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	<title>Running After My Hat &#187; Nature &amp; Pets</title>
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		<title>Endistanced</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Video: zooming in from a Milky Way-wide view all the way to galactic cluster NGC 3324, dubbed the Gabriela Mistral Nebula for its resemblance to the profile of the Chilean Nobel Prize-winning poet. Music by John Dyson; original video at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) site.] From whiskey river: And as you sit on the hillside, or lie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surprise, Surprise</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2012/03/surprise-surprise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Video: high-speed footage (1000fps) of an "eagle owl" in flight. This film has apparently been around for a while, but I don't think I've seen it before this week. Chief virtue, for me: shows me something I couldn't have imagined on my own!] From whiskey river: I cannot help you understand. In the realm of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Keep Your Pooch Happy</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/12/how-to-keep-your-pooch-happy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Answer: roll the car window down sometimes. (We do have a little nervousness about doing this, with reason; The Pooch gets so excited that she seems to lose her basic sense of or concern about where she is in 3D space. Which isn&#8217;t a prescription for keeping the windows rolled up &#8212; it&#8217;s a prescription for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catless</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/10/catless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Looking Backward]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[I don't know anything sadder than certain autumn evenings]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah. That, alas &#8212; for the first time in twenty years. We&#8217;d known the day was coming, known it for months now. A sad realization, to be sure. But not the same sort of sadness as to find it suddenly so&#8230; Katie lived longer than the other two indoor cats we had &#8212; somewhere around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PBS: Dogs Decoded</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every dog owner thinks he knows how his or her canine companion thinks. I doubt that many dog owners already know everything covered in this single one-hour program on PBS&#8217;s Nova series, (re-)broadcast last night. Here&#8217;s a brief intro: Watch Dogs Decoded on PBS. See more from NOVA. Sample tidbit: genetically, via mitochondrial DNA (passed down, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perfect Moments: &#8220;I Shot &#8216;im, Paw.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/09/perfect-moments-i-shot-im-paw/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/09/perfect-moments-i-shot-im-paw/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The house in which The Missus and I live now is over twenty years old, as is our immediate neighborhood. But the area in general has only recently started to get built up. Real honest-to-gods wildlife, not yet squeezed out by housing and new roads, can still be spotted here and there &#8212; foxes, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something in the Air</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/09/something-in-the-air/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: at left, all the Earth's water collected into a single ball, about 865 miles in diameter; at right, all the Earth's atmosphere in a single ball, about 1240 miles in diameter, assuming sea-level pressure. (source)] From whiskey river: One final paragraph of advice: Do not burn yourself out. Be as I am &#8212; a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Long, Languorous Tomorrows</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/08/long-languorous-tomorrows/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/08/long-languorous-tomorrows/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: "August Morning," by Tracy, from "August in Ohio" at the Seasons Flow blog] [Below, click Play button to begin Summertime (Charlie Parker). While audio is playing, volume control appears at left -- a row of little vertical bars. This clip is 2:46 long.] From whiskey river: Late August Let me enjoy this late-summer day of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Cats and Boxes Converge&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/08/when-cats-and-boxes-converge/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/08/when-cats-and-boxes-converge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 18:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;the boxes lose. [hat tip: Eschaton] _____________________ P.S. A follow-up video is called &#8220;The box which Maru can&#8217;t enter.&#8221; Oh, yes, Maru can. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Knowing What You&#8217;re Looking At</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/07/knowing-what-youre-looking-at/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/07/knowing-what-youre-looking-at/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: graffiti artist Bansky visited a subway archway in central London, adding a caption to a wall which just happens to fall within the view of a surveillance camera.] From whiskey river: All men, at one time or another, have fallen in love with the veiled Isis whom they call Truth. With most, this has [...]]]></description>
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