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	<title>Pause to Wonder</title>
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	<description>Look! An ant!</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Think your writer&#8217;s block couldn&#8217;t get worse? Think again.</title>
		<link>http://www.pausetowonder.com/2008/11/22/think-your-writers-block-couldnt-get-worse-think-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I confess: every time I open a new notebook, writing pad or agenda, I panic. How can I possibly sully that perfect white paper? Whatever I write down better be good. It better be brilliant.
I own a lot of blank notebooks.
Then along comes something new. At first you think, Okay, someone&#8217;s obviously put a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The African continent is slowly splitting apart &#8211;</title>
		<link>http://www.pausetowonder.com/2008/11/08/the-african-continent-is-slowly-splitting-apart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 14:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8211; along the East African Rift, a 3,000 kilometre-long series of deep basins and flanking mountain ranges. An enormous plume of hot, partially molten rock is rising diagonally from the core-mantle boundary, some 2,900 kilometres beneath Southern Africa, and erupting at the Earth’s surface, or cooling just beneath it, in the Afar region of Ethiopia. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient trees recorded in mines</title>
		<link>http://www.pausetowonder.com/2008/11/06/ancient-trees-recorded-in-mines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 09:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[natural world]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This story is amazing!
Spectacular fossil forests have been found in the coal mines of Illinois by a US-UK team of researchers. The ancient vegetation - now turned to rock - is visible in the ceilings of mines covering thousands of hectares.
&#8230; Once the coal seams have been removed (what were, essentially, the compacted soils of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have you ever noticed&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.pausetowonder.com/2008/11/04/have-you-ever-noticed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pausetowonder.com/2008/11/04/have-you-ever-noticed/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; that herds of grazing animals all face the same way?Images from Google Earth have confirmed that cattle tend to align their bodies in a north-south direction.
To find out why they think this happens, read the BBC article here.
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		<title>Sarah Palin: laughing at the nightmare</title>
		<link>http://www.pausetowonder.com/2008/11/02/sarah-palin-laughing-at-the-nightmare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 10:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin is at best a painful embarrassment and at worst the person who may destroy the whole world. In the run up to the election, the inability to vote (not American) makes the suspense even worse, so it was a great relief to have a laugh again.
&#8220;&#8230;given the way the McCain campaign has controlled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dental Hygiene</title>
		<link>http://www.pausetowonder.com/2008/08/03/dental-hygiene/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The survey found that many people engage in very poor dental habits, with a significant number admitting to using every day items such as hammers, screwdrivers, scissors and lollipop sticks to pick food from between their teeth - risking cuts and infection.
More than a quarter (27%) of respondants said they had opened a bottle with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cylindrical Records</title>
		<link>http://www.pausetowonder.com/2008/07/30/cylindrical-records/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a bit of recorded music time travel for you: mp3s, CDs, cassettes, 8-tracks, LPs, reel-to-reel, wire recordings, 78s, one-sided records, cylinder recordings. The latter were the standard from approx. the 1880&#8217;s to 1929. Here&#8217;s a fabulous site with over 8,000 recordings that you can listen to! To get you started, here&#8217;s a favorite of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The world&#8217;s oldest oil paintings</title>
		<link>http://www.pausetowonder.com/2008/07/27/the-worlds-oldest-oil-paintings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pausetowonder.com/2008/07/27/the-worlds-oldest-oil-paintings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the Buddhas of Bamiyan were carved out of the mountainside, the Roman Empire still held sway.
They towered over a rich valley in what is now central Afghanistan, where caravans of traders would stop and rest on the Silk Road as they transported goods between east and west.For centuries the two huge statues stood guard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May I speak to God please?&#8230;Do you know when he&#8217;ll be back?</title>
		<link>http://www.pausetowonder.com/2008/01/31/may-i-speak-to-god-pleasedo-you-know-when-hell-be-back/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pausetowonder.com/2008/01/31/may-i-speak-to-god-pleasedo-you-know-when-hell-be-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why, oh why, is that Canada only makes international news with bizarro stories?
Our serial killers are&#8230; pig farmers, which is grisly yet efficient (if you don&#8217;t know, you don&#8217;t want to), albeit not very glamorous. Our departing prime ministers try to sell off the furnishings of the government-owned official residence.
&#8230; an attempt by the Mulroneys [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disturbing, but not for the first reason that comes to mind&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.pausetowonder.com/2008/01/04/10/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pausetowonder.com/2008/01/04/10/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
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A group of Czech artists who inserted a nuclear explosion into a national weather broadcast have been told by a prosecutor they could be sent to jail. [see video, read BBC article&#8230;]


I have to admit, my first reaction was laughter. Lots. It reminded me of Orson Well&#8217;s little stunt.
Then, I started thinking. What a cynic [...]]]></description>
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