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		<title>Video surveillance: Who is watching you?</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2010/video-surveillance-who-is-watching-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[London pioneered video surveillance in public, but it's catching on fast. Many major cities have systems, and more are coming. What do these cameras learn? How do they interact with other sources of data? In this culture of disclosure should we even worry about privacy?]]></description>
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		<title>Bottoms up!</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2009/bottoms-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whyfiles.org/?p=3969</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[People have been controlling fermentation for at least 9,000 years. What were the ancients brewing, and how did alcohol change society?]]></description>
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		<title>Buried charcoal: Global warming star?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whyfiles.org/?p=3891</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Buried charcoal stimulates microbes and plant growth, helping farmers on poor soil. Studies show that charcoal is stable for hundreds of years.]]></description>
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		<title>Internet: The fastest teacher?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whyfiles.org/?p=3375</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[MRI scans of older people show major differences between searchers and non-searchers. After seven hours of Internet experience, those differences disappear. Honest? Could changing the brain be this easy?]]></description>
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		<title>Driving while blabbing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whyfiles.org/?p=2812</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How many dead? Research and real-life experience prove that people die when drivers pick up the cellphone. Even worse: texting on the road!]]></description>
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		<title>Nanotech</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whyfiles.org/?p=2697</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Adding nanotubes makes a stronger plastic, but adding several nano-structures greatly increases the benefit, according to a new study from India. Read about the frontier of material science.]]></description>
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		<title>New battery technology allows fast charge and discharge</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By tweaking the conventional recipe, researchers have sped up electricity movement in a lithium battery by 100X.  Want to charge your electric car in minutes or your phone in seconds?]]></description>
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		<title>Economic stimulus = just pouring concrete?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>schulte</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whyfiles.org/?p=1078</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Obama decides that current and new grant applications at the National Institutes of Health are an effective economic stimulus. People get jobs. Inventions get invented. What's not to like?]]></description>
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		<title>Green as a garbage dump? Waste rots, makes energy…</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whyfiles.org/?p=1071</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Decay is part of life, and death. When garbage decays in a landfill, or manure decays in a tank, the result is methane. Is this natural gas a problem -- or an opportunity?]]></description>
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		<title>Reading the brain; controlling the muscles</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A single neuron in the brain may deliver enough information to control a muscle. These results could eventually help bypass the spinal cord, allowing paralyzed people to control their own muscles.]]></description>
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