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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>Tar sands</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canada's oil-drenched sands give it the second-largest oil reserves in the world. Using the "tar sands" pollutes air and water, destroys forests and could cause cancer. Should we leave oil sands alone?]]></description>
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		<title>Scraps of ancient textiles found</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flax, the basis for linen, was spun and dyed, and lost in the mud. More than 30,000 years later, microscopic flax fibers provide the first cord in archeological history.]]></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>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>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>Running short of copper, phosphorus, rare elements</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without phosphorus fertilizer, millions would starve. A shortage of copper -- and electricity -- could short-circuit our economy. Without many obscure elements, we would not have LCDs and cell phones. Should we act to prevent future shortages?]]></description>
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		<title>Questioning candidates</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The candidates are skirting issues related to environment, energy and science policy. Heard promising plans for greener energy, solid science advice, or coping with the decline of oil? We neither...]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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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