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	<description>... another physics fanatic!</description>
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		<title>Kaya</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On February 18, 1999 Joseph Réginald Topize, alias Kaya, was arrested for smoking marijuana at a meeting organised by the Mouvement Republicain Party. He died in custody three days later. His death sparked a wave of protest in urban areas and three days of unrest in Mauritius, forcing the closure of all schools, businesses and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blebon.com/blog/2010/02/kaya/</link>
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		<title>Chikungunya Vaccine Hope</title>
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A vaccine against the dreaded Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is nearly there! A team of scientists from the USA have discovered a virus-like particle that mimics the CHIKV.
CHIKV is a very infectious virus transmitted to humans via some species of mosquitoes. The re-emergence of the virus in Kenya, 2004, lead to widespread infection within the Indian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blebon.com/blog/2010/02/chikungunya-vaccine-hope/</link>
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		<title>Odds to find an Asiatic girlfriend in Mauritius</title>
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Peter Backus, a PhD candidate at the University of Warwick, modified the Drake equation to obtain an estimate of the odds of finding a girlfriend in the UK. I will adapt his method to determine the odds of finding an Asian-looking girlfriend in Mauritius.
The Drake equation is used to find a serious estimate of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blebon.com/blog/2010/01/odds-to-find-a-hindu-girlfriend-in-mauritius/</link>
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		<title>Free Google Wave invites competition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google Wave is the latest collaborative tool from Google. It is currently in beta preview for a lucky few invited users. Many out there are looking for an invite on forums and social networking sites. This blog is offering 5 Google Wave invites for free in a simple competition.


For one chance to win a Google [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blebon.com/blog/2009/11/free-google-wave-invites-competition/</link>
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		<title>Budget 2010</title>
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In 2006, most Mauritians seemed to be against the then Mr Sithanen. However, at that time, I thought he was, by far, the best minister in the Labour cabinet. His financial policy seemed audacious and radically different from his predecessors (including himself &#8211; when he was Chancellor under SAJ). I somehow felt that his courageous [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blebon.com/blog/2009/11/budget-2010/</link>
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		<title>A new venture &#8230;</title>
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Hi everyone, and welcome to my new blog! Thanks to my relatives and to the Mauritian twittering community for your good advice during the design stage of the site.   After nearly one year of blogging, I decided to redefine my online presence and store my physics posts in a new site:


Bruno&#8217;s site intends [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blebon.com/blog/2009/11/a-new-venture/</link>
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		<title>350 ppm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The safe upper limit for atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) is 350 parts per million. The current level is 390 ppm, which is way too high. This dangerous level leads to ice melting, climate disruption and ocean acidification. Scientists are urging decision makers to act and bring the level down to 350 ppm.The Intergovernmental [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blebon.com/blog/2009/10/350-ppm/</link>
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		<title>Climate change and disinformation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The media is treating climate change more as a political issue rather than a scientific one. The presentation of the subject is therefore “balanced”, even though there is overwhelming scientific evidence that the planet is dangerously warming up. Worse, science is losing the media war to conservative lobbies.This is clearly exemplified by a Gallup poll [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blebon.com/blog/2009/10/climate-change-and-disinformation/</link>
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		<title>Sitting on the fence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many Mauritians seem to be obsessed with neutrality. You can&#8217;t openly say you are pro-MMM or pro-Labour without being viewed as some biased retard. You can no more express yourself on the Palestinian issue or the 9/11 without being tagged as an Islamist fanatic or an Islamophobe. It now seems a newspaper cannot openly endorse [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blebon.com/blog/2009/10/sitting-on-the-fence/</link>
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		<title>Adam and Eve: The Human Clay</title>
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Gen 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.
According to this verse, God made man out of moist earth and His breath of life. This is to be compared with the Atra-Hasis epic, written in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blebon.com/blog/2009/09/adam-and-eve-the-human-clay/</link>
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