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		<title>Weekly News Roundup: Special Halloween Edition</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/realitybase/2008/10/31/weekly-news-roundup-special-halloween-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Lafsky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science Goes to Washington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The 2008 Election]]></category>
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• Get in touch with your inner polar bear—and kick some climate change a$$.
• Attention: Cruddy voting machines = cruddy news for voters.
• The Economist smacks down pretty much the entire science journalism establishment. Don&#8217;t worry, we won&#8217;t mention how you weren&#8217;t exactly first in line to predict the financial crisis.
• We love voter databases [...]]]></description>
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<p>• Get in touch with your <a href="http://www.gaszappers.com/" target="_blank">inner polar bear</a>—and kick some climate change a$$.</p>
<p>• Attention: <a href="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/10/video-recalibra.html" target="_blank">Cruddy voting machines = cruddy news for voters</a>.</p>
<p>• The <em>Economist</em> <a href="http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12376658" target="_blank">smacks down</a> pretty much the entire science journalism establishment. Don&#8217;t worry, we won&#8217;t mention how you weren&#8217;t exactly <a href="http://www.ft.com/" target="_blank">first in line</a> to predict the financial crisis.</p>
<p>• We love voter databases (<a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/realitybase/2008/10/23/be-very-afraid-online-voting-systems-fail-even-for-political-bloggers/">even if they don&#8217;t love us</a>). Unfortunately, Ohio&#8217;s <a href="http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1225441996268580.xml&amp;coll=2" target="_blank">might not even make it through a single fraud check</a>. Ask us how <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/realitybase/2008/10/28/voting-in-america-redux-you-cant-vote-here-but-you-can-vote-in-space/">shocked we are</a>.</p>
<p>• Man v. the Internet: <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/164588/page/3" target="_blank">Did the Web hinder</a> (or help) the financial crisis?</p>
<p>• Obama&#8217;s <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/realitybase/2008/08/20/obama-would-win-easilyif-the-election-were-a-web-poll/">groundbreaking</a> Web campaign: &#8220;<a href="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/10/obamas-secret-w.html" target="_blank">Controlled chaos</a>&#8221; (that <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aNand.2Wd4oE&amp;refer=home" target="_blank">looks like it&#8217;ll work</a>).</p>
<p>• And if you&#8217;re looking for last minute Halloween costume ideas, <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/10/29/discover%e2%80%99s-top-ten-science-halloween-costumes-part-ii/">look no further</a>.</p>
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