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    <description>The latest taggings for science education</description>
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      <title>Arpita Mukhopadhyay</title>
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        <![CDATA[Arpita Mukhopadhyay - ]]>
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      <title>Rethinking Science Education</title>
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        <![CDATA[Jeff Marlow - There was "a great Op-Ed":http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/opinion/01greene.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin in the New York Times yesterday about the transformative power of science. I am clearly preaching to the choir here, but it's worth a read - author Brian Greene makes an argument for changing the]]>
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      <title>...Great Minds Think Alike...</title>
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        <![CDATA[Ian Brooks - At "The End of the Pier Show":http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/henrygee/2008/05/30/rage-rage-against-the-dying-of-the-light, Henry Gee exhorts us to reconsider the fluffy, media-spun view of evolution many of us now possess. He passes this in one of his comments: _The light of intellect in our society is]]>
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      <title>Watching theater&#8230;and learning a little about science along the way</title>
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        <![CDATA[Corie Lok - On Friday, I saw a science play for the first time: "QED":http://web.mit.edu/arts/announcements/prs/2008/0324_QED.html, a play about Nobel prize-winning physicist "Richard Feynman":http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1965/feynman-bio.html. (It was put on by the Catalyst Collaborative, a partnership between MIT and the "Underground Railway Theater":http://www.undergroundrailwaytheater.org, as part of]]>
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      <title>What should everyone know about science?</title>
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        <![CDATA[Corie Lok - I was in Toronto over the weekend attending the world’s first "Scibarcamp":http://www.scibarcamp.org. It was basically a smaller (120 people), more local and intimate version of "Scifoo":http://www.nature.com/nature/meetings/scifoo/index.html but equally as diverse in attendees (scientists, writers, artists, technologists, business) and in topics]]>
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      <title>Gordon Brown opens Launchpad gallery at the Science Museum</title>
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        <![CDATA[Matt Brown - !http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/images/object_images/535x535/energy_store.jpg! “I have seen the future and it works.” Those were the words of Prime Minister Gordon Brown (quoting George Bernard Shaw) as he officially opened the refurbished "Launchpad gallery":http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/galleries/launchpad.aspx at London’s Science Museum on Tuesday. Since its first opening]]>
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      <title>News roundup</title>
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        <![CDATA[Matt Brown - *Imperial College* _Graduation day_ !http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/pls/portallive/docs/1/26953696.JPG! The newly independent university celebrated the "graduation of over 2000 undergraduates":http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_24-10-2007-11-2-43?newsid=20314 yesterday during a Commemoration Day ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall. Honorary doctorates were awarded to giant of genomics J Craig Venter, former CEO]]>
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      <title>William L. Anderson</title>
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        <![CDATA[William L. Anderson - ]]>
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      <title>Sarah Blackford</title>
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        <![CDATA[Sarah Blackford - ]]>
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      <title>Friday fun: science and the Simpsons; the physics of baseball</title>
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        <![CDATA[Corie Lok - Did you know that the executive producer and head writer of The Simpsons is a Harvard mathematics grad? (Several of the show's other writers also have science/math backgrounds too.) Al Jean is "interviewed":http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v448/n7152/full/448404a.html in this week's Nature about how the]]>
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