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	<title>Zoonomian &#187; History</title>
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		<title>Medicinal Whiskey</title>
		<link>http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2012/05/18/medicinal-whiskey/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=medicinal-whiskey</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 18:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Medicinal whiskey? Sounds like a joke doesn&#8217;t it.  But from midnight on 17th January 1920, this was the real deal in the USA, and one of the very few ways you&#8217;d legitimately get your hands on booze until the repeal of Prohibition in December 1933. I found this old (regretably empty) case yesterday in the [...]]]></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>The Darker Side (of some) Scientists</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 02:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA["jekyll and hyde"]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I guess at times we all put up a mask in public.  We might even have a bit of a dark side kept under wraps most of the time.  But there&#8217;s something extra-disturbing when our heroes show a side to them we never knew, especially when it&#8217;s at odds with the comfortable stereotype they&#8217;ve come [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Chemistry]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pumice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soap]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/?p=12468</guid>
		<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>Darwin&#8217;s Many Origins</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/?p=12739</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Owning multiple copies of a book isn&#8217;t that unusual.   There&#8217;s that extra copy for the bath, the duplicate Christmas present you don&#8217;t have the heart to return, or maybe you&#8217;ve just made home with someone with similar interests &#8211; and library: always a good idea.  But no one has hundreds of copies of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Century of Southern California Aerospace</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/?p=12638</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my favourite NASA clips shows the 1972 Apollo 17 lunar module blasting off, bringing home astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmidt &#8211; the last humans to set foot on the moon. The film is presently looping, next to an R-18 rocket engine like the one used in the ascent, at the Huntington Library&#8217;s  [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[biology]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/?p=12385</guid>
		<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>Ascanio Sobrero, Nitroglycerin, and a Big Noise in a Small Village</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 01:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the birthday of the inventor of nitroglycerin: Ascanio Sobrero. Born on 12th October, 1812, the Italian chemist made the discovery while a student at Turin University, by treating glycerin with hot sulphuric and nitric acids. The industrial and military successes of  nitroglycerin are well known, particularly where it&#8217;s been used in stabilsed forms [...]]]></description>
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