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	<title>Pause to Wonder</title>
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	<description>Look! An ant!</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Population Explosion</title>
		<link>http://www.pausetowonder.com/2009/03/04/population-explosion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember back in the seventies (world population then was around 3.6 billion) everyone was talking about the urgent dangers of overpopulation.
Then, suddenly, the subject disappeared. For around 30 years. Looks like the discussion&#8217;s finally starting up again.
Estimated world population now: 6.7 billion.
Why does this happen all the time? What causes this cyclic collective amnesia?
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		<title>From the Afghan archives&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.pausetowonder.com/2009/03/02/from-the-afghan-archives/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pausetowonder.com/2009/03/02/from-the-afghan-archives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Profound regret that I couldn&#8217;t toddle off to this exhibit. Thank you BBC for the lovely slideshow!
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		<title>Saharan cheetahs</title>
		<link>http://www.pausetowonder.com/2009/02/28/saharan-cheetahs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 10:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pausetowonder.com/?p=38</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The first camera-trap photographs of the cheetah, taken as part of a systematic survey of 1,750 square miles of the central Sahara, are providing scientists with information on population numbers, movement and how it interacts with its environment.
&#8230;and their precise expressions at the exact moment of stepping down on something funny and unexpectedly triggering flood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Petrarcha’s Trionfo del Tempo</title>
		<link>http://www.pausetowonder.com/2009/02/22/from-petrarcha%e2%80%99s-trionfo-del-tempo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pausetowonder.com/2009/02/22/from-petrarcha%e2%80%99s-trionfo-del-tempo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your triumphs and your pomp transpire,
The nobility passes and kingdoms crumble,
Time brings low all mortal things;
And what he reaps from those less good, he does not pass to those more worthy:
And not only the superficial things are laid waste by time,
But also your eloquence and works of genius.
Thus sped along, the world moves with him;
He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irresistible Headlines</title>
		<link>http://www.pausetowonder.com/2009/02/01/irresistible-headlines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[sofas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You just have to click on it:  Man trapped by sofa sipped whisky
By the way 19 stones = 266 pounds = 121 kilos. I can&#8217;t believe the media showed up to interview him for this. How embarrassing. Not what you&#8217;re hoping for from your 15 minutes of fame!
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		<title>Sniffed, not snorted!</title>
		<link>http://www.pausetowonder.com/2009/01/30/sniffed-not-snorted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pausetowonder.com/2009/01/30/sniffed-not-snorted/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a child, I was obsessed with 19th century novels. This provided me with no end of wonderful reading, maddeningly combined with some seriously confusing mysteries. One of which was snuff. What was it? What did it look like? Where did it go after it was inhaled?
The whole enterprise remained a bit vague and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>H.M. revealed</title>
		<link>http://www.pausetowonder.com/2009/01/10/hm-revealed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pausetowonder.com/2009/01/10/hm-revealed/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[People who don&#8217;t travel but enjoy reading about it are called armchair travellers, so I guess that makes me an armchair neurologist. (!!!) Anything brain-related and I&#8217;m there. So I was amazed to read this in the New York Times recently. It&#8217;s the obituary of a man written about extensively in the literature of neuroscience, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting the Twitter thing&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.pausetowonder.com/2009/01/04/getting-the-twitter-thing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All new ways of communicating change&#8230; well, the way we communicate. They change society. They change human interactions and behavior.
The media is full of Twitter commentary these days, but here&#8217;s one of the more interesting articles I&#8217;ve seen:
Social scientists have a name for this sort of incessant online contact. They call it “ambient awareness.”
But as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on Swedish Xmas Traditions</title>
		<link>http://www.pausetowonder.com/2008/12/31/more-on-swedish-xmas-traditions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pausetowonder.com/2008/12/31/more-on-swedish-xmas-traditions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent article I did on the Swedish Christmas goat got me reading up a little on the subject. In the process I learned about shape-shifting Santa and the Xmas goat&#8217;s relationship to Thor. That&#8217;s one connected goat.
&#8220;Although now either confused with, or replaced by, the more mainstream image of Santa Claus, Tomte is actually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Before Santa, there was&#8230; a goat.</title>
		<link>http://www.pausetowonder.com/2008/12/29/before-santa-there-was-a-goat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pausetowonder.com/2008/12/29/before-santa-there-was-a-goat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And not just one, by the sound of it. Whole herds of them. Well, it&#8217;s logical: lot&#8217;s of stops, only one night, etc&#8230;
&#8220;Goats have a special place in Swedish tradition. According to folklore, they delivered festive gifts before Father Christmas took over.
So it&#8217;s sad to see that despite their past generosity &#8212; or perhaps because [...]]]></description>
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