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		<title>Life, Death, and Water Mythology</title>
		<link>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2011/05/20/life-death-and-water-mythology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 14:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MG_Ellington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been anxiously awaiting the release of Disney&#8217;s Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides for some time. The movie is loosely based on Tim Power&#8217;s  novel by the same name. In anticipation of this event, I talked my fearless editor into letting me celebrate with a post or two. While chatting about potential topics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(W)hole Hearted</title>
		<link>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2011/04/15/whole-hearted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MG_Ellington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In preparation for this month&#8217;s post, I&#8217;ve been reading up on the heart. The post was inspired by my friend, Francesca Forrest&#8217;s, recommendation that I read The Sublime Engine: A Biography of the HUMAN HEART by Stephen Amidon and Thomas Amidon, MD. NPR had done a piece on the book discussing the man that toured [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Non-Conformist Aliens Wanted</title>
		<link>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2010/11/15/non-conformist-aliens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anassa Rhenisch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It occurred to me the other day that many fictional alien species conform to a small number of body plans: humanoid, insectoid, feline, robot, and reptilian. There&#8217;s a huge amount of creativity in appearances and cultures, admittedly, but most races out there fit one of those body plans. The Wikipedia list of fictional aliens is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Once Again with Feeling: The Planets of Gliese 581</title>
		<link>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2010/10/06/once-again-with-feeling-the-planets-of-gliese-581/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 04:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Athena Andreadis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gliese 581 may be small as stars go, but it looms huge in the vision field of planetfinders.  As of late last week, measurements indicate the system has six planets of which three are Earth-size and -type, within the star&#8217;s habitable zone, with stable, near-circular orbits. The Gliese 581 system has a persistent will-o-the-wisp quality.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The color of alien pants</title>
		<link>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2010/06/18/the-color-of-alien-pants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bartleib</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On June 4, Peggy Kolm posted her article Red hills of distant planets. Prior to that date, one title proposed for the article was &#8220;The color of alien plants&#8221;. During a discussion about the article, the proposed title was misheard as &#8220;The color of alien pants&#8220;. And the idea for this article was born. Really, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red hills of distant planets</title>
		<link>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2010/06/04/red-hills-of-distant-planets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 23:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peggy Kolm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine you are standing in a jungle. You are surrounded by lush healthy foliage;  a sea of green, perhaps punctuated by the occasional flower in a contrasting hue. Now imagine yourself on a distant planet with similarly abundant plant life. What would it look like?  It might well be scarlet or vermilion, rather than verdant. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alien Languages: Not Human</title>
		<link>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2010/05/24/alien-languages-not-human/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 10:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anassa Rhenisch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contrary to Hollywood and the majority of fictional languages, alien languages are almost certainly not going to look like human ones. They’re not going to have the same sounds, the same word orders, or the same way of solving problems like time, direction, and ownership. Why? Because human DNA and culture help determine what human [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Only Find What You&#8217;re Looking For</title>
		<link>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2010/04/16/you-only-find-what-youre-looking-for/</link>
		<comments>http://scienceinmyfiction.com/2010/04/16/you-only-find-what-youre-looking-for/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 04:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Athena Andreadis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author&#8217;s Note: This is the first SiMF post picked up for reprinting by io9 &#8212; I know it will be the first of many! Extraterrestrial life is a staple of SF and the focus of astrobiology and SETI.  Yet whereas SF has populated countless worlds with varying success, from Tiptree&#8217;s haunting Flenni (Your Haploid Heart) [...]]]></description>
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