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		<title>Explaining Schwarzenegger – men, biceps and the politics of getting what you want</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 02:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend I gained a grudging appreciation for Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Governator, not the Terminator. Having watched Arnie’s political rise and fall from afar, he always seemed an odd chimera. Lines he’d delivered as the Terminator retrofitted to an ideology he’d borrowed from somebody else. A kind of populist piss-take exploiting name recognition among cinema-going-yet-politically-comatose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Evolution of Lying</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 10:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ultimately, our ability to convincingly lie to each other may have evolved as a direct result of our cooperative nature. Thus concludes the abstract of a new paper in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B that considers the evolution of “tactical deception” using a theoretic model and a comparative study of primates. I’m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The placenta and the pace of life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 03:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The poor old placenta. It really doesn’t get much public attention. And yet it does a crucially important job – acting as the interface between the mother’s blood supply and that of her developing foetus. Every molecule of glucose, oxygen and many other essential compounds consumed by the voracious offspring passes across the placenta – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Penis size may be driven by women (oh, and it matters)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 03:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How important is penis size? Authors from the Australian National University, Monash and La Trobe provide the most complete answer yet: the size of a flaccid penis can significantly affect how attractive a man’s body is to women. Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (a journal commonly known by its initials [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Centuries wasted applying for grants?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grant-writing season is finally over for Australian academics. Actually, grant writing season is never over, but with the deadlines now having passed for the ARC Discovery grants and Discovery Early Career Research Awards and the NH&#38;MRC Project Grants, most academics move from compliance-checking and form-filling to thinking about ideas again. And maybe doing a bit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Fucking Love&#8230;..Sexism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 04:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do you know? The creative force behind science’s favourite Facebook site is … a woman. Holy mother of Christ. Just over a year ago, Elise Andrew, then a biology student at the University of Sheffield, created a Facebook page, to which she gave the catchy name “I Fucking Love Science” (IFLS). Combining interesting facts, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boys, war and the prescient mosquitofish mother</title>
		<link>http://www.robbrooks.net/rob-brooks/2227</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some aspects of the natural world are so commonplace that we mistake them for essential truths. This is especially true of the fact that the animals we know best, including our own species, usually give birth to near-indistinguishable numbers of sons and daughters. In high-school genetics we learn that half a father’s sperm carries his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How the Internet is changing music (Feat. Amanda Palmer on vocals)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 22:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I think I can hear the internet as it relentlessly changes everything. This week’s tabloidisation of Fairfax is merely a symptom of the way the net has already changed the news media. So, too, is the pending extinction of science journalism. And the withering of book publishing. But the sound of the internet changing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do we let people pay for music &#8211; Amanda Palmer&#8217;s TED talk on the dignity of asking</title>
		<link>http://www.robbrooks.net/rob-brooks/2197</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As technology changes, irreversibly altering the ways in which people experience and enjoy music, it also alters the economics of how music is made, distributed and sold. And that changes the incentives for artists, the livings musicians can lead, and even their prospects for living a long an healthy life. Readers of Sex, Genes &#038; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fear, conservatism and out-group attitudes: a genetic link?</title>
		<link>http://www.robbrooks.net/rob-brooks/2185</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australia’s eight-month election campaign is apparently underway. It’s a prospect that excites only those shady consultants, pollsters and party power-brokers whose livelihoods depend on running focus groups, devising strategies and pulling political strings. Instead of ignoring the whole show, I have been reading up on insights that biology can provide into an election campaign. Perhaps [...]]]></description>
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