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	<title>Blog of the Nerd &#187; awesome</title>
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	<description>Rob Goforth, creator of Lair of the Nerd and author of the upcoming Red Bargain fantasy trilogy.</description>
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		<title>Now someone make me an awesome brick hurling robot..</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2013/03/now-someone-make-me-an-awesome-brick-hurling-robot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boston Dynamics, who have a lot of US military and DARPA money invested in their work, frequently build awesome things that I want, like littledog: (CUTE!) Bigdog, and other robots being developed for troop support: And even robots that move like real people and make Asimo look like a kid&#8217;s toy: And now they&#8217;ve given [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Act of Creation</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/05/theactofcreation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 23:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I live to create.  To produce things that can inspire or move people, or make them laugh.  So, I guess that means I live to create art. Art; it&#8217;s a word that I don&#8217;t often use to describe what I do, because part of me worries that others won&#8217;t see it that way or that [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Astronauts unload the SpaceX Dragon</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/05/astronauts-unload-the-spacex-dragon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 15:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first commercial spacecraft to dock with the ISS has now been boarded by astronauts and had it&#8217;s cargo unloaded, thus beginning a news awesome chapter in space travel. SPAAAACE!]]></description>
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		<title>Teeny-tiny artificial heart saves life of 16 month boy</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/05/teeny-tiny-artificial-heart-saves-life-of-16-month-boy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 02:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, let&#8217;s just agree right now &#8211; medical science is cool.. and even more cool when it saves the life of youngsters who haven&#8217;t really had much of a chance at life yet. So, this story reported in Reuters has me smiling: Doctors at Rome&#8217;s Bambino Gesu hospital implanted a tiny little artificial heart into [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>SpaceX Dragon closes in on ISS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 16:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nasa video of the SpaceX Dragon capsule closing in on the ISS&#8230; Awesome]]></description>
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		<title>Skin Cells can be turned into beating heart cells</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/05/skin-cells-can-be-turned-into-beating-heart-cells/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 15:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh wow.. this is just one of the most awesomest sciency things I&#8217;ve ever heard. So, you&#8217;ve heard of stem cells? Those cells that can be thought of as building blocks, and that potentially will allow us to grow whole new organs or limbs for use in transplants?  They are, as I like to think, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>No more ketchup waste thanks to MIT</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/05/no-more-ketchup-waste-thanks-to-mit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 15:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I see sciencey things I think to myself&#8230; wow.  Occasionally I see something so awesome I just HAVE to share it with everyone else, beceuse.. well, it&#8217;s like, the law or something.  I haven&#8217;t really thought that thought through very thoroughly but let&#8217;s just leave it there. Anyway, this is one of those second [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Heroes, part two</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/03/heroes-part-two/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/03/heroes-part-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 02:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Authors need to read. Learning by example is one of the most fundamental and seemingly obvious pieces of advice anyone can give an aspiring author like myself, for a huge number of reasons. In a previous post I explored a few of my writing heroes, but a list of favourite writers, like a list of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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