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		<title>Interstellar beer appreciation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jon Lomberg
A random sampling of several hundred among the thousands of messages submitted to Hello to Earth tells us this: If Earthlings believe anything about aliens, it’s that they will like beer.
Common ground
An amazing number of messages invite ET to have a brew. It’s an expression of humanity’s long love affair with the brewer’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secular prayers: messages to space</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jon Lomberg
On August 24 2009, a burst of radio energy punched through Earth’s atmosphere into space and began its journey to planet Gliese 581D, 20 light years away.
Gliese 581d is the outlying planet in the Gliese 581 system, and orbits its parent star every 66.8 days. It may be covered by a large and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dark nights of science in motion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amanda Hoh
Video reporter Amanda Hoh braved two dark nights of science at the Powerhouse Museum on the 26th and 28th of August to bring you this special report.

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		<title>Conceive of the vastness &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jon Lomberg
In 1991 I painted a portrait of the Milky Way for the Smithsonian Institution&#8217;s National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC.

Two depictions of the Milky Way Galaxy. The top half is the painting at the Smithsonian Institution. The bottom half is a view of the Galaxy Garden in Hawaii.
During the project I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The fragility of curiosity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Heath Raftery
In the early 20th century Albert Einstein lamented that &#8220;it is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education&#8221;.
not a big fan of school...
Last Saturday, about a century after Einstein voiced his concerns about the fragility of curiosity, I had the grand pleasure of being uplifted by the hoots, gasps, laughter and feverish involvement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surfing the vortex. The toroidal vortex.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By David Finnigan
I know what you&#8217;re thinking: skip the talking and get straight to the dolphins. I completely agree. Just bear with me for three paragraphs, and we&#8217;ll be armpit deep in Ceteceans, I promise.

Soon, I promise. Image: wikipedia

There was a series of highlights at the ABC Family Science Funday in the ABC Foyer on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When all the stars go away</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ian Woolf
At the Powerhouse Museum’s ‘Einstein Lecture’, U.S Theoretical Physicist Lawrence Krauss spoke about the invisible dark energy required by the most popular theory of cosmology. He wrapped up by explaining the dark future for the Universe when all the stars go away.

Hey, isn&#39;t that philosophy?
That&#8217;s the short story. Now here it is in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How many partners before settling down?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By David Finnigan
Clio Cresswell&#8217;s (packed out) &#8216;Mathematics and Sex&#8217; talk at the Ultimo Library was a brief introduction to that fringe territory where Mathematics is being applied to the social sciences.
Is Clio Cresswell a hormonally crazy mathematician? According to Clio Cresswell: No. Image: abc.net.au
It&#8217;s an intriguing area and my interest was piqued as soon as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Voyeur and The Masochist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alex Serpo
Alex believes the mind is a machine capable of remarkable things. He greatly enjoys the teachings of history&#8217;s most famous masochist, Siddhartha Gautama.
Swinging and grinning, the man&#8217;s skin stretches obscenely as he swings back and forward. Watching, I wonder who is the more bizarre. Is he macabre in seeking extreme sensory experiences, or am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What are they doing to Derek?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kate Hennessy
[Warning. Don't watch video or click through to story if you're squeamish.]

Three-and-a-half seconds, give or take a nanosecond or two. That&#8217;s the finely calibrated length of time I could gaze at the man suspended from hooks before a shudder would arch up my spine and I&#8217;d turn my head away. Repeat.
But that was [...]]]></description>
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