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		<title>Tycho Brahe Heat-1X: successful launch of danish spacecraft!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kasper Olsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[- Our mission is very simple. We are working towards launching a human being into space. Today at 16:31 (GMT+1) , the two danish amateur rocket scientists Kristian von Bengtson and Peter Madsen (founders of the non-profit organization Copenhagen Suborbitals) successfully launched their first standing-room-only spacecraft Tycho Brahe Heat-1X, named after the danish astronomer. The rocket [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kasperolsen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=42498&amp;post=141&amp;subd=kasperolsen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nobel Peace Prize: Liu Xiaobo</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 09:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kasper Olsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Nobel Peace Prize just announced; Liu Xiaobo wins the prize &#8220;for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China&#8221;. He is currently serving an 11-year prison term. He is the co-author of &#8220;Charter 08&#8243;, a call for political reform and human rights in China. Liu Xiaobo (Wikipedia.org) Tagged: China, human rights, Nobel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kasperolsen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=42498&amp;post=151&amp;subd=kasperolsen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From Polyakov to Perelman: History of the Ricci Flow (and a Millennium Prize)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kasper Olsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has just been announced by the Clay Mathematics Institute, that G. Perelman has won the Millennium prize for &#8220;resolution of the Poincare conjecture&#8221;. Previously I’ve written about the Poincare conjecture and Perelman’s celebrated proof of it, which was based on the so-called Ricci flow equation. Now let me talk more about how this story [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kasperolsen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=42498&amp;post=84&amp;subd=kasperolsen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Abel Prize won by John Griggs Thompson and Jacques Tits</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kasper Olsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, the name of the winner of the 2008 Abel Prize was announced by the president of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. The winner is John Griggs Thompson (U. of Florida) and Jacques Tits (College de France). Their work is in algebra and group theory, and in particular in the classification of finite simple [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kasperolsen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=42498&amp;post=90&amp;subd=kasperolsen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unparticles, Unpolitics, and Their Possible Signatures</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kasper Olsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Unparticles” and “unpolitics” are two seemingly unrelated concepts which you might never have heard about before, so let me start by explaining the first one. So, what is an “unparticle”? In particle physics it has recently been suggested by Howard Georgi, that there exists “stuff” which cannot be thought of as particles: Unparticle Physics  but nevertheless could [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kasperolsen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=42498&amp;post=88&amp;subd=kasperolsen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Nobel Prize in Physics 2007</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kasper Olsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And the prize goes to&#8230;.  Albert Fert (France), and Peter Grünberg (Germany), &#8220;for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance&#8221; (GMR). More details about the physics of GMR over at Clifford Johnson&#8217;s blog. Via: nobelprize.org<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kasperolsen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=42498&amp;post=86&amp;subd=kasperolsen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New theme, new name?</title>
		<link>http://kasperolsen.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/new-theme-new-name/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kasper Olsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not much has happened on this blog recently; however, new posts will be posted soon (not including this one), and I&#8217;m working on changing the theme (the current one is just experimental), and maybe also the name of the blog. More updates later&#8230; K. Olsen, PhD <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kasperolsen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=42498&amp;post=83&amp;subd=kasperolsen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>University @ iTunes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 14:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kasper Olsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple Inc. has expanded their collaboration with top US colleges and universities, such that course lectures, talks, music etc. by members of Stanford University, UC Berkeley, MIT, and other leading universities, are made available for free from the iTunes store. This place is called iTunes U. It would be interesting to hear, which lectures you&#8217;ll [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kasperolsen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=42498&amp;post=82&amp;subd=kasperolsen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>String Theory: Crash Course</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2007 19:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kasper Olsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Tool for Living in the 21st Century: The excellent Seed magazine offers a cribsheet [PDF] which includes a basic introduction to string theory. Prof. Clifford Johnson over at Asymptotia.com was an adviser. Other interesting cribsheets are one on stem cells, and one on climate change.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kasperolsen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=42498&amp;post=79&amp;subd=kasperolsen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Virginia Tech: Shootings</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kasper Olsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, at least 31 people were killed by a gunman at Virginia Tech, and many others were wounded. Originally it was thought, that only one person was dead. Virginia Tech has closed and classes are canceled; the area is said to be secure. These school/university shootings are just horrible. Will new gun laws be enforced [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kasperolsen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=42498&amp;post=76&amp;subd=kasperolsen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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