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		<title>LSD inventor Albert Hofmann dies</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/04/30/lsd-inventor-albert-hofmann-dies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DarkenedSoul</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Entheogens/Psychedelics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered the hallucinogenic drug LSD, has died of a heart attack at his home in Basel at the age of 102. Mr Hofmann first produced LSD in 1938 while researching the medicinal uses of a crop fungus. He accidentally ingested some of the drug and said later: &#8220;Everything I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chemical brain controls nanobots</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/03/12/chemical-brain-controls-nanobots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DarkenedSoul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A tiny chemical &#8220;brain&#8221; which could one day act as a remote control for swarms of nano-machines has been invented.The molecular device &#8211; just two billionths of a metre across &#8211; was able to control eight of the microscopic machines simultaneously in a test. Writing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beautiful Map of Relationships Among Scientific Paradigms</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/03/21/beautiful-map-of-relationships-among-scientific-paradigms/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/03/21/beautiful-map-of-relationships-among-scientific-paradigms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Organization/Systems/Chaos]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This map was constructed by sorting roughly 800,000 published papers into 776 different scientific paradigms (shown as pale circular nodes) based on how often the papers were cited together by authors of other papers. Links (curved black lines) were made between the paradigms that shared papers, then treated as rubber bands, holding similar paradigms nearer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU Green Lights Massive Science Funding</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/11/30/eu-green-lights-massive-science-funding/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/11/30/eu-green-lights-massive-science-funding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The European Parliament has approved a 54bn euro (£36bn) ($80bn) plan to boost science research in Europe. Framework Programme 7 (FP7) is designed to support several priority areas of research. Of the different research categories, information technology gets the biggest chunk of funding, with a 9.1bn euro (£6bn)($12bn) budget. But research into climate change and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study Finds U.S. Bias Against Women in Science</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/09/22/study-finds-us-bias-against-women-in-science/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/09/22/study-finds-us-bias-against-women-in-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 21:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sexuality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women are being filtered out of high-level science, math and engineering jobs in the United States, and there is no good reason for it, according to a National Academies report released on Monday. A committee of experts looked at all the possible excuses&#8212;biological differences in ability, hormonal influences, childrearing demands, and even differences in ambition&#8212;and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buddha on the Brain</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/01/25/buddha-on-the-brain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consciousness/Psych/Brain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mind/Body/Spirit]]></category>
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		<title>Intelligent Design Stopped @ The Copywrite Office</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/11/09/intelligent-design-stopped-the-copywrite-office/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/11/09/intelligent-design-stopped-the-copywrite-office/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2005 16:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Activism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the National Academy of Sciences, or NAS, joined with the National Science Teachers Association, or NSTA, to tell the Kansas State Board of Education that it would not grant the state copyright permission to incorporate its science education standards manuals into the state&#8217;s public school science curriculum because Kansas plans to teach students [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Americans more interested in science than ever before</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/10/11/americans-more-interested-in-science-than-ever-before/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/10/11/americans-more-interested-in-science-than-ever-before/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2005 10:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The results from a new online survey conducted by Seed Media Group and JWT reveal that Americans have a strong interest in science-related issues. Seed and JWT have also identified the emergence of a new sub-group they&#8217;ve termed &#8220;Leonardos.&#8221; A Leonardo is a science-savvy person, who is young, educated and an early adopting consumer. Overall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists pursue system to explain facts that slip through the cracks</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/09/06/scientists-pursue-system-to-explain-facts-that-slip-through-the-cracks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/09/06/scientists-pursue-system-to-explain-facts-that-slip-through-the-cracks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2005 10:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An unusual meeting of scientists took place in Paris this summer, when scientists gathered to brainstorm about the need for a new science, one that could be as revolutionary as Einstein&#8217;s insights were a century ago. Most scientists assume that the basics of science are known. In terms of big challenges, the conventional wisdom is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Most Published Research Findings Are False</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/08/31/why-most-published-research-findings-are-false/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/08/31/why-most-published-research-findings-are-false/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science Misc.]]></category>

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		<title>13 things that do not make sense</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/03/16/13-things-that-do-not-make-sense/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/03/16/13-things-that-do-not-make-sense/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science Misc.]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[1 The placebo effect 2 The horizon problem 3 Ultra-energetic cosmic rays 4 Belfast homeopathy results 5 Dark matter 6 Viking&#8217;s methane 7 Tetraneutrons 8 The Pioneer anomaly 9 Dark energy 10 The Kuiper cliff 11 The Wow signal 12 Not-so-constant constants 13 Cold fusion NewScientist 1 The placebo effect DON&#8217;T try this at home. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science Braces for Second Term</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2004/11/16/science-braces-for-second-term/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2004/11/16/science-braces-for-second-term/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bush administration and the scientific community have never had an easy relationship. For the past four years, scientists have accused the Bush White House of ignoring widely accepted scientific studies in favor of fringe theories that support the administration&#8217;s political agenda. Meanwhile, government officials say scientists are exploiting research for political purposes. From Wired [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bradford bug that may be a new life form</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2004/10/20/the-bradford-bug-that-may-be-a-new-life-form/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2004/10/20/the-bradford-bug-that-may-be-a-new-life-form/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2004 17:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A strange life form has been identified in Bradford. Genetic analysis reveals that the organism is so bizarre and unlike anything else seen by scientists that perhaps it should be placed in its own category of living things. The creature, first discovered in a small industrial cooling tower on the outskirts of the city, could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People Are Human-Bacteria Hybrid</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2004/10/12/people-are-human-bacteria-hybrid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2004/10/12/people-are-human-bacteria-hybrid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2004 16:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of the cells in your body are not your own, nor are they even human. They are bacterial. From the invisible strands of fungi waiting to sprout between our toes, to the kilogram of bacterial matter in our guts, we are best viewed as walking &#8220;superorganisms,&#8221; highly complex conglomerations of human, fungal, bacterial and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning the Science of Drugs Helps Teens</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2004/09/09/learning-the-science-of-drugs-helps-teens/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2004/09/09/learning-the-science-of-drugs-helps-teens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2004 07:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learning the science behind cocaine, drug testing, and nerve gas can help high school students understand basic biology and chemistry concepts, a NIDA-funded study has found. Test scores of students who were exposed to drug-related modules in science classrooms were higher than scores of students whose science classes did not include the modules. In an [...]]]></description>
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