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		<title>Getting Cute at Disneyland</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The principles from Lorenz&#8217;s and Gould&#8217;s work have been applied to everything from vehicle design to this assessment of how cute NASA&#8217;s Mars rover Spirit is,&#8230;to pretzels. Applied to animals, they suggest our attitude, affection, concern, and the general way we treat species will be influenced by how closely each resembles a human child &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charlie&#8217;s Rose</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charles Darwin wrote about roses in his The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, but I&#8217;m guessing he didn&#8217;t expect a variety would be named in his honour. I stumbled upon these today in the gardens of the Huntington (Library, Art Collection, Botanical Gardens) Estate in San Marino.    According to this rose dealer, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steven Pinker in conversation with A.C.Grayling at the Wellcome Collection</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 04:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m conscious the blog has a science-celeb Picture Posty feel of late; but remember: (a) there have been an unusual number of cool events in London the past couple of weeks, (b) you like this stuff , (c) someone&#8217;s got to do it. More importantly, you need to know tonight&#8217;s conversation with Anthony Grayling and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Attenborough &#8211; Darwin Lecture 2011, &#8216;Alfred Russel Wallace and the Birds of Paradise&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I joined the 2011 Darwin Lecture, with Sir David Attenborough speaking on &#8216;Alfred Russel Wallace and the Birds of Paradise&#8217;,  organised and hosted by the Royal Society of Medicine in association with the Linnean Society of London. Fresh back from a trip to Borneo &#8211; no less, the spritely 85-year-old was introduced by Professor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Radiant Genes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of months back, I sent away for a free set of genome fridge magnets from the Open University.  Problem is, our fridge is a built-in one hiding behind solid Brazilian Rosewood chipboard/oak veneers; and they aren&#8217;t magnetic. Talk about blessing in disguise.  Now we have this fantastic genome-inspired  central heating radiator.  Good eh? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ducks per Second: A Most Useful Unit of Velocity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I lived in the Midlands of the UK, away from the bussle of London&#8217;s controlled airspace, one of my pleasures on an evening was to hire a light aircraft at my local airfield and tootle off for an hour or so practicing maneoveurs and generally enjoying the sunset &#8211; all very peaceful. Except, one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cygnets and Swan Necks &#8211; a Case of Lead Poisoning?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meet the new arrivals.  At a pool close to where I live in the south of England, I&#8217;ve been following the progress of these cygnets since their birth five weeks ago; the  picture and the video were taken about a week after hatching. The same breeding pair has built a nest in the same spot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something&#8217;s Brewing in Darkest Surrey</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q &#8211; What did the grape say when an elephant stepped on him? A &#8211; Nothing.  He just let out a little wine. The first alcohol I ever drank was home brewed.  I was twelve when the evil liquor &#8211; orange and raison wine &#8211; was served up by a refreshingly enlightened relative &#8211; also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Naturally Inspired &#8211; The Glass Sculpture of Steffen Dam</title>
		<link>http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2011/05/10/9980/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=9980</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 00:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like re-animated sea creatures from the Darwin Wing of the Natural History Museum, these animals look strangely alive, bubbling in their specimen bottles. Steffen Dam&#8217;s glass sculptures are inspired by nature. (Photo: Tim Jones. Items displayed by Joanna Bird Pottery at Collect 2011, Saatchi Gallery, London) In fact, this is the work of Danish glass [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waddle you make of this?  Mallard has 16 chicks.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 08:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Royal Society for the Protection of birds (RSPB) says: &#8220;the normal clutch size for mallard is 12 eggs, laid at one to two day intervals.&#8221; Which makes the mother of this 16 strong brood paddling past our appartment yesterday something of a dynamic duck. I&#8217;ve heard the record is 21 &#8211; so she still [...]]]></description>
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