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		<title>Voluntary efforts to control farm pollution failing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Collins</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Yesterday, the sh!t hit the fan.
Agriculture Minister David Carter:
&#8220;The data from this year&#8217;s snapshot tells a totally unacceptable story of effluent management. Regardless of whether this is because farmers don&#8217;t have the right tools, don&#8217;t know how to comply, or simply don&#8217;t care, behaviour has to change.&#8221;
The snapshot in question is a progress report on [...]<br/>
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		<title>Tumultuous week on NZ’s water front</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Collins</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[When it rains, it pours.
A lot happened in the last two days on New Zealand&#8217;s water front. For those on a blogging diet, here&#8217;s a fat-free summary. More to follow later.

A report on voluntary efforts to improve on-farm water management shows these efforts continue to fail, and in some ways getting worse. Agriculture Minister David [...]<br/>
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		<title>Great balls of… air</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gareth Renowden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment and Ecology]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Two images of the day: above &#8212; the picture says it all. Doesn&#8217;t look like much, does it? [via Ecohustler, h/t @Revkin]. And below, a NASA photograph from the International Space Station showing what that thin skin of air looks like in situ. Note the large cumulonimbus clouds casting shadows, especially the one left of [...]<br/>
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		<title>Open Letter from U.S. Scientists on the IPCC</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Perrott</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Recently an Open Letter was sent by US scientists to federal agencies expressing concern about the current &#8220;climategate&#8221; hysteria and attitudes towards the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The over 250 signatories included both IPCC and non-IPCC authors and professionals from related disciplines including physical, biological and social scientists (see Open Letter from  [...]<br/>
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		<title>Out of Control</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim McVeagh</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Two US surgeons have offered some commentary on Why US Healthcare Costs Are Out of Control. It is a highly revealing read. They cite six reasons:

The Building of Shrines for Hospital Administrators &#8211; buildings constructed out of desire to make a mark rather than out of necessity.
Unnecessary Duplication of Services &#8211; Often added under the aegis [...]


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		<title>The man who loved beer: Skeptics in the pub talk next week</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gareth Renowden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment and Ecology]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Christchurch readers might like to know that I&#8217;m talking at the local Skeptics in the pub meet up next Tuesday evening (23 March) &#8212; working title is Sceptics, skeptics and septics™. Should be a lively evening&#8230;   Meet at The Twisted Hop from 5-30pm, talk begins at 6pm, probably over the road at CPIT [...]<br/>
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		<title>Illustrating Carl Zimmer’s Readers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Winter</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Carl Zimmer has been wondering what to do next. Obviously, he's going to keep writing his wonderful science stories and continue to maintain the Science Tattoo Emporium but where to do that , and how to make money from it, is less clear. Carl's a scien...<br/>
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		<title>Carl Zimmer’s Science Reader Survey</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aimee Whitcroft</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In a fit of market-research madness, Carl Zimmer (one of my favourite science writers)  assembled a little survey looking into people&#8217;s science reading habits.
In essence, it asked how people get their &#8217;science fix&#8217;, where they get it from, and how they feel about paying for it.
Now, it must be said &#8211; and it&#8217;s admitted to [...]<br/>
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		<title>The dangerous sea</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment and Ecology]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This column was published in the Waikato Times on March 16.
The media has paid disproportionate attention to an error in the monumental 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.  In a chapter surveying the possible future impacts of climate change on the Asian region the report included a prediction that the Himalayan glaciers [...]<br/>
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		<title>Sources for medical information for non-medics and non-scientists</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grant Jacobs</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health and Medicine]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A recent up-swing locally in credulous claims about vaccines and the diseases they address has prompted me to list a small number of resources that I have found to have readable explanations of medical information for non-medics and non-scientists.
My lists are not complete or “definitive”, nor do I claim to be some authority on things [...]<br/>
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