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	<title>Cryptohedonology &#187; Science</title>
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	<description>Has a polemic ever run over your memeplex?</description>
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		<title>Unlikely Combination: Physics+Queen+George Michael</title>
		<link>http://www.cryptohedonology.com/2008/10/29/unlikely-combination-physicsqueengeorge-michael/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A wonderful song on the 1975 Queen album Night at the Opera is &#8217;39. This lovely jig has a context deeply rooted in physics. It was written by Dr. Brian May, guitarist for Queen (&#8220;Another One Bites the Dust&#8221;, &#8220;We Are The Champions&#8221;, etc. etc. etc.), who finished his Ph.D. in astrophysics at Imperial College, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plus ca change&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.cryptohedonology.com/2008/09/19/plus-ca-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cryptohedonologist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a funny Comedy Central Daily Show &#8220;news&#8221; report starring Steve Carell discussing the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) on Long Island. The piece aired June 28, 2000, long before Steve was a Superstar. While watching the piece, keep in mind the madcap doomsday discussion from my last post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Large Hadron Collider counter-circulates protons!</title>
		<link>http://www.cryptohedonology.com/2008/09/10/the-large-hadron-collider-counter-circulates-protons/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cryptohedonology.com/2008/09/10/the-large-hadron-collider-counter-circulates-protons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cryptohedonologist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva Switzerland successfully performed a diagnostic today and rotated a proton beam around the ring in each direction (clockwise and counterclockwise). This is a diagnostic step before performing actual collisions at full energy in the coming weeks and months. With a circumference of 17 miles, the LHC [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Paradox of Rationally Defending Irrationality</title>
		<link>http://www.cryptohedonology.com/2008/06/02/the-paradox-of-rationally-defending-irrationality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cryptohedonology.com/2008/06/02/the-paradox-of-rationally-defending-irrationality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cryptohedonologist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an essay I wrote, which has been published in the 2008 edition of Moebius, the Cal Poly Liberal Arts literary journal. The theme of the issue is &#8220;the dumbing down of America,&#8221; a continuation of 2007s theme: &#8220;controversy.&#8221; The journal will soon be available online, but here is my essay close to as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RHIC and AGS Thesis Award 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.cryptohedonology.com/2008/05/30/rhic-and-ags-thesis-award-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cryptohedonology.com/2008/05/30/rhic-and-ags-thesis-award-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 02:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cryptohedonologist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, my friend and colleague, Dr. Sarah Blyth from the University of Cape Town, was awarded the prestigious RHIC and AGS Thesis Award (to be posted soon) for her 2007 Ph.D. dissertation entitled: &#8220;Using the Phi Meson to Probe the Medium Created in Au+Au Collisions at RHIC.&#8221; Since 1999, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Phoenix Has Landed</title>
		<link>http://www.cryptohedonology.com/2008/05/26/the-phoenix-has-landed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cryptohedonology.com/2008/05/26/the-phoenix-has-landed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 07:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cryptohedonologist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Phoenix Mars polar lander successfully touched down near the Martian north pole on Sunday May 25, 2008 around 4:35 in the afternoon PDT. More photos can be found here. I had the pleasure of attending a real-time event hosted by the Cal Poly Astronomy Club and led by my friend and colleague Dr. John [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Quantum Mysteries</title>
		<link>http://www.cryptohedonology.com/2008/05/24/more-quantum-mysteries/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cryptohedonology.com/2008/05/24/more-quantum-mysteries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 02:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cryptohedonologist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Mythbusters might say: WARNING, SCIENCE CONTENT. Proceed at your own risk. What is a quantum mechanical wave function? This discussion recently came up at work in the form of the following question: is the particle (e.g. an electron) the same thing as the wave function describing it? The question may have some unresolvable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Physics devolved into a non sequitur marketing slogan</title>
		<link>http://www.cryptohedonology.com/2008/05/19/physics-devolved-into-a-non-sequitur-marketing-slogan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cryptohedonology.com/2008/05/19/physics-devolved-into-a-non-sequitur-marketing-slogan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 05:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cryptohedonologist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Physics elevated to an art form&#8221; is Oakley&#8217;s recent marketing slogan. Right. Like physics &#8220;needs&#8221; to be elevated from its lowly status as an all-encompassing theoretical and experimental framework describing all physical phenomenon to the &#8220;art&#8221; of sports equipment. And if indeed there was some subjective human aesthetic missing in that lowly omni-descriptional status of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Pi Day</title>
		<link>http://www.cryptohedonology.com/2008/03/14/happy-pi-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cryptohedonology.com/2008/03/14/happy-pi-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cryptohedonologist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Using the American dating system, today, March 14, i.e. 3/14, is Pi Day. It also happens to be Einstein&#8217;s birthday and Talk Like a Physicists Day (thanks to my colleague Dave Dixon for illuminating me). Talking like a physicist is something difficult for me personally NOT to do, but for those non-physicists amongst you, bust [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To pi or not to pi, that is the question</title>
		<link>http://www.cryptohedonology.com/2008/02/13/to-%cf%80-or-not-to-%cf%80-that-is-the-question/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cryptohedonology.com/2008/02/13/to-%cf%80-or-not-to-%cf%80-that-is-the-question/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cryptohedonologist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in November 2007, I had fun musing about finding specific numbers in the famous irrational number pi. Since pi is an infinitely long irrational number, whose digits are essentially random, one can find any number within its digits with some probability. This even includes having the entire text of every book you&#8217;ve ever read, [...]]]></description>
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