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	<title><![CDATA[Netherland to hold 200km Ice Skating Marathon after 15 years of WAIT.]]></title>
	<link>http://ping.sg/item/Netherland-to-hold-200km-Ice-Skating-Marathon-after-15-years-2</link>
	<dc:creator>rtexal</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[I hope this will actually happen. At least something good came out of this sudden cold winter in europe, where many homeless people suffered. The deep freeze gripping much of Europe means …]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:36:05 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[This is how you PERSONALISE your Facebook Timeline COVER and PROFILE Photo.]]></title>
	<link>http://ping.sg/item/This-is-how-you-PERSONALISE-your-Facebook-Timeline-COVER-and</link>
	<dc:creator>rtexal</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[The juxapositioning of your facebook cover photo and profile picture is just asking to be hack. So be creative and have a unique one that shouts who you really are. Follow these steps: 1) …]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:30:06 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[This is how the ANCIENT OCEAN of Mars look like.]]></title>
	<link>http://ping.sg/item/This-is-how-the-ANCIENT-OCEAN-of-Mars-look-like-</link>
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	<description><![CDATA[Maybe intelligent lifes(like us) once lived on Mars, and have since migrated. That would have made for an awesome new star trek plot. ESA&#8217;s Mars Express has returned strong evidence for an ocean once covering part of Mars. Using radar, it has detected sediments reminiscent of an ocean floor within the boundaries of previously identified, ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:32:05 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Netherland to hold 200km Ice Skating Marathon after 15 years of WAIT.]]></title>
	<link>http://ping.sg/item/Netherland-to-hold-200km-Ice-Skating-Marathon-after-15-years</link>
	<dc:creator>rtexal</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[I hope this will actually happen. At least something good came out of this sudden cold winter in europe, where many homeless people suffered. The deep freeze gripping much of Europe means …]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:36:05 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[This is HOW a 10 year old girl, Clara Lazen, got her name on a scientific paper.]]></title>
	<link>http://ping.sg/item/This-is-HOW-a-10-year-old-girl-Clara-Lazen-got-her-name-on-a</link>
	<dc:creator>rtexal</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[I wonder if this is pure luck, or if it is pure luck. For Clara Lazen, 10, a classroom assignment turned into a scientific finding. As Chemistry Professor Robert Zoellner confirmed, the fifth-grader&#8217;s  curiosity led to a new molecule, and her first mention in a scientific journal. When Kenneth Boehr instructed his fifth grade class ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:13:19 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Russians to drill into DEEPEST Lake, Vostok, on Earth to Uncover Potential ALIEN Lifeforms.]]></title>
	<link>http://ping.sg/item/Russians-to-drill-into-DEEPEST-Lake-Vostok-on-Earth-to-Uncov</link>
	<dc:creator>rtexal</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[Drilling into the unknown&#8230; With only about 50m left to drill, time is running out for the Russian scientists hoping to drill into Vostok &#8211; the world&#8217;s most enigmatic lake. Vostok is a sub-glacial lake in Antarctica, hidden some 4,000m (13,000ft) beneath the ice sheet. With the Antarctic summer almost over, temperatures will soon begin ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:11:02 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Earth is LOSING Mass and is getting Lighter.]]></title>
	<link>http://ping.sg/item/Earth-is-LOSING-Mass-and-is-getting-Lighter-</link>
	<dc:creator>rtexal</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[You may be growing fatter, but the land you stand on, is shrinking. Bit by bit. There are factors that are causing Earth to both gain and lose mass over time, according to Dr Chris Smith, a medical microbiologist and broadcaster who tries to improve the public understanding of science. Using some back-of-the-envelope -style calculations, Dr ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:45:32 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Self Guided BULLETS can KILL you, 1 Freaking Mile away.]]></title>
	<link>http://ping.sg/item/Self-Guided-BULLETS-can-KILL-you-1-Freaking-Mile-away-</link>
	<dc:creator>rtexal</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[Seriously, with the advent of these new technologies in warfare, it doesn&#8217;t look bright for humans. In future wars, we will be quashed as easily as ants. The U.S. military has been after self-guided bullets for years. Now, government researchers have finally made it happen: a bullet that can navigate itself a full mile before ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:38:47 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Invisibility Cloaking finally gets 3-D]]></title>
	<link>http://ping.sg/item/Invisibility-Cloaking-finally-gets-3-D</link>
	<dc:creator>rtexal</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[Now the Anonymous can all finally look like this: After five years of steady progress, scientists are now edging closer and closer to mastering real-world invisibility. Sure, researchers have already made marked strides toward making objects unseeable. But much of the work was more like mimicry: Meta-materials that bent light around an object to conceal ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:44:55 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[100 Cores Processor now a REALITY. 1000 Cores? Coming soon.]]></title>
	<link>http://ping.sg/item/100-Cores-Processor-now-a-REALITY-1000-Cores-Coming-soon-</link>
	<dc:creator>rtexal</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[While the rage are all on web and application companies nowadays, what powers and make these services possible are actually innovations by companies that create the hardware. And this, is …]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:33:30 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[HTML5/CSS3 galore on onehourpersecond.com!]]></title>
	<link>http://ping.sg/item/HTML5-CSS3-galore-on-onehourpersecond-com-</link>
	<dc:creator>rtexal</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[Google does it again. They are really keen on accelerating the use of HTML5 on mainstream websites. The statistics are presented in a really fun and interactive way. Just check out onehourpersecond! Matching the capability to the relevant flash actionscripts! And check out the 24th second of the animation.. you will be&#8230; nyan-ed.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:21:16 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Phobos Grunt is back to HAUNT Earth.]]></title>
	<link>http://ping.sg/item/Phobos-Grunt-is-back-to-HAUNT-Earth-</link>
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	<description><![CDATA[Oh well, at least there&#8217;s 70% chance of hitting the water, with the simplest estimate. But really, can we trust the Russians again? Uncertainty about where a doomed Russian Mars probe might crash back to Earth grew Friday when the Roscosmos space agency changed its prediction thousands of miles (kilometres) from the Pacific to the ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 05:00:23 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Siberian Trap could have caused the MOST TRAUMATIC extinction …]]></title>
	<link>http://ping.sg/item/Siberian-Trap-could-have-caused-the-MOST-TRAUMATIC-extinctio</link>
	<dc:creator>rtexal</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[I hope it will never occur again. Around 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian geologic period, there was a mass extinction so severe that it remains the most traumatic known species die-off in Earth&#8217;s history. Although the cause of this event is a mystery, it has been speculated that the eruption ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:12:01 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Jason Silva and his MINDBLOWING Videos on Technology.]]></title>
	<link>http://ping.sg/item/Jason-Silva-and-his-MINDBLOWING-Videos-on-Technology-</link>
	<dc:creator>rtexal</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[I am not sure what this guy is really trying to do with these videos, but they are pretty awesome. Although the way he&#8217;s waxing optimism about the future can be a tad too irritating.]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:00:51 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Scientists from Cornell University managed to MASK Time.]]></title>
	<link>http://ping.sg/item/Scientists-from-Cornell-University-managed-to-MASK-Time-</link>
	<dc:creator>rtexal</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[Brillant. Just what we need to send a ICBM into another country unknowningly&#8230; not today though. Soldiers could one day conduct covert operations in complete secrecy, now that Pentago …]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:47:23 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[HACKERS to launch Satellite Communication network WHOLLY owne …]]></title>
	<link>http://ping.sg/item/HACKERS-to-launch-Satellite-Communication-network-WHOLLY-own</link>
	<dc:creator>rtexal</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[Seems like there are a bunch of people out there taking free speech really seriously. I am however, skeptical about how effective and relevant will these satellites be, when compare to their big brothers out there. Hackers at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, which wrapped up over the weekend, are toasting the New Year ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:46:54 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[The WORST Fails in Science, in 2011, includes Whales’ sperms …]]></title>
	<link>http://ping.sg/item/The-WORST-Fails-in-Science-in-2011-includes-Whales-sperms-an</link>
	<dc:creator>rtexal</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[I think these people needs an education. Urgently. No matter that they are all celebrities. From whale sperm to colon cleansers to the shape of a woman&#8217;s foot when she has an orgasm, celebrities did not disappoint during 2011 with their penchant for peddling suspect science in the world&#8217;s media. In its annual list of ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:26:27 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Our calender NEEDS to be updated to THIS Calender by scientists from John Hopkins University that homogenise yearly …]]></title>
	<link>http://ping.sg/item/Our-calender-NEEDS-to-be-updated-to-THIS-Calender-by-scienti</link>
	<dc:creator>rtexal</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[This calender is really way cool. Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t think it will be any easy to change the current calender. Good try though, scientists. Using computer programs and mathematical formulas, Richard Conn Henry, an astrophysicist in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, and Steve H. Hanke, an applied economist in the Whiting School of ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:37:11 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[Sinking Venice can be SAVED by PUMPING Water in. Yes, IN.]]></title>
	<link>http://ping.sg/item/Sinking-Venice-can-be-SAVED-by-PUMPING-Water-in-Yes-IN-</link>
	<dc:creator>rtexal</dc:creator>
	<description><![CDATA[We know that Venice is one of the worst hit victim of the rising water globally. Now some scientists are coming out to save the ancient city. This is quite a crazy idea at first glance, but it might actually work. Everyone knows that on a sinking ship, you want to pump water out. But ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:19:01 +0800</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[The PIGEONS outside your window now is AS GOOD in Mathematics as YOU are.]]></title>
	<link>http://ping.sg/item/The-PIGEONS-outside-your-window-now-is-AS-GOOD-in-Mathematic</link>
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	<description><![CDATA[Now, go out and beat the pigeons at Sudoku. Pigeons may be ubiquitous, but they&#8217;re also brainy, according to a new study that found these birds are on par with primates when it comes to numerical competence. The study, published in the latest issue of the journal Science, discovered that pigeons can discriminate against different ...]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:31:42 +0800</pubDate>
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