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    <copyright>Copyright 2006 Jim Metzner Productions, Inc. All rights reserved.</copyright>
    <managingEditor>pulse@igc.org (Jim Metzner)</managingEditor>
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      <description><![CDATA[Food in Space winners Pickled Cucumbers (Carlisle Patete and Isabella St. Onge) visit Mssion Control at the NASA Johnson Space Center]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2012 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Joshua's Racetrack</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Zero Waste Winner Joshua Yi visits Caraustar.]]></description>
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      <title>Zero Waste: Green Mountain Coffee</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Food scientists in the Food Lab at the NASA Johnson Space Center sjow you what you can expect to eat on your way to Mars!]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Can otters at the Oregon Zoo, in Portland, Oregon, learn to open various toys to get a meaty surprise?]]></description>
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      <title>Magical Microbes Winner!</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Magical Microbes winner Sona Dolasia travels to the University of Massachussetts Amherst to test her winning idea in Derek Lovley’s lab.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Super Stuff for Sports winner Peyton Robertson travels to the University of Southern Mississippi to test his winning idea with Dr. Daniel Savin at the School of Polymers & High Performance Materials.]]></description>
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      <title>Sensational Sounds Winner!</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Sensational Sounds Winner Merrie Benjamin travels to Point Reyes, California to meet Inventor Bart Hopkins to build her winning entry, the Spritzer Whizzer!]]></description>
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      <title>The Bumble Bee Hummer</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Steve Jacobs demonstrates a fun science activity you can do at home.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 7 Mar 2011 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[What are the temperatures at which yeast will be active or inactive?]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[This video is an overview of KSC topics: Sensational Sounds, Super Stuff for Sports, and Magical Microbes. Learn about what the scientists and engineers are challenging you to do: come up with ideas or inventions that no one has thought of before!]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Use different size plastic tubes to bang out a melody.]]></description>
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      <title>Year 3 - Sensational Sounds: Musical Instruments Everywhere</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Bart Hopkin can make an instrument from almost anything. And you can too!]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Experimental musician Bart Hopkin describes how he created an uncategorizable instrument.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Derek Lovely shows how you can use mud to make electricity.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 4 Oct 2010 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Conventional plastic can persist for hundreds of years, but bag your produce in bio-based plastic, and you can toss the scraps AND the bag right into the compost bin.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[With a little coaxing, microbes can be trained to create a variety of useful materials.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iron-breathing creatures on the banks of the Potomac? Stay tuned!]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[A recently discovered group of microorganisms have the ability to clean up contaminated groundwater.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A recently discovered group of hardy microorganisms are giving scientists clues to the evolution of life on earth.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Check out the official KSC music video!]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[This video is an overview of KSC topics: Imagining Sports on Mars; Bio-inspired Design, and Forensics. Learn about what the scientist and engineers are challenging you to do: come up with ideas or inventions that no one has thought of before! Enter your winning idea today!]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Kobie Boykins, a JPL mobility systems engineer, uses the AMAZING UV BEADS you get in your free activity kit if you are one of the first 1000 entries!]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ashwin Vasavada, an atmospheric scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulusion Laboraory (JPL), shows how high you could jump on Mars.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Suparna Mukherjee, a JPL engineer, demonstrates the cool magnetic soil you get in your free activity kit if you are one of the first 1000 entries!]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Adam Steltzner, a JPL engineer uses a container and plastic bag to demonstrate what air pressure is. <a href="http://www.kidsciencechallenge.com/pdfs/2009activities/Science_Under_Pressure-Sports_on_Mars-2_2009.pdf" target="_blank"><u>Download the activity</u></a> and do it for yourself!]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Sports on Mars winner, Tyrone Hutchinson, travels to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Califonia, to help the scientists explore Mars Ball.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[In Part II of Sports on Mars winner Tyrone Hutchinson’s visit to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, he gets a first hand look at the next visitor to Mars]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Not your ordinary parachute: what it takes to slow a speeding Mars rover to avoid a crash landing.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[In lieu of traveling to the Red Planet, scientists can experiment in a California-based Mars playground!]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[If you want to drive golf balls like Tiger Woods, no need for practice. Just head on up to Mars!]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A giant arm on the new Mars rover will drill rocks, scoop sand, and collect tiny samples from the Red Planet. ]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[To test	equipment bound for Mars, JPL scientists head to their ’dirty chamber’, a low-pressure tank that can handle abrasive Mars-like sand. ]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mars may be Earth’s neighbor, but getting there can take years!]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[If we cant send an Armstrong to Mars, how about a strong arm?]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Year 2 - The Brownie Caper</title>
      <link>http://www.kidssciencechallenge.com/podcasts2/sci_detection_preview.mov</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Oh no! Someone stole the brownies! See how evidence is collected at a crime scene and tested in the lab. Come up with your OWN MYSTERY or try to solve a REAL LIFE MINI-MYSTERY from your own experience at home, at school or in your community.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.kidssciencechallenge.com/podcasts2/secret_messages_web090929.mov</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[With ink and a balloon you can blow up your fingerprint! <a href="http://www.kidssciencechallenge.com/pdfs/2009activities/KSC_Fingerprint_2009.pdf" target="_blank"><u>Download this activity</u></a> using materials found at home or in school.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Team Marine Bustologists (Caitlyn Taylor, Mason Wonka) travel to Syracuse University help scientists there solve a real mystery.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[For more than a century, fingerprints have proven a useful tool in forensic science.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Using Super Glue? Be sure to keep it off your fingers! But for a forensic scientist keeping this adhesive handy is a good idea.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[How can you tell a shard of clear house window glass from a seemingly identical piece of auto glass? Density!]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[When incriminating evidence is written on a pad of paper, forensic scientists can reveal that message long after the page is removed.]]></description>
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      <link>http://www.pulseplanet.com/dailymp3/16Dec09.mp3</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A forensic document examiner takes us through the process of deciphering evidence from a blank pad of paper.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Real-world forensic investigations can be exciting, but it’s quite different from what we’re exposed to on TV.]]></description>
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      <link>http://www.pulseplanet.com/dailymp3/22Dec09.mp3</link>
      <description><![CDATA[While matching evidence to a suspect can be gratifying, proving a mismatch is equally important.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Declaring someone dead is one thing, but if you want a definitive cause, youll want to give forensic investigator Mo Lupia a call.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[When alcohol or drugs are involved in an auto accident, the driver’s identity is not always evident. So how do you find out who really was driving the car?]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.pulseplanet.com/dailymp3/20Jan10.mp3</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Investigating death may very well protect the health of others.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.kidssciencechallenge.com/podcasts2/Biomimicry_Overview_Video_3.mov</link>
      <description><![CDATA[What do a snail and a giraffe have in common that could benefit modern medicine? Scientist and engineers are teaming up to find out! Learn how to make your own bio-inspired stuff like SLIME! Download these COOL <a href="http://www.kidssciencechallenge.com/index.php?linkTo=3b"><u>ACTIVITIES</u></a>.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.kidssciencechallenge.com/podcasts2/Jumping_Roaches_640.mov</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Ron Fearing, an engineer at UC Berkeley, demonstrates how to make your own hopping robot with a cereal box, tape, scissors and a penny. <a href="http://www.kidssciencechallenge.com/pdfs/2009activities/Jumping_Roaches-Bio-Inspired_2009.pdf" target="_blank"><u>Download</u></a> [PDF: 1.20MB] the cockroach robot templates and follow along with the video. Adult supervision strongly recommended!]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.kidssciencechallenge.com/podcasts2/Slime_Time_web.mov</link>
      <description><![CDATA[It’s gross; its fun! Download the recipe and follow Christopher Viney, UC Merced Engineer, as he makes slime! Then experiment to see if you can concoct something even yuckier than Christopher does (it will be a challenge!)]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ron Fearing, an engineer at UC Berkeley, uses a tooth brush to demonstrate an amazing discovery: It’s a newly discovered principle of surface adhesion that allows geckos to climb vertical walls. What does this have to do with a tooth brush – watch and find out! <a href="http://www.kidssciencechallenge.com/pdfs/2009activities/Clean_Teeth_and_Sticky_Toes-Bio-Inspired_2009.pdf" target="_blank"><u>Download the activity</u></a> and try this out for yourself!]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Olivia explains to Dr Viney how she came up with her floppy flyer idea for the Kids’ Science Challenge.  And Dr. Viney explains the science behind how a Floppy Flyer can fly.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The team at Merced demonstrates how to make a floppy flyer and then tests their paper flyers.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Olivia Smith-Donovan visits the University of Maryland and flies a model helicopter with a wing shaped like a maple seed.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.pulseplanet.com/dailymp3/14Sep09.mp3</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Mucus plays many roles. In fact, without it, we wouldn’t be here.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Everything you ever wanted to know about how to collect giraffe drool and hippopotamus sweat, but were afraid to ask.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Aided by mucus, giraffes routinely swallow sharp thorns without hurting themselves.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[If you want to protect yourself from the sun, insects, and disease, just slather on	some hippo sweat!]]></description>
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      <link>http://www.pulseplanet.com/dailymp3/22Sep09.mp3</link>
      <description><![CDATA[In the slug world, much can be gleaned from the trail of slime a slug leaves behind.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Without so much as a diet, wasp waists are incredibly thin; and their structure is inspiring engineers to create a new kind of packaging.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[If you’ve bounced on a pogo stick, you’re already well on your way to understanding how animals run.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Video courtesy of <a href="http://www.alexismilant.com">Alexis Milant</a>.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Do you like peppermint gum? Okay, well, what KIND of peppermint?]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Could bacteria in beach sand be polluting ocean water? Two middle school students are trying to find out.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[A school science fair project has caught the attention of an oceanographer, who is helping to guide their research.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[After heat sealing and incubating samples of ocean water, bacteria counting can begin!]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Year 1 - Science Diary: Water - Fingerprints</title>
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