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		<title>The third eye of the iguana</title>
		<link>http://forthescience.org/blog/2011/12/05/the-third-eye-of-the-iguana/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stefano Borini</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that iguanas (and not only them) have three eyes ? the feature is called Parietal eye, it is highly advantageous to spot the shadow of a predator coming from above, and it&#8217;s not unique to iguanas, but it can be found in frogs, lizards, sharks and other reptiles and fishes. In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pac-mecium and other games</title>
		<link>http://forthescience.org/blog/2011/08/20/pac-mecium-and-other-games/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 13:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stefano Borini</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a rather peculiar use of paramecia: by directing their preferential swimming movement by means of an applied electric field (a property called galvanotaxis) we can use them as player characters in videogames. I don&#8217;t expect this to become common gaming, though.]]></description>
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		<title>Does chamomile really relax ?</title>
		<link>http://forthescience.org/blog/2011/02/25/does-chamomile-really-relax/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stefano Borini</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing says relax better than a peaceful evening in front of a steamy cup of chamomile. Since thousands of years, humanity uses it as a natural remedy for a large amount of ailments, most notably hypertension, sleeplessness and to ease a flu-dominated night, like in my case recently. Moved by curiosity, I took some time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Arsenic bacterium. A case of bad scientific communication?</title>
		<link>http://forthescience.org/blog/2010/12/04/the-arsenic-bacterium-a-case-of-bad-scientific-communication/</link>
		<comments>http://forthescience.org/blog/2010/12/04/the-arsenic-bacterium-a-case-of-bad-scientific-communication/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 00:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stefano Borini</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Astrobiology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Authoring]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you probably heard in the news, two days ago everyone was ablaze for a mysterious announcement from NASA. Speculation started on how the new discovery would &#8220;impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life.&#8221; Someone found a habitable planet? Found a message with Seti@HOME? Discovered the primordial soup composition? The buzz resonated and amplified at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Question/Answers site for Popular Science</title>
		<link>http://forthescience.org/blog/2010/06/24/a-questionanswers-site-for-popular-science/</link>
		<comments>http://forthescience.org/blog/2010/06/24/a-questionanswers-site-for-popular-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stefano Borini</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Astronomy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dissemination]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The kind folks behind StackOverflow, a free Question/Answers website for programming questions, recently decided to open new Q/A websites for many additional interesting topics, from wine tasting and cooking to mathematics. The fundamental requisite for such new sites to be opened is a rather strict community review and development of a critical mass of contributors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Craig Venter programs a bacterium from scratch</title>
		<link>http://forthescience.org/blog/2010/05/21/craig-venter-programs-a-bacterium-from-scratch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 07:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stefano Borini</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bioethics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you probably heard in the news, Craig Venter, the American biologist best known for starting up Celera Genomics and sequencing the human genome, achieved another big success. He created a fully working new bacterium, programming its DNA from scratch. Like a computer having hardware and software, a bacterium has a set of components that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eight molecules that changed the rules of the game: Cisplatin</title>
		<link>http://forthescience.org/blog/2010/04/08/eight-molecules-that-changed-the-rules-of-the-game-cisplatin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stefano Borini</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rule changed: revolutionized the treatment of cancer Cisplatin, formula [PtCl2(NH3)2] is a very simple compound of the precious metal platinum. It revolutionized the treatment of some types of cancer, in some cases with almost total chance of success, and it can be considered to full extent the &#8220;penicillin for (only some, unfortunately) cancer treatment&#8221;. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fast brains in slow actuators: limited by our slow body</title>
		<link>http://forthescience.org/blog/2010/03/19/fast-brains-in-slow-actuators-limited-by-our-slow-body/</link>
		<comments>http://forthescience.org/blog/2010/03/19/fast-brains-in-slow-actuators-limited-by-our-slow-body/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stefano Borini</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Occasionally, I have to write using a pen. I&#8217;ve never had a beautiful calligraphy (by the way, a tautology, since calligraphy already comes from the Greek for &#8220;beautiful writing&#8221;) but I realized that with time my skills became worse and worse. The reason, I feel, is that my brain wants a higher throughput of concepts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How I ate Fugu and survived to tell the tale</title>
		<link>http://forthescience.org/blog/2010/01/19/how-i-ate-fugu-and-survived-to-tell-the-tale/</link>
		<comments>http://forthescience.org/blog/2010/01/19/how-i-ate-fugu-and-survived-to-tell-the-tale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:24:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stefano Borini</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago I had Fugu, or puffer fish, a highly poisonous fish with no known antidote. Here is a picture to document the fact Well, it could just be me in front of something that looks like fish, and I&#8217;m not going to eat it anyway, but trust me, I had it. Yes, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Successfully obtained &#8220;primordial RNA&#8221; in lab conditions</title>
		<link>http://forthescience.org/blog/2009/11/25/successfully-obtained-primordial-rna-in-lab-conditions/</link>
		<comments>http://forthescience.org/blog/2009/11/25/successfully-obtained-primordial-rna-in-lab-conditions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stefano Borini</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chemistry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A groundbreaking paper &#8220;Generation of long RNA chains in water&#8221; from Costanzo, Pino, Ciciriello and Di Mauro on Journal of Biological Chemistry proposes conditions for the obtainment of complex RNA chains from cyclic nucleotides. The proposed conditions are typical for the pre-biotic Earth: hot springs and puddles with water at moderate temperature (40 to 90 [...]]]></description>
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