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		<title>Zeitgeist Science</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 09:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: Michael Taylor Ever heard of Zeitgesit? It comes from two German words, Zeit – &#8220;time&#8221; and Geist – &#8220;spirit&#8221;. Some see it culturaly, others ethicly, spiritually or politicaly. It is a fuzzy and amorphous concept like a cloud of fireflies taking a shape we cant yet identify.And yet, it is drawing in important [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=8291&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Open Science Pledge</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 07:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Pledge My Open Science Pledge is about keeping science open. It is a collaboration between the independent scientist and you the public. My philosophy is that the results of science should be made freely available to the public&#8217;s curious mind. My weblog The Pattern Connection is open-access and licensed under a Creative Commons license [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=8272&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bread, roses &amp; a career</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alexandra Kosteniuk]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Images: Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1st female Nobel prize winner), Valentina Tereshkova (1st woman in space) and Alexandra Kosteniuk (1st woman to defeat a world chess champion at blitz) Woman. Half the world, a Whole lot of respect. Imagine a world where a woman did only half the child-bearing, half the child-raring, half the housework and, god [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=7514&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing the e-CD</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 18:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: Michael Taylor Every new year needs a new innovation. So, this year I want to present my own idea &#8211; the educational/or electronic compact disc (e-CD) which now has a Creative Commons License. In a way, it&#8217;s pretty banal really. The idea is revolves around webpages that function like a traditional compact disc, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=6580&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The mystery of raining creatures</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2011/01/05/the-mystery-of-raining-creatures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: FreakingNews.com Fish, frogs, worms, spiders and birds falling from the sky? Its real alright and is recorded in the historical archives of many of the world&#8217;s cultures. It is a phenomenon known as non-aqueous rain. Some animals actually survive the fall. Others drop to the ground in an ice casing providing clues to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=6448&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Moonlike Sun</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2011/01/04/the-moonlike-sun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 08:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: (left) Surya Grahan It&#8217;s 9:45 am and right now the sun looks like a crescent moon. At 08:50:35 the axis of the Moon&#8217;s shadow passed a mere 510 km above northern Sweden. Today&#8217;s partial eclipse has a maximum magnitude of 0.8576. It started at 06:40:11 GMT and will conclude at 11:00:54 GMT. NASA&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=6407&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2011 Prime Year</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/12/30/2011-primer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[2011]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s something special about the changing of the year. The pleasure of writing the first few happenings to be in your new diary? The new colourful calendar on the fridge? Maybe it&#8217;s just childhood nostalgia or all the sugar in the chrizzy pud, but I definitely feel my happy hormones are on the up. Economic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=6358&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Secret Life of the Triangle II (the sequel)</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/12/28/happy-holidays-everyone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: Michael Taylor (a triangle formed from odd powers of the trinomial expansion of (a+b+c) to the power n) A few months ago I wrote The Secret Life of the Triangle. One of the things on my mind, apart from some trigonometry I was teaching, was why there is such a low preponderance of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=6326&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Red Moon Rising</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/12/21/red-moon-rising/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: Dean Salman, San Pedro Valley Observatory, Benson, Arizona Time flies. It feels like only yesterday when I wrote about The Persian Astrolabe and the Summer Solstice. It is six months to be exact. A litltle over six full cycles of the moon. Just two thirds of a human pregnancy. As a lecturer, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=6221&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How many dimensions is your world?</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/how-many-dimensions-is-your-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patternizer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cognition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[11D]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: Michael Taylor We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative &#8212; Anais Nin An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=5897&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How many people are thinking outside of the box?</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/11/08/how-many-people-are-thinking-outside-of-the-box/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 23:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patternizer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[statistics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[no vote]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voter turnout]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: Michael Taylor As a mathematician, elections are great fun to watch. We get to see TV channels competing for the best presentation of descriptive statistics. Unfortunately it is common practice to use pompous pie charts without quantifying the raw data used to calculate slice angles, blaring bar charts without scales, or raucous ranking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=5862&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Did Paul the Octopus beat statistics?</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/10/27/did-paul-the-octopus-beat-statistics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patternizer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[statistics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Binomial distribution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[confidence intervals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul the Octopus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: Daily Mail Online If it&#8217;s the Psychic Network, why do they need a phone number?! &#8211; Robin Williams He probably saw it coming, but for fans of Paul the psychic octopus, the news of his passing yesterday came as a shock. He left in the night aged two and a half when all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=5638&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Plasticity of Functions, Information &amp; Energy</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/amorphous-functions-and-metamorphosis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 23:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patternizer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cognition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arrow of Time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Claude Shannon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Entropy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Information Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Second Law of Thermodynamics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: Michael Taylor Think of the word function and what comes to mind? If you are mathematically inclined, perhaps you imagine y=f(x), a graph or perhaps your mind&#8217;s thesaurus conjours up others like process, utility or meaning? Function is so deliciously amorphous that when you start to chew it over a bit more, you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=5378&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The 2010 Nobel Prize for physics goes to Graphene</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/10/06/the-2010-nobel-prize-for-physics-goes-to-graphene/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 19:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patternizer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[physics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[graphene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nobel Prize for physics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: Michael Taylor Last night, the 2010 prize for physics was awarded by the Nobel Prize Foundation to two Russian-born &#8220;UK researchers&#8221; Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov for their work to successfully separate a single layer of carbon-graphite known as Graphene. It is a flat wafer just one-atom-thick honeycomb of densely-packed and electrically-conducting carbon [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=5265&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 October, World Teacher&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/happy-world-teachers-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 18:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patternizer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[science communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Teacher's Day]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: Michael Taylor As the new academic year begins and new faces young and old enter classrooms around the globe, today is World Teacher&#8217;s Day. Personally, I feel very lucky. I&#8217;ve met the behind-the-scenes pedagogues who have taught teachers to teach with gadgets and gems of wisdom, the documentarians who dared to tell it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=5237&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The secret life of the triangle</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/10/01/the-secret-life-of-the-triangle/</link>
		<comments>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/10/01/the-secret-life-of-the-triangle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 09:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patternizer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[maths]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cosmic Triangle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cosmology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fermat's Last Theorem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pyramid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pythagorus's Theorem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Triangle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trigonometry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: Michael Taylor Think of a triangle. What immediately comes to mind? For me it was a chunk of Toblerone. You may have thought of a Doritos tortilla chip, a hang glider, an A-frame, a step-ladder or even the great and mysterious Pyramids of Giza, or the one at the entrance of the Louvre. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=5150&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life in a universe of 2.4 GHz radiation</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/life-in-a-universe-of-2-4-ghz-radiation/</link>
		<comments>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/life-in-a-universe-of-2-4-ghz-radiation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patternizer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[physics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2.4 GHz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EM spectrum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobile phone cooking an egg hoax]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[radiation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[radio waves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wireless]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: Michael Taylor “Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again” &#8212; Ovid, Ancient Roman classical Poet and Author of Metamorphoses, 43-17  BC We live in a sea of waves. From the compression waves in the atmosphere to the seismic vibrations under our feet. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=5084&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cabbits, ligers, leopons and the zoology of differential equations</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/09/22/the-zoology-of-differential-equations-and-the-cabbit/</link>
		<comments>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/09/22/the-zoology-of-differential-equations-and-the-cabbit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patternizer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cognition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[categorization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[classification]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: The &#8220;Cabbit&#8221; from LairWeb &#8220;Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life&#8221; &#8212; George Bernard Shaw Have you ever had a mountain of bookmarks or MP3s and told yourself: &#8220;one of these days I will sort out my collection&#8221;. And, have you ever started, only to find you get stuck [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=5011&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Check out the excellent multi-author research level Math-Blog</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/09/22/check-out-the-excellent-multi-author-research-level-math-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patternizer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[maths]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[popular science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science communication]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Math-Blog is a research-level math blog, started in 2007 by Antonio Cangiano an IBM Software Engineer and Technical Evangelist. With its interviews, book reviews, essential math cheat-sheets and in-depth analysis of math news, software, websites and books, it is a great new resource on the web for mathematicians. It has a sleek and clean look [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=4996&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Motivation, million dollar maths and Gödel</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/09/09/motivation-million-dollar-maths-and-godel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patternizer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bertrand Russell]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Hilbert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hilbert's Problems]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Millenium Prize Problems]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise &#8212; Bertrand Russell As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality &#8212; Albert Einstein, &#8220;Geometry and Experience&#8221;, January [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=4856&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does the God Particle play dice?</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/07/28/does-the-god-particle-play-dice/</link>
		<comments>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/07/28/does-the-god-particle-play-dice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patternizer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[physics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cosmology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God Particle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Higgs Boson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[particle physics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[statistics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: Mette Host (CERN) He deals the cards as a meditation And those he plays never suspect He doesn&#8217;t play for the money he wins He doesn&#8217;t play for respect He deals the cards to find the answer The sacred geometry of chance The hidden law of probable outcome The numbers lead a dance [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=4742&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SETI Home, author affiliations and the new academic revolution</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/07/19/seti-home-author-affiliation-and-a-new-academic-revolution/</link>
		<comments>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/07/19/seti-home-author-affiliation-and-a-new-academic-revolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patternizer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[science communication]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[crowdsourcing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SETI Home]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[smart mobs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[superorganism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Wisdom of Crowds]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: Space Science News Archive &#8220;This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family &#8230;. whatever befalls the earth, befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does  to the web, he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=4709&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ecumenopolis, ITER, and the road to sustainable energy</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/07/14/the-ecumenopolis-iter-and-the-road-to-sustainable-energy/</link>
		<comments>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/07/14/the-ecumenopolis-iter-and-the-road-to-sustainable-energy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patternizer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[physics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative energy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ITER]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malthusian catastrophe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[megacity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear fusion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[population bomb]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This is going to be the world&#8217;s biggest science experiment&#8230; to show the scientific feasibility of fusion as a limitless source of energy. It will be huge &#8211; the size of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris &#8211; and it&#8217;ll weigh about the same as a battleship &#8211; 36,000 tonnes of metal and instrumentation.&#8221; &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=4666&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Raspberries and sugar and Rosetta&#8217;s date with Lutetia</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/07/11/panspermia-and-rosettas-date-with-lutetia/</link>
		<comments>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/07/11/panspermia-and-rosettas-date-with-lutetia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patternizer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[astronomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALH84001]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asteroid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[astrobiology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[astrophysics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cosmic Ancestry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creationism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Darwinism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exogenesis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lutetia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[panspermia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rosetta mission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rosetta probe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[space molecules]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: ESA/MPS for Osiris &#8220;We have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night&#8221; &#8212; Epitaph of two amateur astronomers &#8220;The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible&#8221; &#8211; Arthur C. Clarke &#8220;Lost in the milky way, Smile [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=4539&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>L&#8217;Aquila, Guiliani and the price of earthquake prediction</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/07/07/laquila-guiliani-and-the-price-of-earthquake-prediction/</link>
		<comments>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/07/07/laquila-guiliani-and-the-price-of-earthquake-prediction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 01:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patternizer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[forecasting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[earthquake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Giampaolo Giuliani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[L'Aquila]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prediction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seismology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[statistics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: Andy Paiko Glass &#8220;The first tremors in the region were felt in mid-January and continued at regular intervals, creating mounting alarm in the medieval city, about 100 km (60 miles) east of Rome. Vans with loudspeakers drove around the town a month ago telling locals to evacuate their houses after [Giampaolo] Giuliani, from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=3945&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In search of the Laws of Biology</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/07/06/in-search-of-the-laws-of-biology/</link>
		<comments>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/07/06/in-search-of-the-laws-of-biology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patternizer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[biology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[network biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[powers of 10]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scaling laws]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Systems Biology Group &#8220;How appropriate is it to look for all-encompassing laws to describe the properties of biological systems? By its very nature, life is both contingent and particular, each organism the product of eons of tinkering, of building on what had accumulated over the course of a particular evolutionary [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=3924&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s so wise about wisdom teeth?</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/07/05/whats-so-wise-about-wisdom-teeth-dont-you-just-want-to-wipe-the-smile-off-that-cow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 11:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patternizer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Darwin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human vestiges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natural Selection]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[wisdom teeth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: Xerxy We all get them, we all hate them and yet we give them nice names like &#8220;wisdom teeth&#8221; or &#8220;love teeth&#8221; if you&#8217;re Korean. The Greeks call them &#8220;calming teeth&#8221;. I&#8217;ll be 40 this year and in about an hour&#8217;s time I&#8217;m off to see what kind of wild and wacky mutation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=3901&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Isaac Newton and the birth of modern physics</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/07/05/isaac-newton-and-the-birth-of-modern-physics/</link>
		<comments>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/07/05/isaac-newton-and-the-birth-of-modern-physics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patternizer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[alchemy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gravity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Isaac Newton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MIT]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[natural philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Principia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo University (Botanical Gardens)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trinity College (Cambridge)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: Michael Taylor &#8220;Rational Mechanics will be the science of motions resulting from any forces whatsoever, and of the forces required to produce any motions, accurately proposed and demonstrated&#8230; And therefore we offer this work as mathematical principles of philosophy. For all the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this—from the phenomena of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=3844&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Programmable matter, origami and the schoolgirl who solved the paper folding problem</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/07/04/programmable-paper-origami-and-the-schoolgirl-who-solved-the-folding-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 23:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patternizer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Britney Gallivan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital paper]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michio Kaku]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: d-Vision Programmable matter is a material whose properties can be programmed to achieve specific shapes or stiffnesses upon command. This concept requires constituent elements to interact and rearrange intelligently in order to meet the goal. This paper considers achieving programmable sheets that can form themselves in different shapes autonomously by folding. Past approaches [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=3817&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Martin Gardner, mathematical games and Alice</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/07/02/martin-gardner-mathematical-games-and-alice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patternizer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Bohm]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: Wikipedia (Konrad Jacobs, Erlangen) There&#8217;s a limited number of persons I have determined to meet at all costs. They include Peter Ustinov, Margaret Hamilton, Margaret Rutherford, and John Archibald Wheeler. But the most prominent person on that list I have already met long ago, and I am privileged to have enjoyed his company, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=3805&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tauism, Pi and fundamental particles</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/tauism-pi-and-fundamental-particles/</link>
		<comments>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/tauism-pi-and-fundamental-particles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patternizer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[maths]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mathematics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Hartl]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: Michael Taylor The first book I bought as an undergraduate student &#8220;should&#8221; have been the Feynman Lectures on Physics. But, returning in 1989 to Manchester after nearly 8 years in Hong Kong, my eye was drawn to a yin-yang symbol of Taoism. It filled the front cover of the Tao of Physics by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=3776&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Parthenon, Plato, Pythagorus, Partch, Phamily and Phriends</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/the-parthenon-plato-pythagorus-partch-phamily-and-phriends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patternizer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was a day that I call &#8220;coincidence day&#8221;. You know what I mean. Those perfect days when the cosmos seems to deliver you a pleasant pattern between random events. At 4:30 this afternoon my wife Varvara rang. She said her brother Georgios phoned to see if we wanted to join him, his wife Voula [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=3740&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mathematical myths &amp; legends</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/mathematical-myths-legends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patternizer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: IMDB It&#8217;s the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth that the word &#8220;mathematics&#8221; comes from the Greek μάθημα (máthema) meaning lesson and the verb μαθαίνω (mathéno) meaning &#8220;to learn&#8221;. It could be argued that math anxiety is anxiety about learning in general but that&#8217;s probably stretching things a bit. Although [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=3705&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A.I., Newton and the neuro-natural laws</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/a-i-and-the-neural-network/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patternizer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[computation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[analytical engines]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: Brainmaps.org Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child&#8217;s? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education one would obtain the adult brain &#8212; Alan Turing I created my first neural network in 2003. It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=3676&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mathemagicians and the maths buskers</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/06/24/mathemagicians-and-the-maths-buskers/</link>
		<comments>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/06/24/mathemagicians-and-the-maths-buskers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patternizer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[science communication]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Maths tricks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: Kjaran Poskitt There is a new breed of performer coming to a street near you - the maths busker. What would you do if, when you least expected it, maths suddenly hit you in the street? Imagine, you are walking along minding you own business when kazam &#8211; there it was. An unfathomable [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=3538&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sagan, SETI, statistics and the Drake Equation</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/06/22/seti-sagan-statistics-and-the-drake-equation/</link>
		<comments>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/06/22/seti-sagan-statistics-and-the-drake-equation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patternizer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: BBC.co.uk &#8220;From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it&#8217;s different. Consider again that dot. That&#8217;s here, that&#8217;s home, that&#8217;s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=3477&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>June 21, the Persian astrolabe and the summer solstice</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/06/21/june-21-the-persian-astrolabe-and-the-summer-solstice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patternizer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: Museo Galileo Today is a big day in Devizes, England and Tehran, Iran. Devizes is a small hamlet next to Stonehenge (see a 360 degree panorama of the site) where tens of thousands will gather tonight at 11:28pm. Image Credit: Summer Solstice, Stonehenge (source photographer unknown) Some will appear in white druid dresses, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=3457&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Königsberg, Kirchhoff, the Pretzel and global village coincidences</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/06/21/konigsberg-kirchhoff-the-pretzel-and-global-village-coincidences/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: Michael Taylor Have you ever wondered how suprisingly often it happens that you know a friend of a friend&#8217;s friend and found yourself saying &#8220;it&#8217;s a small world&#8221;? You may or not be glad to know that there is good reason for such coincidences. The explanation comes from the statistical properties of social [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=3439&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wallace, Darwin, DARPA and evolution</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/06/18/wallace-darwin-and-evolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[biology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: Anon &#8220;Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly. To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur&#8221; &#8212; Alfred Russel Wallace You&#8217;ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=3410&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2012, Turing, the Maya and the Lifeboat Foundation</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/06/15/2012-turing-the-maya-and-the-lifeboat-foundation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patternizer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[forecasting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: IMDB 2012 has been designated Alan Turing Year after the English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist. His Turing Machine is a theoretical device that manipulates symbols contained on a strip of tape. Despite its simplicity, a Turing machine can be adapted to simulate the logic of any computer  algorithm. Such &#8220;machines&#8221; are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=3387&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Babbage and the calculating machine</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/06/15/babbage-and-the-calculating-machine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 23:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patternizer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[computation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: The Illustrated London News, 1871. Did you know that 188 years ago today, the English mathematician Charles Babbage presented a paper to the British Royal Astronomical Society proposing his Difference Engine &#8211; an automatic, mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions? Image Credit: London Science Museum I have dedicated pages to magical machines [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=3358&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Popular science and popular statistics</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/06/14/popular-science-and-not-so-popular-maths/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patternizer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: Popular Science magazine I can almost hear you shouting, &#8220;What? Popular statistics?!&#8221;. Ask your aunt if maths is popular science and she&#8217;ll probably chuckle and say &#8220;would you like a cup of tea dear?&#8221; on her way into the kitchen. But ask her if she saw I, Robot or A Beautiful Mind and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=3325&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sagan, Piaget and the evolutionary timelines</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/06/13/sagan-piaget-and-the-evolutionary-timelines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patternizer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cognition]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: Anon ﻿ Evey been swamped with things to do before the deadline hits? Why is it that the flow of time seems veer off and accelerate uncontrollably away from its standard rate of one second per second? Since the moment of conception and human time is set in motion, we are destined to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=3290&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Math mayhem in blogland</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/06/12/maths-in-blogland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 11:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patternizer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: Anon Doodling in maths class? If you&#8217;re not sleep-deprived, hung-over or under-fed,  and the lecturer can&#8217;t keep your attention then Thomas Bayes would say it&#8217;s probably not your fault. Out of class it&#8217;s another world altogether. The explosion of social media websites means that there are now 100s to 1000s of brilliant maths [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=3306&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Placebo, risk and statistical literacy</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/placebo-risk-and-statistical-literacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patternizer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[statistics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: Anon Statistics has really had its name dragged through the mud over the years. But is it to blame? We are in daily contact with statistics through the TV, the press and the web and everyone knows that there are &#8220;lies, damned lies and statistics&#8221;. Some will even quote Anscombe&#8217;s quartet as proof! [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=3042&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Love Equation and human thermodynamics</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/06/06/the-love-equation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 16:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patternizer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: Anon What is it about women and men? We love to hate. We hate to love. John Gray explained the battle of the sexes in his book &#8220;Women are from Venus and men are from Mars&#8221; &#8211; 2 planets either side of Earth where, by some cosmic fate, it seems we met in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=2986&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Clouds and attachment</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/06/05/clouds-and-attachment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 10:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: Michael Taylor Remember the old saying, &#8220;a picture paints a 1000 words&#8221;? In the modern world of category and tag clouds and fun tools for their creation like Wordle you can now flip it on its head altgother with texts that paint a 1000 pictures. Once you start playing with Wordle you will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=2909&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fuzzy thinking and appleness</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: Anon When you think of something &#8220;fuzzy&#8221; what comes to mind? Maybe a soft toy or even blurred vision? Maybe you have read the outstanding book by Bart Kosko called Fuzzy Thinking? It will change how you see everything and I dont mean that it&#8217;s full of optical illusions! It is about fuzzy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=2716&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patternizer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: Michael Taylor Do you know what Mount Kilimanjaro, complex systems, the NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre and the british rock band Muse have in common? Well, Muse&#8217;s album Absolution was released on 21 September 2003 in the UK and featured the song Butterflies and Hurricanes, just weeks after the 800km diameter Category 5 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=2683&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hearts and fractals</title>
		<link>http://patternizer.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/2652/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 13:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>patternizer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[complex systems]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image Credit: (Source unknown) Heraclitus once said, &#8220;You can not step twice into the same river&#8220;. And then came the pacemaker, invented to keep the heart beating at a constant rate. But who hasn&#8217;t felt the the changes in the heart&#8217;s rythmns? You can almost hear its slow thumping just before you drop off to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patternizer.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10159436&amp;post=2652&amp;subd=patternizer&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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