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		<title>Trapwire. Welcome to the panopticon.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 22:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is huge. I always thought facial recognition would become part of the new Panopticon. Well it has, already. Everywhere within the US. This information is Wikileaks plus other sources. It&#8217;s out there and seems to me well substantiated. So&#8230; &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/trapwire-welcome-to-the-panopticon">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Curiosity Lands on Mars</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/curiosity-lands-on-mars</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 13:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Humans sent a thing weighing just under a tonne all the way to Mars, where it landed in the most insanely clever way, entirely computer controlled, and then sent back pictures all the way from the other side of the &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/curiosity-lands-on-mars">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities in &#8216;Thunderstruck&#8217; hack.</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/so-surreal-irans-nuclear-facilities-are-thunderstruck-by-a-hack</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities have been compromised once again by a hacker. This time presumably not a worm written by US spy agencies, because the first the Iranian&#8217;s knew was when their PC speakers started blasting AC/DC&#8217;s &#8220;Thunderstruck&#8221; at full volume. &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/so-surreal-irans-nuclear-facilities-are-thunderstruck-by-a-hack">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ötzi the iceman had a full stomach</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/otzi-the-iceman-had-a-full-stomach</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 5300 year old ice man found in the mountains between Austria and Italy has had his stomach contents reexamined. Previously scientists had mistaken his colon for his stomach and thought it empty. Now they say he ate a large &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/otzi-the-iceman-had-a-full-stomach">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Neutrinos faster than light result repeated</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/neutrinos-faster-than-light-result-repeated</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neutrinos faster than light result repeated BBC report here]]></description>
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		<title>Why not space?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 03:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This by Tom Murphy is a must read. Read it right to the end, though, or you&#8217;ll miss his point. tl;dr? He&#8217;s saying: getting humans into space is not a way to save Earth from its resources and overpopulation crisis. &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/why-not-space">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The connection between health, fat, and exercise</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/the-connection-between-health-fat-and-exercise</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 04:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is it so easy to get fat and yet being fat predisposes one to heart disease, cancer, and adult onset diabetes? It seems like a maladaption to the presence of plenty of food. First of all, it&#8217;s not nearly &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/the-connection-between-health-fat-and-exercise">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>SETI, Life and the Rate of Change of Entropy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 01:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a reasonable working definition of life &#8211; a process which produces localised entropy decrease. Intelligent life doubly so. Think about it like this: light from the sun hits the moon and turns to heat. No life involved. Light from &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/seti-life-and-the-rate-of-change-of-entropy">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Cosmologigram</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 03:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I firmly believe in the present. There literally is no past and no future, just the changing now. Sure, it contains evidence of things that have been, other circuits of the Earth around the Sun. We can be pretty certain &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/cosmologigram">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>All the things I wrote in 2008 and 2009.</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/all-the-things-i-wrote-in-2008-and-2009</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 14:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction With a rare exception or two I haven&#8217;t written here for several years. Various things have intervened &#8211; moving to a new country, starting a new business, and preceding all that some formal study. What I&#8217;d like to do &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/all-the-things-i-wrote-in-2008-and-2009">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Round up ready nation</title>
		<link>http://www.writingsonthewall.net/round-up-ready-nation</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Dec 2006 05:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A documentary about the dangers of GMO foods and the way the biotech industry has covered this up. Here is the trailer, and you can find more about the film at Roundup Ready Nation.]]></description>
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		<title>Science threatens the Emperor</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Dec 2006 23:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest in a line of Bush administration censorship of science. US Geological Survey scientists must now submit work for screening before it can be published. The famously oppressive Qing dynasty in China used secret police to crack down on &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/science-threatens-the-emperor">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Oil water and permanence</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2006 07:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australia is facing terrible water shortages on a continuing basis, due to climate change. We&#8217;re running out of fossil fuel, so we probably won&#8217;t be able to continue to make fertilisers in the same way, or to make heavy use &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/oil-water-and-permanence">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Edges are fun</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2006 05:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a DJ who played at some of our parties who had an album called Edges R Fun. I asked him why he&#8217;d called it that, and his reponse was to ask me what I thought. Which launched me into &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/edges-are-fun">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Reply to the global warming sceptics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2006 11:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greenhouse sceptics argue that the proponents of a human cause of global warming have not made a convincing case. They say we need to understand things better and rule out natural causes before we make costly changes to legislation. This &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/reply-to-the-global-warming-sceptics">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>In praise of pluralism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 09:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a dry glacial valley, 1000m above sea level and 40 miles from the coast of Antarctica, a friend of mine was shown the mummified remains of a seal. The scientist from Davis base who had taken him there asked &#8230; <a href="http://www.writingsonthewall.net/in-praise-of-pluralism">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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