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		<title>World War II Road Block &#8211; An Eerie Reminder of Darker Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s some not so sophisticated, but still deadly serious, military technology we discovered while walking along the river bank this morning. Thankfully it never happened, but in 1940 there was every expectation that Britain would be invaded by Germany.  One preparation for that was the building of a series of defensive lines around London and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Ramble Through Rationalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/?p=4279</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The last thing I expected at a history talk with Stephen Fry was a discussion on the relative merits of rationalism and empiricism. But that&#8217;s what we got for part of the time at the Harper Collins Annual history Lecture at the Royal Institute of British Architects last month.   And for some reason, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kids Leave Dirty Footprints</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/?p=3985</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Want to reduce your emissions? Forget about the gas guzzler, holidaying at home, or buying local produce; cut your &#8220;carbon legacy&#8221; and have fewer children, says new research. In recent weeks I&#8217;ve attended two public discussions dealing with the big-picture issues of sustainability and balancing development with conservation, and neither of them did much to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home Chemistry in the Golden Age of American Science</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/?p=3699</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is a little different from anything I&#8217;ve put up before.  It&#8217;s a sort of blog-ised version of an academic semiotic analysis I made earlier in the year as part of my Science Communication endeavours at Imperial College.  It&#8217;s here thanks to a posting on Twitter earlier tonight by Chris Anderson (of TED fame) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supping With The Devil</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 02:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A short note on my latest reading &#8211; &#8216;The Jasons&#8217; by Ann Finkbeiner. The book tells the true story of a group of US scientists, &#8216;The Jasons,&#8217; who still to this day get together for six weeks or so every summer to analyse defence and security issues, make reports, and propose technical solutions and further [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life, Talk To Me About Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/?p=2755</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I kind of expect to see demonstrations at the Royal Institution, an association with the Christmas Lectures I guess. So it was nice to see a few props at Lewis Dartnell&#8217;s talk on astro-biology yesterday evening:  a Geiger counter, a jar of fluorescent quinine, a piece of Mars.   A piece of Mars !!! That got [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Very Little Can Stop The Train&#8221;  Sir David King On Media Reporting and MMR</title>
		<link>http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2009/02/11/very-little-can-stop-the-train-sir-david-king-on-media-reporting-and-mmr/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=very-little-can-stop-the-train-sir-david-king-on-media-reporting-and-mmr</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just returned from the annual British Humanist Association Darwin Day Lecture, this year delivered by Sir David King at a session chaired by Richard Dawkins. King is a former Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government, and now heads up a multi-disciplinary organisation tackling climate change &#8211; The Smith School of Enterprise and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back Pocket Big Picture</title>
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		<comments>http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2009/02/06/back-pocket-big-picture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This article originally appeared at conservationtoday.org) Over Christmas, according to the Carbon Neutral Company&#8217;s online calculator, my wife and I were responsible for the release of 4.2 tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere &#8211; our share of a 19000km round trip flight from London to Los Angeles.   With two such flights a year, that makes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dumb Dee Dumb Dee Dumb</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay &#8211; in September I made this little joke about the dumbing down of education standards in the UK; a tension reliever from the continuous and often anecdotal murmur around grade stats going up while exam difficulty goes down. But the issue is dead serious, as we are reminded today by the Royal Society of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drayson&#8217;s Sixth Sense</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a lot of comment in the last few days about statements made in an interview with Lord Paul Drayson, the new UK science minister, concerning his beliefs around faith, god, and particularly his claim to a &#8216;sixth sense&#8217; for on occasion knowing what was going to happen. What I find regrettable is [...]]]></description>
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