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		<title>Pseudo-science: warts and all (M&amp;G)</title>
		<link>http://www.scorched.co.za/2009/05/pseudo-science-warts-and-all-mg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 09:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was seven or eight, I found a wart growing on my knee. Sounds grim, I know, but bear with me. Someone &#8212; an adult, nogal, so it had to be reputable, right? &#8212; told me that if you cut a raw potato in half, rubbed it on the wart and buried the potato, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Darwin and the chicken&#8217;s egg (M&amp;G)</title>
		<link>http://www.scorched.co.za/2009/02/darwin-and-the-chickens-egg-mg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What came first, the chicken or the egg? I&#8217;m thrilled to report that after extensive navel contemplation, this quintessential human conundrum has been laid to rest. The answer, which is revealed here, has been right in front of us for decades.
What got me pondering such erudite matters, amid bouts of staring at the wall (as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On a wing and a prayer (M&amp;G)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a head of state, to end up in a slick French hospital on your deathbed has to be the ultimate vote of no confidence in your own country&#8217;s healthcare system. Zambia&#8217;s Levy Mwanawasa was shipped off to Paris after his stroke in June this year. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Algeria&#8217;s president, also popped over to France [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robben Island rabbits on the run (M&amp;G)</title>
		<link>http://www.scorched.co.za/2008/11/robben-island-rabbits-on-the-run/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[invasive species]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rational thought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rabbits]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since it&#8217;s matric exam time, here&#8217;s a question to pop into the life sciences (formerly known as biology) paper. Problem: there&#8217;s an island in a bay, surrounded by cold, rough, possibly shark-infested waters; you&#8217;re 8km away on the mainland with a box of tortoises. How do you get those tortoises on to the island without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God, on ice</title>
		<link>http://www.scorched.co.za/2008/09/god-on-ice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rational thought]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“I demand the right of reply!” a voice booms from outside my study window, setting the pane aquiver in its frame.
I stumble backwards, toppling the chair which prostrates itself, one wheel spinning absently. The cat bloats like of a puffer fish, moaning angrily.
Peering at us from beyond the glass is an eye the size of [...]]]></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>
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		<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>
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		<category><![CDATA[quantum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Secret]]></category>

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		<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>Goblins in the cupboard (M&amp;G)</title>
		<link>http://www.scorched.co.za/2008/05/goblins-in-the-cupboard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 20:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[rational thought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[astrology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[superstition]]></category>

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		<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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