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		<title>Wonderfest Newsletter &#8211; Nov 25: Obama: &#8220;A Reverence for Science&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear friend of Wonderfest,
Among the developing nations, particularly of Asia, &#8220;There is a hunger for knowledge, an insistence on excellence, a reverence for science and math and technology and learning. That used to be what we were about. That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re going to be about again.&#8221;
President Obama spoke these words on Monday during a nationally [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wonderfest.org/wp/2009/11/26/a-reverence-for-science/</link>
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		<title>Does Moore’s Law Apply to Energy Technology?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wonderfest 2009 &#8211; Festival of Science
Christopher Chidsey &#8211; Associate Professor of Chemistry &#38; of Chemical Engineering, Stanford
Cyrus Wadia - Faculty &#38; Co-Director, Clean Tech to Market, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley






 






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		<link>http://www.wonderfest.org/wp/2009/11/24/does-moores-law-apply-to-energy-technology/</link>
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		<title>Does Darwin Illuminate Emotion &amp; Spirituality?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wonderfest 2009 &#8211; Festival of Science
Paul Ekman, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, UC San Francisco
Dacher Keltner, Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley






 






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		<link>http://www.wonderfest.org/wp/2009/11/24/does-darwin-illuminate-emotion-spirituality/</link>
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		<title>Does Media Violence Inspire Real Violence?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wonderfest 2009 &#8211; Festival of Science
Albert Bandura, Professor of Psychology, Stanford University
Stanley Baran, Professor of Communication, Bryant University






 






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		<link>http://www.wonderfest.org/wp/2009/11/24/does-media-violence-inspire-real-violence/</link>
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		<title>Which Stars Support Intelligent Life?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wonderfest 2009 &#8211; Festival of Science
Ken Croswell, astronomer and author of The Lives of Stars and Magnificent Universe






 






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		<link>http://www.wonderfest.org/wp/2009/11/24/which-stars-support-intelligent-life/</link>
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		<title>Do Robots Make Better Astronauts?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wonderfest 2009 &#8211; Festival of Science
Chris McKay, Planetary Scientist, NASA-Ames Research Center
Kanna Rajan, Principal Researcher for Autonomy, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute






 






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		<link>http://www.wonderfest.org/wp/2009/11/24/do-robots-make-better-astronauts/</link>
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		<title>Tucker Hiatt Gets An Award</title>
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On Nov 7, 2009, the Board of Trustees and the Wonderfest Advisory Board presented this award to Tucker Hiatt, for his tireless efforts in bringing Wonderfest to the Bay Area for its 11th year.
The inscription reads: &#8220;For illuminating our universe with the spirit of wonder. Tucker Hiatt.&#8221; It is followed by the quote, &#8220;We make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wonderfest.org/wp/2009/11/10/tucker-hiatt-gets-an-award/</link>
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		<title>WonderOutpost Science Forum: Future Human Evolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress.&#8221; 
 &#8211; Issac Asimov
Been there; done that.  With agriculture and the directed breeding of numerous species of animals and plants, we&#8217;ve had a long history of genetic engineering, giving us distinct survival advantage.  Science [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wonderfest.org/wp/2009/09/01/wonderoutpost-science-forum-future-human-evolution/</link>
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		<title>Wonderfest Newsletter &#8211; June 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear friend of Wonderfest,
Would you like to make that salutation, above, a little more meaningful?  Just capitalize the F in &#8220;friend&#8221;!  Please become a formal Friend of Wonderfest.  No blood oath is required, and &#8220;Friendship&#8221; costs nothing.  Becoming a Friend just indicates that you support the cause of informal, provocative science education, and that you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.wonderfest.org/wp/2009/06/27/wonderfest-newsletter-june-2009/</link>
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		<title>WonderOutpost Science Forum: One-Way Trip to Mars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the very first edition of the WonderOutpost Science Forum.  WonderOutpost brings controversial  science discussions to the blogisphere and invites everyone to participate.  Here is our very first topic:
&#8220;Sometime before the end of this century, there will be a human colony on Mars.  It will happen when people finally wake up to the fact [...]]]></description>
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