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	<description>&#34;I like a little science in my fiction&#34;</description>
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		<title>Yogurt makes you &#8230; shinier</title>
		<link>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2012/05/21/yogurt-makes-you-shinier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 12:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phiala - Sarah Goslee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At least if you&#8217;re a mouse. Research published this month found that mice fed yogurt were slimmer, sleeker and shinier than those that didn&#8217;t. The male yogurt-eating mice also had larger testicles. (The junk-food eating mice had smaller testicles.) Female mice weren&#8217;t left out: they were smooth and shiny too, and had larger healthier litters. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Low-tech Antiseptics, part 1</title>
		<link>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2012/05/14/low-tech-antiseptics-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 14:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LouiseBlankenship</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These posts brought to you by the recurrence of the search term &#8220;boiling wine&#8221; bringing people to my little rant on the use of same on wounds in GRRM&#8217;s A Song of Ice and Fire series. Magical healing aside, basic sanitation is the one thing that will most increase your characters&#8217; chances of survival when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Epic Prehistory</title>
		<link>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2012/05/07/our-epic-prehistory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 10:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love me some Tolkien. But for everything that The Lord of the Rings has done for the fantasy genre, it has also been so overwhelmingly influential and compelling that it is has spawned entire franchises set in worlds imitating Middle Earth, and has stifled the genre’s creativity. Unless otherwise specified, fantasy is assumed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Look Up!</title>
		<link>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2012/04/30/look-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phiala - Sarah Goslee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Ed.: Today's post is by MJ Locke, but due to minor technical difficulties it appears under my name.] Foreword: For several months during 2007, I collected data for a series of graphics-focused posts on space exploration. I wondered how far we humans have penetrated into space, in the years since our first vehicles rose above [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can science be anti-fiction?</title>
		<link>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2012/04/24/can-science-be-anti-fiction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phiala - Sarah Goslee</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mars]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t find it online, but I read an introduction to Rose for Ecclesiastes in which Roger Zelazny was quoted as saying that he knew he had to hurry up and write the last of his Mars stories because he knew that new developments in science would make them impossible. (Or possibly, he hesitated to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That&#8217;s not what I meant</title>
		<link>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2012/04/16/thats-not-what-i-meant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phiala - Sarah Goslee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a true story, and it&#8217;s based on the research of Dr. Scott Nixon at the University of Rhode Island. I spent last week at a conference in Newport, and was entirely fascinated by his plenary talk. Besides being a neat juxtaposition of history and technology, it has some interesting implications for worldbuilding in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Empty your memory trash can? (This action cannot be undone)</title>
		<link>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2012/04/09/empty-your-memory-trash-can-this-action-cannot-be-undone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 11:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LouiseBlankenship</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PKMzeta is shaping up to be a single, target-able protein in the brain responsible for reconsolidating memories. Discover ran a three part article on it and there was a recent article in Wired, too &#8212; the original scientific papers are behind subscription walls, unfortunately. In brief, reconsolidation is a maintenance process for long-term memories. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interplanetary Communications</title>
		<link>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2012/04/02/interplanetary-communications/</link>
		<comments>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2012/04/02/interplanetary-communications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Schroeer-Hannemann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been numerous means of sending a message from point a to point b over the span of human existence, within the past couple centuries it has become possible to ask someone at point b what the weather is like without actually sending someone to physically deliver your missive. Naturally people have started to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science Hacks Our Fiction (And The Feeling Is Mutual)</title>
		<link>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2012/03/26/science-hacks-our-fiction-and-the-feeling-is-mutual/</link>
		<comments>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2012/03/26/science-hacks-our-fiction-and-the-feeling-is-mutual/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Holt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Science fiction loves robots to pieces, but fortunately for genre writers and fans, the feeling is mutual. Engineers and scientists are working near-miracles in the robotics field, and the fruits of their labor are ripe for fiction&#8217;s picking. 2012 is still young by most accounts, yet this year robots have already grown tails and scales, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Illness and Medicine: A Google+ worldbuilding hangout report</title>
		<link>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2012/03/19/illness-and-medicine-a-google-worldbuilding-hangout-report/</link>
		<comments>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2012/03/19/illness-and-medicine-a-google-worldbuilding-hangout-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliette Wade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: This article is a report on a live discussion I had with Janet Harriet, Harry Markov, and Glenda Pfeiffer on Google+. Our topic was Illness and medicine. One of the fundamental underpinnings of any culture of illness and medicine is the idea of cause and effect. The way that we treat people, and the [...]]]></description>
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