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		<title>In defiance of the ring finger ratio</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2007 21:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mustafa Arif</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In See Those Fingers? Do the Math [ScienceNOW], Constance Holden describes the latest study in brain and finger development by Mark Brosnan and collleagues at the University of Bath. Boys with the longest ring fingers relative to their index fingers tend to excel in math, according to a new study. In girls, shorter ring fingers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting open-minded about manned spaceflight</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2007 02:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mustafa Arif</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I stumbled across an article on a possible change to UK space policy [The Times], based on an interview with the recently appointed Science Minister, Malcolm Wicks MP. From the article: The Government’s long-standing refusal to fund manned spaceflight could be reconsidered to allow British astronauts to join expeditions to the Moon and Mars, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is cancer research fradulent?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jun 2006 02:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Received an out-of-the-blue email today drawing attention to a blog on alleged extensive fraud in medical research (especially cancer). Not sure what to make of it. (0)]]></description>
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		<title>IC Friends&#8217; 2005-2006 events</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2005 02:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mustafa Arif</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The <a href="http://www.friendsofimperial.org.uk">Friends of Imperial College</a> have published their <a href="http://www.friendsofimperial.org.uk/programme.html">2005-2006 programme of events</a>. Some of the items, talks by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Aleksander">Igor Aleksander</a> and Chris Toumazou in particular, are gems worth clearing diary space for.]]></description>
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		<title>Scientific research or just a waste of public money?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2004 00:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mustafa Arif</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Research is important. Scientific research that is. And in order to get it right, that's why we are supposed to be concentrating it at elite institutions (i.e. Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College and University College, London). Unfortunately that still doesn't leave enough money to fund all "the big science" research we are supposed to be doing.

Sometimes, however, I wonder whether the problem isn't so much a lack of funds as just money being wasted on stupid science.

This evening I was resuming one of my, now lapsed, habits of perusing through the foriegn media. As I worked my way through my News bookmarks I came to <a href="http://english.pravda.ru/">Pravda</a>, former bastion of the Soviet politburo. They usually have an interesting 'take' on world affairs and gave a very different perspective of things like the Iraq war last year. What I was least expecting to see, however, was an article about <a href="http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/377/12469_kiss.html">the medicinal benefits of passionate kissing</a>.]]></description>
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