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		<title>A Ramble Through Rationalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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>Two Cultures</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you a scientist, or more of an artistic person?   Or maybe you&#8217;re a bit of both?  Do you care?  And does it matter? It mattered to CP Snow in 1959, when he wrote the essay ‘The Two Cultures’.   Snow saw society split into two groups, or cultures: the artistic intellectuals and the natural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appearances Can Be Deceptive</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I keep running into this demonstration of how strange our brains can be, so thought I&#8217;d have a go myself. Have a look at the inverted face below.  Upside down, but still pretty cute eh? Now look at the next picture where she&#8217;s turned the right way round &#8211; yuk! But it&#8217;s exactly the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dogs Are Spies From Venus</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contrary to popular belief, dogs are in fact spies from Venus.  So maintained University of London philosopher Steven Law at today&#8217;s Centre for Inquiry London &#8216;Weird Science&#8217; event at Conway Hall. In doing so, he applied the same faultless logic and interpretation of evidence used by young earth creationists, defending their belief that the universe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Will You Celebrate Darwin&#8217;s Birthday ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I suspect the run up to February 12th 2009 is going to be a bit like Christmas. A lunch here, a dinner there, an afternoon tea at Downe House, an evening at the Natural History Museum. Because February 12th 2009, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reverend Reiss Causes Stir At Science Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two real hoo-hahs have gone down in the world of UK science this week. At the British Association Festival of Science in Liverpool, the Director of Education at the Royal Society, Rev.Prof.Michael Reiss, appeared to support at least some discussion of creationism in school science classes. At the same festival, embryologist and TV science star [...]]]></description>
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