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	<title>Cyde Weys Musings &#187; Science</title>
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		<title>A philosophy of ethics in the age of digital intelligences</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/10/09/ethics-and-digital-intelligences/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/10/09/ethics-and-digital-intelligences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Moore's Law]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1024</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I think about the future a lot. Okay, that&#8217;s a lie &#8212; I think about the future all the time. I place the blame on the vast quantity of science fiction books I read during my formative years. But it really has been the highest privilege imaginable to watch the future unfold right before my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The importance of apex experiments to science</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/09/12/apex-experiments/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/09/12/apex-experiments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apex experiment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apollo missions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[experiment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Large Hadron Collider]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[particle physics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scientific fields]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[space exploration]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=992</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The recent news blitz over the first day of operation for the Large Hadron Collider got me thinking &#8212; what other fields have cool apex experiments? Seeing as how the term &#8220;apex experiment&#8221; is possibly one that I have invented myself, allow me to explain. An apex experiment is the most important, sought-after, envied, cool, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Large Hadron Collider powers up tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/09/09/the-large-hadron-collider-powers-up-tomorrow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/09/09/the-large-hadron-collider-powers-up-tomorrow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CERN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[experiment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Large Hadron Collider]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LHC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=985</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been eagerly awaiting the completion of the Large Hadron Collider for many years now (here&#8217;s proof), so I couldn&#8217;t miss this opportunity to remind everyone that the LHC will be powered up for the first time tomorrow. If you&#8217;re a nutjob scaremongerer, treat tonight like it&#8217;s your last night on Earth appropriately (you know, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why the gender ratio is 1:1</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/08/01/why-the-gender-ratio-is-11/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/08/01/why-the-gender-ratio-is-11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fisher's principle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gender]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=907</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I&#8217;m heading off to a wedding in the family, so I figure if I don&#8217;t get a chance to write anything else for the weekend, I may as well leave you with knowledge of Fisher&#8217;s principle. Ever wondered why the gender ratio is 1:1 rather than, say, many more females than males? Read that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why the dirigible will never come back</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/14/no-more-dirigibles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/14/no-more-dirigibles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[air travel]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=865</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the greatest casualties of the 20th century was the dirigible (or zeppelin, blimp, or airship, call it what you will). Although it was made obsolete by the fixed-wing aircraft, the dirigible has yet to be surpassed in sheer romance, and has long been admired by Steampunk writers and fans. Ponder how amazing it [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Treating depression as brain damage</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/10/treating-depression-as-brain-damage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/10/treating-depression-as-brain-damage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fluoxetine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medicine]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=858</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a recent article in the Boston Globe, the theory of depression as a chemical shortage in the brain is losing ground amongst scientists in favor of a new theory of depression as damage in the brain. It&#8217;s not nearly as out there as it initially sounds, and it actually does fit a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>31</slash:comments>
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		<title>Having journeyed outwards, now we journey inwards</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/11/mission-to-sol/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/11/mission-to-sol/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Luna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nomenclature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[space colonization]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=819</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been to Luna. Our robots have been to Venus and Mars. Our probes have visited all the planets in the solar system. But we haven&#8217;t been to Sol. Yet. NASA is planning a new mission, set to launch in 2015, to correct that little oversight. Solar Probe Plus will get within nine solar radii [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How optical illusions work?</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/03/how-optical-illusions-work/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/03/how-optical-illusions-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[brain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cognition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[extrapolation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Changizi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neurology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[optical illusion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sight]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=805</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Researcher Mark Changizi of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York believes he may have found the cognitive trick that allows all optical illusions to work &#8212; humans can see into the future. Allow me to explain, because it&#8217;s actually not nearly as silly as it sounds. The complete neural pathway from light hitting the eyes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shouldn&#8217;t we invite the uncontacted tribes into the modern world?</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/05/30/uncontacted-tribes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/05/30/uncontacted-tribes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 03:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civilization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first contact]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jared Diamond]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[modern world]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=801</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Incredible as it may seem in 2008, there are indeed some remaining uncontacted human tribes (click that link for the pictures alone). These are people living with no contact with the modern world apart from the occasional airplane sighting, doing things in all likelihood as they have been done for centuries or millennia. While modern [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>The upside of high petroleum prices</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/05/29/gas-prices-good/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/05/29/gas-prices-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 22:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gas prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gasoline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global warming]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[petroleum]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=799</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As much as I wince each time I have to fill up the gas tank (which I&#8217;m doing less and less these days, thanks to working from home more often), I do realize that higher petroleum prices are ultimately a good thing. And so does a writer for Market Watch. We&#8217;ve been able to maintain [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Phoenix leaves me yearning for more</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/05/25/phoenix-mars/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/05/25/phoenix-mars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 01:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[lander]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mars]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=787</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I watched the successful landing of Phoenix on Mars tonight on NASA TV, as the scientists spontaneously broke out in applause and cheers of joy after each successful stage of the insertion, I shared in their joy. But I also couldn&#8217;t help but feel sorrow that I missed a much more momentous space exploration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Human 2.0: The coming age of upgrading minds</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/05/15/upgrading-human-intelligence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/05/15/upgrading-human-intelligence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 02:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ADD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intelligence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mind]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=783</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year I wrote about mental performance enhancing drugs, an area of interest and research that is exploding like plastics a few decades prior. The allure of it is simply too great; who wouldn&#8217;t want to be smarter, more able to focus, more efficient at getting things done? A significant fraction of each day [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>The folly of envying excess in times of scarcity</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/05/08/phoenix-water-excess/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/05/08/phoenix-water-excess/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 22:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[affluence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aqueduct]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fountain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irrigation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phoenix]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=777</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a poor showing for humanity that our natural response to scarcity is to feel envious of those who can afford excesses. When a resource is scarce, the rational response should be to use it sparingly and only when necessary. But humans are hardly rational creatures, and scarce resources are thus afforded a certain cachet. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Finally, a good History Channel show</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/05/07/finally-a-good-history-channel-show/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/05/07/finally-a-good-history-channel-show/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 04:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pop Culture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History Channel]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=771</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The History Channel has been disappointing me lately. I used to watch it regularly, trusting it because, after all, they&#8217;re talking about history; how could they get it wrong?! And their programs on actual history are still good. But they&#8217;ve aired a whole flood of pseudoscientific bullcrap recently. For instance, one of their new shows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One helluva ad for Seagate</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/05/06/one-helluva-ad-for-seagate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/05/06/one-helluva-ad-for-seagate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 03:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Net]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Columbia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[data recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hard drive]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=769</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is one helluva ad for Seagate. What you are looking at is a 400 MB Seagate hard drive that survived the Space Shuttle Columbia&#8217;s break-up upon re-entry. Not only that, the data, which was for a microgravity xenon shear thinning experiment, was recovered and has yielded an important scientific research paper. If I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biofuels: not just a bad idea, but pure evil</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/04/22/biofuels-are-evil/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/04/22/biofuels-are-evil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[biofuel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food price]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food shortage]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=759</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I last tackled biofuels, my opinion of them was pretty much uniformly negative. So, what&#8217;s changed in the interim? Not much, just even more evidence that biofuels are evil (and I don&#8217;t use that word lightly). The New Statesman published an article on Thursday titled How the rich starved the world, and as soon [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>The sensible side of the barefoot walking movement</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/04/21/the-sensible-side-of-the-barefoot-walking-movement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/04/21/the-sensible-side-of-the-barefoot-walking-movement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cow walking]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=761</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year, I read a bizarre article (sorry, I don&#8217;t remember where) that ridiculed modern man for wearing shoes when millions of years of natural selection have designed us to walk best on our bare feet. I will admit I saw some appeal to that argument, but the article was written by a complete loony [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skeptically thinking about neat weather phenomena</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/04/19/skeptically-thinking-about-neat-weather-phenomena/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/04/19/skeptically-thinking-about-neat-weather-phenomena/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ball lightning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clouds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[phenomena]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pretty pictures]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=754</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Take a gander at this list of neat weather phenomena (and while you&#8217;re there, leave a comment expressing your disgust at all of the images they&#8217;ve ripped off from other people). I especially like the Moon bow (hadn&#8217;t ever heard of it before, but it makes perfect sense), mammatus clouds (amazing!), and the fire raindbow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help expose Expelled</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/04/15/help-expose-expelled/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/04/15/help-expose-expelled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=746</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You too can do your part in fighting for science by linking to the Expelled Exposed website on whatever blog or personal site you happen to run. Expelled is a dishonest intelligent design creationism propaganda film, and Expelled Exposed is a site that gives the viewpoints of actual scientists (you know, the people you should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A space debris heads up</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/04/12/a-space-debris-heads-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/04/12/a-space-debris-heads-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 04:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[orbit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[space debris]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=742</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For whatever reason, space debris is consistently the number one topic searched on my blog (as for why, I haven&#8217;t the foggiest). Thus, I feel compelled to share with all of the space debris fanatics out there a most excellent article on the topic over at Universe Today. It has some great pictures and diagrams. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientific versus religious world views</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/04/09/scientific-versus-religious-worldviews/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/04/09/scientific-versus-religious-worldviews/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=738</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After reading this excellent blog post about scientific versus religious world views by John Wilkins (who I know from talk.origins awhile back), I couldn&#8217;t help but sharing this most excellent passage. The next time you get harangued by a religious fellow claiming that reason and faith are equally valid ways of knowing things about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hey look, more creationist dishonesty!</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/04/08/more-creationist-dishonesty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/04/08/more-creationist-dishonesty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=737</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month, PZ Myers, famous atheist blogger and evolutionary developmental biologist, was at the center of a bit of a furor when producers at a screening of the creationism propaganda film &#8220;Expelled&#8221; had armed thugs kick him out of the theater, while completely ignoring his guest Richard Dawkins, an even more famous atheist. My blog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can we please nix the biofuels fetish?</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/04/06/can-we-please-nix-the-biofuels-fetish/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/04/06/can-we-please-nix-the-biofuels-fetish/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[biofuel]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=726</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many years ago, when biofuels first hit it big, most people thought they were an amazing idea. I was skeptical yet optimistic. But over time, as biofuels have reached increased prominence, it&#8217;s become very clear that they are an incredibly bad idea. So why do so many people still view them favorably? Burning your food [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now everyone&#8217;s been expelled from Expelled</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/03/26/all-expelled/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/03/26/all-expelled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/03/26/all-expelled/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The blogohedron was full of great vengeance and furious anger last week when PZ Myers, renowned atheist blogger, was expelled from a screening of the creationist propaganda movie Expelled. It was glaringly obvious that the movie&#8217;s promoters had pulled off a stunning act of shooting themselves in the foot for the ages, and then continued [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PZ Myers is expelled from Expelled</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/03/20/pz-myers-is-expelled-from-expelled/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/03/20/pz-myers-is-expelled-from-expelled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/03/20/pz-myers-is-expelled-from-expelled/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Notable atheist blogger and professor PZ Myers was prohibited from attending a screening of the movie Expelled tonight. Expelled is a piece of abominable dishonest creationist propaganda dreck produced by Ben &#8220;Bueller&#8221; Stein that plays the &#8220;Ohh, big bad science is persecuting us poor little honest religious folk!&#8221; card. Naturally, they&#8217;ve been hypocritical about it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can you grieve over an inevitable death?</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/03/10/can-you-grieve-over-an-inevitable-death/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/03/10/can-you-grieve-over-an-inevitable-death/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alzheimer's]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/03/10/can-you-grieve-over-an-inevitable-death/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My great-aunt died tonight. She was old, and had had Alzheimer&#8217;s for many years (it runs in our family, unfortunately). My memories of her true self are from early childhood. She was a neurologist and lived in Philadelphia with her many dogs and large collection of books. Her tiny row house had a solar water [...]]]></description>
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