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		<title>Am I a dog? Vote Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2014 09:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When I wasn&#8217;t trying to solve the fiendishly difficult Easter Clue Hunt my kids set for us, I spent a pleasant hour or two re-discovering the original wiki, started by Ward Cunningham in 1995. It still feels fun and anarchic and useful. Another day I will start a rant on what is and isn&#8217;t a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Truth is Out There &#8230; isn&#8217;t it?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2014 09:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Its disconcerting reading/watching the news from Ukraine. Not just because of the fear of decades of war to come, but the temptation to slide into relativism. Statements and stories from various quarters vary from the vaguely inconsistent to the baldly contradictory. Its tempting to think &#8220;well, they are all lying&#8221;, or &#8220;hmm.. it all depends [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Concrete Science Epiphanies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2014 13:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The title is a kinda cultural reference to Musique Concrete, don&#8217;t you know. Maybe should be read in French.  Sea-onss kon-krett. Pretentious, Moi? Anyhoo. I have always loved that moment when Jane Public looks through a real telescope and sees the rings of Saturn. Suddenly its real. Not on TV. Seen with her own eyes. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Impact!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2014 12:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I thought maybe a Bruce Willis style title was needed. Well, if I&#8217;d written &#8220;A report on an RCUK workshop I attended concerning possible adjustments to the Pathways to Impact process&#8221; its just possible there might not have been so many click-throughs. So. Anyhoo. Some things surprised me and some didn&#8217;t&#8230; (1) Pretty much everybody [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Restart Miscellany</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2014 23:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some chums complained I have written no blog posts for about eight million years. I blame teaching. Anyway. Lets see. How do you do this thing? Scrapes off rust. Here are a few bits. (1) At last the STFC Programmatic Review emerges!!! Get it here. I have tried to wade through it, but it looks [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Deadlines. We love &#8217;em</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2014 10:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year all. Virtual Handshake. Just discovered a groovy new web comic called Toothpaste for Dinner thanks to Tweeter @Mariancall via @CatherineQ . Well, its new to me anyway. This one is The Creative Process and will cause both giggles and nods from anybody who does anything creative which involves a deadline. This includes [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Book fever</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Dec 2013 13:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am terribly excited because my book just came out. Three years in gestation, but finally got there. Its called &#8220;Astronomical Measurement &#8211; a Concise Guide&#8221;, its published by Springer, and it even has a Kindle version. I am not expecting you all to rush out and buy it, because like most textbooks it is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Do The Right Thing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Dec 2013 10:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Like millions of others, I have been welling up listening to people on radio and TV recount their memories of Nelson Mandela. I&#8217;ve never even been to South Africa, but during my youth and early manhood, the struggle against apartheid was the great cause for anybody with a heart and a political head, the rotten [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Marginal solution</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2013 09:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Okey dokey. Better reveal the solution to the stat-geek marginalisation quiz. There were sixty two votes. The popular winner was the economics/marginal profits idea, with 31 votes. Plausible but wrong. The second most popular was the &#8220;marginal interest&#8221; idea. Well&#8230; this is what the term has more or less drifted into meaning, because (almost) everybody [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A quiz of marginal interest</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2013 09:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Two things we know. (1) Scientific terminology is burdened with the baggage of history, which now makes no logical sense. So&#8230; early type galaxies are the ones with late type stars? Errr&#8230; And which of these terms relates to a sequence in time? Neither. Right. Very helpful. (2) When you have to teach something, you [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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