Slashdot.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Chimps Have a Built-In GPS]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:44:50 -0500</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Charlie</dc:creator>
<category>Science</category>
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<description><![CDATA[destinyland writes &quot;European researchers have discovered that chimpanzees have a built-in mental GPS, keeping 'a geometric mental map of their home range, moving from point to point in nearly straight lines.' Using GPS, two primatologists followed 15 chimpanzees for 217 days, and determined that the apes were 'using a mental map built around geometric coordinates.' They're not just identifying landmarks in their surroundings, and in fact, even when swinging through trees, the chimps planned out their route several trees in advance. Here's the paper in the journal Animal Behavior .&quot;Read more of this story at Slashdot.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Photos of Alaskan Volcano's Eruption]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:56:30 -0500</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Charlie</dc:creator>
<category>Science</category>
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<description><![CDATA[AVO/USGS The U.S. Geological Survey's Alaska Volcano Observatory finally released a batch of photos from of Mount Redoubt Volcano, which has erupted explosively six times since Sunday evening. Some of the more dramatic, taken on Monday, are included below. Ashfall...<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[NASA Tests Heaviest Chute Drop Ever]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:44:50 -0500</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Charlie</dc:creator>
<category>Science</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Iddo Genuth writes &quot;NASA and the US Air Force have successfully tested a new super-chute system aimed at reclaiming reusable Ares booster rockets. On February 28, 2009 a 50,000-pound dummy rocket booster was dropped in the Arizona desert and slowed by a system of five parachutes before it crashed to the ground. The booster landed softly without any damage. This was possibly the heaviest parachute drop ever, and NASA is planning to perform even heavier drops of up to 90,000 pounds in the next few months.&quot;Read more of this story at Slashdot.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Reflected Gravitational Waves]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:44:50 -0500</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Charlie</dc:creator>
<category>Science</category>
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<description><![CDATA[WSOGMM sends in an arXiv blog post about reflecting gravity waves. The speculation is that reflected gravity could go some ways toward explaining the odd readings being returned by Gravity Probe B. &quot;In the couple of weeks since he introduced the idea that superconducting sheets can reflect gravity waves, Raymond Chiao from the University of California, Merced, has been busy with a couple of buddies working out how big this effect is... Chiao and co. ask how big the effect of a gravitational wave on a thin superconducting sheet is compared to the effect on an ordinary conducting sheet. The answer? 42 orders of magnitude bigger.&quot;Read more of this story at Slashdot.<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Texas Vote May Challenge Teaching of Evolution]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:44:50 -0500</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Charlie</dc:creator>
<category>Science</category>
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<description><![CDATA[tboulay writes &quot;The Texas Board of Education will vote this week on a new science curriculum designed to challenge the guiding principle of evolution, a step that could influence what is taught in biology classes across the nation. The proposed curriculum change would prompt teachers to raise doubts that all life on Earth is descended from common ancestry. Texas is such a large textbook market that many publishers write to the state's standards, then market those books nationwide. 'This is the most specific assault I've seen against evolution and modern science,' said Steven Newton, a project director at the National Center for Science Education, which promotes teaching of evolution.&quot; Both sides are saying the issue it too close to call. Three Republicans on the school board who favor the teaching of evolution have come under enormous pressure to reform their ways.Read more of this story at Slashdot.<br/><br/>2 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Japanese Astronaut Tests Stink-Free Underwear]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:44:50 -0500</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Charlie</dc:creator>
<category>Science</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Throw away your soap, detergent, and personal hygiene, the Japanese have invented odor-free underwear. Koichi Wakata, a Japanese astronaut living in the International Space Station, is testing the underwear created by textile experts at Japan Women's University in Tokyo. The shorts are designed to kill bacteria, absorb water, insulate the body and dry quickly. They also are flame-resistant, and anti-static. &quot;The other astronauts become very sweaty, but he doesn't have any sweat. He didn't need to hang his clothes to dry. He can wear his trunks (underwear) more than a week,&quot; said Koji Yanagawa, an official with the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency.Read more of this story at Slashdot.<br/><br/>3 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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