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		<title>Scientists on tap</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been worrying about the Professor Nutt story, for personal reasons. For those who don&#8217;t know, this business is about the science adviser fired by the Home Office for criticising the government in public. Of course the gut instinct of most of our scientist colleagues will be to side with the Prof &#8211; Science [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&blog=640835&post=1091&subd=andyxl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just a coincidence</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stuart Lynn told some of us at lunchtime about a rather extra-odinary letter written recently by the California Governator, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Its a letter to a Democratic Assemblyman written in oddly convoluted language. If you trace the initial letters of each line, you get the secret message : F &#8211; U &#8211; C &#8211; K [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&blog=640835&post=1084&subd=andyxl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google, Sex, and Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend I stumbled across a bijou factette. This morning I was about to make this the subject of a Monday Morning Quiz : who was King for twenty minutes ? But then I thought, whats the point of that ? Its just a test of who can fire up Google the fastest. Some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&blog=640835&post=1078&subd=andyxl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Explorers of South Kensington</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you nip along to the Royal Albert Hall (a tad tricky for my US readers I realise) you will find my mug adorning the walls, along with 43 other UK astronomers. We are all part of an exhibition called &#8220;Explorers of the Universe&#8220;, constructed by photographer Max Alexander. For a pleasant change, its not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&blog=640835&post=1062&subd=andyxl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ground-based review : going, going ….</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess you have all been poring over the draft report of the Ground Based Facilities Review, trying to decode its somewhat incomprehensible ranking scores, and either getting excited because  your horse is in the lead, or fuming because they have obviously misunderstood why your favourite 4m telescope is crucial. You have until the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&blog=640835&post=1049&subd=andyxl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Distant Vision</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of Richard Massey (who just sent this link round by email), here is President Obama holding an Astronomy Night at the White House. The man is always a hypnotic orator &#8211; but hearing him tell a crowd of schoolkids how Galileo changed the world is just magical. Love it.
He looks through a telescope at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&blog=640835&post=1042&subd=andyxl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t panic yet …</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The advisory panels have done their thing and reported to PPAN. The report of the Far Universe Advisory Panel can be found at this link, and that of the Near Universe etc can be found here. Both panels are offering one last chance to comment &#8211; FUAP has a deadline of Oct 8th, and NUAP [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&blog=640835&post=1036&subd=andyxl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unappealing offer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just checked the spam folder. Some kind souls have offered me &#8220;free adult thumbnails&#8221;. Crikey. Is this teeny-weeny porn, or some kind of perionychial fetish ?
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		<title>Astronomical Nightmares</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This afternoon I bumped into Ross McLure in the corridor. I congratulated him on his heroic achievement (with Jim Dunlop and Michele Cirasuolo and other chums) getting out a paper based on the new WFCAM3 observations  of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field in just a few days, including claims of several galaxies past redshift [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&blog=640835&post=1022&subd=andyxl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UKIRT and Star Wars</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Astronomy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Todays lessons : (i) never understimate the public appeal of astronomy, and (ii) stop worrying and learn to love the bomb.
I am sitting in a fascinating but sentimental workshop : UKIRT at 30, a celebration of thirty years of ground-breaking infrared astronomy at the UK Infrared Telescope. It is pretty amazing how UKIRT got proposed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&blog=640835&post=1013&subd=andyxl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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