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	<description>Science and life on a string - weekly column by Kasper Olsen</description>
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		<title>University @ iTunes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 14:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple Inc. has expanded their collaboration with top US colleges and universities, such that course lectures, talks, music etc. by members of Stanford University, UC Berkeley, MIT, and other leading universities, are made available for free from the iTunes store. This place is called iTunes U. It would be interesting to know, which lectures you&#8217;ll [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fixedpoint.wordpress.com&amp;blog=373016&amp;post=90&amp;subd=fixedpoint&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to &#8220;The Fixed Point&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2007 11:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kasper Olsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My old blog &#8220;Thoughts on science and life&#8221; has now successfully been moved to this new location (which has existed for quite some time now, but more or less inactive). What is a fixed point? In mathematics, a fixed point can loosely be defined as follows. Imagine that there is a map f defined on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fixedpoint.wordpress.com&amp;blog=373016&amp;post=89&amp;subd=fixedpoint&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>String Theory: Crash Course</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2007 19:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kasper Olsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Tool for Living in the 21st Century: The excellent Seed magazine offers a cribsheet [PDF] which includes a basic introduction to string theory. Prof. Clifford Johnson over at Asymptotia.com was an adviser. Other interesting cribsheets are one on stem cells, and one on climate change.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fixedpoint.wordpress.com&amp;blog=373016&amp;post=74&amp;subd=fixedpoint&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Virginia Tech: Shootings</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kasper Olsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, at least 31 people were killed by a gunman at Virginia Tech, and many others were wounded. Originally it was thought, that only one person was dead. Virginia Tech has closed and classes are canceled; the area is said to be secure. These school/university shootings are just horrible. Will new gun laws be enforced [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fixedpoint.wordpress.com&amp;blog=373016&amp;post=88&amp;subd=fixedpoint&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Global Temperature, Global Warming?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2007 13:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kasper Olsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is global warming? Most people would answer this seemingly simple question with something like the following (see the article at wikipedia.org): Global warming is the observed increase in the average temperature of the Earth&#8217;s near-surface air and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation. [...] One would think that all scientist agree on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fixedpoint.wordpress.com&amp;blog=373016&amp;post=87&amp;subd=fixedpoint&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fogh, Lies and Videotapes?</title>
		<link>http://fixedpoint.wordpress.com/2007/01/26/fogh-lies-and-videotapes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kasper Olsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen does not fancy a certain documentary film which was shown on Danish national television in December 2006. And you can understand why. At least if you remember, that Denmark is at war in Iraq as well as in Afghanistan. &#8220;The secret war&#8221; (Danish: &#8220;Den Hemmelige Krig&#8221;) is about the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fixedpoint.wordpress.com&amp;blog=373016&amp;post=86&amp;subd=fixedpoint&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>State of the Union 2007</title>
		<link>http://fixedpoint.wordpress.com/2007/01/24/state-of-the-union-2007/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kasper Olsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, President Bush delivered his 2007 State Of The Union address. After last years State of the Union Address, Lubos Motl thought that Bush was a genius (or rather, that he was “shining”); this year Lubos uprightly noted that &#8220;Bush had to drink some water&#8221;. And this is basically how interesting President Bush&#8217;s talk [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fixedpoint.wordpress.com&amp;blog=373016&amp;post=85&amp;subd=fixedpoint&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fermi&#8217;s Paradox and Galaxy Probes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kasper Olsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Fermi paradox (1950) can be formulated as follows If there are extraterrestrial civilizations out there, then where are they? In a recent paper, Rasmus Bjork of the Niels Bohr Institute argues that finding other life in the Galaxy by using space probes, and possibly solving the paradox, might take extremely long time. A time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fixedpoint.wordpress.com&amp;blog=373016&amp;post=84&amp;subd=fixedpoint&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tagged (by right-wing strings)</title>
		<link>http://fixedpoint.wordpress.com/2006/12/23/tagged-by-right-wing-strings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Dec 2006 07:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kasper Olsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was just recently tagged by Lubos Motl; after some thought, I happily did as instructed: &#8220;1. Grab the book closest to you. 2. Open to page 123, go down to the fifth sentence. 3. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog. 4. Name the book and the author. 5. Tag [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fixedpoint.wordpress.com&amp;blog=373016&amp;post=82&amp;subd=fixedpoint&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Deconstructing Strings?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kasper Olsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Deconstruction” is a method of critical analysis of philosophical and literary language that emphasizes the internal workings of language and conceptual systems, the relational quality of meaning, and the assumptions implicit in forms of expression. Todays most fascinating paper is without doubt the one by Bert Schroer entitled: String theory deconstructed (a detailed critique of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fixedpoint.wordpress.com&amp;blog=373016&amp;post=58&amp;subd=fixedpoint&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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