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		<title>Video surveillance: Who is watching you?</title>
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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>Happy Thanksgiving! We celebrate eating &#8212; and food.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Thanksgiving! We celebrate eating -- and food. Hungry: Is that your "food clock" ringing? Why does a fruitfly need to smell? How does bitter taste to you? And could eating MSG make you fat?]]></description>
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		<title>Mechanical mouth makes debut</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 02:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To measure the molecules that give food taste, you need a standardized eating machine. One has finally arrived, courtesy of food technologists in France (of all places!). Meet the mechanical masticator!]]></description>
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		<title>Reprocessing nuclear fuel: A cure that&#8217;s worse than the disease?</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2008/reprocessing-nuclear-fuel-a-cure-thats-worse-than-the-disease/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whyfiles.org/?p=1039</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With the Nevada waste dump 20 years late, deadly radwaste still piles up. Would removing the plutonium for new fuel aid proliferators or help with waste storage? The debate continues.]]></description>
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		<title>Wacky holiday gifts for scientechies</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2007/wacky-holiday-gifts-for-scientechies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the scientist or wanna-be who's (almost) got it all: We scour the planet to find ancient wood, ancient-er ice, and a bamboo microscope. Dive into our holiday gift catalog slide-show!]]></description>
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		<title>Music and speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most music is built on the 12-tone "chromatic" scale. Does this reflect chance, or the basic structure of the human voice? New study finds tight link between pronunciation and musical scale.
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		<title>Katrina + 1: Where Should We Rebuild?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2006 22:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's a fact of life: Hurricanes and floods happen. So why are people rebuilding in the path of storms and floods? Is there a smarter way to plan development?]]></description>
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		<title>Ash-crete: Concrete Process to Turn Ash into Cash!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2006 20:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coal ash is a giant garbage problem. Should we recycle more ash into concrete? A new process might save cement, rock, and landfill space.]]></description>
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		<title>Alternative Energy: A Natural Solution?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2006 20:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want to make alternative fuel? Need to get electricity directly from organic slop? Bacteria may have the perfect answer.]]></description>
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		<title>Old Is Beautiful. Ancient Script Found</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2006 20:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who invented writing in the New World? New find in Guatemala may give credit to the Mayans, even though this is probably not the first Mayan writing.]]></description>
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