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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:05:12 CDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Robotic butlers, oily wrecks and avatars]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:05:12 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[This month's New Scientist TV includes the training of a robot servant, high-tech deep sea salvage and body language for virtual stand-ins<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Did hair dryer stymy launch of human cannonball?]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:06:04 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The first rocket-launch attempted by the non-profit Copenhagen Suborbitals didn't leave the pad, but its inventors haven't given up yet<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why your brain flips over visual illusions]]></title>
<link>http://persianhaps.com/story.php?title=why-your-brain-flips-over-visual-illusions</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:34:46 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[What happens in your brain when you view illusions in which two separate images can be seen?<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Can US Congress overturn stem-cell funding freeze?]]></title>
<link>http://persianhaps.com/story.php?title=can-us-congress-overturn-stem-cell-funding-freeze</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:33:15 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Congress could find a way around the shock court ruling that has frozen US government support for work on human embryonic stem cells<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[For self-healing concrete, just add bacteria and food]]></title>
<link>http://persianhaps.com/story.php?title=for-self-healing-concrete-just-add-bacteria-and-food</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:55:19 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Adding limestone-forming bacteria to the mix could help the concrete seal dangerous cracks on its own<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Do artefacts belong in museums?]]></title>
<link>http://persianhaps.com/story.php?title=do-artefacts-belong-in-museums</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:21:41 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In Finders Keepers: A tale of archaeological plunder and obsession, Craig Childs outlines the opposing views about the proper place for history<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Slavoj Žižek: Wake up and smell the apocalypse]]></title>
<link>http://persianhaps.com/story.php?title=slavoj-zizek-wake-up-and-smell-the-apocalypse</link>
<comments>http://persianhaps.com/story.php?title=slavoj-zizek-wake-up-and-smell-the-apocalypse</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:27:49 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Marxist philosopher says environmentalism is a new opiate of the people, Bill Gates has privatised part of our intellect, and reality is incomplete<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Real invisibility threads would be fit for an emperor]]></title>
<link>http://persianhaps.com/story.php?title=real-invisibility-threads-would-be-fit-for-an-emperor</link>
<comments>http://persianhaps.com/story.php?title=real-invisibility-threads-would-be-fit-for-an-emperor</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:01:42 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Combining techniques used to produce light-bending metamaterials with those used to make optical fibres might just make see-through threads a reality<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sunspots squeeze and stretch the day]]></title>
<link>http://persianhaps.com/story.php?title=sunspots-squeeze-and-stretch-the-day</link>
<comments>http://persianhaps.com/story.php?title=sunspots-squeeze-and-stretch-the-day</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:08:39 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[These dark regions may somehow alter the rate of Earth's spin &ndash; an insight that could help steer spacecraft more accurately<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Half a billion eggs recalled in US salmonella outbreak]]></title>
<link>http://persianhaps.com/story.php?title=half-a-billion-eggs-recalled-in-us-salmonella-outbreak</link>
<comments>http://persianhaps.com/story.php?title=half-a-billion-eggs-recalled-in-us-salmonella-outbreak</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:35:17 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Thousands of cases of egg-related food poisoning have occurred in the US while investigators search out likely sources of the outbreak<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[US-backed stem cell research set to end in months]]></title>
<link>http://persianhaps.com/story.php?title=us-backed-stem-cell-research-set-to-end-in-months</link>
<comments>http://persianhaps.com/story.php?title=us-backed-stem-cell-research-set-to-end-in-months</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:32:41 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Department of Justice says existing federally funded projects can continue for now, but applications for future funding have been put on hold<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pee is for power: Your electrifying excretions]]></title>
<link>http://persianhaps.com/story.php?title=pee-is-for-power-your-electrifying-excretions</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:14:47 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Why let your waste go to waste when it could be powering your mobile phone - or even your car?<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Artificial ape man: How technology created humans]]></title>
<link>http://persianhaps.com/story.php?title=artificial-ape-man-how-technology-created-humans</link>
<comments>http://persianhaps.com/story.php?title=artificial-ape-man-how-technology-created-humans</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:33:26 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Archaeologist and anthropologist Timothy Taylor explains how a long-vanished artefact explains human evolution and led to "survival of the weakest"<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Killer T-cells, the fix for organ rejection?]]></title>
<link>http://persianhaps.com/story.php?title=killer-t-cells-the-fix-for-organ-rejection</link>
<comments>http://persianhaps.com/story.php?title=killer-t-cells-the-fix-for-organ-rejection</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:54:19 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Cells that selectively suppress immune response in the liver of mice could be used to create "immune-tolerant" organs<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Harvard confirms misconduct by morality researcher]]></title>
<link>http://persianhaps.com/story.php?title=harvard-confirms-misconduct-by-morality-researcher</link>
<comments>http://persianhaps.com/story.php?title=harvard-confirms-misconduct-by-morality-researcher</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 22:52:55 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Bowing to pressure from scientists in animal cognition, Harvard University confirms that an internal investigation has found evidence of misconduct by Marc Hauser<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Add salt as required: the recipe for fresh water]]></title>
<link>http://persianhaps.com/story.php?title=add-salt-as-required-the-recipe-for-fresh-water</link>
<comments>http://persianhaps.com/story.php?title=add-salt-as-required-the-recipe-for-fresh-water</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:09:30 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Using desalination to slake the world's thirst has been an uphill struggle, but now we're learning to go with the flow<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Fatal cloudburst devastates Himalayan desert town]]></title>
<link>http://persianhaps.com/story.php?title=fatal-cloudburst-devastates-himalayan-desert-town</link>
<comments>http://persianhaps.com/story.php?title=fatal-cloudburst-devastates-himalayan-desert-town</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:28:19 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[More than 150 have died in northern India after a freak rainstorm caused flash floods and mudslides in one of the driest places on Earth<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Julian Assange: The end of secrets?]]></title>
<link>http://persianhaps.com/story.php?title=julian-assange-the-end-of-secrets</link>
<comments>http://persianhaps.com/story.php?title=julian-assange-the-end-of-secrets</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:25:33 CDT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://persianhaps.com/story.php?title=julian-assange-the-end-of-secrets</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Lifting the lid on the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks and its enigmatic hacker-turned-activist founder<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Would you like a statin with your burger?]]></title>
<link>http://persianhaps.com/story.php?title=would-you-like-a-statin-with-your-burger</link>
<comments>http://persianhaps.com/story.php?title=would-you-like-a-statin-with-your-burger</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:31:03 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Fast food outlets should hand out statins with their burger and fries, say researchers. Is anyone taking them seriously, asks Nic Fleming<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Atomic Jenga could turn domestic refrigerators green]]></title>
<link>http://persianhaps.com/story.php?title=atomic-jenga-could-turn-domestic-refrigerators-green</link>
<comments>http://persianhaps.com/story.php?title=atomic-jenga-could-turn-domestic-refrigerators-green</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:32:01 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The magnetic properties of some materials depend on a few key atoms only, a finding that could help lower the cost of environmentally friendly magnetic cooling<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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