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		<title>Cosmic Convergence</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a cute diagram for you. But first, as Frankie Howerd would say, The Prologue. Some background is necessary in case you get the wrong take-home message once I unveil the interestin&#8217; picture&#8230; Periodically somebody frightens us with tales of how The Data Deluge Threatens Science. (Yes, guilty.) Cynics will suggest that Moore&#8217;s law [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=640835&amp;post=2582&amp;subd=andyxl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Year Mutterings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Birthday Honours]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another year is racing past the finishing post. Queenie&#8217;s Birthday Honours List  is out.  Not bad for science overall, with  Knighthoods for selllotape and pencil heroes Geim and Novoselov.Weaker than usual for astronomy and particle physics. I could only find an MBE for Derek Raine &#8211; well deserved, but awarded for services to education, not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=640835&amp;post=2569&amp;subd=andyxl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alien Seas and the Nature of Science</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consumerism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fish]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Went to John Lewis yesterday. A subterranean memory emerged. When I was nineteen I used to get a strange pleasure wandering through the John Lewis Department Store. It was an eery world, detached from my own. I would get a buzz drifting past thousands upon thousands of things I had no desire  for whatsoever. Vast [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=640835&amp;post=2555&amp;subd=andyxl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cosmic Treat</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Astronomy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the nice folks at Snag Films, I learn that yesterday was the fifteenth anniversary of Carl Sagan&#8217;s death. You can watch the first episode of the famous COSMOS series here. It starts with an advert, but thats why its free folks. Carl Sagan ain&#8217;t as pretty as Brian Cox, and I would say [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=640835&amp;post=2544&amp;subd=andyxl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Astronomical Isolation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Astronomy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ESA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So what will the euro-zone veto fuss do to astronomy ? Anything ? I have just been checking for new service data on a ESO-VLT project I have. My student is doing stuff with ESA Herschel data. Lots of us are glowing happily and emailing our Italian and French friends because Euclid got selected. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=640835&amp;post=2539&amp;subd=andyxl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rock and Roll will never die (just f-f-fade away)</title>
		<link>http://andyxl.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/rock-and-roll-will-never-die-just-f-f-fade-away/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dubstep]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just got interviewed in A&#38;G. You can see it online here . Old Leicester chum Watto says he is getting a T-shirt made referring to the big-photons episode. Another old Leicester chum, Grimmers, aka @compactdwarf, referred to the interview as a &#8220;centrefold&#8221; which left me feeling a tad uncomfortable, but there we go. It also sparked off [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=640835&amp;post=2533&amp;subd=andyxl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Something Fresh</title>
		<link>http://andyxl.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/something-fresh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Astronomy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Blandings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Credit Default Swaps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gemini]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keynes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost escaped from teaching. Maybe Ye Olde Blogge can Arise Again. But what, but what, is burning to be said ? Here is a shortlist. (1) The title is for Professor Smail. First ever Blandings novel. But people have sent me emails saying &#8220;we cannot live by Wodehouse alone&#8221; so better stop there. (2) The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=640835&amp;post=2528&amp;subd=andyxl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Proto Bertie</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have decided how I want to die. If it please The Almighty, I would like to be taken by a massive coronary while reading P.G.Wodehouse. I have written before of the delights of P.G.W. Hope I&#8217;m not boring you. Doing a bit of book shuffling, I rediscovered one of my favourites : The Man [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=640835&amp;post=2522&amp;subd=andyxl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Admissions : Scottish Paranoia episode 2,317</title>
		<link>http://andyxl.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/admissions-scottish-paranoia-episode-2317/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[News from UCAS this morning about the idea of post-result applications triggered a Scottish grump. I am not Scottish, but as soon as you have lived here for a bit you develop the small-partner paranoia thing. You are watching TV and some Holywood starlet plonks down  on the chat show couch and the host says [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=640835&amp;post=2514&amp;subd=andyxl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>US astronomy crumbling ?</title>
		<link>http://andyxl.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/us-astronomy-crumbling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Astronomy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of us were rather perturbed to receive the latest edition of the NOAO newsletter, NOAO Currents, warning the community that KPNO or even CTIO as well might be forced into closure by the dire state of the NSF budget. They have started a community discussion. UK readers should bear in mind that unlike our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=640835&amp;post=2507&amp;subd=andyxl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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