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	<title>Statto’s shorts</title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2006 16:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Short 636</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hot stuff at The Big Bang Fair—<a href="http://www.planet-scicast.com/view_clip.cfm?cit_id=2899" title="Planet SciCast: Hot stuff">watch me explode a hydrogen balloon on a thermal camera</a>!]]></description>
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		<title>Short 633</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just saw a real human placenta. Didn’t look that tasty…]]></description>
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		<title>Short 632</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear <abbr>BT</abbr> wireless, It is not a fucking ‘OpenZone’ if it costs £5.99 per 90 minutes. Yours sincerely, Statto.]]></description>
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		<title>Short 631</title>
		<link>http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/631</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bit slow on the uptake on this because I’ve been science outreaching, but nerds say <abbr>LHC</abbr> 7&nbsp;TeV thing isn’t big news either.]]></description>
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		<title>Short 630</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFQ49dssMuk" title="YouTube: The Magic of IR—Transparency">Slightly tacky American advertorial style barely detracts from the fact that <strong class="shout">thermal imaging is awesome</strong>.</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Short 629</title>
		<link>http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/629</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Me and a superconductor at −196°C, floating above neodymium magnets, taken with a thermal camera. <img src="http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/629-flir-superconductor.jpg" alt="" style="max-width: 320px;" />]]></description>
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		<title>Short 628</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally in an apartment in Manchester. Today took longer than I thought!]]></description>
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		<title>Short 627</title>
		<link>http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/627</link>
		<comments>http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/627#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<abbr>CERN</abbr> nerds: <a href="http://twitter.com/ProfBrianCox/status/10267971567" title="Twitter: Brian Cox (ProfBrianCox)">Brian Cox says</a> scheduled maintenance isn’t news. Is the fact that the first cycle will only be at 7&nbsp;TeV news?]]></description>
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		<title>Short 626</title>
		<link>http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/626</link>
		<comments>http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/626#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hydrogen and liquid nitrogen ready for <a href="http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/accelerate/">our <em> Accelerate!</em> particle physics outreach show</a> at <a href="http://thebigbangfair.co.uk/">The Big Bang Fair</a> with <a href="http://suziesheehy.co.uk" title="suziesheehy.co.uk">Suzie</a> and <a href="http://rosalindwest.co.uk/" title="rosalindwest.co.uk">Rosalind</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Short 625</title>
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		<comments>http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/625#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://trueslant.com/webtrends/2010/03/08/there-are-more-farmville-players-than-twitter-users/" title="WebTrends: There are more FarmVille players than Twitter users">Farmville has more users than Twitter…but try telling the media that.</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Short 624</title>
		<link>http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/624</link>
		<comments>http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/624#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is ‘there are no axioms’ itself an axiom, and therefore self-refuting? Does it matter what type of system you are trying to formalise?]]></description>
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		<title>Short 622</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gosh, I hadn’t realised there were <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pasta" title="Wikipedia: list of types of pasta">so many of these</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Short 620</title>
		<link>http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/620</link>
		<comments>http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/620#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just had a good moan about <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qyxfb" title="BBC: Wonders of the Solar System"><cite>Wonders of the Solar System</cite></a> at coffee. Visual spectacle but thin on science. Any chance of a dub for geeks, Brian?]]></description>
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		<title>Short 619</title>
		<link>http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/619</link>
		<comments>http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/619#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday photograph: <a href="http://andrewsteele.co.uk/photography/130996/">evening autumn light in olde Manhattan</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Short 618</title>
		<link>http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/618</link>
		<comments>http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/618#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More <cite>Cherwell</cite> science: <a href="http://cherwell.org/content/10090">what how physicists talk can tell us about how they think</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Short 617</title>
		<link>http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/617</link>
		<comments>http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/617#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please say <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7052010.ece" title="Times: Gove unveils Tory plan for return to ‘traditional’ school lessons">this is a spoof</a>. Near-satirical traditionalism, plus moron celebrity curriculum advisers. Susan Greenfield? Prince fucking Charles?!]]></description>
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		<title>Short 616</title>
		<link>http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/616</link>
		<comments>http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/616#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Favourite part of today so far: watching a fully-grown man hide under his desk because he heard a PhD student coming to ask him a question.]]></description>
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		<title>Short 613</title>
		<link>http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/613</link>
		<comments>http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/613#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Old week, new photo: <a href="http://andrewsteele.co.uk/photography/343228/">wide-eyed deer</a>.]]></description>
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		<title>Short 612</title>
		<link>http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/612</link>
		<comments>http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/612#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<abbr>RT</abbr> @<a href="http://twitter.com/SmallCasserole" title="Twitter: Ian Hopkinson (SmallCasserole)">SmallCasserole</a> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/mar/05/climate-emails-institute-of-physics-submission" title="Guardian: Energy consultant linked to physics body’s submission"><abbr>IOP</abbr> throws a veil of secrecy over its demand for openness on climate data.</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Short 611</title>
		<link>http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/611</link>
		<comments>http://andrewsteele.co.uk/shorts/611#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jesus! Lord Drayson <a href="http://twitter.com/lorddrayson/status/9977019240" title="Twitter: Lord Paul Drayson (lorddrayson)">says</a>:  ‘I’m talking 6,000 wind turbines as big as the London Eye on a pillar as tall as the Eiffel Tower in the North Sea.’]]></description>
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