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		<title>Building the Dragon</title>
		<link>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2012/02/06/building-the-dragon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LouiseBlankenship</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part I: a more traditional model. Everybody loves dragons. And while wingless ones built along the lines of Komodo dragons or alligators can be a viable part of your fantasy ecosystem, let&#8217;s admit it. We want them up in the air and breathing fire or electricity or something fun. A quick survey of existing flying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arsenic: Still Poisonous</title>
		<link>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2012/01/30/arsenic-still-poisonous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phiala - Sarah Goslee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In December 2010, NASA announced a momentous discovery: bacteria that could use arsenic instead of phosphorus in its genetic material, a direct substitution in the DNA. This would be a huge deal if true, rewriting much of what we know about basic biology. People were hoping for alien life forms, but this would be nearly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soylent Green for dinner?</title>
		<link>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2012/01/23/soylent-green-for-dinner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peggy Kolm</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scienceinmyfiction.com/?p=2619</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I find that there are few things that are more comforting than a tasty home-cooked meal. But cooking can take a fair amount of my time and energy, and requires that all the necessary ingredients on hand. Sometimes when I&#8217;m busy or tired or just feeling lazy, I wish there was a box of &#8220;people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Special Relativity for Dummies, I mean writers</title>
		<link>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2012/01/16/special-relativity-for-dummies-i-mean-writers/</link>
		<comments>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2012/01/16/special-relativity-for-dummies-i-mean-writers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Schroeer-Hannemann</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Einstein]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scienceinmyfiction.com/?p=2600</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, practically everyone knows thanks to Albert Einstein that on a starship traveling close to the speed of light time will pass more slowly than in the rest of the universe, though it does seem that not everyone understands how that works.  For example, I recall reading a passage in The Andalite Chronicles where the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All Aboard The Science Bandwagon</title>
		<link>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2012/01/09/all-aboard-the-science-bandwagon/</link>
		<comments>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2012/01/09/all-aboard-the-science-bandwagon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Holt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bones]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scienceinmyfiction.com/?p=2591</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The crime rate may be down, but there are still plenty of villains to catch. Fortunately, science is on the case. That&#8217;s true in real life, where physicists devise more accurate ways to interpret blood spatter, and mathematicians analyze the patterns in gang violence to help solve old crimes and suppress future criminal activity. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the future &#8211; what&#8217;s the date?</title>
		<link>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2012/01/02/welcome-to-the-future-whats-the-date/</link>
		<comments>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2012/01/02/welcome-to-the-future-whats-the-date/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phiala - Sarah Goslee</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scienceinmyfiction.com/?p=2588</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Or to 2012, at least. Changing the numbers on the calendar often prompts me to think about calendars, and I&#8217;m not the only one. This year even more so than usual, what with all the Mayan calendar hype, and a proposed calendar reform in the news. What&#8217;s wrong with what we&#8217;ve got, and why are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2012: Little Chickens Are Crying Wolf Again</title>
		<link>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2011/12/26/2012-little-chickens-crying-wolf/</link>
		<comments>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2011/12/26/2012-little-chickens-crying-wolf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 05:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kay Holt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[lie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[magnetic reversal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mayan calendar]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[nuclear holocaust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pandemic]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pole shift]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ragnarok]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scam]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scienceinmyfiction.com/?p=2581</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[WE&#8217;RE ALL GOING TO DIE!! You know, eventually. That&#8217;s the natural order of things. Most of us will survive 2012, though, in spite of everything the latest doomsday prophets claim. There are seven billion humans on Earth, after all. Writers, have you ever tried to kill off that many people in one story? It&#8217;s quite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Entering the Unknown (Or, What Happens When Timmy Falls Down a Black Hole)</title>
		<link>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2011/12/19/entering-the-unknown-or-what-happens-when-timmy-falls-down-a-black-hole/</link>
		<comments>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2011/12/19/entering-the-unknown-or-what-happens-when-timmy-falls-down-a-black-hole/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monica C.B. Young</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[black hole]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Einstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[general relativity]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scienceinmyfiction.com/?p=2567</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I think about black holes in science fiction, I can&#8217;t help but think of that old Disney movie The Black Hole.  I was five years old (or maybe seven) when I saw it, so all I really remember is an uneasy glance passing between two astronauts as their space shuttle hurtles into a black [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slouching to the Right of the Drake Equation</title>
		<link>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2011/12/11/slouching-to-the-right-of-the-drake-equation/</link>
		<comments>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2011/12/11/slouching-to-the-right-of-the-drake-equation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Athena Andreadis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[astrobiology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Athena]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exoplanets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[habitable zones]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[second life sample]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? — William Butler Yeats, &#8220;Second Coming&#8221; The last few years have been heady for planet hunters. First the hot Jupiters; then the will-o’-the-wisp Glieslings and their cousins; and in the last year, the results from the Kepler mission which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sixth Sense</title>
		<link>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2011/12/05/sixth-sense/</link>
		<comments>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2011/12/05/sixth-sense/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Cawdron</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scienceinmyfiction.com/?p=2522</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone&#8217;s aware of the five senses of sight, smell, taste, touch and hearing, but did you know you have a sixth sense? And, although you can&#8217;t see dead people with it, this sixth sense does involve the subject of ghosts. No, this isn&#8217;t a over bloated movie review for M. Night Shyamalan and Bruce Willis, [...]]]></description>
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