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		<title>Stuff that matters (M&amp;G)</title>
		<link>http://www.scorched.co.za/2008/09/stuff-that-matters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cosmology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Give me a pearly white smile! There you go. Now consider this: the calcium in your teeth was cooked up inside a giant red star, billions of years ago. So were the iron in your blood and the carbon in your genes.
In fact much of the stuff that makes up you and me was made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sipping tea with the devil (M&amp;G)</title>
		<link>http://www.scorched.co.za/2008/09/sipping-tea-with-the-devil-mg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[rational thought]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;How&#8217;ve you been?&#8221;
&#8220;Not too bad, thanks. Bit under the weather today. Things&#8217;ve been busy!&#8221;
Beelzebub, Lord of Darkness, flops back into the couch, flicks off her mules and curls her feet under her.
&#8220;You&#8217;ve changed your hair,&#8221; I say, &#8220;I like the grey. Honest hair. Tea?&#8221;
Nods, and reaches for my notepad.
&#8220;&#8216;How do we know what we know,&#8217;&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fairy-tale princesses and Olympic fakes (M&amp;G)</title>
		<link>http://www.scorched.co.za/2008/08/fairy-tale-princesses-and-olympic-fakes-mg/</link>
		<comments>http://www.scorched.co.za/2008/08/fairy-tale-princesses-and-olympic-fakes-mg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mail & Guardian column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beauty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Cinderella was a money-grabbing trollop who used her looks to weasel her way up the social ladder. Or she was just a lucky kid who got the &#8220;hot&#8221; genes, the kind that sculpted a face which would catch the eye of the most powerful guy in the room. Either way, her glorious visage got her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stormy weather (M&amp;G)</title>
		<link>http://www.scorched.co.za/2008/08/stormy-weather/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dissidents]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How many global citizens does it take to change an incandescent light bulb to something more energy-efficient? None, apparently, because the light bulb doesn&#8217;t need changing.
The dissident view of climate change is growing in popularity as the media continue to thrash out both &#8220;sides&#8221; of the story: the Earth may be warming, but it&#8217;s not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The immovable power of flimflam (M&amp;G)</title>
		<link>http://www.scorched.co.za/2008/07/35/</link>
		<comments>http://www.scorched.co.za/2008/07/35/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mail & Guardian column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rational thought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[metaphysics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pseudoscience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quantum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Secret]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.scorched.co.za/?p=35</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have decided to become a fairaeologist &#8212; one who studies fairies. I believe I see fairies. I&#8217;m sure they exist. So I start a journal, printed and bound at my local copy shop, called the Journal of Advanced Fairaeotics (JAF).
I get a few mates, also fairy believers, to be my &#8220;peer reviewers&#8221;. I sit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dusting off yesterday (M&amp;G)</title>
		<link>http://www.scorched.co.za/2008/07/dusting-off-yesterday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mail & Guardian column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When you&#8217;re a youngster, music has a way of becoming communal. Well, it did when I was a teenager, which is why it didn&#8217;t matter that I never owned a tape deck in the Eighties. I had my roving box of tapes and there was always someone with a boom box.
Some of those cassettes were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A more beautiful game is possible (M&amp;G)</title>
		<link>http://www.scorched.co.za/2008/06/a-more-beautiful-game-is-possible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patriarchy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sport]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Originally published in the M&#038;G, 30 June 2008)

The air is prickly with tension. The tail end of a sentence, barked by a souped-up coach, gets muffled as it ricochets down the length of a carpeted hallway. New gusto to the old pre-match pep-talk. Across the way the other team meditates, some heads drooped under towels. One or two athletes stretch their quads and glutes. Both teams are ready -- Lycra leotards stretched over lean, sinuous bodies; cheeks ruddy with rouge; hair taut and pinned; satin shoes bound in place; tutus puffed out, flirting and audacious.
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		<title>To breed or not to breed (M&amp;G)</title>
		<link>http://www.scorched.co.za/2008/06/to-breed-or-not-to-breed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.scorched.co.za/2008/06/to-breed-or-not-to-breed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mail & Guardian column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenthood]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I wake with a snort, roused by the clatter of a ballpoint pen hitting the floor. It spins idly to a halt, put there by the same peaches-and-cream striped paw now tapping one end of it. How easily the modern quill is reduced to a plaything!
Blink, blink, blink.
The cursor on my computer screen winks expectantly. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goblins in the cupboard (M&amp;G)</title>
		<link>http://www.scorched.co.za/2008/05/goblins-in-the-cupboard/</link>
		<comments>http://www.scorched.co.za/2008/05/goblins-in-the-cupboard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 20:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mail & Guardian column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rational thought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[astrology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[superstition]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.scorched.co.za/?p=32</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to an arcane superstition pre-dating the Enlightenment, I can be a bitch at times. We all can, now and then, but my predisposition was determined by the position of our sun in relation to a specific arrangement of celestial bodies a few hundred light years away, at the time of my birth. If, like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sex up science (M&amp;G)</title>
		<link>http://www.scorched.co.za/2008/04/sex-up-science/</link>
		<comments>http://www.scorched.co.za/2008/04/sex-up-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[popular science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Originally published in the M&#038;G, 22 April 2008)

fffzzzzzzz…zzzz…zzz… THUP!

A projectile the size of a child's fist shot across the lawn and buried itself in a crouching rhododendron bush. It was summer in the early 1980s and we kids were home from school. My brother, his head crammed with potions learned in the science class, had cobbled together a handful of innocuous kitchen ingredients and turned them into something entirely more volatile.
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