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		<title>A Science Blogger Overview:  Welcome to the Fascinating World of Marmorkrebs!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[crustaceans]]></category>
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While browsing through Twitter one day, I came across Dr. Zen Faulkes who is a scientist adept at using social media and blogging to communicate his research and ideas.
He is a Canadian researcher living in Texas doing behavioural research on the unusual crustacean creature, Marmorkrebs.&#160; He is interested in the evolution of behaviour and nervous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science Blogging 101 &#8211; How to Write About Science</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 02:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know how many of you like to blog about science, but here are some tips.&#160; Writing a blog post on a scientific subject is a little different than most other types of posts.&#160; You do have to state true facts, but yet you don&#8217;t want your post to sound like a formal journal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ant Pheromone Trails&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Richard Feynman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know about you, but I&#8217;ve always found it fascinating to sit and watch ants (especially when I was younger and I had more time).&#160; I always wondered where it was they were trying to go, and how did they know where to go?
The physicist Richard Feynman had also observed ants, and he talks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fun with Google Insights!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I enjoy statistics, and so I thought I would try putting some search terms into Google Insights to see if any interesting trends popped up.&#160; Keep in mind that Google Insights only has data from 2004 onwards.
You can check out Google Insights here: &#160;
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#
Dancing with the Stars:

I thought shows like Dancing with the Stars and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Which cities are the friendliest?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently conducted a poll on my FaceBook to ask people which cities they think are the friendliest.&#160; These are the names that came up:&#160; Cuenca, Ecuador; Toronto; Vancouver, BC; Chicago; Manchester, England; and Texas.&#160; Of course Texas is a state and not a city, but I have heard that on a whole the people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Overview of the Nature Network</title>
		<link>http://www.masit.ca/latest-work/an-overview-of-the-nature-network/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Latest Work]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lately, I&#8217;ve been feeling really excited about the concept of Science 2.0.  I feel that science is at its best when it is discussed and shared with everyone.  Because after all, what is science, without a discussion of ideas?
The Nature Network is social networking for scientists,


 and has a similar look and feel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pros and Cons of Having a Continuous Partial Attention Span</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[efficiency]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[These days, there is a lot of talk about the web generation, or Google generation, and their lack of ability to focus on any one thing in particular for too long.  In fact, I have read articles that say people who grew up this way have their brains wired differently than people who did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Google Generation: is easy access to information really such a great thing?</title>
		<link>http://www.masit.ca/thoughts-and-observations/the-google-generation-is-easy-access-to-information-such-a-great-thing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I have been wondering what the implications are of having all this information so readily available and easily accessible through Google.  Of course, I can remember a time when life wasn&#8217;t like this.  But for the so called &#34;Google Generation,&#34; they have never known life to be any different.  They are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science 2.0:  the new wave of science</title>
		<link>http://www.masit.ca/latest-work/science-20-the-new-wave-of-science/</link>
		<comments>http://www.masit.ca/latest-work/science-20-the-new-wave-of-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 17:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[nature network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oceans 2.0]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open notebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open-access journal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So by now, we have all heard of Web 2.0, right?  In case you haven&#8217;t, Wiktionary defines it as &#34;The second generation of the World Wide Web, especially the movement away from static web pages to dynamic and shareable content and social networking&#34;  http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Web_2.0  For instance, the tools of Web 2.0 include [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contracts and Copyright Tips</title>
		<link>http://www.masit.ca/featured-articles/contracts-and-copyright-tips/</link>
		<comments>http://www.masit.ca/featured-articles/contracts-and-copyright-tips/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[contracts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[copyleft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[copyright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freelancing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Goodman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ The goal of today&#8217;s post is to provide you with some information on writing contracts and copyright law, as a freelancer.  I recently read a great book by Michelle Goodman entitled &#34;My So-called Freelance Life&#34;.  Much of the information I am providing here is contained in Chapter 12 of her book, but [...]]]></description>
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