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	<title>The People&#039;s Republic of Moronia &#187; Science</title>
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		<title>Sandia chemists find new material to remove radioactive gas from spent nuclear fuel</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Sandia Labs News Release) Research by a team of Sandia chemists could impact worldwide efforts to produce clean, safe nuclear energy and reduce radioactive waste. Sandia chemist Tina Nenoff heads a team of researchers focused on removal of radioactive iodine from spent nuclear fuel.  (Photo by Randy Montoya) Click on the thumbnail for a high-resolution <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/02/sandia-chemists-find-new-material-to-remove-radioactive-gas-from-spent-nuclear-fuel/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Coming for science: Why I orgasmed in an MRI scanner</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An edgy, irreverent book by Kayt Sukel that examines all the ways our neurons can wreak havoc with our hearts. By Kayt Sukel (CNN) As background research for my book, &#8220;Dirty Minds: How our brains influence love, sex and relationships,&#8221; I participated in a study at Rutgers University where scientists measured the activity in my <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/01/coming-for-science-why-i-orgasmed-in-an-mri-scanner/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Empathetic rats free distressed cage-mates from containers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Joseph Castro (LiveScience) The act of helping others out of empathy has long been associated strictly with humans and other primates, but new research shows that rats exhibit this prosocial behavior as well. In the new study, laboratory rats repeatedly freed their cage-mates from containers, even though there was no clear reward for doing <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/12/empathetic-rats-free-distressed-cage-mates-from-containers/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Child abuse may alter brain structure, research shows</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Nicole Ostrow  (Bloomberg) Brain scans of adolescents who suffered physical abuse and neglect showed differences in the part that controls executive function &#8212; mental processes such as planning, organizing and focusing on details &#8212; according to a study in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine. Changes were also seen in brain areas that <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/12/child-abuse-may-alter-brain-structure-research-shows/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Woman’s face catches fire during routine surgery &#8211; ABC News</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Katie Moisse (ABC News) A Florida woman was rushed by helicopter to an Alabama burn center after her face caught fire during routine surgery. Kim Grice, a 29-year-old mother of three, was having cysts removed from her head at an outpatient surgery center in Crestview, Fla., when the flash fire erupted. The cause of <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/12/woman%e2%80%99s-face-catches-fire-during-routine-surgery-abc-news/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers find poop-throwing by chimps is a sign of intelligence</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(PhysOrg.com) A lot of people who have gone to the zoo have become the targets of feces thrown by apes or monkeys, and left no doubt wondering about the so-called intellectual capacity of a beast that would resort to such foul play. Now however, researchers studying such behavior have come to the conclusion that throwing <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/12/researchers-find-poop-throwing-by-chimps-is-a-sign-of-intelligence/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Report shows fewer traffic fatalities after states pass medical-pot laws</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By John Ingold (Denver Post) The passage of state medical-marijuana laws is associated with a subsequent drop in the rate of traffic fatalities, according to a newly released study by two university professors. The study — by University of Colorado Denver professor Daniel Rees and Montana State University professor D. Mark Anderson — found that <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/11/report-shows-fewer-traffic-fatalities-after-states-pass-medical-pot-laws/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Researcher creates a super-virus that could kill half the world</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(DoctorTipster) A strain of avian influenza H5N1 genetically modified to be extremely contagious has been created by researcher Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Netherlands. The work was first presented at a conference dedicated to influenza, that took place in September in Malta. Avian influenza emerged in Asia about 10 years ago. Since <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/11/researcher-creates-a-super-virus-that-could-kill-half-the-world/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hospital denies liver transplant to medical marijuana user to whom its own doctor prescribed</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2011/11/hospital-denies-liver-transplant-to-medical-marijuana-user-its-own-doctor-prescribed-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(AllGov) Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles is refusing to grant a liver transplant to a cancer patient because he used medical marijuana, which not only is legal under California law but also was prescribed by a Cedars doctor. Diagnosed with inoperable liver cancer in 2009, Norman B. Smith, 63, has been treated at Cedars-Sinai <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/11/hospital-denies-liver-transplant-to-medical-marijuana-user-its-own-doctor-prescribed-it/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Psychiatrist Loren Mosher, advocate of drug-free schizophrenia treatment, dies at 70</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 17:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Adam Bernstein (Washington Post) Loren R. Mosher, 70, who died of liver cancer July 10 at a clinic in Berlin, was a contrarian psychiatrist and schizophrenia expert who was dismissed from the National Institute of Mental Health for his controversial theories on treatment. While chief of NIMH&#8217;s Center for the Study of Schizophrenia from <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/11/psychiatrist-loren-mosher-advocate-of-drug-free-schizophreni-treatment-dies-at-70/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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