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	<title>Big Think Blog</title>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Edward O. Wilson and How to Save the Mammals</title>
		<link>http://www.bigthink.com/blog/2008/10/07/edward-o-wilson-and-how-to-save-the-mammals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zachary</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The International Union for Conservation of Nature descended on Barcelona this weekend for the largest annual meeting of environmental decision-makers on the planet. With threats to the planet more virulent than ever, particular concern was being paid to the IUCN&#8217;s Red List forecasting the extinction of one in four mammals. The list tabulates more than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pickens and Pope Show Environmental Activism Makes Strange Bedfellows</title>
		<link>http://www.bigthink.com/blog/2008/10/07/pickens-and-pope-show-environmental-activism-makes-strange-bedfellows/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bigthink.com/blog/2008/10/07/pickens-and-pope-show-environmental-activism-makes-strange-bedfellows/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you had to choose a political color for T. Boone Pickens, the Texas oilman turned philanthropist turned enviro-capitalist and supporter of both George W. Bush and Rudy Giuliani for president, it would undoubtedly be red. So it might come as a surprise to learn how green the man actually is. In July, he unveiled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forget &#8220;The Office.&#8221; The BBC Has a New Show About Math</title>
		<link>http://www.bigthink.com/blog/2008/10/07/forget-the-office-the-bbc-has-a-new-show-about-math/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bigthink.com/blog/2008/10/07/forget-the-office-the-bbc-has-a-new-show-about-math/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So many of us have made the claim, &#8220;I&#8217;m just not a math person.&#8221; Well I hate to break this to you but we&#8217;re all math people whether we like it or not. Why, you ask? Because math is at the heart of technology and therefore at the heart of the modern world, explains Oxford [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Sexton Presents &#8220;NYU: Abu Dhabi Edition&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.bigthink.com/blog/2008/10/06/john-sexton-presents-nyu-abu-dhabi-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bigthink.com/blog/2008/10/06/john-sexton-presents-nyu-abu-dhabi-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The presidents of prestigious American liberal arts colleges and universities often migrate from one institution to another, but rarely does their new zip code place them in the Middle East. Well, times have changed. Alfred H. Bloom, the current president of Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, has been named leader of New York University&#8217;s new outpost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rush Limbaugh Thinks Barack Obama&#8217;s Star is Fading</title>
		<link>http://www.bigthink.com/blog/2008/10/06/rush-limbaugh-thinks-barack-obamas-star-is-fading/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bigthink.com/blog/2008/10/06/rush-limbaugh-thinks-barack-obamas-star-is-fading/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annelle</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Policy &amp; Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rush Limbaugh took a call from a student at University of Wisconsin-Madison who said that Obama&#8217;s star is fading among college students on his campus. The student described his classmates walking out of the VP debate when they realized that Sarah Palin was holding her own: &#8220;a lot of them had the feeling in their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learn How Animals Use Color</title>
		<link>http://www.bigthink.com/blog/2008/10/06/learn-how-animals-use-color/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Fashion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fall fashion weeks in New York and across the Atlantic recently came to a close. According to fashion blogger Coquette, the colors that emerged from the Bryant Park runways this season were yellows, grays, violets, reds, and fresh interpretations of the ever-classic black-and-white combination. Dozens of stylish men and women everywhere are surely snapping up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Destroying Coal Plants is the Only Way to Solve the Climate Crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.bigthink.com/blog/2008/10/06/destroying-coal-plants-is-the-only-way-to-solve-the-climate-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bigthink.com/blog/2008/10/06/destroying-coal-plants-is-the-only-way-to-solve-the-climate-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EricLach</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently posted on a Harvard panel that tried to lay out strategies for acting in time on climate change. Well, just down the road at MIT, graduate student Michael Hogan&#8217;s research has  that even those measures already being taken will prove ineffective, or, worse, counterproductive to combating global warming. Now, to be sure, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Will America Defeat China? Cigarettes</title>
		<link>http://www.bigthink.com/blog/2008/10/06/how-will-america-defeat-china-cigarettes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bigthink.com/blog/2008/10/06/how-will-america-defeat-china-cigarettes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Merrell</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[The World]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If last week’s news that light cigarettes have essentially the same effect on receptors in the brain as regular cigarettes wasn’t enough to make you go cold turkey, recent projections of smoking-related deaths in China may convince you to quit in solidarity. A study from the Harvard School of Public Health predicts that, if current [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andrew Kohut and How to Have Fun With Statistics!</title>
		<link>http://www.bigthink.com/blog/2008/10/06/andrew-kohut-and-how-to-have-fun-with-statistics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bigthink.com/blog/2008/10/06/andrew-kohut-and-how-to-have-fun-with-statistics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zachary</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Business &amp; Economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Even if scatter plots, population samples and bell curves have you flashing back to unpleasant memories of a not-quite-aced freshman statistics course, we have to hand it to the field for providing us with a great deal of useful data. Without statistics and statisticians&#8211;those in horn-rimmed glasses who can predict the future after some number [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Q and How Gene Therapy is Targeting Brain Tumors</title>
		<link>http://www.bigthink.com/blog/2008/10/06/dr-q-and-how-gene-therapy-is-targeting-brain-tumors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bigthink.com/blog/2008/10/06/dr-q-and-how-gene-therapy-is-targeting-brain-tumors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EricLach</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have developed a new approach to gene therapy that could change the way we combat brain tumors: forget the tumor, arm the body. Instead of implanting new genes in the cancer cells themselves, researchers have found a way to deliver cancer-fighting proteins to the cells around tumors in mice brains. [...]]]></description>
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