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		<title>Why do we need a National Broadband Network?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Nixon</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A week or so ago I was having a quiet drink with several pilot buddies at the Southport Flying Club on the Gold Coast. One of my very long-term acquaintances (a retired heavy jet-jockey) asked me how my fibre-optics occupations were progressing. “Fine” I said, and tried to talk of some of my recent experiences. [...]<br/>
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		<title>After the defeat</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walker</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[“Sometimes dead really is dead — and for this Congress, barring a miracle, climate action is finished. With an ugly election looming in November, it may be years before we get another chance to debate a bill that prices carbon.” That’s Eric Pooley writing this week in Yale e360. He’s the author of The Climate [...]<br/>
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		<title>Put your trust in a computer…</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcus Wilson</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I've mentioned before the way that it is tempting to put your faith in the output of a computer program, particularly if it involves impressive graphics and displays words that you don't understand.
But this phenomenon doesn't apply just to computers. I've been seeing it in my students' lab work too - where an instrument for measuring something already seems to be connected, how many of my students actually bother to check that the instrument is measuring what they need it to measure? If it gives an output, especially a digital one in a nice font, it has to be right. Hasn't it?<br/>
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		<title>Loops to tie a knot in proteins?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grant Jacobs</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Most proteins fold onto themselves without forming knots. A minority form a “topologically entangled conformation”, a knot.
Proteins are strings of amino acids, chained together one after the other.

The properties of proteins depends on their specific three-dimensional fold, how the chain of amino acids are arranged in space.
When proteins are first made by reading the RNA [...]<br/>
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		<title>Obama’s failed climate strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Walker</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Obama must take a different tack, says economist Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, writing in the Guardian. The President has been pursuing a failed strategy of negotiating with senators and key industries to try to forge an agreement, making no headway in the back rooms of the White House and [...]<br/>
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		<title>Who are we collaborating with?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Hendy</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Our talented intern from MIT has produced another tag cloud.  This time she has taken a look at who we collaborated with in 2008 based on our co-publication preferences in the ISI database.   The resulting map is shown below:

It’s clear we like working with Australians.  Those in Auckland, Palmerston North and Christchurch prefer to [...]<br/>
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		<title>Suzan does a mini- Monckton</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Perrott</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The journalist Suzan Mazur seems to be taking a leaf out of Christopher Monckton&#8217;s silly book. A while back I reviewed Suzan Mazur&#8217;s book The Altenberg 16: An Exposé of the Evolution Industry (see Self-exposure – a journalist out of depth). I didn&#8217;t like it. My conclusion was that she had no real knowledge of evolutionary [...]<br/>
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		<title>how a little green ball of cells controls where it’s going</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison Campbell</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In one of our first-year biology labs the students&#160;spend a bit of time looking down the microscope at various algae &#38; protozoa. Some of their samples come from a container of interestingly weedy water from my fishpond. Not only is...<br/>
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		<title>Count to ten</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gareth Renowden</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This video was embedded using the YouTuber plugin by Roy Tanck. Adobe Flash Player is required to view the video. Heidi Cullen at Climate Central covers the highlights of NOAA&#8217;s State of the Climate: 2009 report, released yesterday (NOAA press release here). Key message: ten of the most important climate indicators, with multiple datasets for [...]<br/>
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		<title>The First New Zealanders and their rats</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Winter</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Crispin Jago has made a very cool thing, a periodic table of irrational nonsense. Rolling my eyes over the groups, wondering how people can believe some of these things, made me think about New Zealand's unique ecosystem of kooky ideas. We don't have t...<br/>
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