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		<title>Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics</title>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2011/11/visualize-this-the-flowingdata-guide-to-design-visualization-and-statistics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dwayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A straight forward view of analyzing data and making your findings visual. They didn&#8217;t mention the part about choosing only the statistics which support your position. Or the section on how to make the data look better or worse. Perhaps it would be a good idea for folks to stop doing that. Visualize This: The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pluto and Eris: Two peas in a&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2011/10/pluto-and-eris-two-peas-in-a/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dwayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pluto&#8217;s Twin, while a neighbor, is a distant one at that.  Traveling around the Sun on a more elliptical path than Pluto, Eris&#8217; maximum distant from our home star is 14.5 billion kilometers, almost twice that of Pluto&#8217;s path. &#160; An artist&#8217;s impression of the dwarf planet Eris. Illustration by L. Calçada, ESO]]></description>
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		<title>Have you seen this man?</title>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2011/03/have-you-seen-this-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dwayne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[National Geographic&#8217;s most typical person National Geographic’s year long series on world population highlights the differences and similarities of the Earth’s population as we reach 7 billion people in 2011.]]></description>
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		<title>Odds of Life Beyond Earth Go Way Up</title>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2010/12/odds-of-life-beyond-earth-go-way-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dwayne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biotechnology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[NASA and the journal Nature made announcements this week which increase the odds of life beyond Earth significantly. NASA’s announcement is the bigger of the two.&#160; Scientist’s found life in California’s Mono Lake that is unlike all other known life on Earth.&#160; Until now, all life we knew about on Earth was made up of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snow Driving Down South</title>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2010/02/snow-driving-down-south/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dwayne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Growing up in the South, you don’t have a lot of opportunities to test out your winter gittin’ around skills.  And with a big snowstorm about to him my hometown area, here are a few hard learned lessons about moving around in the white stuff. Cowboy boots and ice don’t mix. Always wipe the snow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yellowstone BioBlitz Uncovers Species Previously not Known to Exist in the Park</title>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2009/12/yellowstone-bioblitz-uncovers-species-previously-not-known-to-exist-in-the-park/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dwayne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first ever Yellowstone BioBlitz took place in August and uncovered more than 1200 species in a two-square mile area of northern Yellowstone, including several species not previously known to exist in the park. While Yellowstone&#8217;s wolves, bison, bears, and elk typically receive the most attention-both from scientists and tourists-the focus of the BioBlitz was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Efficiency is Job 1</title>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2009/07/energy-efficiency-is-job-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dwayne</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[McKinsey and Company’s central conclusion from their U.S. Energy Efficiency report says much about the energy efficiency opportunity in the US: Energy efficiency offers a vast, low-cost energy resource for the U.S. economy – but only if the nation can craft a comprehensive and innovative approach to unlock it.&#160; Significant and persistent barriers will need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A former pain in the neck</title>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/05/a-former-pain-in-the-neck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 19:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dwayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a relief. After 15 months of avoiding surgery to repair an increasing hierniation in my neck last week, Boulder Neurosurgery Association performed an Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion. The outpatient procedure provided immediately relief to pain and numbness down my right arm into my thumb and forefinger. Blogged with the Flock Browser]]></description>
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		<title>Redeye VC: I Don&#8217;t Know&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/04/redeye-vc-i-dont-know/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dwayne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Why do people feel pressure to have an answer for every question?&#8221; Even when they don&#8217;t know Jack, they make it up on the fly. Ten years ago our training courses included a short video clip of college students at some of the more prestigious universities speaking at length with great confidence about a subject [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building the 21st century education system</title>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2007/02/building-the-21st-century-education-system/</link>
		<comments>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2007/02/building-the-21st-century-education-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dwayne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creativity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are our schools prepared for the challenges our kids will face this century?Â  This decade?Â  Alvin Toffler suggest our schools were built to prepare the rural American child for the industrial revolution.Â  Get to work on time, enjoy repetitive tasks and essentially fall in line.Â  Agree?Â  Perhaps we have advanced somewhat since the late 1800&#8242;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 days that unexpectedly changed America</title>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2006/04/10-days-that-unexpectedly-changed-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Apr 2006 03:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dwayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The excellent series on the History Channel, 10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed America, continues to be very educational and quite entertaining. Watching these 10 events, I feel compelled to add and question if perhaps other unexpected events would be in my top 10. Their events are: Massacre at Mystic Shays&#8217; Rebellion: America&#8217;s First Civil War [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why is ice so slippery?</title>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2006/02/why-is-ice-so-slippery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dwayne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Does ice melt due to weight and/or friction of a boot, skate or tire creating a thin layer of water? Experiements are unable to prove this leading some to suggest special qualities of H2O in it&#8217;s &#8220;solid&#8221; form. You can find more in The New York Times article, Explaining Ice: The Answers Are Slippery. Free [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Human Evolution: New Thoughts</title>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2005/12/human-evolution-new-thoughts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2005 16:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dwayne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Economists in The proper study of mankind writes: SEVEN hundred and forty centuries ago, give or take a few, the skies darkened and the Earth caught a cold. Toba, a volcano in Sumatra, had exploded with the sort of eruptive force that convulses the planet only once every few million years. The skies stayed [...]]]></description>
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