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	<description>&#34;I like a little science in my fiction&#34;</description>
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		<title>Two and a Half Cultures</title>
		<link>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2011/11/14/two-and-a-half-cultures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was in Washington, D.C., and attended a local &#8220;Science Cafe&#8221; event featuring visual artists whose art is inspired by science.  (A theme for the evening was Leonardo da Vinci, whose restless mind not only created some of the greatest art ever but also pondered flying machines, tanks, and other investigations into technology and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slicing Through the Gordian Knot of Quantum Gravity: Alternatives to String Theory (Part 3 of 3)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 04:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quantum mechanics is the physics of the smallest of things, while general relativity is the physics of the largest. Not surprisingly, many physicists have been obsessessed with finding a Theory of Everything (TOE) that encompasses both limits. This has not been easy. In previous posts I&#8217;ve written of the difficulties that arise in creating a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quantum Gravity, Part 2: A Thread ( or String) Leading Out of the Maze?</title>
		<link>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2010/12/13/quantum-gravity-part-2-a-thread-or-string-leading-out-of-the-maze/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good public relations campaign can do wonders. Science is empirical. If there is no experiment, no observation, then an idea is truly relegated to &#8220;it&#8217;s just a theory.&#8221; [1] Yet, consider string theory, a mathematical exercise so intricate Einstein&#8217;s general relativity is easy in comparison, and with no experimental evidence backing it whatsoever. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Knotty Problem of Quantum Gravity: Part 1</title>
		<link>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2010/11/22/the-knotty-problem-of-quantum-gravity-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 05:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may have been in this situation: You have two friends, your two best friends, both witty, fun, and thoughtful. An hour or so spent with either one leaves your brain buzzing with new ideas and insights. &#8220;I gotta get these two together,&#8221; you think. You arrange a dinner, but the evening is a disaster. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jabberquarky</title>
		<link>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2010/09/13/jabberquarky/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 04:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among the stereotyped traits of of scientists are literal-mindedness, pedantry, and most of all, a complete lack of humor. This goes doubly so for physicists and astrophysicists. And yet&#8230; a second thought brings one to all those oddly evocative names: The Big Bang. Black holes. Strange quarks. Superstrings. Anyons. Other fields have their fantabulous names [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Limits of Knowledge, Part IV: Too Clever for Its Own Good</title>
		<link>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2010/07/12/the-limits-of-knowledge-part-iv-too-clever-for-its-own-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Last in a series; see Part I, Part II, and Part III) &#8220;Clever Hans&#8221; was a mathematician who lived a century ago. He was also a horse, a genius horse who could add, subtract, multiply, and even calculate dates, giving the answer by tapping his hoof. But it was discovered in 1907 that Clever Hans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Limits of Knowledge, Part III: Big Surprises in Little Packages</title>
		<link>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2010/06/27/the-limits-of-knowledge-part-iii-big-surprises-in-little-packages/</link>
		<comments>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2010/06/27/the-limits-of-knowledge-part-iii-big-surprises-in-little-packages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 03:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Part of a continuing series: part I and part II) I love tales of serendipitous scientific discovery. A spot of mold in a Petri dish leads to penicillin, a spill on the stovetop becomes vulcanized rubber. The true hero is penetrating curiosity: instead of dumping a ruined experiment in the trash, the keen-eyed scientist frowns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Limits of Knowledge, Part II: Precise Uncertainty</title>
		<link>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2010/06/07/the-limits-of-knowledge-part-ii-precise-uncertainty/</link>
		<comments>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2010/06/07/the-limits-of-knowledge-part-ii-precise-uncertainty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Second in a series on the limits of knowledge; see the first post here.) Of all branches of modern science, quantum mechanics is most seen as magic&#8211;either a nihilistic, quasi-Voldemortesque dark magic that needs to be overthrown, or else a wonderful wand that can be waved to justify anything, and I mean anything. To be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Limits of Knowledge, Part I: Point of View</title>
		<link>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2010/05/28/the-limits-of-knowledge-part-i-point-of-view/</link>
		<comments>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2010/05/28/the-limits-of-knowledge-part-i-point-of-view/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 12:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Science will not do your homework for you. Some questions can be answered by science:  &#8220;What happens when I add an acid to a base?&#8221; and &#8220;What happens if I stick this fork into a wall socket.&#8221; Others, such as &#8220;Does God exist, and if so, why is He not running the Universe to my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking Outside Very Small Boxes</title>
		<link>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2010/03/22/thinking-outside-very-small-boxes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Calvin Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every few years there comes from the distant Mountains of Science a new technological magic, a Panacea that will cure all ills, a Genie that will grant all wishes, a Silver Bullet that will slay all evils. In the 1950s it was nuclear power; later it was computers; later still the bounty of the Space [...]]]></description>
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