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		<title>Spidergoats IV: Dawn of the Worm</title>
		<link>http://analog-nation.com/2010/10/05/spidergoats-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 03:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, that&#8217;s just great. Here we go with another catastrophic idea, some supervillain scheme swaddled head to foot in crazypants, which will supposedly make the world a better place. Way to go, Science. Let&#8217;s have a look at what new weapons you&#8217;re adding to the spidergoats&#8217; arsenal. This ought to be good. What now, are they going to have wings? Opposable digits? Decentralized heart chambers to make them harder to kill? Can&#8217;t wait, let&#8217;s hear it! Let&#8217;s usher in the End of Times and condemn all future generations of the human ra&#8212; Whoah. Wait a minute. Hang on just a, I mean, this can&#8217;t be, wait, this is, come on, you can&#8217;t seriously, HANG ON JUST A GODDAMN MINUTE HERE. Guys? C&#8217;mere. Check my math on this, because unless I&#8217;m completely nuts &#8230; this idea isn&#8217;t crazypants. Holy shit on a toast point, they may actually have solved the spider silk problem. What the hell is he talking about? The Spidergoat Resistance Front (SRF) is dedicated to saving Earth from &#8230; well, spidergoats. The name is pretty straightforward. Get the back story here: &#8226; Spidergoats: Dark Origins &#8226; Spidergoats II: Tarantulagoats &#8226; Spidergoats III: The Golden Orb As usual, rescue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230; And Your Little Cerapod, Too</title>
		<link>http://analog-nation.com/2010/08/09/triceratops/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 03:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, come on. This is officially insane. Honestly, it is. This time they have gone too far. They are flaunting it, shoving our noses in the shards of our broken toys, heaving back their heads in gales of laughter. It&#8217;s as if they told the children of the world that there&#8217;s no Santa, and he wasn&#8217;t going to bring them presents this year anyway, and besides he has leukemia. It&#8217;s overkill. It has to stop. Those goddamn paleontologists need to come down a peg or two. And yes, this is absolutely about the Triceratops thing. (Note to any children reading this: Santa is completely real, and leukemia is a type of candy that tastes like hugs.) The July issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology pulls the veil off nearly 130 years of dinosaur lore &#8212; technically speaking, the Triceratops never existed. Just as our childhoods were plundered for all remaining traces of Pluto, so too have we now lost one of the coolest dinosaurs. We here at Analog Nation wanted to take a few moments to guide you through this travesty. Q: Surely this is some kind of mistake. Triceratops never existed? A: The revelation centers around Triceratops and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biaxially Oriented Polyethylene Terephthalate (For Fun And Profit)</title>
		<link>http://analog-nation.com/2010/06/13/mylar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 02:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MEMORANDUM 21 July 1953 Charles Blakely Vice President, Product Development E.I. DuPont de Nemours &#038; Co. CC: Thomas Carlson Charlie, Read the script last night, great work. Mylar is an exciting product, and this film will showcase its qualities to the world. &#8220;What&#8217;s It To You&#8221; is a strong title. It&#8217;s a bold statement, but also has a casual feel. That&#8217;s good. Our viewers will be serious businessmen, but they loosen their ties at five o&#8217;clock just like you and me. Shooting has been pushed back a couple of days, so that the chemists can work out any kinks with the demo stations. That gives us some breathing room to make a few final tweaks to the script. Take a look at my notes below. &#8226; Have we picked out the music yet? Tell the licensing guys to find something with pep, something modern. Think &#8220;the sound of doing business.&#8221; &#8226; The spokesman will need to strike a proper tone. Stern yet gentle like a father, friendly like an uncle, knowledgeable like a doctor. Uncle doctor father. &#8226; I&#8217;m okay with the baseball bat gimmick in the opening sequence. But for the love of Saint Peter, he has to smile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Native Tongue</title>
		<link>http://analog-nation.com/2010/05/25/wow-sarcastic-much/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 00:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We live in a time of great scientific achievement. Each of us did ten things today that Robert Heinlein himself would have chalked up to fevered hallucination. Even against such a backdrop, news has broken of a feat that will violate your system like an adrenaline shot through the sternum. Sitting down would be a good idea, should you happen to be reading this while standing. Programmers at a university in Israel have developed an algorithm that is able to detect sarcasm. This is literally the most astonishing thing to happen in the month of May. This is literally a game-changer. Finally, a machine that can tell when someone is being sarcastic. The researchers based their work on the largest repository of sarcasm on the Internet &#8212; the user-written product reviews on Amazon. Over five thousand sentences from Amazon reviews were hand-labeled &#8220;sarcastic&#8221; and &#8220;not sarcastic,&#8221; a task that must have been both fun and rewarding. Those unpaid grad student volunteers probably showed up early and stayed late. By identifying patterns within each type of sentence, the algorithm learned to judge whether a statement is intended to be genuine or sarcastic. The team tested the algorithm on 66,000 product reviews, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spidergoats III: Secret of the Golden Orb</title>
		<link>http://analog-nation.com/2009/11/22/spidergoats-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earth&#8217;s salvation rests in a display case on the Upper West Side. It is a cloth, somewhere between a rug and a shawl, with long, wispy tassels. A dizzying pattern weaves up and down its length, the work of many hands. It is a nearly perfect shade of gold. Dozens of pins hold the cloth down, their heads hidden snugly within the thread. The display case stands waist-high, angled like an architect&#8217;s drafting table, covered in spotless glass. Yet the case with its golden cloth is a side attraction in this lobby, dominated by a massive Native American canoe that hangs from the ceiling. At first glance, the cloth doesn&#8217;t look like something that might save the human race. That may sound like lofty expectations for a rug, but this particular rug happens to be one of the only pieces of fabric in the world to have been woven from spider silk. That&#8217;s right, my friends. This is a spidergoat thing. Analog Nation has chronicled the spidergoat menace a couple of times, tracing a direct line from the pursuit of spider silk to the charred end of civilization. The short version is this: A) Spider silk kicks ass. B) Spiders [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stealth Moth: Ninja of the Night Sky</title>
		<link>http://analog-nation.com/2009/10/29/moth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:47:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having grown up in the 80s, I know a thing or two about witnessing an arms race. After blowing things up for a thousand years or so, we as a species had finally gotten truly excellent at it, to the point where there was an actual chance that we might blow up every single thing, person, and place on Earth. Basically there would be no nouns left. Only verbs, and the occasional adjective. The arms race has always been Exhibit A in the case against humanity, so it was nice to learn that some other species is doing it for a change. A coalition of nerds from Wake Forest and Colorado State has discovered that certain moths deploy a hi-tech defense system in their war against bats. The technology? Sonar jamming. Bats have been using echolocation to stalk the night sky for like a billion years or something. Scanning their hapless prey at frequencies no organism can detect &#8212; it&#8217;s not even really all that fair, if you ask me. It&#8217;s like they can lick the air and taste fear. Well it turns out that these particular moths, a species of tiger moth called Bertholdia trigona, emit a series of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robotomy</title>
		<link>http://analog-nation.com/2009/09/16/robotomy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doctors are basically the modern equivalent of shamans. They poke us, they prod us, they look inside us with weird, uncomfortable flashlights, and then they give us an incomprehensible ten minute monologue. For all their medical advancements and calculated science, the instant they open their mouths they might as well be talking about rooster entrails and aggrieved fire spirits. Hell, that twisting-snake logo of theirs even looks like a totem. We take it on faith that they know why the fire spirits are mad, and what will appease them. We nod a lot. We sign forms and go home. As a consequence, there&#8217;s really nothing they can prescribe that will make us flinch. The 21st century patient is prepared for anything. Doctor: You have hexamalephasia of the carotid lukeplantic ganglia. You: Roger that. Doctor: Eat plenty of beets, rub igneous rock on your thighs, and lift a saxophone over your head after every meal. You: Sounds good. For example, the last time I saw a doctor we had a brief conversation involving several words of fifteen letters or more, during which he effortlessly convinced me to hold my mouth open for half an hour so that he could jab the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spidergoats II: Hairy Legs and All</title>
		<link>http://analog-nation.com/2009/08/13/spidergoats-redux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the basic tenets of popular culture is that the villain is always one piece away from completing his master plan. Sauron needed the One Ring. Belloq needed the Staff of Ra. Megatron needed the Allspice, or something &#8212; honestly, that movie made so little sense, my back started to hurt (I&#8217;m not kidding). The good guys are always the last to find out what the missing piece is, so they spend the rest of the story playing catch-up in the hopes that they can save the world from the orcs/Nazis/Decepticons. Which they do, at an almost miraculous level of reliability. And you know what? We may be putting that track record to the test pretty soon. A while back, I shone a harsh and unwavering light on the sad truth that our society is more than likely doomed to live out our days as the indentured servants of spidergoats. So far that has not happened (that I can tell), and for that we can thank the fact that spidergoat research &#8212; centered around the idea that spider silk proteins can be produced in the milk of genetically engineered goats &#8212; has stagnated. Just when I was starting to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recreating the Big Bang: Slightly More Complicated Than Advertised</title>
		<link>http://analog-nation.com/2009/08/05/return-of-supercollider/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was in ninth grade, Miss Axton gave us a project. We were to build a replica of an ancient structure, and write a paper about it &#8212; why the structure was important, what it was used for, how it impacted culture, blah blah blah. For mine, I decided to do the Parthenon, largely because I thought the word &#8220;Parthenon&#8221; was cool and liked to say it out loud. (Ditto &#8220;Acropolis.&#8221;) My plan was to use dowels and plaster of Paris. And by &#8220;my plan,&#8221; I really mean &#8220;my entire plan with no backup.&#8221; For as I discovered when I sat down to begin construction the day before it was due, plaster of Paris is kind of a shitty adhesive. Eventually my Dad got involved, and tinkered with it for several hours while cursing under his breath. Mostly I tried not to look at the clock and/or panic. The whole affair came vividly to mind this week when I read about the continuing troubles that have befallen the Large Hadron Collider. It turns out that building something, be it the most advanced scientific facility in the world or an underwhelming 1/100 scale Doric column, is sometimes a lot harder [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Humpty Dumpty the Destroyer</title>
		<link>http://analog-nation.com/2009/07/31/no-disassemble-number-five/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s say you&#8217;re a scientist. You wear a lab coat, you rock the clipboard, you nudge the bridge of your glasses to keep them from sliding down. You have been in the private sector. You have delivered results. And as you toil away in your fluorescent, dust-free environment, you have one goal: To accidentally doom humanity to destruction at the hands of our own mechanical creations. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, this isn&#8217;t the result you&#8217;re hoping to achieve. You&#8217;re no monster, you just like to get your science on. But deep down you know that despite your best intentions, your work will bring about the final darkness of civilization. Thankfully, we have a pretty good roadmap for this sort of thing, courtesy of Hollywood. Movies have demonstrated with 99% reliability that two courses of action will greatly increase the likelihood that your machine will conquer humanity. &#8226; Give it artificial intelligence: Skynet, HAL 9000 &#8226; Give it the ability to reassemble itself when blown into a million pieces: T-1000, Iron Giant* (It also probably helps if the machine eats biomass that may or may not include human flesh, depending on whom you ask.) Artificial intelligence is the marquee name, of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If Anything&#8217;s Double-Twisted, It&#8217;s Their Brains (Oh, SNAP)</title>
		<link>http://analog-nation.com/2009/07/26/dna/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 26, 1953 To the editors of Nature: While it is not in my nature to sow discord, I find it difficult to remain silent at this juncture. The treatise by Messrs. Watson and Crick (&#8220;A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid,&#8221; Watson J.D. and Crick F.H.C., Nature, vol. 171 pp 737-738, April 25, 1953), which proposes a new theory on the structure of DNA, is a misguided attempt to solve the key riddle of genetics. Though undoubtedly well-intentioned, the gentlemen have taken a step backwards. I believe it to be my solemn duty to demonstrate where they have failed, and how. Let us begin at the very beginning. &#8220;We wish to suggest a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid,&#8221; the authors intone with their first sentence. A weak overture, sirs. You sound like a student at the back of the class, feebly holding a hand aloft because they think they might know the answer, while praying the teacher will call upon someone else. Have you found a structure or haven&#8217;t you? I could &#8220;suggest&#8221; something for you as well, featuring the sun, and the coordinates from which it does not shine. The authors then set the groundwork for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Future!</title>
		<link>http://analog-nation.com/2009/06/15/the-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Florian Haarschnitt Center for Advanced Thought presents Futurismology: What Will Life Be Like In Fifty Years? We assembled some of the most progressive thinkers of our time at a retreat in the Swiss Alps. Sequestered far from interruption, our &#8220;tank of thinkers&#8221; spent two weeks debating the likely course of events over the next half-century. Pausing only for sustenance, sleep, and occasional trips into town to go antiquing, they cast their minds into the future, and returned to tell us what they saw. The date is June 15 &#8230; 2059. ENERGY The world ran on fossil fuels for centuries, but now looks elsewhere to shoulder the load. Renewable sources such as solar, wind, hydro, temperate fusion, and chaos-fire now make up half of all energy consumption. Most remaining fossil fuels are comprised of &#8220;&#252;berdiesel,&#8221; an amalgam of traditional diesel, natural gas, and hydrogenated corn syrup. Majestic expanses of solar arrays and windmill forests are a common sight. The 300-meter Arecibo Radio Telescope now stands atop the Chrysler Building to act as a solar reflector, the telescope itself having been replaced by a two-inch plate of selenium with eight times the dish&#8217;s radio capacity. Japan generates most of its electricity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hollywood, Your Job Just Got Easier</title>
		<link>http://analog-nation.com/2009/05/28/lake-baikal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 02:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Behold, one of the strongest forces in nature: the iron-clad grip of popular fiction. The page-turner, the blockbuster, the serial drama that sends us diving for the DVR &#8212; they sink their hooks into our fleshiest bits, and keep piercing until they hit daylight on the other side. Having witnessed my Dad get a fishing lure caught in his hand once, I can say with authority that those hooks don&#8217;t come out easily, no sir. What is it about pop-fiction that draws us in? Clearly there&#8217;s no proven formula, given how much utter crap litters the landscape. However, one particular tactic that seems to help is the &#8220;Wait, is that real?&#8221; factor. If the audience thinks there might be a sprinkling of truth in the premise, the hooks will often sink just a little bit deeper. Nobody did this better than Michael Crichton &#8212; I didn&#8217;t actually realize &#8220;The Andromeda Strain&#8221; was a novel until about a quarter of the way through. &#8220;The Blair Witch Project&#8221; pulled millions into the theater by passing itself off as real. Sprinkle in just enough facts, and you&#8217;ve got &#8216;em. It&#8217;s a trick that&#8217;s earned Dan Brown more money than General Motors. I bring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reactorsaurus!</title>
		<link>http://analog-nation.com/2009/05/14/reactorsaurus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 03:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Scots called it Dùnrath. It lay on the northern coast of the isle, keeping watch as the cold waves broke upon its shore. No one&#8217;s quite certain where the name came from, but it is thought to derive from an ancient stone fort nearby, called a &#8220;broch.&#8221; In 1437, invaders from Clan MacKay met resistance there and had to fall back. They joined up with reinforcements and returned to crush the locals. After that, jack shit happened until the 1950s. By then, someone had the good sense to start spelling it Dounreay, which is closer to a language pronounceable by humans. Its geographical isolation made it the perfect place for every first world government&#8217;s favorite 1950s pet project &#8212; an experimental nuclear reactor. Thus was born the Dounreay Nuclear Power Development Establishment, which opened its doors in 1955. For almost forty years, the reactor went about the business of nuclear fission, contentedly frying up uranium as if it were scallops wrapped in bacon. The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority shut down the Dounreay reactor in 1994. Scots everywhere rejoiced, Scottish national pride swelled, &#8220;Braveheart&#8221; went into production. There was one tiny little problem. You&#8217;re never going to believe this, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Different Kind of Plague</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 01:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At first there were just a few in southern California. Within a few days they were appearing in New York and Texas. By the beginning of last week, it was nationwide, rapidly spreading to other countries. Now, less than a fortnight since the initial outbreak, it has spread to every corner of the Earth, except of course for North Korea. Swine flu. Not the actual swine flu, mind you &#8212; reports about swine flu. The media has contracted the disease and passed it around like a daycare center run by Typhoid Mary. As blogs and stalwart news organizations alike extend their infected RSS feeds, the story has &#8220;gone viral,&#8221; as they say, with the Internet acting as the agar in the petri dish. Hence why the outbreak hasn&#8217;t spread to North Korea, which is an information black hole. It&#8217;s unclear whether they&#8217;ve even heard about it at all, they&#8217;re still busy celebrating the 40th anniversary of Kim Jong-il&#8217;s historic solo flight to the moon. With so much swine flu information bombarding the general public, confusion is inevitable. We here at AN wanted to take a few moments to answer some common questions. Give it to us straight: Is this swine [...]]]></description>
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