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		<title>G8: self-deception on energy and climate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 22:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walker</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The section of the recent G8 Camp David declaration which deals with energy and climate change can only be described as depressing. No clarion call from these nations. Instead, a confused jumble starting with an “all of the above” statement: … we recognise the importance of meeting our energy needs from a wide variety of [...]<br/>
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		<title>Venture Solutions operates in commercialisation’s ‘no-man’s-land’</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 20:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kerr</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The untitled head of nine month old Venture Solutions Ltd recently and reluctantly agreed to put up a website advertising its services. Grant Marris’s reluctance is warranted. Operating in the ‘no-man’s-land’ between the (often backyard) inventor and other types of &#8230; Continue reading &#8594;<br/>
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		<title>every major’s terrible (apologies to gilbert &amp; sullivan)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 21:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison Campbell</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I have spent a lot of time lately advising students on their programs of study. (This is one of the reasons my blogging has been sparse of late: I have been filling in while we are 'between' registrars &#38; as...<br/>
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		<title>University Students prefer Arts over Science</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 07:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Edmonds</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[An article which appeared in this weekend&#8217;s Sunday Star Times and also on Stuff (here) describes how, despite a tight job market, twice as many students are studying creative arts as information technology, with more than a third of university students choosing to study society, cultural or creative arts subjects. This is compared to only [...]<br/>
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		<title>does the swiss government *really* support homeopathy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 04:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison Campbell</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Recently, while lurking at Orac's place, I noticed a couple of comments about a report by the Swiss government that apparently endorsed homeopathy. The Natural News website is having a ball with this, with its author saying things like&#160;[t]his breakthrough...<br/>
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		<title>Science no vote winner</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 04:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Griffin</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[On the eve of the 2012 Budget with the word &#8220;austerity&#8221; ringing in our ears, the Stuff website has done a poll asking readers what they see as priority areas for the Government.
Of the six categories listed &#8211; health, education, welfare, taxes, business and science, guess which area comes in as lowest priority.
That&#8217;s right&#8230; science.
It [...]<br/>
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		<title>Have you checked your tyres recently?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 02:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcus Wilson</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A couple of days ago I checked the tyre pressures on our new car for the first time since buying it (several weeks ago). Obviously we want about the right pressure in the tyre to get it to do its job properly and to help get the best fuel economy out of the car. However, getting the pressure right isn't an easy thing.
For a start, I'm sure every garage's air machine reads differently. Certainly the ones with an analogue scale can be all over the place in their readings. Even two readings of the same tyre on the same&#160;(analogue)&#160;machine can be way different (I'm thinking about the one...<br/>
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		<title>To PSA or not to PSA</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 22:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Pickering</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[As a male, 40 mumble years old, do I do it?  Do I get a prostate exam and PSA test?  Do I plan to keep doing tests every few years? PSA (prostate specific antigen) is a blood test where elevated levels may indicate the presence of prostate cancer.  A powerful group, the US Preventative Services &#8230; Continue reading &#187;<br/>
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		<title>Gene patents in Australia – an ongoing saga</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 20:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kerr</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[By guest blogger Doug Calhoun In an earlier guest blog I commented on the gene patent debate inAustralia.  My conclusion then was that the opponents were a determined lot.  That observation has been reinforced by yet another initiative in the &#8230; Continue reading &#8594;<br/>
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		<title>Give them enough rope . . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 02:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Perrott</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The last few years the climate change denier organisations have fooled themselves into thinking they are on a roll. (I am talking about deniers &#8211; not contrarians or sceptics). What with the &#8220;climategate affair,&#8221; the resulting investigations (which didn&#8217;t go &#8230; Continue reading &#8594;<br/>
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