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		<title>Want a Full Spectrum Love Life?  Watch This CD</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that candlelit dinner stage of the evening.   Soup through nuts, you&#8217;ve been your wonderful, genuine, self.  And he/she is pretty fantastic too. But why take chances &#8211; this is deal clinching time.  With the table cleared, quick as a whippet you pull out your Ethereal Collapse CD, and with a flourish Newton would die [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Profiling the Victorian Door Knob</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those crazy Victorian inventors. What can you do with them?  Whenever I research a history project, some totally unconnected but wonderful distraction like this shows up and wants sharing. Maybe that&#8217;s how inventor James Wilcox thought about his &#8216;profile likeness&#8217; doorknob keepsake idea from the Victorian era, reported in an 1838 edition of  (take a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monkey Brand Comes Clean</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like any normal person, I decorate my bathroom with Victorian engravings of anthropomorphised monkeys. These ones depict the kind of half ape / half-monkey used by Benjamin Brooke and Lever Brothers to promote Monkey Brand soap, a super-popular cleaning product at the turn of the twentieth century. There&#8217;s an intriguing little strap line at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charles Dickens&#8217;s Mudfrog Homeopathy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/?p=13152</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nice to see as early as 1837 Charles Dickens doing his bit to comically debunk the efficacy of infinitesimal doses in medicine.  Okay, he&#8217;s not quite talking about the bottles of total nothingness you can buy at the chemist and are an insult to reason today, but still interesting that similar ideas were an issue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blast Through Your Past &#8211; with Google Street View</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/?p=10943</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;in Sensation we believe external Things exist, in Memory we believe they were, in Imagination we neither do the one nor the other&#8221; (Erasmus Darwin quoting poet Richard Gifford back to himself in a letter of 1768.) Here&#8217;s something to try if you haven&#8217;t already done it: make a Google Street View tour of all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Moon Hoaxing Scandal of 1835</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 21:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fantastic weather in Oxford yesterday meant museum visits took a back seat to a good punting session on the Cherwell (a violation of physics in its own right with me at the helm). But we did get a half hour in the Museum of the History of Science , where I snapped this papier [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/?p=10899</guid>
		<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>
		<link>http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2011/06/20/ducks-per-second-a-most-useful-unit-of-velocity/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ducks-per-second-a-most-useful-unit-of-velocity</link>
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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>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 my refreshingly enlightened policeman uncle of [...]]]></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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