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		<title>Latest Reading &#8211; Dr Tatiana&#8217;s Sex Advice to All Creation</title>
		<link>http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2010/08/18/latest-reading-dr-tatianas-sex-advice-to-all-creation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[O.K. &#8211; so I was the last person on the planet to see E.T., I still watch TV on a cathode ray tube, and I&#8217;m seven years late reading Olivia Judson&#8217;s hugely entertaining, accessible, not to say stimulating, guide to evolutionary biology Dr.Tatiana&#8217;s Sex Advice to All Creation. Making this an admittedly after the event [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recipes, Formulas And Processes</title>
		<link>http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2010/07/08/recipes-formulas-and-processes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Readers interested in early twentieth century chemistry, processes, and tricks of the trade used by industry and in the home, might like to check out the online edition of Henley&#8217;s Twentieth Century book of Recipes, Formulas and Processes, Edited by Gardner D.Hiscox &#8211; a pdf of Cornell University&#8217;s 1909 copy at the Internet Archive. I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Second Nature &#8211; The Inner Lives of Animals  by Jonathan Balcolme</title>
		<link>http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2010/05/27/book-review-second-nature-the-inner-lives-of-animals-by-jonathan-balcolme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 08:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Book review: (Link to Amazon.co.uk) Second Nature: The Inner Lives of Animals Author: Jonathan Balcombe Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Language English ISBN-10: 0230613624 ISBN-13: 978-0230613621 I remember as a child eating meat products with names like &#8216;jellied veal&#8217;, &#8216;liver-sausage&#8217;, &#8216;corned beef&#8217;, &#8216;hazlet&#8217;, &#8216;ox-tail soup&#8217; and &#8216;tongue&#8217;.  They were just labels at the time, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book review: The Eerie Silence &#8211; Are we Alone in the Universe</title>
		<link>http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2010/03/26/book-review-the-eerie-silence-are-we-alone-in-the-universe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 01:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Book review: The Eerie Silence: Are We Alone in the Universe? Author: Paul Davies Hardcover: 260 pages Publisher: Allen Lane (4 Mar 2010) ISBN-10: 1846141427 ISBN-13: 978-1846141423 The search for extra-terrestrial intelligence, or SETI, is in a rut.  That is Paul Davies&#8217;s message in &#8216;The Eerie Silence &#8211; Are we alone in the Universe&#8217; &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unweaving the Rainbow</title>
		<link>http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2010/02/28/unweaving-the-rainbow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<title>How would you &#8216;Break the Eerie Silence&#8217; ?</title>
		<link>http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2010/02/08/how-would-you-break-the-eerie-silence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update 15th March &#8211; I&#8217;ve posted the top 50 winning messages HERE. Update 13th March &#8211; Competition results. For those of you checking back for the 12th March winning messages, they don&#8217;t seem to have appeared yet.  Another eerie silence if you like. Watch this space. It&#8217;s been a spacey couple of weeks here at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Run Over From Behind By A Bus</title>
		<link>http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2009/01/28/run-over-from-behind-by-a-bus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Run over from behind by a bus.  That&#8217;s how physicist and skeptic Professor Robert Park wants to go when his time is up. I joined Bob Park at the Royal Institution this evening to hear him talk about his  new book &#8211; &#8216;Superstition: belief in the age of science&#8217;. To be candid, I&#8217;m not sure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Royal Institution Speaker Calls for an End To Culture Wars</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday evening at the Royal Institution, I watched the respected biographer and academic Richard Holmes make an empasioned plea for an end to the ‘two cultures’ rift between science and the arts &#8211; a reference  to the term coined by CP Snow in his Rede Lecture of 1959. In a packed auditorium, familiar as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Domestic Science &#8211; Not</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not the first to ask why science has become less popular with school children and young people. It&#8217;s a fact that, at least in the UK and the USA, fewer students are selecting science subjects at school or making a college or professional career out of science. While there are doubtless many complex reasons [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mummy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to buying books, I&#8217;m either very keen and go straight for the new hardback edition or, alternatively, I&#8217;ll trawl the bargain basements for unwanted and long forgotten editions selling at three for a fiver. I&#8217;ve just finished one of the latter, and can belatedly vouch that Heather Pringle&#8217;s Mummy Congress is the [...]]]></description>
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