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		<title>Community based marine management in practice – the West Coast example</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca McLeod</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The South Island’s West Coast Marine Protection Forum looks set to be the first region to put a marine protected area (MPA) proposal to the Government under the new(ish) MPA Policy and Implementation Plan, with the group recently wrapping up an extensive consultation process. The proposal that was put out for public comment outlined four [...]<br/>
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		<title>Spinning exoneration of Dr. Michael Mann Into “Whitewash”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Perrott</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I have read the full report of this inquiry Concerning the Allegations of Research Misconduct Against Dr. Michael E. Mann and find the whole business interesting. Here are my reasons &#8211; quotes are from the report:
1: No specific charges for Mann to confront
Instead the University had received:
&#8220;numerous communications (emails, phone calls and letters) accusing Dr. [...]<br/>
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		<title>MapReduce goes evolutionary</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abhishek Tiwari</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Scientists from Texas A&#38;M University have developed a new algorithm MrsRF (MapReduce Speeds up Robinson-Foulds) for analyzing large collection of evolutionary trees using MapReduce framework. Matthews et. al, have used their MapReduce algorithm to compute all-to-all Robinson-Foulds (RF) distance matrix on multi-core computing platforms. Calculation of all possible Robinson-Foulds  distance pairs is a computationally intensive task. The results show that a significant speedup can be achieved using MrsRF compared to the fastest sequential algorithms.We studied the performance of our MrsRF...<br/>
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		<title>the power of the cuttlefish</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison Campbell</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I found this XKCD cartoon whlie clearing out my mailbox - I found it via PZ quite a while ago now (so it's probably circumnavigated the world net 3.5 times by now!), but thought it was worth sharing. (Keep an...<br/>
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		<title>Treadgold and the NZ CSC: dogging a fled horse</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gareth Renowden</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The campaign by the NZ Climate &#8220;Science&#8221; Coalition and Richard Treadgold&#8217;s &#8220;Climate Conversation Group&#8221; to cast doubt on the NZ temperature record and to smear the scientists who have worked on it has stepped up a notch or two in recent days, following a response by NIWA to an Official Information Act request from NZ [...]<br/>
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		<title>Bug of the week</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vic Arcus</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I love microbiology. Microbes are simpler than plants or animals &#8211; just single cells dividing and expanding in number (exponentially!). Microbes invented photosynthesis, they invented antibiotics, they even invented sex. Simple, yet stunningly diverse, they live everywhere &#8211; in the soil, in the rocks, in the sea, on your skin, in your stomach. There&#8217;s a [...]<br/>
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		<title>Drink up!  Beer benefits bones…</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aimee Whitcroft</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I can hear the whoops of joy emanating around the world.  Joined, of course, by mine.

For years, we&#8217;ve known that a glass or two of the vino has its benefits.  However, I&#8217;ve never heard of anything particularly beneficial coming as a result of drinking beer (apart from general joi de vivre, of course).
But now, praise [...]<br/>
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		<title>Science changes the world, sometimes the world changes the science, we are overdue</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abhishek Tiwari</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Dr. Monica Anderson talks about reductionism vs holism in science. She also suggests that artificial intelligence failed because intelligence is too holistic and by its nature it always attracted  the hardcore reductionists.  One of my favorite quote from this talk is "Science changes the world, sometimes the world changes the science, we are overdue", which is significant in each and every sense. Check out the whole lecture it is worthwhile.


Original article is
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		<title>Where the money is</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcus Wilson</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I was reading this weekend in January's physicsworld some&#160;curiously contrasting articles on the state of physics funding in various countries. The UK has recently announced some serious cutbacks to their international collaborative projects, in an attempt to claw back 40 million pounds that was mis-spent a couple of years ago following an accounting error. &#160;Whoops. For example, there will be the complete withdrawal by the UK from my favourite Large Hadron Collider experiment, ALICE.
Meanwhile, Japan's physicists are nervous after some major budget slashing by its government. There...<br/>
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		<title>Kiwi superconductivity industry overcomes resistance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Hendy</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This week, New Zealand hosts the 18th International Superconductivity Industry Summit, where multi-national heavy-weights like Siemans AG will rub shoulders with New Zealand-based companies such as General Cable NZ Ltd and HTS-110.&#160; As the superconductivity industry matures over the next decade, these New Zealand companies have an excellent chance of becoming significant export earners.&#160; How [...]<br/>
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