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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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		<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>Internet: The fastest teacher?</title>
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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>Phony science</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New study finds 2 percent of scientists admit faking data; 14 percent say colleagues have done it. Problems are most common in drug and other medical studies.]]></description>
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		<title>Economic stimulus = just pouring concrete?</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2008/economic-stimulus-pouring-concrete/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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>Life during the &#8220;other&#8221; Big Bang!</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2008/life-during-the-other-big-bang/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did the arrival of 4,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons of space junk start the formation of organic molecules roughly 4 billion years ago? "Could be," says a new study from Japan...]]></description>
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		<title>Pacific migrations: New evidence on ancient human voyages</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2007/pacific-migrations-new-evidence-on-ancient-human-voyages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A stone tool discovered in Polynesia came from Hawaii -- 2500 miles away. Modern analytical techniques show that Polynesians did sail thousands of miles across the ocean -- without a compass.]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient cities: A new plan for sprawl?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Archeologists thought Middle-Eastern cities grew through remote "daughter" villages. But a new study of  a big city in ancient Syria, shows that new settlements formed closer to town.
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		<title>Scrapping Science: Do Facts Really Matter?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama: "...promoting science isn’t just about providing resources—it’s about protecting free and open inquiry. It’s about listening to what our scientists have to say, even when it’s inconvenient—especially when it’s inconvenient." What science issues face his administration?]]></description>
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		<title>Universe: Measured by New Yardstick</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Feeling cramped? New measurement says the universe is bigger than you thought. Meet the astronomers' new yardstick.]]></description>
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		<title>India&#8217;s Red Rain: Aliens or Hype?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did red rain in India carry alien bacteria? One Indian scientist thinks so.  Others say it was just spores of a common alga. Pay your money, take your choice!]]></description>
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