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        <title><![CDATA[Study: practice doesn't make perfect]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The old adage that &quot;practice makes perfect&quot; hasn't held up to scientific scrutiny.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[David Worthington]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-21T03:12:34Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Researchers take step towards Alzheimer's drug]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Discovery could lead to treatments that stop neurological diseases in their tracks.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Halper]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-20T19:00:14Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Q&amp;A: Leila Takayama, research scientist, on human-robot interaction]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Leila Takayama imagines a world where human-friendly robots interact successfully with people. But it's not always easy teaching a 500-pound machine not to block the office coffee maker.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Christina Hernandez Sherwood]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-20T10:00:44Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Protect medical implants with a layer of bacteria eaters]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Viruses were used in the pre-antibiotic 19th-century to treat infections. Now researchers are bringing them back, using them to fight bacterial infections on catheters and stents.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Janet Fang]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-20T04:38:17Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[A worldwide undersea gold rush is coming]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[An undersea gold rush could be coming soon with the rising cost of minerals and advancements in technology opening the seafloor to mining.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[David Worthington]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-20T04:20:50Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Q&amp;A: Jonah Berger, Wharton marketing guru, on what makes things go viral]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What makes things go viral? Six principles drive us to share, says Jonah Berger, and companies such as Apple have used this knowledge to their advantage.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Christie Nicholson]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-17T12:00:27Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[For $7,000, earn online master's degree from Georgia Tech]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/for-7000-earn-online-masters-degree-from-georgia-tech/19917]]></link>
        <s:doctype><![CDATA[Blog posts]]></s:doctype>
        <description><![CDATA[Now you can take massive-online classes and get a real degree.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tyler Falk]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-16T19:34:24Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Human cloning critics denounce stem cell research]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/human-cloning-critics-denounce-stem-cell-research/19859]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[Advances in therapeutic cloning could mean the development of new treatment for degenerative diseases, but it is not without opposition.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Osborne]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-16T17:58:31Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Black carbon casts doubt on space tourism]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Will black carbon cause the death of space tourism before it has taken off?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Osborne]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-16T17:49:45Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[The $325,000 burger set to debut in London]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The first lab-grown burger will be eaten soon.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tyler Falk]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-16T12:52:38Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Fracking envy]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Energy analyst Chris Nelder reports from a foreign country deep in the throes of shale gas fever.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Nelder]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-15T10:00:04Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[What does big data have to do with tiny atoms?]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/ideas-insights/what-does-big-data-have-to-do-with-tiny-atoms/322]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[Find out what big data has to do with tiny atoms]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[IBM Experts]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-13T13:08:19Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Student discovers iPad 2 heart device risk]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/student-discovers-ipad-2-heart-device-risk/19533]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[When Gianna Chien was given a tablet, discovering a risk that iPad 2 products present for heart patients wasn't the expected outcome.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Osborne]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-13T11:52:35Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Q&amp;A: Sonja Lyubomirsky, happiness expert, on why dream jobs don't exist]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/pure-genius/q-a-sonja-lyubomirsky-happiness-expert-on-why-dream-jobs-dont-exist/9947]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[Lyubomirsky spoke with us about happiness, work and why dream jobs don't exist. She also revealed a quick way anyone can feel happier instantly.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Molly Petrilla]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-13T11:22:40Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Algorithmic illusions? 7 myths about 'big data']]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/algorithmic-illusions-7-myths-about-big-data/19451]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[Is 'big data' the revolutionary font of business insights many claim it to be, or is it over-hyped, oversold, and essentially useless to enterprises?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe McKendrick]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-10T16:22:45Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[For $10, common airport device will detect black powder]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/for-10-common-airport-device-will-detect-black-powder/19297]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[The same machine that analyzes those cloth swatches that TSA agents wipe against your carry-on could now be retrofitted to detect black powder explosives.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Janet Fang]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-08T21:00:56Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[How best to treat brain trauma? Analyze big data]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/ideas-insights/how-best-to-treat-brain-trauma-analyze-big-data/313]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[What do the stock market and brain trauma treatment have in common? Allow me to explain.]]></description>
        <guid><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/ideas-insights/how-best-to-treat-brain-trauma-analyze-big-data/313]]></guid>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Schick]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-06T12:54:21Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Q&amp;A: Catarina Mota, co-founder, openMaterials.org]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/pure-genius/q-a-catarina-mota-co-founder-openmaterialsorg/9890]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[She bakes bioplastics, creates magnetic paint and says we can experiment with these smart materials, too.]]></description>
        <guid><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/pure-genius/q-a-catarina-mota-co-founder-openmaterialsorg/9890]]></guid>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Christina Hernandez Sherwood]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-06T10:00:09Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Ruling thrills patients and boosts Indian generic drug makers]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/global-observer/ruling-thrills-patients-and-boosts-indian-generic-drug-makers/11509]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[DELHI -- A recent Indian Supreme Court ruling set tough patent standards on drugs, dropping the price of a cancer medicine that costs $2,600 a month to a $175 monthly charge instead.]]></description>
        <guid><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/global-observer/ruling-thrills-patients-and-boosts-indian-generic-drug-makers/11509]]></guid>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Betwa Sharma]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-06T07:00:53Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Solar plane to traverse the United States]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/solar-plane-to-traverse-the-united-states/18913]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[Daredevils piloting a solar plane will embark on the first transcontinental flight of its kind across the U.S. starting tomorrow]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[David Worthington]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-03T02:50:16Z</pubDate>
                                
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