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		<title>A cat on the internet!</title>
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		<title>On the usefulness of social networking in science.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m going to let you in on a &#8220;secret&#8221;. Scientific conferences aren’t actually about science. Because you’re a good little scientist, you already know about all the latest advances in your field (because you do the reading (well, you download the papers and read the abstracts at least)) so the talks don’t say anything new. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=skepticalem.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9686539&amp;post=339&amp;subd=skepticalem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our new PM</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is nothing quite like waking up in a foreign country to an SMS from my good friend and &#8220;political correspondent&#8221;, Rob, telling me that we have a new Prime Minister. What is even better is waking up to an SMS telling me that our new Prime Minister is Julia Gillard. I don&#8217;t know whether [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=skepticalem.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9686539&amp;post=335&amp;subd=skepticalem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Excuses, excuses</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, the perks for doing a PhD. They are few and far between, but they make the 60 hour weeks, the stress, the constant awareness of your own inadequacies worth it. I say this because I&#8217;m writing this from (not-so) sunny Europe. I&#8217;ve been sent over here to do some serious science, network and renew [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=skepticalem.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9686539&amp;post=329&amp;subd=skepticalem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A health message</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 04:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Morons, Do not pour vodka into your eyes. Sincerely, Health Professionals. In other news, I&#8217;ve been absent for some weeks due to a deadly, deadly sinus infection that was not cured by me snorting vodka, (incidently, also not recommended by health professionals, or me) but by a series of antibiotics, tea and frequent naps. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=skepticalem.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9686539&amp;post=330&amp;subd=skepticalem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Naps &#8211; even more awesome than you knew.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 05:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a beautiful Saturday today. The sun is shining, the birds are singing and the zombies are wandering the streets (and you thought I was joking&#8230;). I am not outside, enjoying the weekend. I am in my lab, working. Because I&#8217;m a sad, obsessed PhD student. So, while I sit in here, waiting for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=skepticalem.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9686539&amp;post=324&amp;subd=skepticalem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Abortion rights in Mexico.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is outrageous. A ten year old girl in Mexico was raped by her stepfather and is now 17 weeks pregnant&#8230; and they won&#8217;t let her have an abortion. Apparently, &#8220;the girl and the fetus are in good health&#8221;. Yeah, sure, but for how long? That girl is not old enough, physically or emotionally, to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=skepticalem.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9686539&amp;post=320&amp;subd=skepticalem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s official: Answers in Genesis does not believe in aliens.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 05:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Answers&#8221;, the AiG magazine makes for consistently hilarious reading. I always love it when one of the articles pops up in Google Reader, because it means that one of their staff has taken a topic at random and tried to justify it with the Bible. Today (well, December 2007. Google is a little behind the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=skepticalem.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9686539&amp;post=308&amp;subd=skepticalem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A open letter&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://skepticalem.wordpress.com/2010/04/15/a-open-letter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear First Year (and some Second Year) University Students, Welcome to university. There are a few things that I feel you need to know before we get any further into semester. You are no longer in high school. No one is going to hold your hand. Suck it up. Your tutors are overworked, underpaid graduate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=skepticalem.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9686539&amp;post=305&amp;subd=skepticalem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chopra amazed by monkeys</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deepak Chopra is gobsmacked. Monkeys have learned to eat charcoal to aid their digestion and are therefore &#8220;tapping into the basic fabric of the cosmos&#8221;. Talk about a non-sequitur! Deepak can&#8217;t believe that this could have come about by chance, (that argument sound familiar to anyone?), but instead of pointing to God, he&#8217;s pointing to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=skepticalem.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9686539&amp;post=300&amp;subd=skepticalem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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