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		<title>Should your cat glow?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 17:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zahra Hirji</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A review of Frankenstein&#8217;s Cat: Cuddling up to Biotech&#8217;s Brave New Beasts by Emily Anthes 256 pages Farrar, Straus and Giroux An unusual cat lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. Named Mr. Green Genes, he looks like your average orange tabby. But under dark light, he has a neat parlor trick: his eyes, nose, and ears [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;You, the reader, will die&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 14:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison Bruzek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A review of The Undead: Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating Heart Cadavers – How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death by Dick Teresi 368 pages. Random House, 2012 Dick Teresi will hold your hand, incite you to argument, and dare you to contradict him. But first, he needs to be perfectly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Grand Puzzle</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 13:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trent Knoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A review of The Species Seekers, by Richard Conniff 464 pages, W. W. Norton 2010 Last week brought word of several new discoveries in the animal kingdom: leaf-cutter bees in Texas, transparent fish in Brazil; mouse-like lemurs in Madagascar; spiders in Sri Lanka described (worrisomely, to this reader at least) as “face-sized.” It should hardly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from a Citizen</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 13:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviva Hope Rutkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was born at the tail end of the creation of the world. Back then, most people could live in only one way, in the dull reality of one single place at a time. But I had a choice. In my dirty socks, I made regular pilgrimages to the basement, sidling past broken toys and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Foreign Lands of Data: A Profile of The SENSEable City Lab</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison Bruzek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take a look around your city. There’s the old man walking his dog, the flocks of pigeons on the roof, and the constant honk of cars rushing by the smeared windowpanes. But these images and sounds are more than fleeting. This is all data. Data from taxis in New York, data from cell phone conversations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rock Clock</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Weeks</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Geology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Putorana Plateau is composed of Siberian Traps In Siberian summers, MIT graduate student Seth Burgess tells me, the mosquitoes swarm thick enough to choke you. When he conducted fieldwork over several summers in the vast Russian wilderness, their buzzing filled his tent at night and their bodies littered his meals. After the arduous journey [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Virtual Metals</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Yu</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Material Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are no beakers, centrifuges, or spectrometers in Michael Demkowicz’s lab at MIT. In fact, the office seems rather sparse, with the exception of a large whiteboard on the wall that always seems to have multicolored lines and equations scribbled across the surface. Besides that, the walls are bare and the unadorned windows are situated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>She’s Got Milk</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviva Hope Rutkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: Wikimedia Commons Katie Hinde wants to talk about breast milk. She wants to talk about the vast and intricate differences between boy milk and girl milk. She wants to talk about the first possible lactating animal. She wants to talk about the many mysterious ingredients swirling in each glass. She wants to tell me, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sacred Conservation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Baehr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ganzi Province, Tibet In order to study the butterflies, evolutionary biologist Janice Bossart needed a sacrificial sheep. The offering (part of a ceremony to appease Ghanaian tribal elders and the gods) would gain Bossart access to the sacred grove where centuries of religious protection had preserved local forest habitat creating a safe haven for butterfly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Baehr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New research illuminates why getting scared is good for your soul¬—revealing why BASE jumpers may be less crazy than you think. A recent study found that extreme sports athletes, defined as those who partake in “activities where the most likely outcome of a mismanaged mistake or accident is death,” were not fearless, but utilized fear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Co-Evolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie Baehr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I sit in the small windowless room at the back of the MIT Humans and Automation Laboratory staring excitedly at the computer screen in front of me. The tutorial for the simulation begins. I will have four drones at my disposal, or unmanned vehicles as those in the know call them. Three are aerial vehicles. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ancestral Stock</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviva Hope Rutkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bullmastiff, at Birmingham Championship Dog Show Wikimedia Commons One night I end up in a showroom in Springfield, watching my mother and dog trot in slow circles around a ring. My mother looks anxious. The dog looks hungry; she is drooling prodigiously, the long gooey lines of spit flecking off in all directions every time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overriding Instinct</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison Bruzek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jurassic Park: The Ride Wikimedia Commons Jurassic Park: The Ride was introduced to Universal Studios Hollywood as an adrenaline-junkie innovator. Based on the popular film, passengers were paraded through the forest-themed scenes in a large, yellow water raft, modeled on the film’s ill-fated Jeeps. Twisting past spitting dinosaurs through dark tunnels bedecked as an office, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Messy Cosmos</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abdul-Kareem Ahmed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No matter how many times you vacuum your carpet, do your bed, and fold your laundry, you end up with a messy room again by the end of the week. You might even feel that some invisible force drives your living space toward more disorder and chaos. That’s right, you’re not to blame. The same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“I’m a Gravitational Lens”</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Yu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Artist&#8217;s impression of Paul Schechter as a gravitational lens Though amateur stargazers often assume objects in the universe are static, astronomers have discovered that some things aren’t what they appear to be. Gravitational lensing is a phenomena where the image of one heavenly body that gives off light—a nebula, quasar, or galaxy, among others—is altered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Black Thread of Physics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison Bruzek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“There’s the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.” So said detective Sherlock Holmes whose debut at the close of the nineteenth century in A Study In Scarlet coincided with a discovery that would become [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Stars to Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Weeks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the dawn of our universe, only four chemical elements permeate space. Millions of years have passed since the Big Bang, when cooling allowed nascent protons and electrons to join, forming the atoms of hydrogen, helium, lithium, and beryllium. The formation of dazzling galaxies lies far in the future, but these airy elements are finally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Twilight Zone</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zahra Hirji</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an experimental physics lab in 1995, scientists manufactured an abode that would feel at ease in the twilight zone. This is a curious place where temperatures are so cold the human body cannot fathom (one billionth of a degree above the coldest conceivable level, absolute zero). And in this insufferable cold, matter, as we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeking Unobtainium</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah Cheng</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In James Cameron’s 2009 blockbuster Avatar, humans are willfully exploiting the planet Pandora for a metal subtly named “unobtainium.” What could be so desirable that humans would theoretically be willing to destroy an alien culture to possess it? As nerdy chatroom discussions have revealed, the fictional substance unobtainium is superconductive at room temperature—and the search [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Remote Metropolis of Strange Objects</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviva Hope Rutkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kuiper Belt Objects Courtesy: NASA Start at the sun and travel out. At first, the view from our spaceship window is familiar. First there’s Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars in neat succession, then the thin smattering of rock and metal we know as the asteroid belt. Gas giants Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus follow, and way [...]]]></description>
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