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		<title>Locusts Avoid the Death Star</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doctor Claire Rind, a biologist and robotics expert at the University of Newcastle, England. Dr. Rind wanted to design a collision-avoidance system for cars. So she decided to investigate the collision-avoidance system of locusts.
Locusts have fairly simple eyes and brains but still manage to fly in dense swarms of many millions without bumping into each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Wired:Brain Scan Technology</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article peaked my interest because I use a (obviously) very advanced method of this in my story Siege Therapy.
From the article:

Scientists are one step closer to knowing what you’ve seen by reading your mind.
 
Having modeled how images are represented in the brain, the researchers translated recorded patterns of neural activity into pictures of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unity Founder Interview</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interview with founder of Unity (amazing middleware for iPhone development), Nicholas Francis at Games Industry Biz.  Catch the full article here: United We Stand.

Nicholas Francis: Over the past few months things have been really good for us &#8211; I think we probably had about 17 or 18 people back then, while we&#8217;re 44 people today, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They&#8217;re not Tesla Trees but they have some power.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists have discovered that the bigleaf maple tree actually generates a very small current of electricity &#8212; in the millivolt range. But they also built a custom converter that stores it and produces 1.1 volts.
True, not a lot.  But that is enough to run low-power sensors and such.  And that alone is enough [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local News: New Dayton Jazz Club</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Personally, I&#8217;m not fond of the placement, but cool jazz in Dayton is a good thing.
>
$2.3M jazz club on tap for Dayton
DAYTON — A large, upscale jazz and supper club is expected to open on West Third Street by Christmas 2010. 
Gwendolin Dorsey’s decade-long dream of opening Tootsie’s Jazz Club leapt an obstacle Wednesday, Sept. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are we missing something in our understanding of Physics?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Full Article in LA Times
Astrophysicists puzzle over planet that&#8217;s too close to its sun
Scientists have discovered a planet that shouldn&#8217;t exist. The finding, they say, could alter our understanding of orbital dynamics, a field considered pretty well settled since the time of astronomer Johannes Kepler 400 years ago.
The planet is known as a &#8220;hot Jupiter,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The secrets of a beetle could lead to better tissue engineering</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This my kind of news &#8212; readers of Mortal Death will probably not be surprised.
Jake Socha, assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics at Virginia Tech, is leading a study of insects to determine if their internal fluid flows may provide engineers and scientists with new ideas for how to build better artificial tissues and [...]]]></description>
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