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		<title>Apnea treatment = Golfer&#8217;s glory?</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2009/apnea-treatment-golfers-glory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Golfer-doctor finds that treating apnea cuts golf scores; sees new motivator for wearing nighttime masks.]]></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>Internet: The fastest teacher?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>svmedaris</dc:creator>
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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>Raising (Whooping) Crane</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whyfiles.org/?p=3362</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ultralight aircraft are guiding crane chicks toward Florida wintering grounds. Dangers remain, but it's a step ahead for Americas' largest flying bird, once reduced to 21 animals.]]></description>
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		<title>SciMax Theater</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
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Owning a StarCAVE, an interactive virtual reality theater where scientific models are projected stereoscopically on every surface, including the floor, is probably a biologist&#8217;s single best bet at getting on MTV’s &#8220;Cribs.&#8221; Now showing: RNA.
&#8220;You can fly over a strand of DNA and look in front, behind and below you, or navigate through the superstructure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Untangling cancer&#8217;s genetic trajectory</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>svmedaris</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whyfiles.org/?p=2861</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Until now, getting a picture of genetic change in a tumor over time has been next to impossible. A new study reveals that cancer's genetic tangle gets more complicated with time.]]></description>
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		<title>Planetary limits: More than just global warming</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2009/planetary-limits-more-than-just-global-warming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://whyfiles.org/?p=2842</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Scientists propose 9 limits on human actions: Wrecking ozone, over-using fertilizer, killing species could block key "ecosystem services." Are there natural limits to fresh water use and pollution?]]></description>
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		<title>Little squirt</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
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The green Jell-O torpedo you see above is called a salp.   Typically the gelatinous little ocean creatures are less ostentatious, but researchers have lent this one some flouresceine dye for a photo-op. They&#8217;re interested in the swimming habits and propulsive wakes &#8212; here seen as a green plume on the left &#8212; of [...]]]></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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		<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>Robobat</title>
		<link>http://whyfiles.org/2009/robobat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For aerial navigation in cramped spaces it&#8217;s bat MAV to the rescue. Big bucks have been pumped into micro-aerial vehicle (MAV) research due to interest from the surveillance industry. Traditional fixed-wing and propeller driven flight doesn&#8217;t scale down well for tight, close quarters maneuvering. Flappy flight on the other hand has gotten bats out of [...]]]></description>
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