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		<title>World water crisis: Myth or reality?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Collins</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Asit Biswas, an expert in international water resource management, has changed his mind. He no longer believes a world water crisis is a crisis of physical supply. It is, instead, a crisis of management. He also does not believe wars will be fought over water. What gives? Have a listen.<br/>
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		<title>Copper Conducting Considerable Current</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcus Wilson</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The latest kitchen acquisition (no, we don't spend all our money on buying things for the kitchen) is&#160;decent frying pan. We've spent too long with frying pans that are about as flat as the Southern Alps.&#160; It's a copper-based pan, which probably accounts for its expense, with a stainless steel surface.&#160;&#160; The reason for the copper is that it conducts heat extremely well, meaning that the surface of the pan will respond nice and evenly and quickly to the heat from below.&#160;
Copper is probably better known, however, for conducting electricity rather than heat.&#160; Its...<br/>
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		<title>You know your ‘type’?  It’s stress dependent…</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aimee Whitcroft</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A number of interesting revelations to be had here, and all to do with our choices of &#8216;mate&#8217;.

And by mate, I don&#8217;t mean the antipodean colloquialism meaning &#8216;friend&#8217;.  Nope, I mean mate as in, you know, someone you want to shag.  As it were.
The first revelation in this paper* is that, for the most part, [...]<br/>
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		<title>cross-species hanky-panky</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison Campbell</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[My first-year students &#38; I are currently studying plants. This is actually something of a balancing act from my perspective as a reasonably large proportion of the class didn't study the 'diversity in plant structure &#38; function' standard back in...<br/>
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		<title>Bubble-shaped, water-filtering skyscraper</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Collins</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[French firm Design Crew for Architecture has designed a novel water purifying tower. It consists of a series of large spheres attached to pillars. Brackish water is pumped up the tower, taken up by mangroves growing in the spheres, and transpired. Purified condensation is then collected for drinking or irrigation. Mangroves are chosen because of [...]<br/>
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		<title>Hippo surfs flood waters to freedom</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Collins</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[From flooded elephant research sites to flooded zoos&#8230;
Back in January heavy rains flooded a private zoo in Plavinca, Montenegro. 2-ton and 11-year old hippopotamus Nikica flew the coop by swimming over her submerged cage. The natural disasters commission wasn&#8217;t happy, and thought they might be able to shoot her. The state veterinary authorities thought otherwise, [...]<br/>
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		<title>Chris Mooney interviews Michael Mann on “climategate”</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Perrott</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This is an interesting interview (download MP3). Michael Mann has been vilified by climate change deniers. His work on the so-called &#8220;hockey stick&#8221; graph  is still being misrepresented despite being validated by the US National research council and other researchers.
He&#8217;s a bit of a lone voice at the moment but really worth listening to. Point [...]<br/>
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		<title>what makes students stick at science?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison Campbell</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This is a very relevant question in the light of the government's recent announcement of its intention to tie a proportion of tertiary funding to student completion and retention rates. (This decision is presumably driven, among other things, by relatively...<br/>
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		<title>Brain Awareness Week – merging the two cultures?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Work</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I’ve been a science communicator for as long as I can remember. It started way back in primary school, when I was the go-to girl for gross-out facts about the human body (thanks go to Usborne’s book of puberty).
Talking about science was my way of life, and it’s what led me to my career in [...]<br/>
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		<title>Pacific Fibre undersea cable connection</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Nixon</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Lots of press here today in New Zealand on this project.
I really have to take my hat off to the promoters and backers: all solid and proven business and technical people in this country.
Only having a single undersea data cable to the outside world is like inviting Murphy to the ball.
Without raising the question of [...]<br/>
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