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	<title>Discoblog</title>
	<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog</link>
	<description>Discoblog is DISCOVER's compendium of offbeat science news, rounded up daily from the edge of the known universe.</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 19:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Weekly Science Blog Roundup</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/09/weekly-science-blog-roundup-4/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/09/weekly-science-blog-roundup-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 18:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Lafsky</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Blog Roundup]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[• If you give away your lotto ticket, is it more likely to win? John Tierney discusses the science of tempting fate.
• Mark Alpert offers a breakdown of why the only scientists in novels are mad ones.
• Ever wonder why there isn&#8217;t a Web site sharing the latest in cutting-edge teaching methods? Look no further: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Save the Planet: Dissolve Your Dead</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/09/save-the-planet-dissolve-your-dead/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/09/save-the-planet-dissolve-your-dead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 17:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lizzie Buchen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Health &amp; Medicine]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Living World]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You eschew cars and planes, eat insects over meat, dedicate yourself to recycling, avoid plastic, and install CFLs in every socket within reach—but what about your carbon footprint after death?
Standard coffin burials are known environmental hazards, involving high levels of hazardous chemicals and metals at every step. The body is first embalmed with formaldehyde (arsenic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is That Your Bluetooth, or Are You Just Having a Heart Attack?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/08/is-that-your-bluetooth-or-are-you-just-having-a-heart-attack/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/08/is-that-your-bluetooth-or-are-you-just-having-a-heart-attack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 19:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Lafsky</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health &amp; Medicine]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the midst of controversy proclaiming WiFi as the harbinger of brain tumors, it&#8217;s nice to hear that wireless might actually be doing us some good. The same technology that lets you jabber into your Bluetooth earpiece can also let your doctor know you&#8217;re having a heart attack.
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		<title>Children: The Ultimate Kill-Joys</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/08/children-the-ultimate-kill-joys/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/08/children-the-ultimate-kill-joys/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 18:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lizzie Buchen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Mind &amp; Brain]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[happiness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[


18 years of sadness begins


Americans will make more phone calls this Sunday than on any other day of the year, showering their mothers with love and gratitude. A month from now, fathers will receive a similar deluge of calls and, although the calls are far more likely to be of the collect variety, the sentiment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Britain&#8217;s War On Chewing Gum Terror</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/08/britains-war-on-chewing-gum-terror/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/08/britains-war-on-chewing-gum-terror/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 16:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lizzie Buchen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[enzymes]]></category>

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Every year, 935 million packs of gum are chewed by 28 million Britons, leaving millions of sticky, inconvenient lumps in their wake. The globs can only be removed with high pressure steam hoses, expensive freezing machines, or corrosive, environmentally unfriendly chemicals, costing taxpayers £150 ($300) million per year. The desperate state of affairs has attracted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today Your Catheter Will Be Inserted By &#8230; a Robot</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/08/today-your-catheter-will-be-inserted-by-a-robot/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/08/today-your-catheter-will-be-inserted-by-a-robot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 16:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Lafsky</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health &amp; Medicine]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Robots may not only be cleaning your house and providing you with love and companionship in the coming years—they may also be performing your surgery. A team of engineers at Duke University have completed a set of feasibility tests that they call the &#8220;first concrete steps&#8221; toward making robot surgery a fully, er, operational process.
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		<title>Breastfeeding Linked to Smarter Babies (Again)</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/07/breastfeeding-linked-to-smarter-babies-again/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/07/breastfeeding-linked-to-smarter-babies-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 20:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Lafsky</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[sex &amp; reproduction]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[women's health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s some new ammunition for the mommy wars: the largest study ever done on the subject of breastfeeding and intelligence has found a correlation between &#8220;prolonged and exclusive&#8221; breastfeeding and smarter babies.
The study, authored by Michael Kramer from the Montreal Children&#8217;s Hospital, started by identifying about 17,000 Belarusian mothers with newborns. Half of the mothers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Whom the Belle Tolled</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/07/for-whom-the-belle-tolled/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/07/for-whom-the-belle-tolled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 19:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patti Adcroft</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The nature versus nurture argument played out once again, but this time in the Kentucky Derby before a television audience of 14.2 million, the privileged rooting from the Churchill Downs’ bandstand, the more pedestrian of us shouting from barstools and sofas. Eight Belles, the first filly to enter the race in almost a decade, raced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hate Your Ungainly Chicken Legs? At Least You Won&#8217;t Lose Your Mind.</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/07/hate-your-ungainly-chicken-legs-at-least-you-wont-lose-your-mind/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/07/hate-your-ungainly-chicken-legs-at-least-you-wont-lose-your-mind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 17:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lizzie Buchen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Health &amp; Medicine]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mind &amp; Brain]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Alzheimer's disease]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[dementia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Life isn&#8217;t fair for the vertically challenged. They can&#8217;t see the stage at concerts, can&#8217;t reach the top shelf at the grocery store, have to hem their pants, and make less money and have less power than their taller peers. Well, I&#8217;m afraid new research shows that it doesn&#8217;t get much better. People, particularly women, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scotch and Science: Doubly Good For What Ails Ya</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/07/scotch-and-science-doubly-good-for-what-ails-ya/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/07/scotch-and-science-doubly-good-for-what-ails-ya/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 15:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lizzie Buchen</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[NYAS]]></category>

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For those of us who learned to drink whisky in the traditional &#8220;shoot it and wait for the burn&#8221; school of liquor consumption, a whisky &#8220;tasting&#8221; session seems like an exercise in futility—whiskies all have the same heat and nose hair-singeing astringency, so what&#8217;s the point? But &#8220;The Science of Scotch&#8221; was the final installment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freakish, Caribou-Eating Creature Haunts the Arctic Deep</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/06/freakish-caribou-eating-creature-haunts-the-arctic-deep/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/06/freakish-caribou-eating-creature-haunts-the-arctic-deep/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 20:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lizzie Buchen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Living World]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sharks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ According to Inuit myth, a urine-soaked cloth was once whipped from an old lady&#8217;s hand and carried out to sea, where it turned into a sea monster called &#8220;skalugsuak.&#8221; Of its legendary peculiarities, skalugsuak lives for 200 years, has thousands of teeth, weighs over a ton, eats caribou whole, has skin that can destroy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good News, Lazy Eaters: The Robotic Chewing Machine Has Arrived</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/06/good-news-lazy-eaters-the-robotic-chewing-machine-has-arrived/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/06/good-news-lazy-eaters-the-robotic-chewing-machine-has-arrived/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 16:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lizzie Buchen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re tired of chewing—and drinkable yogurt, liquid donuts, and Thanksgiving dinner-flavored sodas aren&#8217;t your thing—researchers at ENITIAA are coming to the rescue. In the May 14 issue of the American Chemical Society&#8217;s Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, they report the design of an artificial mouth that mimics the first steps of human digestion, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Incredible, Not-So-Edible Egg</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/05/the-incredible-not-so-edible-egg/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/05/the-incredible-not-so-edible-egg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 17:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lizzie Buchen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Living World]]></category>

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How do those gooey yellow and clear globs that sizzle and fry as our morning omelettes ever grow into big, squawking, feathery chickens? Well, they don&#8217;t—the eggs we eat aren&#8217;t fertilized—but fertilized eggs look the same and pose a similar mystery. Pravda.ru has a photo gallery that tracks the life of a chicken, from its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Zen Garden for Robots</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/05/a-zen-garden-for-robots/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/05/a-zen-garden-for-robots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 16:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lizzie Buchen</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>Female Spiders Attracted to Ultraviolet Bling</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/02/female-spiders-attracted-to-ultraviolet-bling/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/02/female-spiders-attracted-to-ultraviolet-bling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 17:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lizzie Buchen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Living World]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Male jumping spiders, known for their wicked dance moves (video), may have another trick for attracting mates: ultraviolet come-hither looks. The discovery, made by Jingjing Li from the Hubei University in China and published yesterday in Current Biology, is the first evidence that insects can detect UV-B rays.
UV-A rays can be detected by many insects, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man&#8217;s Finger Heals Normally—No Eye of Newt or Bladder of Frog Required</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/02/mans-finger-heals-normally%e2%80%94no-eye-of-newt-or-bladder-of-frog-required/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/02/mans-finger-heals-normally%e2%80%94no-eye-of-newt-or-bladder-of-frog-required/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 16:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lizzie Buchen</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Living World]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[magic]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[regeneration]]></category>

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Last year, a story captured the hearts and imaginations of Harry Potter fans everywhere: Lee Spievack sliced off his fingertip (while showing a customer why the motor on his model plane was dangerous), and regrew it with magic pixie dust made from dried pigs&#8217; bladder.

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		<title>Is That a Jet Landing by My Head, Or Just a Bat?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/01/is-that-a-jet-landing-by-my-head-or-just-a-bat/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/01/is-that-a-jet-landing-by-my-head-or-just-a-bat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 19:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Lafsky</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Living World]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Think your upstairs neighbors are loud? Be glad they aren&#8217;t bats. Researchers have discovered that the mouse-like mammals can emit sounds up to 140 decibels (dB), which is about the same level as a jet engine from 100 feet away or a gun blast right next to your ear. All from an animal that typically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bird-Watchers Beware—You&#8217;re Being Watched</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/01/bird-watchers-beware%e2%80%94youre-being-watched/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/01/bird-watchers-beware%e2%80%94youre-being-watched/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 18:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lizzie Buchen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Living World]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[animal intelligence]]></category>

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When settling down for a bite to eat, wild starlings like a little privacy—and they&#8217;re smart enough to know when they&#8217;ve got it. A recent study shows that wild starlings won&#8217;t touch their food if a human is looking at it, but don&#8217;t mind so much when a human is close but averting his ravenous, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Answer to (one of) the World&#8217;s Food Problems</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 15:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lizzie Buchen</dc:creator>
		
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Australia may save this suffering child




We&#8217;ve all witnessed the tragedy of apple oxidation: Take a crisp, refreshing bite from a ripe Granny Smith, set it down for a minute or two—and when you return the luscious white flesh has been tinted an offending shade of brown. Well, if you thought the Grapple marked the zenith [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Genetic Mutant Athletes Immune to Steroid Tests</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/05/01/genetic-mutant-athletes-immune-to-steroid-tests/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 13:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Lafsky</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s some bad news for sports officials in Beijing—not to mention the entire world of professional sports: Certain people may be genetically immune to urine screenings for testosterone, one of the most popular illegal performance-enhancing drugs used by professional athletes. 
Jenny Jakobsson Schulze, a molecular geneticist at Karolinska University Hospital, gave urine tests to 55 [...]]]></description>
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