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		<title>my SXSW space tweeps slides</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On March 11th, 2012 in Austin, TX at the SXSW Interactive conference, I had the privilege of being on a panel of space enthusiasts called &#8220;How to Win Friends and Influence Space Exploration&#8220;. You can listen to audio of the panel at the SXSW site. The panel was fun, and I put together a slide [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://globalspin.com/2012/04/my-sxsw-space-tweeps-slides/</link>
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		<title>on life and its sources</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I read the geeklet a story at bedtime, the kind of thing that&#8217;s designed to be restful with a hint of mind-broadening moral reassurance. As I finished, he looked thoughtful. &#8220;We wouldn&#8217;t be here without this.&#8221; He tapped on the floor. &#8220;I don&#8217;t mean the floor, or the neighbors downstairs. I mean the ground [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://globalspin.com/2012/04/on-life-and-its-sources/</link>
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		<title>Short Story: Like An Arrow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I get the urge to write a short story. Usually the feeling passes, but this one stuck with me and kept nagging until I let it out. More story notes at the bottom. A shaggy dog barred my path through the door. He was my sister&#8217;s dog, a long-suffering poodle lounging in the Louisiana [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://globalspin.com/2012/03/short-story-like-an-arrow/</link>
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		<title>Experiment Sunday update: Electric Circuits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Note: Each week my geeklet and I have "experiment sunday", a brief and casual exploration of hands-on science and engineering.] This week&#8217;s experiment was a great success. That isn&#8217;t to say that it went off without a hitch; the hitches made for more valuable learning than the experiment itself. We set out to make a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://globalspin.com/2012/02/experiment-sunday-electric-circuits/</link>
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		<title>a note about passwords</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Passwords bug me. Specifically, password management on most websites is maddening. Here are a few things to keep in mind when designing yours: List your password-format rules up front. All too often, sites ask for a password with no indication of their format rules, then scream &#8220;ERROR!&#8221; when you don&#8217;t guess correctly. Yell at your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://globalspin.com/2012/01/a-note-about-passwords/</link>
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		<title>watching space stations dance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re in Southern California on January 5th, you might get a chance to see two space stations in the sky at the same time. (Pretty cool, right?) If it&#8217;s clear enough, and if I&#8217;ve read the magnitudes and times and directions correctly on Heavens Above, here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ll be doing that night: At 5:00pm [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://globalspin.com/2012/01/watching-space-stations-dance/</link>
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		<title>The Mpemba Effect: A Good Case For Citizen Science?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just read an intriguing article on the Mpemba effect at Skulls in the Stars. Between the history of the effect and the continuing puzzle of what causes it, this is the best example of science-as-a-process I&#8217;ve ever seen: Mpemba made his accidental discovery in Tanzania in 1963, when he was only 13 years old [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://globalspin.com/2011/06/the-mpemba-effect-a-good-case-for-citizen-science/</link>
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		<title>this is not a science blog post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I (and Global Spin) have changed a bit over the last few months. Nothing you&#8217;d notice much, but I&#8217;ve set aside a few projects and picked up a few others. Specifically, I&#8217;m starting the long road toward becoming a licensed scientician. Long story short: Global Spin is shifting towards science blogging. For the remainder of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://globalspin.com/2011/03/this-is-not-a-science-blog-post/</link>
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		<title>why I won&#8217;t fly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t fly. Since the TSA put its latest set of security-theater rules in effect, I just can&#8217;t do it (or ask my family to) in good conscience. It comes down to this: I know too many people who would be traumatized by the kind of treatment the TSA has made mandatory. I can think [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://globalspin.com/2011/01/why-i-wont-fly/</link>
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		<title>an analogy for particles with spin one-half</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This may seem like an odd diversion, but John asked about it just this morning so I thought I&#8217;d share with the rest of the class. Electrons, in their secret life as wibbly-wobbly quantum particle-wavey things, have a property called spin. To quote a handy article I just ran across: One of the things that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://globalspin.com/2010/12/an-analogy-for-particles-with-spin-one-half/</link>
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