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		<title>The Perfect Mathematician</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Think I&#8217;ve stumbled upon what is fundamentally wrong with UK STEM policy, at least for the Maths bit.  We&#8217;re not raising mathematicians correctly.

In &#8216;The First Men in the Moon&#8216;, H.G. Wells shares with us how the Selenite moon people got it right &#8211; over a century ago:
&#8220;If, for example, a Selenite is destined to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2010/03/09/the-perfect-mathematician/</link>
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		<title>The Amazing Disintegrating Screwdriver</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gee, I spoil you guys: a blog about a broken screwdriver.
Not just any old screwdriver though, because the handle of this one is made from nitrocellulose, and they don&#8217;t do that anymore &#8211; not since the 1940s.  I found the remains in a garage I&#8217;ve been clearing out over the past couple of days.
Nitrocellulose is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2010/03/05/the-amazing-disintegrating-screwdriver/</link>
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		<title>Unweaving the Rainbow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I took this short sequence in the garden this afternoon.  No photo-shopping, just a nice illustration of the splitting of sunlight into it&#8217;s component colors by refraction through a water drop &#8211; shuddering in the breeze after a storm.

The simplest of things, it put me in mind of John Keats&#8217;s supposed lament  that Isaac [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2010/02/28/unweaving-the-rainbow/</link>
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		<title>The Open Ground &#8211; Biodiversity, Science &amp; the Imagination (Podcast of conference proceedings)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Colleague and fellow science communicator Emma Quilligan at the time wrote up the conference at Nature Network.  Now, browsing my archives, I&#8217;ve rediscovered the audio I made with Conservation Today as a record of the event, but which we never published.  Now for the first time, and with organiser Will Pearse&#8217;s endorsement, here are the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2010/02/20/the-open-ground-biodiversity-science-the-imagination-podcast-of-conference-proceedings/</link>
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		<title>Iron before the Iron Age</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a short note to share with you one of the many wonders I stumbled upon at the British Museum yesterday.  This is an Inuit Lance Head, displayed in the Enlightenment Gallery (in the King&#8217;s Library). It was collected in Greenland in 1811 by John Ross while searching for the North West Passage.
What&#8217;s significant about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2010/02/16/iron-before-the-iron-age/</link>
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		<title>How would you &#8216;Break the Eerie Silence&#8217; ?</title>
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It&#8217;s been a spacey couple of weeks here at Zoonomian.   What with the Royal Society&#8217;s meeting on astrobiology and the search for extra-terrestrial life (SETI), rapping ET-style, and a return to the Buck Rogers era.   And we&#8217;re not finished yet.

You might remember one of the speakers at the Royal Society event was physicist Paul [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2010/02/08/how-would-you-break-the-eerie-silence/</link>
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		<title>Buck Rogers &#8211; A Copper Clad Lesson from History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
In a piece for the Washington Post this week, movie director James Cameron gave his analysis of the NASA budget, and reminded us of the inspirational importance of space exploration; with the reciprocal suggestion that, when it comes to winning popular support for space, &#8220;rockets really do run on dreams&#8221;.

The inspirational power of space [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2010/02/06/buck-rogers-a-copper-clad-lesson-from-history/</link>
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		<title>Astrobiology Rap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As promised, here is science communicator Jonathan Chase&#8217;s impromptu  Astrobiology Rap performed at last week&#8217;s Royal Society discussion meeting on &#8216;The  detection of extra-terrestrial life and the consequences for science  and society&#8216;.  (Write-up of the event is here).
Press the arrow key to stream live, or use the &#8216;download&#8217; button to save the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2010/02/04/astrobiology-rap/</link>
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		<title>Extra-terrestrials Invade Royal Society</title>
		<description><![CDATA[