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      <title>SciFri Video:Finding Dino Color In Fossil Feathers</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ Forget those drab grays and greens, dinosaurs might have been more colorful, according to a new study in <em>Science</em>. Yale graduate student Jakob Vinther and colleagues looked at the fossilized feathers of 150-million-year-old <em>Anchiornis huxleyi</em> and found melanosomes--the organelles that hold melanin. Vinther's analysis suggests the dinosaur had surprisingly flashy plumage. <a href="http://www.sciencefriday.com/videos/watch/10273">En Espa&ntilde;ol.</a> ]]></description>
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      <title>SciFri Video:Bots Take On The Bard</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ Robots were cast in a production of Shakespeare's <em>A Midsummer Night's Dream</em> thanks to a collaboration between the theater department and the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue at Texas A&M University. Computer science grad student Kevin Pratt talks about the ultra high-tech production and why it's helpful for scientists to put robots on the stage. <a href="http://www.sciencefriday.com/videos/watch/10272">En Espa&ntilde;ol.</a> ]]></description>
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      <title>SciFri Blog:The Red Scare</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ 

The red fox moves into his smaller cousin's territory and acts like he owns the place... ]]></description>
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      <title>SciFri Radio:Gene Doping in Sports</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ With the Winter Olympics just a week away, we'll talk about a new potential threat to fair competition -- gene doping. ]]></description>
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      <title>SciFri Radio:Science and the Budget</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ This week, President Obama unveiled his proposed budget for 2011. We'll talk about how the proposed budget might affect science.  ]]></description>
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      <title>SciFri Radio:'Manufacturing Depression'</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ Millions of Americans take antidepressant medications. But how did that come to be, and does such widespread use of antidepressants serve a real medical need? ]]></description>
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      <title>SciFri Blog:iPad Crystal Ball</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ For all who think they can predict the future of the iPad, recall this prophesy about another Apple product:

 “The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a ‘mouse’... ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:09:23 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>SciFri Video:The Mystery Of The Celibate Rotifer </title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ Bdelloid rotifers haven't had sex for at least thirty million years and that's puzzling. Most asexual animals are doomed to extinction.  Reporting in the journal <em>Science</em>, Paul Sherman and Chris Wilson explain the extraordinary adaptations that allow rotifers to thrive sex-free. <a href="http://www.sciencefriday.com/videos/watch/10267">En Espa&ntilde;ol.</a> ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:01:33 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>SciFri Blog:Warm, warmer, warmest</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>SciFri Radio:Rotifers, Reproduction, and the Red Queen</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ New research tackles the question of how one species of aquatic microorganism has managed to survive without the benefit of sexual reproduction for millions of years. ]]></description>
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      <title>SciFri Radio:In 2010, A Space Opera</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ For the past week, the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York has been home to an unusual sight -- performances of a Haydn opera about the moon. ]]></description>
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      <title>SciFri Radio:Tracking Near-Earth Objects</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ The US spends $4 million each year to  search for comets or asteroids that could threaten the planet. That's not enough to get the job done, according to a new report from the National Research Council.    ]]></description>
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      <title>SciFri Radio:Time, Space, and Other Big Questions</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ Ira talks with theoretical physicist Sean Carroll about his new book about the nature of time. Did time and space exist before the Big Bang?  ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>SciFri Radio:Mars Rover to Rove No Longer</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ This week, NASA announced that Spirit, one of the twin Mars Exploration Rovers, appears to be permanently stuck in Martian soil, and that the rover would now be used only as a stationary observation platform. ]]></description>
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