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		<title>Success as a Failure</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 06:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why go to graduate school? To win a Nobel Prize one day? You like the work (me)? Someone has offered you a position (Paid to learn &#8211; great!)? There are many reasons to start &#8211; and complete &#8211; a PhD. Current academic training creates many candidates for limited career positions. Much has been written about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Genetic counselling should be non-directive</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the hallmarks of medical genetics is non-directive counselling. Therefore, I was dismayed to read the case for selective paternalism in genetic testing in Wired&#8217;s Neuron Culture. In most cases, genetic tests only provide information and patients need to determine if they want the information and/or what to do with it. Genetic counsellors should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peek Into Science</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Science is messy. Yet many students think science is a bunch of facts and/or experiments always work. I loved the #overlyhonestmethods hashtag because it gives a glimpse into the reality of experiments. In my jobs, I get to work with students starting their first science experiment. They are enthusiastic but also a bit intimidated. Not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ScioVan: Refresh for 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[January is once again upon us with all its rain, darkness, winter depression and breaking of New Years resolutions. January 2013 will be no different, but this year a whole community of science-enthusiasts will be sharing it with you. A fresh team of organizers have worked hard to rethink the ScienceOnlineVancouver concept, and we offer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why is it OK to be &#8216;bad at math&#8217;? [video]</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 07:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is it socially acceptable to avoid simple math? We were out for dinner and at the next table, we heard one man say, &#8216;just tell me what I owe because I can&#8217;t do math&#8217;. The 10 year old with me was horrified and blurted out, &#8216;he can&#8217;t even do simple calculations?!? How embarrassing for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can high school students read primary research papers?</title>
		<link>http://genegeek.ca/2012/12/reading-scientific-papers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 22:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading scientific papers is difficult, especially when you are new to a field. At our program for high school students, Future Science Leaders, we are trying to give them useful tools for their future as scientists and innovators so reading primary research papers is an obvious choice. But how to do it? I don&#8217;t really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adapted paper from students</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 22:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of learning how to read primary research papers, students wrote the following adapted paper. The original paper is Sagiv et. al (2012) Prenatal Exposure to Mercury and Fish Consumption During Pregnancy and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder–Related Behavior in Children (PubMed &#8211; paywall). Note: the pieces of the paper are written by different groups with minimal edits so there may be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exclusive: Blitzen talks about retirement</title>
		<link>http://genegeek.ca/2012/12/exclusive-blitzen-talks-about-retirement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2012 19:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never could have guessed that some of my reindeer photos would take me to such interesting places. In the summer of 2011, I took some photos of reindeer just outside of Longyearbyen in Svalbard, Norway during my trip to the Arctic. In December 2012, I got a request for copies from Blitzen! And in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last minute stocking stuffer?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 03:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have a fun fundraising product for my high school program = mini-robots! If you are in the Vancouver area, you can pick up one of these fun &#8216;bugs&#8217;. They just arrived and are kind of awesome. The proceeds will go to program costs and allow the students to make bigger and better robots. (Hey [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Am I a scientist? What&#8217;s a scientist?</title>
		<link>http://genegeek.ca/2012/11/am-i-a-scientist-whats-a-scientist/</link>
		<comments>http://genegeek.ca/2012/11/am-i-a-scientist-whats-a-scientist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2012 00:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a PhD in Medical Genetics &#8211; but I no longer do wet lab research. Can I call myself a scientist? I spend most of my time teaching at the local medical school and the science centre and am often introduced as a scientist &#8211; I think to give a short-hand history of my [...]]]></description>
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