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		<title>‘Seeds of Hope’ by Jane Goodall</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/03/18/%e2%80%98seeds-of-hope%e2%80%99-by-jane-goodall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mdimov</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this article for the Boston Globe, Adam Langer discusses Jane Goodall&#8217;s new work. He describes it as: Part reminiscence, part natural history, and part plea on behalf of the natural world, “Seeds of Hope” begins with Goodall’s childhood in Bournemouth, England, where she recalls spending hours in her favorite tree doing her homework, reading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Stars Come From</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/02/20/where-stars-come-from/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/02/20/where-stars-come-from/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mdimov</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[astronomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CAS]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.bu.edu/core/?p=2158</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Watch this video on YouTube The Core shares an article from BU Today concerning the intriguing origin of stars, where CAS professor James Jackson answers some exciting questions. A sample: For years, Jackson, a College of Arts &#38; Sciences professor of astronomy, and his international colleagues studied [a dark, opaque mass that astronomers call] “the brick,” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CC106: The Sound of Music</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/02/05/cc106-the-sound-of-music/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/02/05/cc106-the-sound-of-music/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 19:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mdimov</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Academics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Curriculum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CC106]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[class]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[frog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[halls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Professor Atema]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.bu.edu/core/?p=2065</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, February 5th, Biology Professor Jelle Atema (Doctorandus, University of Utrecht (Netherlands); PhD, University of Michigan), held a lecture titled &#8220;The sound of music: frog calls and the design of music halls&#8220;, for the Core class CC106. CC106 is designed to round out students&#8217; exploration of the natural sciences by focusing on the science of life. The professors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Semi-Serious Science Quote: CC105 from Fall 2012</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/01/28/semi-serious-science-quote-cc105-from-fall-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/01/28/semi-serious-science-quote-cc105-from-fall-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mdimov</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Core Lecturers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[CC105]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Core]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[red giant]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Core presents a quote on the death of stars: In the later red giant phase, the Core will shrink further and heat up to over 100 million Kelvin. ~Dr. Mark Jonas &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Festina Lente: &#8216;Conserving Antiquity&#8217; Exhibition</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/01/23/festina-lente-conserving-antiquity-exhibition/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/01/23/festina-lente-conserving-antiquity-exhibition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mdimov</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[restoration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; From January 30 – July 7, 2013, the upcoming Festina Lente exhibition will offer an unconventional behind-the-scenes opportunity to survey the Greek and Roman holdings in the Davis Museum’s permanent collections. Featuring vases and vessels of all sorts and designs, relief portraits and standing figures, mosaics, coins and jewelry, human and animal forms, the scope of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Jelle Atema, from lobsters to CC106</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/09/13/dr-jelle-atema-from-lobsters-to-cc106/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/09/13/dr-jelle-atema-from-lobsters-to-cc106/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CAS Core Curriculum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Core Authors]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BU Today]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CC106]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.bu.edu/core/?p=1781</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Jelle Atema of the BU Department of Biology, will be joining the course faculty in CC106: Biodiversity this coming spring. His areas of research interest include sensory biology and biometic robotics, and he is currently involved in studies of the chemical ecology of lobsters, the dispersal of larvae in reef fishes, and navigation in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Humanists at the Santa Fe Institute</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/02/17/humanists-at-the-santa-fe-institute/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/02/17/humanists-at-the-santa-fe-institute/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CAS Core Curriculum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Great Questions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Other Publications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interdisciplinary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[novels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.bu.edu/core/?p=1571</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Professor Daniel Hudon (Core Natural Sciences) writes&#8230; What’s the best kind of conversation to have, with those who share your views or those who don’t? If you want to have anything beyond a mutually agreeing chat, then you’re going to want to seek out interlocutors who don’t share your views because they’re the ones who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analects of the Core #149</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2011/10/12/analects-of-the-core-149/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2011/10/12/analects-of-the-core-149/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CAS Core Curriculum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[analect]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hume]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstruction in this way, or open up any new prospect, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind. - David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding]]></description>
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		<title>Layers upon Layers</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2011/09/27/layers-upon-layers/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2011/09/27/layers-upon-layers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CAS Core Curriculum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Other Publications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paintings]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.bu.edu/core/?p=1351</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[All works of art are built from the works that have preceded them, in a series of creative reinterpretations that allow artists to explore new possibilities. As Core scholars, we are familiar with this flow of creation, but this week it took on a more literal meaning when the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam found a new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analects of the Core #122</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2011/05/03/feynman-on-doubt/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2011/05/03/feynman-on-doubt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 14:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CAS Core Curriculum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CC105]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CC106]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Core Natural Sciences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doubt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I would now like to turn to a third value that science has. It is a little more indirect, but not much. The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of very great importance, I think. When a scientist doesn&#8217;t know the answer to a problem, [...]]]></description>
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