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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Google doodle celebrates the 144th anniversary of Polish-born physicist Marie Curie&#8217;s birth.  Madame Curie was a remarkable woman and scientist celebrated the world over for her massive achievements in scientific research and professional advancement.  Born Marie Sklodowska in Warsaw, Poland on November 7, 1867 she was the youngest of five children born to a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinyscience.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141459&amp;post=1879&amp;subd=tinyscience&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Answer to the Friday Whatsit for November 4, 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No correct guesses for this week&#8217;s Whatsit, apparently no one looks as hard at their herb garden as I do.  This is the tip of a leaf of basil, which I have moved indoors now that it&#8217;s getting rather cold at night in the upper Midwest.  Its one of the last touches of green in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinyscience.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141459&amp;post=1864&amp;subd=tinyscience&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Whatsit for November 4, 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s this week&#8217;s Friday Whatsit, a touch of green in an otherwise very autumn-tinged Midwestern world. What is this thing, with its jagged edges and many pores?  Bonus points for something more specific than the general category, you&#8217;re a smart bunch. Guesses in the comments section, answer will be posted on Monday! Filed under: Friday [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinyscience.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141459&amp;post=1871&amp;subd=tinyscience&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Best. Halloween. Costume. EVER.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the wonderful world of Facebook, my sister has uploaded a link to an American Geophysical Union blogosphere post with the best Halloween costume EVER*.  It&#8217;s a man dressed as frog spawn.  I kid you not. Biology, bubble wrap, it&#8217;s a total nerd-stravaganza.   Bubble-wrappy hats off to you sir, that is awesome. * Or at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinyscience.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141459&amp;post=1854&amp;subd=tinyscience&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dance Your PhD 2011 Contest Winners Announced</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The winners of the fourth annual &#8220;Dance Your PhD&#8221; contest have been announced!  From 55 entries submitted by graduate students worldwide, four winners were chosen (one each in Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Social Sciences).  Physics category winner Joel Miller of Western Australia University also took the Grand Prize for his innovative stop-action film &#8220;Microstructure-Property Relationships [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinyscience.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141459&amp;post=1833&amp;subd=tinyscience&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Answer to the Friday Whatsit for October 14, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of our guessers went for the pickled foodstuff angle, which is on the right track.  Although I have to say I&#8217;ve only seen two pickled foods that are red: pickled cucumbers soaked in red Kool-Aid and pickled beets.  And these, dear reader, are pickled beets.  Thanks to lovely neighbor Gina for correctly guessing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinyscience.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141459&amp;post=1830&amp;subd=tinyscience&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Whatsit for October 14, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of you have been on pins and needles waiting for the Friday Whatsit to come back. Well, here it is! October is the month for creepy-crawly spooky stuff, and this jar of whatsit items reminded me of elementary school Halloween parties and all the faux-creepy stuff people would put out as decoration.  You know, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinyscience.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141459&amp;post=1818&amp;subd=tinyscience&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Month at the Museum is Back!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[. . . and so is Tiny Science! I know!  Try to contain yourselves, please. So, if you are not a big reader of this blog, you may be asking yourself, what is Month at the Museum? It&#8217;s the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry&#8217;s month-long experiment in which one lucky person gets to live [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinyscience.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141459&amp;post=1816&amp;subd=tinyscience&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reviewing &#8220;Meet Science: What is Peer Review?&#8221; Part Two</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 14:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing my comments on the Boing Boing article on scientific peer review by Maggie Koerth-Baker.  As I said before, I only slapped myself in the head a couple of times while reading this article, so I consider it pretty good.  Once we got past the difficulties in describing accurately what a journal article is and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinyscience.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141459&amp;post=1796&amp;subd=tinyscience&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reviewing &#8220;Meet Science: What is Peer Review?&#8221; Part One</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 15:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have awesome friends, some in the scientific community and some not.  Recently one of them posted this Boing Boing article on What is Peer Review by Maggie Koerth-Baker on my Facebook page and suggested it would be right up Tiny Science&#8217;s alley.  And it is indeed.* I only slapped myself in the forehead with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tinyscience.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11141459&amp;post=1762&amp;subd=tinyscience&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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