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		<title>The best books to give to your friends and family this holiday season</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2022 15:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Books for everyone: science, fiction, science fiction, culture, middle-age readers.* Let&#8217;s start with two Native American related titles: The Sea-Ringed World: sacred stories of the Americas by María García Esperón, Amanda Mijangos, David Bowles. Fifteen thousand years before Europeans stepped foot in the Americas, people had already spread from tip to tip and coast to &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/12/12/the-best-books-to-give-to-your-friends-and-family-this-holiday-season/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The best books to give to your friends and family this holiday season</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>James Webb Cancelled</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2022 17:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Above: The telescope formerly known as James Webb. The Royal Astronomical Society has implemented a policy that papers published in its journals that make reference to the telescope formerly known as James Web use only the acronym JWST to signify this particular machine. This is because James Webb, who died in 1992, has a history. &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/10/28/james-webb-cancelled/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">James Webb Cancelled</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Using Nature to Solve Problems</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2022 14:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In which I participate in Producer Wes&#8217;s project &#8220;Advice Wanted.&#8221; Any questions?]]></description>
		
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		<title>Happy Anniversary Anthony Watts!</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/07/29/happy-anniversary-anthony-watts/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2022 15:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the most odious individuals to exist on the Internet is Anthony Watts, climate science denier and all round ass. But you knew that. What you may not have been thinking when you woke up this morning, and you are forgiven since there are some other important things going on in this world, is &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/07/29/happy-anniversary-anthony-watts/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Happy Anniversary Anthony Watts!</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Massive Holiday Shopping Suggestions for Science and Technology Nerds</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2021 19:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Before going on to my regular suggestions (which will link to Amazon via my associates account, so I get a small bounty), note that at this time, and probably for only a few days, Cosmic Queries: StarTalk&#8217;s Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We&#8217;re Going by Neil deGrasse Tyson is &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/12/03/massive-holiday-shopping-suggestions-for-science-and-technology-nerds/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Massive Holiday Shopping Suggestions for Science and Technology Nerds</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Amazing science books</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2021 17:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You probably don&#8217;t get nature like I do. And by that I don&#8217;t mean &#8220;get nature&#8221; but rather, &#8220;get Nature, the magazine.&#8221; I do get Nature, which is very expensive, so maybe you don&#8217;t have to. A recent newsletter from the Mother Mag includes a list of great new science books, and I was pretty &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/08/06/amazing-science-books/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Amazing science books</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>How a building or a bridge falls down.</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/07/01/how-a-building-or-a-bridge-falls-down/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2021 15:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Every thing, be it a tall skyscraper, a lofty mountain, or a mere mole hill, has a single destiny: To become flat, to fall, wear or settle down into flatness. This is the way of the world because the world warps the spacetime in which those things stand in a way that pulls the atoms &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/07/01/how-a-building-or-a-bridge-falls-down/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">How a building or a bridge falls down.</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>UFO&#8217;s: The Fourth Hypothesis</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/06/30/ufos-the-fourth-hypothesis/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2021 03:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am a little disappointed in Neil deGrasse Tyson. He has long pointed out the very correct truth that many astronomers, including professionals and avocational astronomers, have spent a lot of time looking at the sky, and have failed to find Aliens flying about. This suggests that there are not aliens flying about. Recently he &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/06/30/ufos-the-fourth-hypothesis/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">UFO&#8217;s: The Fourth Hypothesis</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Read These Books and Be Smarter</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/12/11/read-these-books-and-be-smarter/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2020 18:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[With Covid-19 limitations on so many activities, we are doing so much reading there is a threat that we will wear out all the books! I have four items here that are deep, and intellectually engaging. A scholarly look at literature by one of the great living American authors, two addressing the history of science &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/12/11/read-these-books-and-be-smarter/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Read These Books and Be Smarter</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Graphic Fearless Primatology (book)</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/12/05/graphic-fearless-primatology-book/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2020 18:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Check out Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas by Jim Ottaviani and Maris Wicks*, a graphic style book** about Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birute Galdikas. These were, as you probably know, the three women that dispersed around the world to study major great ape species (chimps, gorillas, orangs, &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/12/05/graphic-fearless-primatology-book/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Graphic Fearless Primatology (book)</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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