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		<title>Project Babylon: Gerald Bull&#8217;s Downfall</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Kendall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve got to run one more classic article&#8230; this week has had an overabundance of unexpected unpleasantness.  This one originally appeared on 26 May 2006
Gerald Bull is a prime example of a man who created his own luck&#8211;unfortunately for him most of it was bad.  A brilliant and distinguished artillery engineer, Bull spent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Half-Brothers in the Womb</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Kendall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: Dateline NBCIn 1993, Wilma Stuart gave birth to two baby boys. They were fraternal twins, so some dissimilarity was to be expected. However, only one of the boys seemed to take after his parents of white Dutch heritage. The other sported a much darker complexion. 
Wilma&#8217;s pregnancy was due to in-vitro fertilization (IVF), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Coherent Light Infantry</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Kendall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1960, when scientists first developed Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation, skeptical scientists and engineers joked that this new LASER was a &#8220;solution lacking a problem&#8221;.  But within just a few years, practical uses began to arise for the new technology.  Steady advances over the next few decades allowed ever-smaller lasers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Atomic Spaceship</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2006 21:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The year was 1957. The power of the atom had been unleashed upon the world.  Technology&#8211;along with just about everything else&#8211;was booming. Safe, plentiful nuclear energy promised to be too cheap to meter, and radioactive waste seemed only a minor concern.  It was an age of optimism and naiveté; a time of action [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dark Tale of Colliding Superclusters</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2006 18:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Kendall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bullet Nebula in Visible and X-Ray LightFor all that mankind has learned through science, the Universe has so far managed to keep most of its secrets.  For instance, we don&#8217;t know where the Universe came from, what its fate will be, or even its most basic composition.  
But over the last few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extinction of the Passenger Pigeons</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2006 04:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Kendall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Male Passenger PigeonPassenger Pigeons (Ectopistes Migratorius) were once so numerous that by some estimates they outnumbered all the rest of the birds in North America combined.  The swift birds were capable of flying in excess of 60 miles per hour, and frequently migrated hundreds of miles in search of suitable grounds for nesting and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Earth&#8217;s Artificial Ring: Project West Ford</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2006 16:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Kendall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[At the height of the Cold War in the late 1950s, all international communications were either sent through undersea cables or bounced off of the natural ionosphere.  The United States military was concerned that the Soviets (or other &#8220;Hostile Actors&#8221;) might cut those cables, forcing the unpredictable ionosphere to be the only means of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America&#8217;s Discarded Superconducting Supercollider</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Kendall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Deep beneath the plains of central Texas lies a catacomb of tunnels once meant to house the  most expensive physics experiment ever devised.  That experiment, the Superconducting Supercollider, would have revolutionized our understanding of the physical world by giving us our first glimpse of the &#8220;God Particle.&#8221;  And, proposed during the Cold [...]]]></description>
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