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	<title>Kevin A. Zelnio &#187; Politics of Science</title>
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		<title>Holy Standards! The Kilogram is Losing Mass!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Zelnio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NPR has a story about the official prototype of the kilogram, it is &#8216;mysteriously&#8217; losing weight. Obviously a terrorist plot. For over 120 years this sensational standard, housed at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Sevres, France, has provided the definitive definition of mass for the world (minus the &#8220;Coalition of the Weighing&#8221;). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The destruction of our planet, one nuclear blast at a time</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 04:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Zelnio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was alerted by Pink Tentacle of this animated map of nuclear explosions from 1945-1998. I couldn&#8217;t keep my eyes away and it is very disheartening. The end tally is very terrifying, to make an understatement. Not only are the majority of explosions by the United States, but they are IN the United States, southwest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Retard Scientific Progress</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 03:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Zelnio</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Leo Szilard]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found a great quote and analogy from an essay published in Current Biology by Peter Lawrence titled The mismeasurement of science. This essay takes a look at how science is measured and examines the use of impact factors and other metrics that measure scientific progress for individual scientists, academic departments and institutions. The quote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Redefining Authorship?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Zelnio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m known for being stingy with my authorship lists. I don&#8217;t believe collecting samples, doing a couple PCRs, or otherwise being present, or even bouncing ideas off of, justifies you name as a author on scientific paper. I am skeptical of long author lists in top-tiered journals. I do like to promote my hard-working undergraduate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Concise, Bulleted List of Grievences Against .docx</title>
		<link>http://www.zelnio.org/2009/11/17/a-concise-bulleted-list-of-grievences-against-docx/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Zelnio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For excellent coverage of the issue visit these two very well laid out posts by Greg Laden in 2007 when microsoft released the .docx file format. (Yes, I am a mac user and an Open Source software user. I do run a virtual machine with windows on it but use exclusively open source office software.) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women in Science FAIL</title>
		<link>http://www.zelnio.org/2009/10/23/women-in-science-fail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Zelnio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not entirely sure this ad on Science Magazine&#8216;s website needs much explaining of the blatant misogyny here. The look of ecstasy on the clear faced young attractive women, the dominating positioning of the gecko anole, an often masculine animal symbol, ever so precariously perched on her lips&#8230; I don&#8217;t think I am reading too much [...]]]></description>
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