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	<description>Bananas, Los Angeles, and Transit Geekery</description>
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		<title>Fresh Air Listeners, Welcome</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Dan Koeppel&#8217;s blog. For my latest writing about bananas, please check out my recent story in The Scientist. If you&#8217;re looking for a copy of my book, and Amazon is sold out, I sell signed copies direct at retail cost (plus shipping.) Chinese, Thai, and Korean editions also available. Japan is coming soon. I&#8217;m on Twitter here; Facebook here.]]></description>
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		<title>Big Parade 2011 info is online</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 23:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; The event is Saturday and Sunday May 21 and 22, 2011, with a prologue on Friday, May 20. To learn what the Big Parade is, how to join it, why you can do it, and where we&#8217;ll go, visit the official Big Parade website. To keep updated, join practice walks, and ask questions, visit the Big Parade Facebook page.]]></description>
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		<title>SS United States, world&#8217;s fastest ocean liner, saved from scrappers..</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 03:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I wrote my original story on the effort to preserve this amazing ship, which took my family across the Atlantic in 1964 &#8211; I&#8217;m the kid with the glasses in the picture; the other characters are my dad, mom, and brother &#8211; Dan McSweeney, executive director of the SS United States Conservancy, described my somewhat negative take as &#8220;morose.&#8221; He was right, and I should have had more faith: last week, the group announced &#8211; against all odds &#8211; that it had raised the money required to buy the ship and save it from the scrapyards. Here&#8217;s the piece I wrote on the news for Popular Mechanics website. The story also contains links to my two earlier articles on the ship &#8211; including the morose one.. Congratulations to the conservancy for pulling off what seems very close to a miracle (with tons of hard work, and a lot of finesse, accompanying.)]]></description>
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		<title>Watching the Tour de France live with an iPhone app &#8211; worth it?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 18:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m on the road for the first two weeks of this month, and my eternal frustration with July travels is that I don&#8217;t get to watch the Tour de France (I co-wrote a book on the world&#8217;s greatest sporting event a few years ago.) The Tour airs on Versus &#8211; formerly the Outdoor Life Network &#8211; and the folks there have issued an app that promises to show the same live video feed you get at home, sized down for your iPhone. (The feed is followed by a full day of re-airing the event, so you won&#8217;t miss anything.) The app is priced at $14.99 for the entire race, which concludes in late July. Does it work? The answer is yes &#8211; if it works. I&#8217;ve just watched the Prologue stage on a trip that began on a ferryboat from Long Island to Connecticut, continued on Amtrak to Boston, and is concluding, as I write this, with a bus ride to Concord, New Hampshire &#8211; in other words, I&#8217;ve gotten to test the app under nearly every possible data scenario. As I noted, when it&#8217;s good, it&#8217;s really good. Both wifi and 3G yielded decent (if pixillated &#8211; see accompanying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visual Euphemisms</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would.]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking at LACE Tuesday, September 15.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be talking about the Cavendish banana &#8211; our supermarket breed &#8211; and why it is an economic, political, and culinary dead end &#8211; organic, fair trade, or conventional. I&#8217;ll be offering a picture of what a future banana &#8211; one that helps correct a century of social and environmental justice &#8211; might look like. The talk is part of Fallen Fruit&#8217;s &#8220;United Fruit&#8221; installation; the location is at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), at 6522 Hollywood Blvd. 8:00PM, Tuesday, September 15. Admission is free. Info here.]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s an Asymptote?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An asymptote is a straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely, but never reaches, as they go to infinity. (Wiktionary.)]]></description>
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