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		<title>Forays into science writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UC Santa Cruz&#8217;s Science Communication program has been keeping me busy. I may not have been writing here much, but I am writing elsewhere. Where? Here: The Santa Cruz Sentinel is my internship, some of my favorite stories are these: UCSC scientists lead a team deploying robots to forecast toxic algae blooms UCSC researchers propose a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amusedartichoke.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4503557&amp;post=689&amp;subd=amusedartichoke&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How the lunar dynamo might have formed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 03:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working at a newspaper means West Nile one week, whale watching the next and complex planetary science this week! Here&#8217;s my article about how the moon could have gained, then lost its magnetism. Apollo astronauts in the 1960s and 70s found a mystery on the moon. Some of the rocks they picked up were magnetized, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amusedartichoke.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4503557&amp;post=683&amp;subd=amusedartichoke&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spread of West Nile virus</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 02:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[West Nile virus, a virus that hitchhiked from Africa to America, probably via airplanes, swept across the continent in a few short years. Birds are the virus&#8217;s primary host, but when viral loads in the blood are high enough, a mosquito can transfer the infection from bird to other animals, including humans. &#8220;The virus is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amusedartichoke.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4503557&amp;post=658&amp;subd=amusedartichoke&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sunset</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marissa</dc:creator>
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		<title>Busy scicom student</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 02:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well it&#8217;s happening! I&#8217;m a month into classes at UC Santa Cruz&#8217;s Science Communication program. Writing about science is no longer something I fit into the spaces around work. It is what I do now. Between classes and an internship at the Santa Cruz Sentinel, I&#8217;m pretty busy. One of our classes is taught by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amusedartichoke.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4503557&amp;post=652&amp;subd=amusedartichoke&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A wise man</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 01:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In preparing for my wisdom series, I asked Q what qualities he thought made a person wise. He described some wise people in his life. I always thought my friend D was wise—that is why I wanted you to meet him. He is wise in a lot of spheres in his life. He spent a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amusedartichoke.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4503557&amp;post=492&amp;subd=amusedartichoke&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wisdom part IV: searching for wisdom, neurochemicals?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[brains]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dopamine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part IV of a series: Part I; Part II; Part III; Part IV Neil DeGrasse Tyson says (it&#8217;s early in the video) that people get all worked-up about thinking that our brain is &#8216;all we are&#8217;. He says that is a good start, but sort of like saying that elbows are all we are. But why [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amusedartichoke.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4503557&amp;post=410&amp;subd=amusedartichoke&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New place, new people, new animals!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This summer has been on the run. A big freelance-job landed in my lap and I spent July waking up early and interviewing researchers on the east coast before heading to work, training my replacement, and sleeping on friends&#8217; couches. Yup. I moved out of the apartment right before labor day weekend and hopped between [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amusedartichoke.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4503557&amp;post=570&amp;subd=amusedartichoke&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Visiting home</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 18:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend I went home for my brother&#8217;s graduation from Cornell. It was a good opportunity to break out my new digital camera and practice taking some pictures. The thing is so easy to use that I even handed it off to a 7 year old and she was able to get a few great [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amusedartichoke.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4503557&amp;post=530&amp;subd=amusedartichoke&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Man Who Swims With Coelacanths &#124; Wired Science &#124; Wired.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 21:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wired Science has a fascinating interview with Hans Fricke, The Man Who Swims With Coelacanths. This fish is just amazing. Fricke explains: They have the slowest metabolic rate known among vertebrates. We made a calculation that a coelacanth needs, for its resting metabolism, 3.8 milliliters of oxygen per kilogram per hour. A tuna needs 400 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=amusedartichoke.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4503557&amp;post=528&amp;subd=amusedartichoke&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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