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		<title>Follow Science Online London, on-line</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grant Jacobs</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Quick note: if you’re interested in science communication you can right now follow Science Online London via twitter. (10:50pm NZ time.)
It&#8217;s a confusing but wonderful mess of short notes on the events as they happen. Lots of sound bites that trigger food for thought. There is a live video stream, too. (I find the video stream [...]<br/>
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		<title>Long way around the sea</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gareth Renowden</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[With the northern hemisphere summer fading into autumn, time for a quick overview of Arctic events. The sea ice is nearing its annual low point, and appears to be heading for a minimum somewhere between 2009 and 2008 &#8212; 2007&#8242;s record minimum appears to be beyond reach. The latest batch of forecasts for the SEARCH [...]<br/>
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		<title>beery bladders &amp; other oddities</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison Campbell</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Beery bladders... yes, OK, if you drink enough beer your bladder will fill up, but that's not the focus of a delightful post by Scicurious on&#160;Neurotic physiology. It's a tale of how doctors followed their noses to find that several...<br/>
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		<title>Interesting bits: starving to stay awake, and an LCA on Li-Ion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aimee Whitcroft</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I have seen many interesting sciencey things this week.  Which makes sense, given that a large part of my job is to track new research.  Sadly, and for the sake of brevity, I&#8217;ve had to pick but two for this post.

Starving to stay awake?
Another interesting factoid related to, well, taking in less calories than one [...]<br/>
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		<title>Going to the Dogs…</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Genetics Otago</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Peter K. Dearden. Laboratory for Evolution and Development, Genetics Otago and the National Research Centre for Growth and Development, University of Otago
I own a dog. A nice one called Eddy, whose aim in life seems, now he is getting on a bit, to eat, and go for walks briefly, between long periods of sleeping. To [...]<br/>
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		<title>Why visualise data?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McDowall</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Why visualise data? In the introduction to his classic text, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Edward Tufte answers this question in three words. &#8220;Graphics reveal data&#8221;.
To illustrate his point Tufte asks the reader to examine four datasets of eleven (x, y) datapoints, collectively known as Anscombe&#8217;s quartet. I&#8217;ve reproduced them in the figure below.

The [...]<br/>
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		<title>Introducing a new blogger: seeing data</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aimee Whitcroft</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Haha!  We are pleased as punch to introduce the third in our blitz of blogs this week.

Chris McDowell will be the force behind seeing data (first post up shortly), a blog all about data visualisation.  For those of who aren&#8217;t familiar with the subject, data vis (viz)* is the artform behind taking numbers, and making [...]<br/>
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		<title>Friday links</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grant Jacobs</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Time to clear out those tabs! Lurking on my web browser are some great reads… for those that have more time than I do!*
First up is the excellent visual tale, The Illustrated Guide to a Ph.D. Don’t forget to read right to the bottom: there is a “bonus” graphic and story tucked away at the [...]<br/>
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		<title>From the Frying Pan into the Flood: Pakistan’s Worst Natural Disaster Unfolds (Pt II)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Dykstra</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Unprecedented Precipitation?
So why has this monsoon season caused the worst flooding in Pakistan&#8217;s history? The overall impression given by the media is that this year&#8217;s flood is unprecedented. But is it?
On 29 July, 2010, nearly 300 mm of rain fell in parts of the upper Indus catchment. As should be expected during the summer monsoon [...]<br/>
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		<title>Earth and Moon from Mercury</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Perrott</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Earth and Moon from MESSENGER Credit: NASA/JHU APL/CIW Another one of those amazing phoitographs of the earth taken by a spacecraft. This time from Messenger. The earth and the moon as seen from Mercury. From APOD: 2010 September 1 &#8211; &#8230; Continue reading &#8594;<br/>
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