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		<title>One Last AAAS Post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m finally getting a chance to write up my last day at AAAS. This should wrap up our descriptions of the conference.
The day started out with another of a more science oriented panel, and took a slightly different perspective on the conferences theme of building bridges between communities. This session was jointly organized by AAAS&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fosep.org/blog/2010/03/one-last-aaas-post/</link>
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		<title>Follow up on AAAS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As promised, I’m following up with some of the symposia I attended at the annual AAAS conference last weekend. The first one I want to discuss was called Learning Science in Informal Environments. Bruce Lewenstein of Cornell Univsersity began by introducing an NSF funded, NRC consensus study of the same title.  The report is available [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fosep.org/blog/2010/02/follow-up-on-aaas/</link>
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		<title>Friday afternoon at AAAS</title>
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Now that the laptop is working again I can post the rest of the first day that I wrote up earlier as promised. I&#8217;ll also try to get a description of Sunday up as soon as I can,though it may be a day or two since I have a lot going on now that I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fosep.org/blog/2010/02/frida-afternoon-at-aaas/</link>
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		<title>Another Perspective on Saturday at AAAS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You’ll have to wait for my description of the day 1 afternoon since my laptop is acting up I don’t have access to the draft I wrote up. So instead of trying to keep things chronological I’m moving on to write up about today. It was both less busy and more dense to describe since [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fosep.org/blog/2010/02/another-perspective-on-saturday-at-aaas/</link>
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		<title>Saturday at the AAAS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To start off, I have to say, I love the AAAS conference. There are so many interesting panels, that each hour I have to choose between at least two really intriguing topics. Today, my decision was the toughest yet. Between Facing the Uncertain Future of International Science Journalism and Societal Strategies for Addressing the Climate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fosep.org/blog/2010/02/saturday-at-the-aaas/</link>
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		<title>More AAAS day 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just got back to the hotel after a busy first day of day at AAAS conference, and it&#8217;s been a good way to start things off. The hardest part of the day was deciding which sessions to attend since there were always multiple ones at the same time that seemed interesting.  Kate managed to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fosep.org/blog/2010/02/more-aaas-day-1/</link>
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		<title>Friday at AAAS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve really enjoyed the first day of the AAAS conference. Although I can’t possibly talk about all the panels that I attended, a couple of them stood out. So I’ll give an overview of the salient points I took away from these symposia. (Please don’t hold my rushed writing against me! I have no time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fosep.org/blog/2010/02/friday-at-aaas/</link>
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		<title>FOSEP in San Diego for AAAS Conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kate and just  got to San Diego for the annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). We&#8217;re looking forward to lots of interesting talks especially since this year&#8217;s theme is “Bridging Science and Society” which obviously fits in with FOSEP&#8217;s goals.  Like previous years, this should be a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fosep.org/blog/2010/02/fosep-in-san-diego-for-aaas-conference/</link>
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		<title>FOSEP Bookclub: Denialism by Michael Specter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the last book club meeting we discussed the Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives by Michael Specter. As Kate described from the talk he gave while in town, the book described how people&#8217;s personal biases can sometimes overwhelm their ability to think rationally about certain subjects, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fosep.org/blog/2010/02/denialism_book/</link>
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		<title>China is Likely to Overtake the US in Scientific Research</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The writing is on the wall.  China will overtake the US in scientific output in the near future.  A couple reports make this conclusion almost inevitable.
First, a recent post on the blog of the internationally renowned journal Science indicates the rise of China in scientific productivity.  For instance, China ranks second only to the US [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fosep.org/blog/2010/01/china-is-likely-to-overtake-the-us-in-scientific-research/</link>
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