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	<title>Noise Is Information &#187; science</title>
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		<title>Water, Water Everywhere&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/03/29/water-water-everywhere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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The image above is the National Weather Service&#8217;s Quantitative Precipitation Forecast for the next 48 hours.  It predicts 4-5 inches of rain for the Boston metro area between now and midday Wednesday!
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		<title>Free the Willies</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/02/25/free-the-willies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>necco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In light of the most recent Killer Whale attack at Sea World I think that cetaceans should not be held in captivity and forced to perform.  The animals are clearly intelligent.  They should be given the option to perform&#8230; maybe an &#8220;open&#8221; aquarium where they can voluntarily open a door, swim into and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best&#8230;Area Forecast Discussion&#8230;EVER!</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/02/21/best-area-forecast-discussion-ever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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If you&#8217;re like me &#8211; and I know I am &#8211; you love trying to understand and predict the weather.  On the off chance you&#8217;re not like me, I&#8217;m reposting below my favorite recent &#8220;Area Forecast Discussion&#8221; product from the National Weather Service&#8217;s Taunton, MA office.  Even with the jargon and peculiar typographic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neurogastroenterology.  Really.</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/02/16/neurogastroenterology-really/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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You have more neurons in your stomach and intestines than in your spinal cord or peripheral nervous system.  Some call it &#8220;the second brain:&#8221;
Technically known as the enteric nervous system, the second brain consists of sheaths of neurons embedded in the walls of the long tube of our gut, or alimentary canal, which measures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Origin of Specious</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/02/03/on-the-origin-of-specious-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so maybe referring to The Obama as specious is a bit of a stretch, but, dammit, I wanted that pun!  And, really, it was just a setup for this awesome graphic by artist Mike Rosulek:

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		<title>The Idea Is Like Grass</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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&#8220;The idea is like grass.  It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.&#8221;
&#8211; Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
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		<title>America&#8217;s Rivers: A Drying Shame</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/01/28/americas-rivers-a-drying-shame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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Rebecca Solnit writes in the London Review of Books of the water-powered rise and fall of the North American west:
Eighty per cent of the Colorado River’s water goes to agriculture. Twenty per cent of California’s agricultural water goes to grow low-value alfalfa. The river, in its climate-change-driven decline, will strangle all these projects and make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feedback: Another Wow Moment</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/01/28/feedback-another-wow-moment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr.hoo</dc:creator>
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As fans of feedback thought you might enjoy this example of one of those exciting moments of discovery.
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		<title>‘It’s Incredibility I’m After’</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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A great article about Timothy Leary includes this bit of a conversation between Leary and media/society scholar Marshall McLuhan:
In one of their prophetic conversations McLuhan made the following prediction: ‘You’re going to win the war, Timothy. Eventually. But you’re going to lose some major battles on the way. You’re not going to overthrow the Protestant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;What Is Fire?&#8221; &#8211; Buckminster Fuller Answers</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2009/12/30/what-is-fire-buckminster-fuller-answers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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Buckminster Fuller, in Critical Path (hello, Dr. Hoo!), answers a child&#8217;s query, &#8220;What is fire?&#8221;:
&#8220;Fire is the Sun unwinding from the tree&#8217;s log. The Earth revolves and the trees revolve as the radiation from the Sun&#8217;s flame reaches the revolving planet Earth. By photosynthesis the green buds and leaves of the tree convert that Sun [...]]]></description>
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