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		<title>Power in Numbers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Gina Kolata from The New York Times His Ph.D. is in pure mathematics, in a subfield so esoteric and specialized that even if someone gets a great result, it can be appreciated by only a few dozen people in the entire world. But he left that world behind and, with no formal training, entered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amphibians Are All but Gone, Bequeathing Us Lessons That Must Not Be Squandered</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Joseph R Mendelson III from American Scientist I learned great and terrible lessons in my first year of graduate work in 1989—more than I expected and more than I realized at the time. My advisor at the University of Texas at Arlington, Jonathan Campbell, arranged for me to spend a field season in Guatemala [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://science-society.com/2012/01/29/amphibians-are-all-but-gone-bequeathing-us-lessons-that-must-not-be-squandered/</link>
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		<title>Probing the Passions of Science: An Interview with Carl Zimmer on the Art of Science Writing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Eric Michael Johnson from Scientific American Carl Zimmer is one of the most insightful and trenchant science writers working today. Whether he is delving into the soul of the scientific revolution or exposing the precise horror of parasites to reveal our relationship with the natural world, he evokes a passion for his subject with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://science-society.com/2012/01/25/probing-the-passions-of-science-an-interview-with-carl-zimmer-on-the-art-of-science-writing/</link>
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		<title>Can a Scientist Define “Life”? By Carl Zimmer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From TXCHNOLOGIST In November 2011, NASA launched its biggest, most ambitious mission to Mars. The $2.5 billion Mars Science Lab spacecraft will arrive in orbit around the Red Planet this August, releasing a lander that will use rockets to control a slow descent into the atmosphere. Equipped with a “sky crane,” the lander will gently [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://science-society.com/2012/01/23/can-a-scientist-define-%e2%80%9clife%e2%80%9d-by-carl-zimmer/</link>
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		<title>Unnatural Selection: Is Evolving Reproductive Technology Ushering in a New Age of Eugenics?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Carolyn Abraham from The Globe and Mail Humanity has long dreamed of perfection, striving to be faster, stronger and brighter, pushing nature to the limit. Four centuries before people were conceived in a petri dish, Swiss alchemist Paracelsus claimed flawless little beings could be grown in pumpkins filled with urine and horse dung, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://science-society.com/2012/01/20/unnatural-selection-is-evolving-reproductive-technology-ushering-in-a-new-age-of-eugenics/</link>
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		<title>On Neutrinos and Angels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Pervez Hoodbhoy from The Tribune The news from CERN was stunning: the European nuclear science laboratory had just discovered (September 2011) that particles known as neutrinos — called so because they are neutral and carry no charge — habitually travel a little bit faster than light. This threatened to shake the very foundations of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://science-society.com/2012/01/16/on-neutrinos-and-angels/</link>
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		<title>Darwin in Chile</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Edge.org Edge was invited by Alvaro Fischer, the Director of Fundacion Ciencia Y Evolucion in Chile to attend the Foundation&#8217;s Darwin Seminar in Santiago, entitled &#8220;Darwin&#8217;s Intellectual Legacy To The 21st Century&#8221; and join the eight speakers (all Edge contributors) on a trip to the &#8220;extreme south&#8221; including a trip along &#8220;The Beagle Channel&#8221;, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://science-society.com/2012/01/13/darwin-in-chile/</link>
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		<title>Journal Axes Gene Research on Jews and Palestinians</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Robin McKie from theguardian A keynote research paper showing that Middle Eastern Jews and Palestinians are genetically almost identical has been pulled from a leading journal. Academics who have already received copies of Human Immunology have been urged to rip out the offending pages and throw them away. Such a drastic act of self-censorship [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://science-society.com/2012/01/10/journal-axes-gene-research-on-jews-and-palestinians/</link>
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		<title>Latest issue of Science and Society Journal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest issue of  The International Journal of Science in Society includes: Incorporating Indigenous Knowledge into the Curriculum: Responses of Science Teacher Educators by Jon Austin and Andrew Hickey. “Don’t Be Evil”: Ethics and the Model by Torben Berns. Approaches to Community Flood Science Engagement: The River Severn Catchment, UK as Case-study by Lindsey McEwen. Development [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://science-society.com/2012/01/09/latest-issue-of-science-and-society-journal-4/</link>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, Stephen Hawking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Sean Carroll from Discover Magazine Sorry for the light blogging of late. Actual work intervenes, and it might remain that way for a while. But I’ll try to pop in whenever I can. Stephen Hawking is celebrating his 70th birthday today. That in itself is an amazing fact, just as it was amazing when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://science-society.com/2012/01/08/happy-birthday-stephen-hawking/</link>
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