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		<title>Objects of science</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m very pleased with myself. Look at all the vintage chic sciencey stuff I have just bought: Microscope in battered old box plus scuffed up metal ruler and case (featuring weights of metals) for £15. Bargain! Plus, copies of various science books published 1950-1965 for a fiver. Including one called The Century of Science by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hayleymbirch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9800625&amp;post=351&amp;subd=hayleymbirch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Einstein&#8217;s Garden: storified</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#38;lt;a href=&#8221;http://storify.com/einsteinsgarden/einsteins-garden-2011&#8243; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221;&#38;gt;View &#8220;Einstein&#8217;s Garden 2011&#8243; on Storify&#38;lt;/a&#38;gt; This blog post is from wordsofscience.blogspot.com<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hayleymbirch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9800625&amp;post=350&amp;subd=hayleymbirch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>See you in Einstein&#8217;s Garden!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gingerbreadlady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a week&#8217;s time I will be somewhere in South Wales, probably standing under an umbrella, trying to work out how to get a&#160;juggling chemist, some robotic crows, a social physicist wielding a guitar and a cult musician accompanied by a saw player (sawist?) onto a solar-powered stage with minimum fuss. And if it all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hayleymbirch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9800625&amp;post=349&amp;subd=hayleymbirch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Biscuits in zero-G</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NiceCupOfTeaAndASitDown.com sensibly notes that space travellers would do better to take new-fangled biscuit spread, rather than bourbons or custard creams, into any sort of zero-gravity scenario. It&#8217;s the crumbs you see. Big, floaty lumps of biscuit spread will cause less havoc. &#8220;Belgian biscuit baker Lotus well known for their Caramelised Biscuits and Speculoos has found [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hayleymbirch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9800625&amp;post=342&amp;subd=hayleymbirch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&gt;Podcasts I will keep on paying for</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 18:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#62;A shout out for two awesome, life-enriching podcasts that I have supported in the last 12 months: This American Life with Ira Glass: Sublime examples of storytelling. Will teach any writer a thing or two. Filmspotting with Adam Kempenaar and Matty &#8220;Ballgame&#8221; Robinson: Best. Film critiques. Ever. What&#8217;s that you say about Mark Kermode? I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hayleymbirch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9800625&amp;post=330&amp;subd=hayleymbirch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&gt;Molecule haikus</title>
		<link>http://hayleymbirch.wordpress.com/2011/06/22/molecule-haikus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#62;I&#8217;m collecting molecule haikus. No reason, other than someone sent me one &#8211; about carbon and oxygen &#8211; on Twitter. Then someone sent me another. Also about carbon. And another about water. I&#8217;ve posted them below. &#8220;Oh why, Oxygen/did you choose Carbon, of all/Deadly love affair.&#8221; &#8211; @AnneOsterrieder (Plant cell biologist studying the Golgi apparatus.) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hayleymbirch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9800625&amp;post=329&amp;subd=hayleymbirch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&gt;M-Shed: how to engage the locals</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gingerbreadlady</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#62;When I heard that the new £27 million M-Shed &#8211; a museum that promises to &#8220;tell the story of our city&#8221; &#8211; was opening in Bristol this weekend, I have to say I felt fairly apathetic about. Standing right on the dockside, facing the floating harbour, the building itself is colossal, box-like and once housed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hayleymbirch.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9800625&amp;post=328&amp;subd=hayleymbirch&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&gt;Yes! Look what just arrived!</title>
		<link>http://hayleymbirch.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/yes-look-what-just-arrived/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gingerbreadlady</dc:creator>
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		<title>&gt;Einstein&#8217;s Gardener</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gingerbreadlady</dc:creator>
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		<title>&gt;My week as a freelancer part II (Colin&#8217;s week)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gingerbreadlady</dc:creator>
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