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			<title>Eclipse Glasses Sold Out in Advance of Sunday’s Solar Eclipse</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[With Sunday’s solar eclipse capturing the nation’s collective attention, eclipse glasses have been selling like crazy.

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			<title>SpaceX readies ambitious ISS launch</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/SpaceX+readies+ambitious+ISS+launch</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Shaking off jitters, SpaceX counted down Friday to liftoff of its Dragon capsule to the International Space Station in what may be a historic mission for private spaceflight.]]></description> 
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			<title>Facebook falls flat in public debut (Update 2)</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Facebook+falls+flat+in+public+debut+%28Update+2%29</link>
			<description><![CDATA[(AP) --  After all the hype, Facebook&#039;s first day as a public company ended where it began.]]></description> 
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			<title>Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Scalp Massager</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Friday+Squid+Blogging%3A+Squid+Scalp+Massager</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Cheap!

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven&#039;t covered.]]></description> 
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			<title>Researcher apologizes for study of gay therapy</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Researcher+apologizes+for+study+of+gay+therapy</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A prominent retired psychiatrist is apologizing to the gay community for a decade-old study that concluded some gay people can go straight through what&#039;s called reparative therapy.]]></description> 
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			<title>&#039;Fat Tax&#039; on Unhealthy Food Must Raise Prices by 20% to Have Effect, Says Study -- The Guardian, London</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/%27Fat+Tax%27+on+Unhealthy+Food+Must+Raise+Prices+by+20%25+to+Have+Effect%2C+Says+Study+--+The+Guardian%2C+London</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Denis Campbell reports on the findings of a new economics study that surveyed the lifestyle taxes in place around the globe and what it might take to end the perverse incentives that can contribute to the global obesity epidemic. &quot;&#039;Fat taxes&#039; would have to increase the price of unhealthy food and drinks by as much as 20% in order to cut consumption by enough to reduce obesity and other diet-related diseases...Such levies should be accompanied by subsidies on healthy foods such as fruit and vegetables to help encourage a significant shift in dietary habits...research led by Dr Oliver Mytton and Dr Mike Rayner of the Department of Public Health at Oxford University examined the evidence from around the world for what they call health-related food taxes.&quot;]]></description> 
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			<title>Insecticide Resistance Threatens Malaria Fight -- Reuters</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Insecticide+Resistance+Threatens+Malaria+Fight+--+Reuters</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Kate Kelland reports on the double-edge sword insecticides play in the battle to prevent malaria and the new resistance warning from the WHO. &quot;While existing [malaria] prevention measures such as mosquito nets treated with insecticide and indoor spraying are still effective...tight surveillance and rapid response strategies [are advised in order]...to prevent more resistance [from] developing...malaria still kills more than 650,000 people a year...the disease is spread by Anopheles mosquitoes, [which makes] insecticides...a vital part of controlling it. Publishing a plan to help countries tackle the threat, the World Health Organization&#039;s global malaria program...[has] detected [resistance] in 64 countries.&quot;]]></description> 
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			<title>Lead Poisoning Guidelines Revised [and] More Considered at Risk -- USA Today</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Lead+Poisoning+Guidelines+Revised+%5Band%5D+More+Considered+at+Risk+--+USA+Today</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Weise and Alison Young report on the new guidelines from the CDC and the new population affected by lead contamination of U.S. soil. &quot;In a...shift, the CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] cut in half the amount of lead that will trigger medical monitoring and other actions in children ages 1 to 5...Now any child with more than 5 micrograms per deciliter of lead in their blood will be considered at risk...The new levels come with a huge caveat. The CDC doesn&#039;t &#039;have the funding, staff or control over the means to implement&#039; them, it said in a statement...Still, the new guidelines are viewed by several experts as a necessary change.&quot;]]></description> 
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			<title>If You Text and Walk, Remember to Look Up -- The News Journal, Delaware</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Melissa Nann Burke reports on the pedestrian safety initiatives in the U.S. surrounding the ever-increasing reports of distracted walking injuries that stem from engrossed mobile device users losing sight of the world outside of their hand-held screens. &quot;Recently, nearly 100 large stickers were placed on sidewalks near crosswalks [throughout Delaware]...urging pedestrians to &#039;look up&#039; from [mobile devices]...and pay attention to what&#039;s going on around them...Around the country, distracted pedestrians are colliding with cars and fire hydrants, tumbling off curbs and bumping into other pedestrians...communities are trying to get that message across to stave off pedestrian accidents that can happen when people walking become too engrossed with their phones.&quot;]]></description> 
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			<title>Non-Communicable Diseases Cause Most Deaths Worldwide -- Voice of America</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Lisa Schlein reports on the latest global health report from the U.N. and the growing role that NCDs play in deaths throughout the world. &quot;The World Health Organization reports almost two-thirds of all global deaths are due to heart disease, cancer, diabetes and other non-communicable diseases. The World Health Statistics Report provides information on the state of health in 194 countries. Non-communicable diseases [NCDs] are not just a problem of wealthy countries. The World Health Organization says they mainly affect people in poorer countries, of whom half die before they reach the age of 70. Cardiovascular diseases are the most common cause of death, followed by cancers. Data from 194 countries show one in three adults worldwide has elevated blood pressure, a condition that causes around half of all deaths from stroke and heart disease. In many African countries, it notes, as much as half the adult population has high blood pressure. The World Health Organization [WHO] says most of these people remain undiagnosed. As a consequence, they do not get treated with low-cost medications that could prevent disability or premature death from heart disease and stroke. WHO Department of Health Statistics Director Ties Boerma said preventable risk factors that cause chronic disease are common across the world.&quot;]]></description> 
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			<title>Distant Star Smokes Nearby Planet | Video</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Distant+Star+Smokes+Nearby+Planet+%7C+Video</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A Mercury-sized planet, about 1500 light years away seems to be smoldering to ash due from the heat of its nearby hot orange star. Researchers at MIT and NASA found a long tail of debris, similar to a comet, revolving in sync with the planet&#039;s orbit.

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			<title>Launch Webcast: See SpaceX Launch Dragon Capsule Saturday</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Launch+Webcast%3A+See+SpaceX+Launch+Dragon+Capsule+Saturday</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Tune in to see SpaceX launch its first flight to the space station Saturday at 4:55 a.m. ET.

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			<title>Star Trails Seen from the ISS Cupola</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Star+Trails+Seen+from+the+ISS+Cupola</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Don Pettit took photos of star trails, terrestrial lights, airglow and auroras while aboard the International Space Station.

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			<title>Star Trails Seen from the ISS in Swirls</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Star+Trails+Seen+from+the+ISS+in+Swirls</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Don Pettit took photos of star trails, terrestrial lights, airglow and auroras while aboard the International Space Station.

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			<title>Your Optimism Bias: One of the Best and Worst Tricks Your Brain Plays on You</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Your+Optimism+Bias%3A+One+of+the+Best+and+Worst+Tricks+Your+Brain+Plays+on+You</link>
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				 By nature, we&#039;re optimistic.  We think we&#039;re better than most people at virtually everything we do.  We believe we&#039;ll beat the odds of getting cancer even when we smoke a pack of cigarettes a week.  This is the result of our optimism bias, and it both helps us succeed and make some of the dumbest decisions of our lives.  Here&#039;s how it works, and how you can make it work for you. 				More »
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			<title>Stanford scientists document fragile land-sea ecological chain</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Stanford+scientists+document+fragile+land-sea+ecological+chain</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Douglas McCauley and Paul DeSalles did not set out to discover one of the longest ecological interaction chains ever documented. But that&#039;s exactly what they and a team of researchers -- all current or former Stanford students and faculty -- did in a new study published in Scientific Reports.
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			<title>Stakes High for 1st Private Rocket Launch to Space Station Saturday</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The stakes are high for SpaceX&#039;s planned launch of the Dragon capsule to the space station on Saturday.

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			<title>Video: A cell&#039;s first steps: Building a model to explain how cells grow</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[    A collaboration between Lehigh University physicists and University of Miami biologists addresses an important fundamental question in basic cell biology: How do living cells figure out when and where to grow?  
            
            Source: Lehigh University - Discipline: Molecular Biology]]></description> 
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			<title>Attraction or repulsion? New method predicts interaction energy of large molecules</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Attraction+or+repulsion%3F+New+method+predicts+interaction+energy+of+large+molecules</link>
			<description><![CDATA[    Krzysztof Szalewicz, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Delaware, and Rafal Podeszwa of the University of Silesia Institute of Chemistry in Poland have developed and validated a more accurate method for predicting the interaction energy of large molecules, such as biomolecules used to develop new drugs.  
            
            Source: University of Delaware - Discipline: Chemistry]]></description> 
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			<title>Flower sex safeguards against dud sperm</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Flower+sex+safeguards+against+dud+sperm</link>
			<description><![CDATA[BROWN (US) — Discovering how flowers manage the distribution of sperm among female gametes helps biologists explain why they are so widespread. In pollination, hundreds of sperm-carrying pollen grains stick to the stigma suspended in the middle of a flower and quickly grow a tube down a long shaft called a style toward clusters of ovules, which hold two female sex cells.

This could be a chaotic frenzy, but for the plant to succeed, exactly two fertile sperm should reach the two cells in each ovule—no more, no less. No ovule should be left out, either because too many tubes have gone elsewhere, or because the delivered sperm don’t work.]]></description> 
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			<title>Graphene coat could rust-proof steel</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Graphene+coat+could+rust-proof+steel</link>
			<description><![CDATA[U. BUFFALO (US) — A non-toxic, graphene-based composite for rust-proofing steel is in the works, and could replace the current coatings, which contain a probable carcinogen. In initial experiments, pieces of steel coated with the high-tech varnish remained rust-free for only a few days when immersed continuously in saltwater, an environment that accelerates corrosion.]]></description> 
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			<title>This Week&#039;s Most Popular Posts: May 12-18</title>
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				This week we squeezed our workout routine into 20 minutes, ordered tailor-made clothing on the cheap, cured our router&#039;s constant need for a reset, and more. Here&#039;s a look back. 				More »
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			<title>Climate-Cooling Trial Balloon Gets Canceled</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Climate-Cooling+Trial+Balloon+Gets+Canceled</link>
			<description><![CDATA[One of the first trials of geoengineering Earth&#039;s climate would have launched a balloon with a hose that could pump two bath loads of water into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight. But disagreements about that small, symbolic step combined with a patent issue to force a cancellation of the British experiment.]]></description> 
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			<title>Mad cow quarantines lifted at 2 California dairies</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Mad+cow+quarantines+lifted+at+2+California+dairies</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Officials have lifted quarantines on two Central California dairies linked to a case of mad cow disease, after investigators found the illness didn&#039;t come from cattle feed.]]></description> 
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			<title>Brain Food: Good Fats Better for Memory</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Brain+Food%3A+Good+Fats+Better+for+Memory</link>
			<description><![CDATA[When it comes to your noggin, not all fats are created equal, with new research finding the same fats that wreak havoc on the body may do the same to the mind. The good news, the fats known to be healthy for the body were also linked to better cognitive function in older women who participated in the new study.]]></description> 
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			<title>4G Reality Check: Beware of These Cons and Lies</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/4G+Reality+Check%3A+Beware+of+These+Cons+and+Lies</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Anyone in the market for a smartphone these days will likely see the term 4G shoved in their face by the major carriers. &quot;We have the biggest network!&quot; &quot;We have the fastest speeds!&quot; Sometimes the providers back up their claims with blazing fast data and great coverage, but other times, consumers will wind up feeling cheated. Here are some examples in which the reality simply doesn&#039;t live up to the marketing hype.Sprint&#039;s 4G LTE Phones: Hurry Up and Wait]]></description> 
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			<title>Rocket, weather look good on eve of new space era</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Rocket%2C+weather+look+good+on+eve+of+new+space+era</link>
			<description><![CDATA[NASA hasn&#039;t seen this much prelaunch jitters since the space shuttle program ended last summer.]]></description> 
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			<title>Egg wars</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Egg+wars</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Birds engage in evolutionary arms race]]></description> 
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			<title>Issue for the week of June 2nd, 2012</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Issue+for+the+week+of+June+2nd%2C+2012</link>
			<description><![CDATA[June 2, 2012 issue of Science News]]></description> 
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			<title>Deleted Scenes: Pacific coasts in line for solar eclipse</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Deleted+Scenes%3A+Pacific+coasts+in+line+for%C2%A0solar+eclipse</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Moon will block sun, almost, for four minutes on Sunday]]></description> 
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			<title>Russian Rocket Launches TV Satellite</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Russian+Rocket+Launches+TV+Satellite</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Proton rocket carried the Nimiq 6 television satellite to space.

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			<title>Science Fiction Barely Ahead of Space Exploration Reality</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Science+Fiction+Barely+Ahead+of+Space+Exploration+Reality</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Famous SF writers weigh in on whether today&#039;s space

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			<title>The 5 Most Promising Private Spaceships</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/The+5+Most+Promising+Private+Spaceships</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A look at five of the most promising private spacecraft in development today.

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			<title>NASA Embraces Commercial Space | Video</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/NASA+Embraces+Commercial+Space+%7C+Video</link>
			<description><![CDATA[By meeting obligations necessary to keep the ISS fully supplied, commercial space companies can free up NASA to fulfill its charter, which includes human exploration – and settlement – of the Solar System.

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			<title>The Future in 2312: Q&amp;A With Author Kim Stanley Robinson - Part 2</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/The+Future+in+2312%3A+Q%26A+With+Author+Kim+Stanley+Robinson+-+Part+2</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The author describes what he thinks and hopes will come to pass in 300 years.

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			<title>Terraforming the Solar System: Q&amp;A With Author Kim Stanley Robinson - Part 1</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Terraforming+the+Solar+System%3A+Q%26A+With+Author+Kim+Stanley+Robinson+-+Part+1</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The author describes his vision for the future in the new novel &#039;2312.&#039;

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			<title>Historic NASA Facility Ready for Deep Space Capsule Prototype</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Historic+NASA+Facility+Ready+for+Deep+Space+Capsule+Prototype</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The test capsule will be assembled at NASA&#039;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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			<title>Japan readies for &#039;ring&#039; solar eclipse</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Japan+readies+for+%27ring%27+solar+eclipse</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Special darkened glasses were selling out in Japan on Friday as anticipation built ahead of a &quot;ring&quot; solar eclipse above one of the most densely populated parts of the planet.]]></description> 
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			<title>Pollution teams with thunderclouds to warm atmosphere</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Pollution+teams+with+thunderclouds+to+warm+atmosphere</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Pollution is warming the atmosphere through summer thunderstorm clouds, according to a computational study published May 10 in Geophysical Research Letters. How much the warming effect of these clouds offsets the cooling that other clouds provide is not yet clear. To find out, researchers need to incorporate this new-found warming into global climate models.]]></description> 
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			<title>Open, Ring! Highly electrophilic cationic complexes as catalysts in immortal ring-opening polymerization of lactide</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Open%2C+Ring%21+Highly+electrophilic+cationic+complexes+as+catalysts+in+immortal+ring-opening+polymerization+of+lactide</link>
			<description><![CDATA[(Phys.org) -- Certain complexes of large alkaline earth elements such as calcium, strontium, and barium are efficient catalysts for various organic reactions. However, the stability of these heteroleptic complexes in solution is compromised by ligand scrambling. The β-diketiminato ligand has proven especially useful in stabilizing reactive heteroleptic complexes of calcium, but to a lesser extent those of larger alkaline earth elements.]]></description> 
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			<title>Facebook stock climbs in public debut (Update)</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Facebook+stock+climbs+in+public+debut+%28Update%29</link>
			<description><![CDATA[(AP) --  Facebook updated its status to &quot;public company&quot; on Friday.]]></description> 
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			<title>With fat: What&#039;s good or bad for the heart, may be the same for the brain</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/With+fat%3A+What%27s+good+or+bad+for+the+heart%2C+may+be+the+same+for+the+brain</link>
			<description><![CDATA[    It has been known for years that eating too many foods containing &quot;bad&quot; fats, such as saturated fats or trans fats, isn&#039;t healthy for your heart. However, according to new research from Brigham and Women&#039;s Hospital (BWH), one &quot;bad&quot; fat—saturated fat—was found to be associated with worse overall cognitive function and memory in women over time. By contrast, a &quot;good&quot; fat—mono-unsaturated  
            
            Source: Brigham and Women&#039;s Hospital - Discipline: Neuroscience]]></description> 
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			<title>Study uncovers a new exception to a decades-old rule about RNA splicing</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Study+uncovers+a+new+exception+to+a+decades-old+rule+about+RNA+splicing</link>
			<description><![CDATA[    There are always exceptions to a rule, even one that has prevailed for more than three decades, as demonstrated by a Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) study on RNA splicing, a cellular editing process. The rule-flaunting exception uncovered by the study concerns the way in which a newly produced RNA molecule is cut and pasted at precise locations called splice sites b  
            
            Source: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory - Discipline: Molecular Biology]]></description> 
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			<title>Discovering News Based on What People Unlike You Have Read</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Discovering+News+Based+on+What+People+Unlike+You+Have+Read</link>
			<description><![CDATA[  A team of journalists, programmers and digital strategists is proposing a tool that would help people discover stories being read by people unlike them.  
            
            Source: The Atlantic - Discipline: Technology]]></description> 
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			<title>Craig Venter Wants to Solve the World’s Energy Crisis</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Craig+Venter+Wants+to+Solve+the+World%E2%80%99s+Energy+Crisis</link>
			<description><![CDATA[  Here is one version of Craig Venter’s life story where he would’ve been a dutiful scientist at the National Institutes of Health, a respected yet anonymous researcher in genetics, perhaps.   
            
            Source: Wired - Discipline: Microbiology]]></description> 
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			<title>Salmonella-linked sushi toll climbs to 316</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Salmonella-linked+sushi+toll+climbs+to+316</link>
			<description><![CDATA[  The toll from latest outbreak of salmonella-spiked Sushi has climbed to 316, according to a new government report. And that number may be a huge underestimate, since food safety officials estimate that for every salmonella infection they hear about, 29.3 go unreported.  
            
            Source: MSNBC - Discipline: Epidemiology]]></description> 
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			<title>Is healthy food really more expensive?</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Is+healthy+food+really+more+expensive%3F</link>
			<description><![CDATA[  Contrary to popular belief, it can actually cost more to eat badly. In fact, a new government report finds that nutritious foods – such as grains, vegetables, fruit and dairy – typically cost less than items high in saturated fat and added sugars.  
            
            Source: MSNBC - Discipline: Health]]></description> 
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			<title>Ultrasound, not scalpel, treats tremors</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Ultrasound%2C+not+scalpel%2C+treats+tremors</link>
			<description><![CDATA[U. VIRGINIA (US) — Focused sound waves appear to be as effective as traditional surgery—which requires drilling into the skull—at treating essential tremor.University of Virginia neurosurgeon Jeffrey Elias, principal investigator of clinical trials, calls the treatment “profound.” Elias presented the findings this week at the 80th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons in Miami.]]></description> 
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			<title>How to Stop Birds from Flying into Your Windows</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/How+to+Stop+Birds+from+Flying+into+Your+Windows</link>
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				Ever found a beautiful bird dead outside your home? Chances are it smashed into your window and never recovered. For every dead bird you find, just imagine how many were snatched up by a cat or pulled into the brush by some other critter. Worldwide, window collisions kill close to a billion(!) birds every year. With spring migration currently underway in the northern hemisphere, now is as good as ever to make your home bird safe. The DIY experts at Stack Exchange tell you how. 				More »
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			<title>From cancer to quantum, teens’ scientific feats celebrated</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/From+cancer+to+quantum%2C+teens%E2%80%99+scientific+feats+celebrated</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Winners of the 2012 Intel ISEF show the promise of science for improving the world]]></description> 
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			<title>Good cholesterol may not be what keeps the heart healthy</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Good+cholesterol+may+not+be+what+keeps+the+heart+healthy</link>
			<description><![CDATA[By themselves, higher levels of HDL don’t explain lower cardiovascular risk]]></description> 
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			<title>&#039;Battleship&#039; Director Talks Adapting Board Game to Film</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/%27Battleship%27+Director+Talks+Adapting+Board+Game+to+Film</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Peter Berg talked about the real-world science that went into his film of nautical alien invasion.

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			<title>Synthetic scent hounds: Nanostructured sensor for detection of very low concentrations of explosive</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Synthetic+scent+hounds%3A+Nanostructured+sensor+for+detection+of+very+low+concentrations+of+explosive</link>
			<description><![CDATA[To prevent terrorist attacks at airports, it would be helpful to detect extremely low concentrations of explosives easily and reliably. Despite the development of various sensor technologies, dogs continue to be the most efficient detectors. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a German and French team has now described a type of micromechanical sensor with a structure derived from the sense organs of butterflies.]]></description> 
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			<title>Weather set fair for SpaceX launch</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Weather+set+fair+for+SpaceX+launch</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The weather forecast was largely favorable Friday as SpaceX prepared to launch its Dragon capsule on a bid to become the first private spacecraft to reach the International Space Station.]]></description> 
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			<title>Yahoo! stock climbs on report of Alibaba sale</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Yahoo%21+stock+climbs+on+report+of+Alibaba+sale</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Yahoo! stock price climbed on Friday on renewed rumors that it was close to a multibillion-dollar deal to sell half of its stake in Alibaba.com back to the Chinese online shopping portal.]]></description> 
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			<title>Zynga price falls 13.3% as Facebook IPO trades flat</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Zynga+price+falls+13.3%25+as+Facebook+IPO+trades+flat</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Shares of online social game maker Zynga plunged 13.3 percent and triggered a trading halt Friday as Facebook&#039;s IPO fell flat with investors.]]></description> 
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			<title>Gov. mistakenly says Facebook invented in Calif.</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Gov.+mistakenly+says+Facebook+invented+in+Calif.</link>
			<description><![CDATA[(AP) --  Apparently, California Gov. Jerry Brown forgot to rent &quot;The Social Network.&quot;]]></description> 
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			<title>Hitting snooze on the molecular clock: Rabies evolves slower in hibernating bats</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Hitting+snooze+on+the+molecular+clock%3A+Rabies+evolves+slower+in+hibernating+bats</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The rate at which the rabies virus evolves in bats may depend heavily upon the ecological traits of its hosts, according to researchers at the University of Georgia, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. Their study, published May 17 in the journal PLoS Pathogens, found that the host&#039;s geographical location was the most accurate predictor of the viral rate of evolution. Rabies viruses in tropical and sub-tropical bat species evolved nearly four times faster than viral variants in bats in temperate regions.]]></description> 
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			<title>Scientists design indoor navigation system for blind</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Scientists+design+indoor+navigation+system+for+blind</link>
			<description><![CDATA[University of Nevada, Reno computer science engineering team Kostas Bekris and Eelke Folmer presented their indoor navigation system for people with visual impairments at two national conferences in the past two weeks. The researchers explained how a combination of human-computer interaction and motion-planning research was used to build a low-cost accessible navigation system, called Navatar, which can run on a standard smartphone.]]></description> 
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			<title>Wild spring weather baffles bugs</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Wild+spring+weather+baffles+bugs</link>
			<description><![CDATA[  The wettest April in more than a century has caused problems for many UK butterflies, bees and other bugs, say conservationists.  
            
            Source: BBC News - Discipline: Environment]]></description> 
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			<title>Egypt: Arab Spring could be wasted in youthful nations</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Egypt%3A+Arab+Spring+could+be+wasted+in+youthful+nations</link>
			<description><![CDATA[  Autocracies with a median population age of over 30 years old are most likely to become liberal democracies – Egypt may need a few years to mature  
            
            Source: New Scientist - Discipline: Sociology]]></description> 
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			<title>Silicon trick for next-gen memory</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Silicon+trick+for+next-gen+memory</link>
			<description><![CDATA[  Researchers reveal details of a promising way to make a fundamentally different kind of computer memory chip.  
            
            Source: BBC News - Discipline: Materials Science]]></description> 
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			<title>Plutonium signature captured after 50 years of trying</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Plutonium+signature+captured+after+50+years+of+trying</link>
			<description><![CDATA[  The complex properties of radioactive plutonium-239 made its structure hard to analyse – until now. The result may improve methods for storing nuclear waste  
            
            Source: New Scientist - Discipline: Chemistry]]></description> 
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			<title>NASA Chief Technologist To Attend Cleveland Manufacturing Event</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/NASA+Chief+Technologist+To+Attend+Cleveland+Manufacturing+Event</link>
			<description><![CDATA[NASA Chief Technologist Mason Peck will join agency and Ohio officials to name nine small and medium-sized Ohio manufacturers that will receive NASA assistance to solve technical problems with new or existing products.]]></description> 
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			<title>Team taps viruses to make electricity</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Team+taps+viruses+to+make+electricity</link>
			<description><![CDATA[UC BERKELEY (US) — Scientists have developed a way to generate power using harmless viruses that convert mechanical energy into electricity. The scientists tested their approach by creating a generator that produces enough current to operate a small liquid-crystal display. It works by tapping a finger on a postage stamp-sized electrode coated with specially engineered viruses. The viruses convert the force of the tap into an electric charge.]]></description> 
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			<title>Fiery Folklore: 5 Dazzling Sun Myths</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Fiery+Folklore%3A+5+Dazzling+Sun+Myths</link>
			<description><![CDATA[On Sunday (May 20), a solar eclipse will blot out the sun for viewers across much of Asia, the Pacific and western North America. These days, eclipses aren&#039;t a big mystery — they occur when the moon passes between Earth and the sun. But throughout history, the sun&#039;s significance, along with its mysteriousness, have yielded an array of solar myths.]]></description> 
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			<title>Japan launches rocket with first foreign satellite</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Japan+launches+rocket+with+first+foreign+satellite</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A rocket has lifted off in Japan in the country&#039;s first commercial launch of a foreign satellite — one from South Korea designed to monitor the environment.]]></description> 
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			<title>The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, May 14-18, 2012</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/The+Most+Amazing+Science+Images+of+the+Week%2C+May+14-18%2C+2012</link>
			<description><![CDATA[
Got a space-heavy lineup for you guys this week, looking forward to the SpaceX launch this weekend: a Soyuz rocket launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, a time-lapsed photo taken from the ISS, a roving space shuttle cafe that looks like an actual space shuttle, and more. Enjoy!
Click to launch our guide to the upcoming year in science.]]></description> 
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			<title>Book Review : The Practical Einstein: Experiments, Patents, Inventions by József Illy</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Book+Review+%3A+The+Practical+Einstein%3A+Experiments%2C+Patents%2C+Inventions+by+J%C3%B3zsef+Illy</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Einstein’s papers reveal a down-to-earth side. Learn about his inventions and ideas, including waterproof breathable clothes and an explanation for rivers’ meanderings.
Johns Hopkins Univ., 2012,...]]></description> 
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			<title>Book Review : A World of Insects by Ring T. Cardé and Vincent H. Resh, eds.</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Book+Review+%3A+A+World+of+Insects+by+Ring+T.+Card%C3%A9+and+Vincent+H.+Resh%2C+eds.</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Two entomologists present insect essays that explore everything from insect sex to crime scene investigation.
Harvard Univ., 2012, 404 p., $19.95]]></description> 
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			<title>Book Review : EarthFlight: Breathtaking Photographs from a Bird&#039;s-Eye View of the World by John Downer</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Book+Review+%3A+EarthFlight%3A+Breathtaking+Photographs+from+a+Bird%27s-Eye+View+of+the+World+by+John+Downer</link>
			<description><![CDATA[30Cameras carried by hand, by gliders and by the creatures themselves give readers a literal bird’s-eye view of the world.
Firefly Books, 2012, 240 p., $49.95]]></description> 
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			<title>Book Review : In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World by Ian Stewart</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Book+Review+%3A+In+Pursuit+of+the+Unknown%3A+17+Equations+That+Changed+the+World+by+Ian+Stewart</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The author tells the stories of 17 equations, from Maxwell’s equations that led to modern TV and radio to algorithms that rattled the stock market.
Basic Books, 2012, 342 p., $26.99]]></description> 
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			<title>Book Review : Tutankhamen: The Search for an Egyptian King by Joyce  Tyldesley</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Book+Review+%3A+Tutankhamen%3A+The+Search+for+an+Egyptian+King+by+Joyce++Tyldesley</link>
			<description><![CDATA[An archaeologist explores myths surrounding the boy king and updates Tut fans on what experts have learned about his life and times.
Basic Books, 2012, 316 p., $29.99]]></description> 
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			<title>Book Review : BOOK REVIEW: Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens by Andrea Wulf</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Book+Review+%3A+BOOK+REVIEW%3A+Chasing+Venus%3A+The+Race+to+Measure+the+Heavens+by+Andrea+Wulf</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Review by Alexandra Witze]]></description> 
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			<title>Book Review : BOOK REVIEW: Darwin&#039;s Devices: What Evolving Robots Can Teach Us About the History of Life and the Future of Technology by John Long</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Book+Review+%3A+BOOK+REVIEW%3A+Darwin%27s+Devices%3A+What+Evolving+Robots+Can+Teach+Us+About+the+History+of+Life+and+the+Future+of+Technology+by+John+Long</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Review by Rebecca Cheung]]></description> 
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			<title>Better bird nesting also good for giant manta rays</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Better+bird+nesting+also+good+for+giant+manta+rays</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Disrupting tree canopies on a Pacific atoll has ecological consequences]]></description> 
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			<title>What does Islam say about the fate of others?</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/What+does+Islam+say+about+the+fate+of+others%3F</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Since Sept. 11, it has become increasingly common to hear about Muslims who condemn all non-Muslims  or &quot;infidels&quot;  to hell, but this has never been a foundation of Islamic thought, argues a Michigan State University professor who recently published a first-of-its-kind book on non-Muslim salvation.]]></description> 
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			<title>A debate: Should you jump in on Facebook debut?</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/A+debate%3A+Should+you+jump+in+on+Facebook+debut%3F</link>
			<description><![CDATA[(AP) -- Facebook begins selling stock to the public Friday in the most talked-about market debut in years. Two Associated Press business writers are debating whether the stock is a smart buy.]]></description> 
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			<title>Facebook stock up slightly in public debut</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Facebook+stock+up+slightly+in+public+debut</link>
			<description><![CDATA[(AP) --  Facebook is trading below its opening price in its debut on the Nasdaq Stock Market.]]></description> 
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			<title>CQ Researcher examines distracted driving</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/CQ+Researcher+examines+distracted+driving</link>
			<description><![CDATA[More than 5,000 people die each year in vehicle crashes caused by distracted driving, many who were texting and talking on cellphones behind the wheel, according to the May 4 issue of CQ Researcher (published by CQ Press, an imprint of SAGE). Teen drivers appear to be especially susceptible to distraction.]]></description> 
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			<title>Quantum computing: The light at the end of the tunnel may be a single photon</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Quantum+computing%3A+The+light+at+the+end+of+the+tunnel+may+be+a+single+photon</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Quantum physics promises faster and more powerful computers, but quantum versions of basic logic functions are still needed to bring this technology to fruition. Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Toshiba Research Europe Ltd. have taken one step toward this goal by creating an all-semiconductor quantum logic gate, a controlled-NOT (CNOT) gate. They achieved this breakthrough by coaxing nanodots to emit single photons of light on demand.]]></description> 
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			<title>A cell&#039;s first steps: Building a model to explain how cells grow</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/A+cell%27s+first+steps%3A+Building+a+model+to+explain+how+cells+grow</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A collaboration between Lehigh University physicists and University of Miami biologists addresses an important fundamental question in basic cell biology: How do living cells figure out when and where to grow?]]></description> 
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			<title>Babies&#039; susceptibility to colds linked to immune response at birth</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Babies%27+susceptibility+to+colds+linked+to+immune+response+at+birth</link>
			<description><![CDATA[    Innate differences in immunity can be detected at birth, according to new research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. And babies with a better innate response to viruses have fewer respiratory illnesses in the first year of life.  
            
            Source: Washington University School of Medicine - Discipline: Health]]></description> 
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			<title>Protein RAL associated with aggressive characteristics in prostate, bladder and skin cancers</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Protein+RAL+associated+with+aggressive+characteristics+in+prostate%2C+bladder+and+skin+cancers</link>
			<description><![CDATA[    We have known for years that when the proteins RalA and RalB are present, cells in dishes copy toward aggressive forms of cancer. However, until this week, no study had explored the effects of RAL proteins in human cancers – an essential step on the path to developing drugs to target these proteins. From metastasis in bladder cancer, to seminal vessel involvement in   
            
            Source: University of Colorado Denver - Discipline: Cancer]]></description> 
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			<title>Prosthetic retina offers simple solution to restoring sight</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Prosthetic+retina+offers+simple+solution+to+restoring+sight</link>
			<description><![CDATA[    A device which could restore sight to patients with one of the most common causes of blindness in the developed world is being developed in an international partnership.  
            
            Source: University of Strathclyde - Discipline: Health]]></description> 
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			<title>Construction on Giant Magellan Telescope Blasts Off</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Construction+on+Giant+Magellan+Telescope+Blasts+Off</link>
			<description><![CDATA[  The construction of a telescope that could produce images ten-times sharper than Hubble is under way -- but a mountain needs to be blown up first.  
            
            Source: Discovery Channel News - Discipline: Astronomy]]></description> 
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			<title>Look out, kids: Windows 8 gives parents a computer-use report card</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Look+out%2C+kids%3A+Windows+8+gives+parents+a+computer-use+report+card</link>
			<description><![CDATA[  Gearing up for the “Release Preview” of the new operating system next month, Microsoft this week detailed its plans for Windows 8′s family safety settings. One of the features lets parents receive a weekly email report that summarizes a child’s activities on the computer.  
            
            Source: MSNBC - Discipline: Technology]]></description> 
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			<title>Approaching Asteroid May Get Close Enough to Smash Satellites</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Approaching+Asteroid+May+Get+Close+Enough+to+Smash+Satellites</link>
			<description><![CDATA[  The  newfound space rock 2012 DA14 will pass so close to Earth in February  that it could hit a communications satellite, scientists say.  
            
            Source: National Geographic News - Discipline: Space]]></description> 
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			<title>U.S. not ready for Japan tsunami debris</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/U.S.+not+ready+for+Japan+tsunami+debris</link>
			<description><![CDATA[  Large items hitting western shores already; Senators told no cash for cleanup; Impact on marine life, economy unclear
     
  
            
            Source: CBSNews - Discipline: Environment]]></description> 
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			<title>Billions of new stars blaze in galactic bridge</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Billions+of+new+stars+blaze+in+galactic+bridge</link>
			<description><![CDATA[MCGILL (CAN) — The discovery of a galaxy-packed filament offers astronomers a unique opportunity to explore how galaxies evolve and merge to form superclusters.The filament connects two clusters of galaxies that, along with a third cluster, will smash together and give rise to one of the largest galaxy superclusters in the universe.]]></description> 
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			<title>Can water change the way we eat?</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Can+water+change+the+way+we+eat%3F</link>
			<description><![CDATA[U. OREGON (US) — Serving water with meals could be a simple but effective way to fight the nation’s growing obesity problem, particularly with kids, say researchers.For a new paper published in the journal Appetite researchers surveyed 60 young U.S. adults (ages 19-23) about the role of food-and-drink pairings.]]></description> 
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			<title>Splits remain over draft Rio+20 conclusions</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Splits+remain+over+draft+Rio%2B20+conclusions</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The latest version of the Rio+20 draft outcome document will be published next week, amidst continued disagreements on many issues.]]></description> 
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			<title>Cocoa and palm oil crop failures linked to pesticides</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Cocoa+and+palm+oil+crop+failures+linked+to+pesticides</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The decline of cocoa and palm oil production can be linked to pesticides that kill pollinators, researchers say.]]></description> 
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			<title>I&#039;m New to Jailbreaking; Can You Help Me Wrap My Head Around Cydia?</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/I%27m+New+to+Jailbreaking%3B+Can+You+Help+Me+Wrap+My+Head+Around+Cydia%3F</link>
			<description><![CDATA[
															
						
											
									
				I recently jailbroke my iPhone and now that it&#039;s done I&#039;m very overwhelmed by Cydia. I&#039;ve downloaded a couple apps, but I don&#039;t understand most of what I&#039;m looking at. The descriptions and explanation in Cydia don&#039;t help much, so I&#039;m wondering: can you help me wrap my head all this stuff? 				More »
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			<title>Science Fiction or Fact: Will Tractor Beams Ever Become Reality?</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Science+Fiction+or+Fact%3A+Will+Tractor+Beams+Ever+Become+Reality%3F</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In this weekly series, Life&#039;s Little Mysteries rates the plausibility of popular science fiction concepts.]]></description> 
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			<title>Video: How to Make a Solar Eclipse Viewer</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Video%3A+How+to+Make+a+Solar+Eclipse+Viewer</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The moon will pass directly between the sun and the Earth on Sunday, May 20, causing an annular solar eclipse, where only a ring of sunlight will be visible circling the edge of the moon. The first annular solar eclipse viewable from the continental United States since May 10, 1994, this picturesque event is not to be missed.]]></description> 
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			<title>Deceptive Chimp Hides Ammo, Blasts Unsuspecting Zoo Visitors</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Deceptive+Chimp+Hides+Ammo%2C+Blasts+Unsuspecting+Zoo+Visitors</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A chimp that creates hiding places for rocks he throws at zoo visitors reveals for the first time that humanity&#039;s closest living relatives can plan to deceive, researchers say.]]></description> 
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			<title>Focus: Electron Spin Influences Nanotube Motion</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Focus%3A+Electron+Spin+Influences+Nanotube+Motion</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The oscillations of a carbon nanotube can strongly affect the spin of an electron trapped on the tube, and the tube can also be affected by the spin, according to theory. Published Fri May 18, 2012]]></description> 
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			<title>Japan Launches Satellites to Track Earth&#039;s Water and Environment</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Japan+Launches+Satellites+to+Track+Earth%27s+Water+and+Environment</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Japanese H-2A rocket was carrying four satellites for Japan and South Korea.

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			<title>Watch the &#039;Ring of Fire&#039; Solar Eclipse Online Sunday</title>
			<link>http://crazychucks.com/news/Watch+the+%27Ring+of+Fire%27+Solar+Eclipse+Online+Sunday</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Several different organizations will stream live footage of the spectacular event.

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