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		<title>Internet: The fastest teacher?</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2009/internet-the-fastest-teacher/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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>Swine flu</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 21:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The epidemic fades, with 61 confirmed deaths and 5,251 cases so far. Were the public health warnings overdone? Or did they help stem the pandemic? Your guide to the time of finger-pointing, flu-style.]]></description>
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		<title>Electric Cars: Meet the plug-in Hybrid</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2007/electric-cars-meet-the-plug-in-hybrid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>schulte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hybrid cars and fuel cells increase auto efficiency and reduce pollution, but it's a long struggle from the idea to the reality.]]></description>
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		<title>Dolly the clone: 10 years later</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2007/dolly-the-clone-10-years-later/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>schulte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1997, Dolly was BIG NEWS. What did Dolly teach? Why did cloning attract so many oddballs, and what is the status of reproductive cloning and therapeutic cloning? The Why Files honors Dolly with a 10-year lookback.]]></description>
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		<title>April&#8217;s Cool. Meet some Offbeat Science Projects</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2006/offbeat-science-projects/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2006 22:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whyfiles.org/?p=880</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How do dragonflies fly? How do bats catch insects hidden behind leaves? How do you make a temperature of 2 billion degrees? Why would anyone care? ]]></description>
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		<title>BigFoot Revealed: BigHoax!</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2004/bigfoot-hoax/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2004 17:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bigfoot film was a fraud, a hoax, says man who played bigfoot in 1967 film. Why do so many people believe in cryptozoology?]]></description>
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		<title>Nobel Prizefight</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2003/nobel-prizefight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2003 20:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>schulte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology given to inventors of MRI machine -- but were these guys really the inventors? Meet an unprecedented PR campaign to change the Nobel.]]></description>
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		<title>Nuclear Wizard Dies</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2003/nuclear-wizard-dies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2003 18:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>schulte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edward Teller helped invent the hydrogen bomb, then pushed missile defense. By public advocacy and secret research, he changed the 20th century.]]></description>
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		<title>Accidents: Why Do They Happen?</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2003/accidents-unveiled/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2003 18:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Manned space flight is expensive -- and risky. What causes accidents? Was the destruction of space shuttle  Columbia a result of NASA's failed safety culture? Are accidents normal?]]></description>
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		<title>Homestake Goldmine: Science Lab?</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2003/the-homestake-goldmine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2003 19:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>schulte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An international team of scientists selected the Homestake goldmine to be the world's deepest underground lab, but the project may sink.]]></description>
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