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	<title>Cosmic Appetite</title>
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	<description>&#34;There&#039;s no denying the public&#039;s appetite for cosmic discovery&#34; - Neil deGrasse Tyson</description>
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		<title>Flying Things</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite biologists, John Maynard Smith, was once an engineer like myself.  He designed planes in WWII and then decided biology was more interesting.  He made a complete and total career change, citing that airplanes were &#8220;noisy and old fashioned&#8221;.  Anyway he still loved flying things, and wrote a really [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cosmicappetite.com/?p=28</link>
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		<title>Noble Beast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a special bond with some of the things I learn.  Just think of how many things you learn throughout a normal day, it&#8217;s staggering&#8230; but most of it is trivial and dull.  In fact, most of the things I learn at work or just going about my day pass right through [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cosmicappetite.com/?p=27</link>
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		<title>Desktop Telescope</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went to Fry’s this weekend and walked out with a telescope.  Yes, I bought a telescope on impulse but I simply couldn’t resist.  This isn’t just any telescope though; this is a truly “Desktop” telescope!  Seriously, the tube isn’t much bigger than a liter bottle and I can pick the whole [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cosmicappetite.com/?p=23</link>
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		<title>Discovery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is it that confers the noblest delight?  What is that which swells a man&#8217;s breast with pride above that which any experience can bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where non other have walked; that you are beholding what human eye has not seen before; that you are breathing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cosmicappetite.com/?p=22</link>
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		<title>A Sense of Scale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a wonderful little application!  Scroll through it and have your mind thoroughly blown to bits.
http://primaxstudio.com/stuff/scale_of_universe.swf
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		<link>http://www.cosmicappetite.com/?p=21</link>
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		<title>Robots!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s National Robotics Week!
http://www.nationalroboticsweek.org/
I have to admit, I love robots.  I grew up reading all kinds of science fiction and it was unavoidable.  I remember reading all of the I, Robot stories by Isaac Asimov and being completely inundated by robots in movies.  Remember Johnny 5 from Short Circuit?  What about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cosmicappetite.com/?p=20</link>
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		<title>We’re Not Special?  Think Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I read a lot of science books and a lot of them take an almost fiendish pride in reminding us how “insignificant” we are.  I  disagree.  They mention how the earth is very small, a grain in a vast ocean of useless space and time.  They remind us that at one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cosmicappetite.com/?p=18</link>
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		<title>Symphonic Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been trying to think of a good analogy for the complexity and beauty in nature.  The best thing I can come up with is music.  For instance, a piece of piano music is made up of only a few dozen discrete tones.  If a kid came and bashed away on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cosmicappetite.com/?p=17</link>
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		<title>Better Living through Chemistry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been sick a few times this past month and it was hell.  It was so bad I had to go on a course of antibiotics to help wipe out the infection.  That got me thinking though, how do antibiotics even work?  It’s just a pill, so how does the chemical know [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cosmicappetite.com/?p=16</link>
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		<title>The Science in My Lunch Today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I whipped out an orange from my lunch bag today and it was as large as a baby’s head.  Amazing!  The thing weighed about a pound and looked to be in perfect health, glowing a bright rich… well orange color.  I thought to myself, why the heck is this orange so big? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cosmicappetite.com/?p=15</link>
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