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	<title>The Art of Science</title>
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		<title>New military fashion will keep UK soldiers safer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The perfect Christmas gift! Not really, well, unless you&#8217;re a British soldier.
From BBC News:
The uniform of the British Army is to be changed for the first time in almost 40 years.
The new Multi-Terrain Pattern (MTP) will replace the traditional four colour woodland uniform known as No.8: Disruptive Pattern Material (DPM).
Forces in Afghanistan will start to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artofscience.wordpress.com&blog=3905142&post=1251&subd=artofscience&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://artofscience.wordpress.com/2009/12/25/new-military-fashion-will-keep-uk-soldiers-safer/</link>
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		<title>The perfect home-made gift: bamboo bike</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All right, it might be a little late to make this and put it under the tree in time for Christmas, but the idea of a bamboo bike is still a cool idea. From NPR:

The Bamboo Bike Studio is run by three men in their late 20s who know a lot about bamboo and a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artofscience.wordpress.com&blog=3905142&post=1249&subd=artofscience&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://artofscience.wordpress.com/2009/12/24/the-perfect-home-made-gift-bamboo-bike/</link>
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		<title>Merry Christmas!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the tiniest snowman ever!

The snowman is 10 µm across, 1/5th the width of a human hair.
The snowman was made from two tin beads used to calibrate electron microscope astigmatism. The eyes and smile were milled using a focused ion beam, and the nose, which is under 1 µm wide (or 0.001 mm), is ion [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artofscience.wordpress.com&blog=3905142&post=1232&subd=artofscience&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://artofscience.wordpress.com/2009/12/24/merry-christmas/</link>
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		<title>Autistic artists express themselves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A gallery in Discover Magazine shows off different artwork created by autistic people. People with autism are often reported to be very visually dominant, and experience the world through sight more than their other senses, so this is a great idea to ask autistic people to artistically express how they see the world.
From Discover Magazine:
&#8220;The work [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artofscience.wordpress.com&blog=3905142&post=1247&subd=artofscience&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://artofscience.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/autistic-artists-express-themselves/</link>
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		<title>Last-minute Christmas present idea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure a lot of us are sitting on edge, waiting for those last minute gifts to arrive in the mail. Or, you haven&#8217;t even bought those last-minute presents yet.
Well, here&#8217;s one idea: organ donor dolls!

From Underwire: Seeking to inject a little whimsy into the deadly serious business of organ transplants, David Foox has created [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artofscience.wordpress.com&blog=3905142&post=1245&subd=artofscience&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://artofscience.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/last-minute-christmas-present-idea/</link>
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		<title>Let is snow, let it snow, let it snow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ah, nothing like some snowflake science to get us into the Christmas mood.
Snowflakes grow different crystal patterns based on air temperature, and pollution. Wait, you ask, how is this related to art? Well, looking at these snow crystal patterns always makes me feel better that my paper snowflakes don&#8217;t look more &#8220;normal.&#8221; 
Plus, I just think snowflakes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artofscience.wordpress.com&blog=3905142&post=1243&subd=artofscience&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://artofscience.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/let-is-snow-let-it-snow-let-it-snow/</link>
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		<title>The science of the film &#8220;Avatar&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You knew this was coming, right? The blockbuster film of the weekend wasn&#8217;t going to sneak by without a little bit of geeky inspection. Not only is it a science-fiction film, the film itself was created using lots of cool artistic technologies and techniques that were themselves science fiction only a couple of years ago. From MSNBC and Space.com:
The science [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artofscience.wordpress.com&blog=3905142&post=1241&subd=artofscience&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://artofscience.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/the-science-of-the-film-avatar/</link>
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		<title>Books, Books, books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy Winter Solstice!
On this, the shortest day of the year, what better way to celebrate the dark and cold by curling up with some good books? Well, to start you off we&#8217;ve got some cool science about books.
First, judging a book by its smell is not as crazy as it sounds, according to new research:
Perhaps [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artofscience.wordpress.com&blog=3905142&post=1237&subd=artofscience&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://artofscience.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/books-books-books/</link>
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		<title>Best Astronomy Photos of 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have FINALLY gotten around to posting the top ten astronomy photos as voted by blog Bad Astronomy:
Every year, this gets harder.Not that deciding what pictures to use in 2006, 2007, or 2008 was all that easy! But astronomy is such a beautiful science. Of course it has scientific appeal: the biggest questions fall squarely [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artofscience.wordpress.com&blog=3905142&post=1234&subd=artofscience&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://artofscience.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/best-astronomy-photos-of-2009/</link>
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		<title>science stand-up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the NYT:


After completing his undergraduate biology degree at the University of California, San Diego, Tim Lee worked at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography for a while before he realized he needed a doctorate to do the interesting work. But by the time he finished his Ph.D. at the University of California, Davis, he had realized he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=artofscience.wordpress.com&blog=3905142&post=1230&subd=artofscience&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://artofscience.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/science-stand-up/</link>
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