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		<title>Get The Dirt on Terra Preta</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s Terra Preta, you ask? Well it&#8217;s dirt, or soil to be more accurate, and it is amongst the most fertile of soils on Earth. The odd thing is, it is found primarily in Brazil, and to a lesser extent in other South American countries.
Tropical rain-forest soils are typically fairly poor, because the frequent rains [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live Longer through Sterilization</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new study from biologists at Brown University shows that fruit flies live longer if they are engineered so as not to produce eggs or sperm cells. Indeed, scientists have known for some time that delayed reproduction corresponds with longer lifespans in most animals. The new research suggests a mechanism for this effect.
The longevity effect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>False Economy of the Locavore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is being a locavore a bit loca? Food faddists claim that eating mostly locally produced foods (locavore) will help reduce global warming. Transporting food uses fossil energy and produces greenhouse gases. So why not eat locally produced food and save all that energy?
Well, there&#8217;s nutrition for one thing. On of the best ways to ensure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Housing Crash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yale University economist Robert Shiller, an influential economist who predicted the current home sale slump, is predicting things will get worse &#8212; much worse &#8212; before they get better. Shiller said:
There&#8217;s a good chance housing prices will fall further than the 30 percent drop in the historic depression of the 1930s. Home prices nationwide already [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big California Quake Inevitable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems that a big earthquake in California is inevitable in the next 30 years. Even the normally cautious scientists now say there is a 99% chance (that 1% wiggle room is &#8216;being cautious&#8217;) that California will see a major earthquake (magnitude 6.7 or higher) within the next 30 years.
Why not just give it back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Monty Hall Problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m perfectly blown-away by this math puzzle and the solution. If you are familiar with this, just roll your eyes and say &#8216;obviously&#8217; and leave the rest of us to our thought experiment. Feeling superior because you have read the correct answer beforehand is not grounds for laurels. Only if you can deduce the correct [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guinea worm disease nearly eradicated</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dracunculus medinensis, is a parasitic nematode that causes the dreadful Dracunculiasis disease, (commonly called Guinea Worm Disease). It is commonly found in the lakes, rivers and streams that provide much of Africa with drinking water. Infection is caused by drinking water with Dracunculus larvae in it. About a year after initial infection, a meter long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Genistein in Soy Can Prevent Breast Cancer with a Catch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, scientists say, the Genistein in soy foods can help prevents breast cancer &#8212; but only if it is consumed during puberty. According to Dr Leena Hilakivi-Clarke, professor of oncology at the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown:
Timing seems to be vitally important in use of this bioactive food, and if we can figure out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Absolut Nonsense</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a bit of a furor over this ad, run in Mexico, that shows the pre-1848 borders of Mexico, when Calfornia, Texas and everything in-between was all part of Mexico:

Why are Americans in an uproar over historical fact? Is it that they do not want to be reminded of how they stole half of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting On The Grid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It all began with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the new particle accelerator that will give scientists information on the origin of the universe, among other things. That is scheduled to begin operation later this summer, but years ago the developers realized that the new accelerator, once complete, will generate data at prodigious speed and [...]]]></description>
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