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	<title>Hot Topics &#187; jakeellison@seattlepi.com (Jake Ellison)</title>
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		<title>Science fact: How to keep a bottle of beer cold? Keep it dry</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 21:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, there’s global warming and nuclear North Korea and some other big topics out there, but one thing this spring weather has us worried about is the age-old problem of keeping your beer cold. Thankfully, a University of Washington climate scientist decided to tackle the problem and found out that a romantically dew covered bottle<a href="http://blog.timesunion.com/hottopics/science-fact-how-to-keep-a-bottle-of-beer-cold-keep-it-dry/15252/">  Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>French study: Bras don’t help breasts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After 15 years of meticulously studying the breasts of 130 women, a French sports medicine scientist says: Bras are bogus. They don’t help a woman with back pain or sagging or pretty much anything, professor Jean-Denis Rouillon, from the University of Besançon in eastern France, told The Local, an English language French news org. Local<a href="http://blog.timesunion.com/hottopics/french-study-bras-don%E2%80%99t-help-breasts/15021/">  Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Meet the boy, 9, who will wow you with his thoughts about the universe</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jakeellison@seattlepi.com (Jake Ellison)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a YouTube video approaching 1.5 million plays, a “9 year old discusses the meaning of life and the universe,” as the title of the video puts it. It’s wonderful. The young lad is so open minded, clear and full of wonder about what our universe might be like and what he doesn’t know, that<a href="http://blog.timesunion.com/hottopics/meet-the-boy-9-who-will-wow-you-with-his-thoughts-about-the-universe/14880/">  Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>What’s with the dustup over monkey bites among troops in Afghanistan?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jakeellison@seattlepi.com (Jake Ellison)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Put this on the list of “strange but true” stuff we didn’t know about but cause others to get all worked up: “To the Editor: We take serious issue with the dispatch by Mease and Baker on monkey bites among US military members in Afghanistan during 2011. In particular, we are troubled by the first<a href="http://blog.timesunion.com/hottopics/what%E2%80%99s-with-the-dustup-over-monkey-bites-among-troops-in-afghanistan/14872/">  Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>This normal activity leads to less sperm in young men</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 01:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jakeellison@seattlepi.com (Jake Ellison)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Healthy young men looking to have kids had better get up off the couch, according to a new study led by researchers at Harvard School of Public Health. Using time spent watching television, the researchers found that otherwise healthy men were clocking in lower sperm counts than their active peers. In fact, men who watched [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kate Upton leads in pre-hype for teasers of Super Bowl 2013 ads</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coke got out of the gate first, but frankly, a commercial purported to show Kate Upton washing a Mercedes-Benz in SLOW MOTION has, in our estimation, taken the lead in the pre-hype of upcoming teasers for Super Bowl XLVII. Not the game. The ads. Here’s the tease (and it is just that, in more ways [...]]]></description>
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