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		<title>Hearing The Sound Of Quantum Drums</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/02/10/hearing-the-sound-of-quantum-drums/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forty years ago, mathematician Mark Kac asked the theoretical question, &#8220;Can one hear the shape of a drum?&#8221; If drums of different shapes always produce their own unique sound spectrum, then it should be possible to identify the shape of &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/02/10/hearing-the-sound-of-quantum-drums/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Exploding Nanowires</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/01/06/exploding-nanowires/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gizmodo via Patrick]]></description>
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		<title>Gamma Ray Lasers? Positronium Created In The Lab</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/09/13/gamma-ray-lasers-positronium-created-in-the-lab/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nature of Reality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Physicists at UC Riverside have created molecular positronium, an entirely new object in the laboratory. Briefly stable, each molecule is made up of a pair of electrons and a pair of their antiparticles, called positrons. The research paves the way &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/09/13/gamma-ray-lasers-positronium-created-in-the-lab/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Wireless Power Transfer Here At Last</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/06/19/wireless-power-transfer-here-at-last/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>d3ftonic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new way of transmitting electricity wirelessly has been discovered by U.S. researchers. It could pave the way for the wireless charging of portable electronic devices, rendering power cords obsolete in the process. Devised by physicists at the Massachusetts Institute &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/06/19/wireless-power-transfer-here-at-last/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Antikythera Mechanism: A 2000 Year Old Computer</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/05/09/the-antikythera-mechanism-a-2000-year-old-computer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/05/09/the-antikythera-mechanism-a-2000-year-old-computer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 17:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>
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		<title>High School Student Builds Fusion Reactor</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/03/18/high-school-student-builds-fusion-reactor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/03/18/high-school-student-builds-fusion-reactor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[High school student Thiago Olson has gone beyond basic physics class. Way beyond. Using parts and materials scrounged from the local hardware story and eBay, Olson built a working fusion reactor. In November 2006, a few tiny bubbles in his &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/03/18/high-school-student-builds-fusion-reactor/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Minerals In Birds&#8217; Beaks May Be Their Compass</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/03/18/minerals-in-birds-beaks-may-be-their-compass/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/03/18/minerals-in-birds-beaks-may-be-their-compass/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has long been recognized that birds possess the ability to use the Earthâ€™s magnetic field for their navigation, although just how this is done has not yet been clarified. However, the discovery of iron-containing structures in the beaks of &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/03/18/minerals-in-birds-beaks-may-be-their-compass/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Light Measured For First Time As Both Wave AND Particle</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/03/15/light-measured-for-first-time-as-both-wave-and-particle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/03/15/light-measured-for-first-time-as-both-wave-and-particle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Work completed by a visiting research professor at Rowan University, physics professors and a student from the institution shows that light is made of particles and waves, a finding that refutes a common belief held for about 80 years. Shahriar &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/03/15/light-measured-for-first-time-as-both-wave-and-particle/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Elephant and The Event Horizon</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/10/28/the-elephant-and-the-event-horizon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/10/28/the-elephant-and-the-event-horizon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2006 20:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s say Alice is watching a black hole from a safe distance, and she sees an elephant foolishly headed straight into gravity&#8217;s grip. As she continues to watch, she will see it get closer and closer to the event horizon, &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/10/28/the-elephant-and-the-event-horizon/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Visual History Of The Universe</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/10/08/history-of-the-universe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Oct 2006 03:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<title>New Evidence Indicates The Universe Egg-shaped</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/10/06/new-evidence-indicates-the-universe-egg-shaped/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/10/06/new-evidence-indicates-the-universe-egg-shaped/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2006 03:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nature of Reality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Using a microwave probe of U.S. space agency NASA, scientists said they have evidence that the universe has a shape somewhat akin to an egg, rather than the expected round. This would explain some curious anomalies over the universe&#8217;s expanse, &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/10/06/new-evidence-indicates-the-universe-egg-shaped/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists Teleport Macroscopic Object 1/2 Meter</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/10/05/scientists-teleport-macroscopic-object-12-meter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/10/05/scientists-teleport-macroscopic-object-12-meter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beaming people in &#8220;Star Trek&#8221; fashion is still in the realms of science fiction, but physicists in Denmark have teleported information from light to matter bringing quantum communication and computing closer to reality.Until now scientists have teleported similar objects such &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/10/05/scientists-teleport-macroscopic-object-12-meter/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>China Claims Successful Fusion Power Test</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/09/28/china-claims-successful-fusion-power-test/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/09/28/china-claims-successful-fusion-power-test/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 02:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[China claims to have carried out a successful test of its experimental thermonuclear fusion reactor. But what exactly made this test &#8216;successful&#8217; is not clear. From the article: &#8216;Xinhua cited the scientists as saying that deuterium and tritium atoms had &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/09/28/china-claims-successful-fusion-power-test/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Impermanence and the Bliss of Self-Realiztion</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/06/28/impermanence-and-the-bliss-of-self-realiztion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/06/28/impermanence-and-the-bliss-of-self-realiztion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I explore the subtle changes in each moment, endless varieties of bliss are revealed to me. The richness of these experiences is too vast to ever articulate it justly. But what I have learned over the past few years &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/06/28/impermanence-and-the-bliss-of-self-realiztion/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Labs Compete to Build New Nuclear Bomb</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/06/14/labs-compete-to-build-new-nuclear-bomb/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/06/14/labs-compete-to-build-new-nuclear-bomb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yahoo! News is reporting that two labs are currently competing to design the first new nuclear bomb in twenty years. The new bomb was approved as a part of the 2006 defense spending bill. From the article: &#8216;Proponents of the &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/06/14/labs-compete-to-build-new-nuclear-bomb/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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