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		<title>The sea level has been rising and falling over the last 2,500 years</title>
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		<description><![CDATA["Rising and falling sea levels over relatively short periods do not indicate long-term trends. An assessment of hundreds and thousands of years shows that what seems an irregular phenomenon today is in fact nothing new," explains Dr. Dorit Sivan, who supervised the research. ]]></description>
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		<title>Handful of iron beads offer clues to solve mystery</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Archaeology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[iron age scandinavians]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When archaeologist Ruth Iren Øien noticed a cluster of tiny iron beads in the ground, she knew she was onto something. She did not know, however, that her team had stumbled upon Scandinavia’s oldest and most complex group of iron forges.]]></description>
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		<title>Avatar&#8217;s Moon Pandora Could Be Real</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[avatar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the new blockbuster Avatar, humans visit the habitable - and inhabited - alien moon called Pandora. Life-bearing moons like Pandora or the Star Wars forest moon of Endor are a staple of science fiction.]]></description>
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		<title>Television Has Less Effect on Education about Climate Change than Other Forms of Media</title>
		<link>http://www.astigan.com/2009/12/27/television-has-less-effect-on-education-about-climate-change-than-other-forms-of-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Media Studies]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[global warming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Worried about climate change and want to learn more? You probably aren't watching television then. A new study by George Mason University Communication Professor Xiaoquan Zhao suggests that watching television has no significant impact on viewers' knowledge about the issue of climate change.]]></description>
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		<title>Digital technology changes the business relations of the newspaper industry</title>
		<link>http://www.astigan.com/2009/12/27/digital-technology-changes-the-business-relations-of-the-newspaper-industry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Media Studies]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[digital transformation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[newspaper decline]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[newspaper industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The newspaper industry is undergoing a digital transformation. This transition does not only involve the introduction of a new technique but also a radical change of the business relations of the newspaper. This is revealed in a new thesis from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.]]></description>
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		<title>Do computers understand art?</title>
		<link>http://www.astigan.com/2009/12/27/do-computers-understand-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arts]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[computers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[max plack institute]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A team of researchers from the University of Girona and the Max Planck Institute in Germany has shown that some mathematical algorithms provide clues about the artistic style of a painting. The composition of colours or certain aesthetic measurements can already be quantified by a computer, but machines are still far from being able to interpret art in the way that people do.]]></description>
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		<title>Practices for the Living and the Dead: Medieval and Post-Reformation Burials in Scandinavia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[burial ceremony]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The function and placement of graves in a burial ground reflected the social role and status a person had in society during the Middle Ages. Factors such as gender, age, and health affected this evaluation and categorization of people. This is shown in a dissertation by Kristina Jonsson that was recently submitted at Stockholm University.]]></description>
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		<title>American scriptwriters increasingly incorporating Spanish in their dialogues</title>
		<link>http://www.astigan.com/2009/12/27/american-scriptwriters-increasingly-incorporating-spanish-in-their-dialogues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[bilingualism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nieves Jiménez Carra, a researcher and lecturer at the Pablo de Olavide (UPO) University in Seville has studied how scripts swap from one language to another in American television series and cinema. One of her conclusions is that English-Spanish bilingualisms are increasingly common in scripts.]]></description>
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		<title>Angels, putti, dragons and fairies: believing the impossible</title>
		<link>http://www.astigan.com/2009/12/27/angels-putti-dragons-and-fairies-believing-the-impossible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[angels]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Roger Wotton, UCL Genetics, Evolution and Environment, uses sources from folklore and the Bible to explore the deep-rooted human need to portray figures of religious and mythological significance as having the ability to fly and examine how these images have been created in a new paper published in Opticon1826.]]></description>
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		<title>Remains of Minoan-style painting discovered during excavations of Canaanite palace</title>
		<link>http://www.astigan.com/2009/12/27/remains-of-minoan-style-painting-discovered-during-excavations-of-canaanite-palace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Archaeology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[canaante palace]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[minoan painting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tel Kabri is the only site in Israel where wall paintings similar in style to those found in the Aegean 3,600 years ago have been found; researchers say this was a conscious decision made by the city rulers to lean toward Mediterranean culture.]]></description>
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