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		<title>Female Bisexuality: A Best Seller.</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2010/06/22/female-bisexuality-a-best-seller/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 23:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bisexuality Not A Transitional Phase Among Women, According To New Research The definitions of sexuality are morphing, transmogrifying and blending into a nebulous haze that seems to obscure debate for the sake of enabling the publication of such contentious theses about sexuality. There is something exceptionally irresistible about the notion that a woman&#8217;s ambiguous sexuality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Effects of Smog on Pregnancy</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2009/07/18/effects-of-smog-on-pregnancy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[L.A. Traffic Causing Premature Births: Study: Discovery News. The number of studies linking the poor air quality to pulmonary problems and generally poor health are numerous. Now, a new study shows that smog adversely affects pregnancies. Yet, somehow, one cannot believe that this will effect any more action in a populace long since drowned in utter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did We Kill the Neanderthals?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cool]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC NEWS &#124; Health &#124; Neanderthals &#8216;distinct from us&#8217; The obvious joke here is that, yes, it is because of the FOXP2 that George W Bush can communicate with modern humans. And, yes, it was very kind of George W Bush to donate his DNA to this study. In seriousness, however, this is a very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New Softer Robot&#8217;s Touch</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2009/01/27/the-new-softer-robots-touch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bayer MaterialScience: FSK&#8217;s prize for wrinkle-free polyurethane skin for service robots After some very limited exposure to polyurethane, everyone will marvel at the utility of this material. The chemists, materials scientists and engineers who keep discovering new formulations, new processing methods and new manufacturing methods for this remarkable material ought to be applauded for their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nanotechnology: the Ultimately Publicity Gimmick</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2008/11/25/nanotechnology-the-ultimately-publicity-gimmick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[NANOBAMA What more can we say? Politics and science converge on the nanotechnology platform. This means of patterning vertically aligned carbon nanotubes is ingenious, of course, but is it of any use beyond public relations? Certainly, no other scientist has been so bold in ingratiating himself with the political establishment. Without a doubt, this is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Southern Evolution</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2008/02/19/southern-evolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABC News: Florida Calls Evolution &#8216;Scientific Theory&#8217; Does this mean that Floridians now view Barrack Obama differently? Does it mean that they intend to end the disenfranchisement of minorities? It is somewhat comforting to note that people change over time. ]]></description>
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		<title>Upgrade to a Slow Computer</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2007/11/27/upgrade-to-a-slow-computer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My Mac]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Windows XP Significantly Outperforms Vista, Tests Show &#124; Windows &#124; InformationWeek Wow. This is truly unbelievable. Information Week conducted tests to show that Windows XP outperforms Vista&#8211;Microsoft&#8217;s upgrade to XP&#8211;in every category, even if the computer is equipped with all of the latest hardware. This is the greatest testimony to Microsoft&#8217;s monopoly power. The company [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crime and the Punishment of Municipalities</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2007/11/18/crime-and-the-punishment-of-municipalities/</link>
		<comments>http://payam.minoofar.com/2007/11/18/crime-and-the-punishment-of-municipalities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Primordial Soup]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Detroit declared most dangerous US city &#124; Yahoo! News The American obsession with rankings and the &#8220;competition&#8221; that rankings are believed to spur is so fervent, so strong and so overwhelming that any ranking&#8211;no matter how unscientific, how thoroughly biased or how flawed&#8211;is bound to get press. The college football and basketball rankings, the US [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Modern Propaganda: Creating and Selling &#8220;Truth&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2007/10/27/modern-propaganda-creating-and-selling-truth/</link>
		<comments>http://payam.minoofar.com/2007/10/27/modern-propaganda-creating-and-selling-truth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 22:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Musings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Environment Unlimited &#124; Climate change &#124; The denial industry Global warming and its putative cause were always controversial within the scientific community. Global warming was an outlandish thesis from its inception because it was difficult to conceive that the scale of human activity would ever account for a measurable fraction of nature&#8217;s output. A century [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marriage and Testosterone</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2007/10/22/marriage-and-testosterone/</link>
		<comments>http://payam.minoofar.com/2007/10/22/marriage-and-testosterone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Getting married saps your testosterone &#124; being-human &#124; 18 October 2007 &#124; New Scientist Space The progressive lack of interest in sexual activity that follows marriage seems to have a biological basis. This study of Ariaal men in Kenya shows that testosterone levels in men decline as they take on additional wives. It seems as [...]]]></description>
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