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		<title>Meet Dr. NonSense&#8230;</title>
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		<title>To-Do&#8217;s or Not-To-Do&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Healthy Riddims festival in Nijmegen April 18th, local Reggae, Ska &#38; Dub fans met near the harbour area of Nijmegen to support a “Cure Cancer” benefit by taking part in the Healthy Riddims, free Reggae, Ska &#38; Dub Festival. The festival-goers gathered around a circus tent under the clear blue sky to listen to Reggae [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=phdnonsense.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7144017&amp;post=54&amp;subd=phdnonsense&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Land Rover Adventures</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bertie (full name: Gustav Wilfred Bertram) – a 1970 special series Land Rover – is moving from Lisbon to the Netherlands. When I drive him I need to wear big-soled boots to reach the pedals, and when I’m at the wheel Bertie becomes a bit of an unlikely knight-rider car: he’s so big (I’m so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=phdnonsense.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7144017&amp;post=57&amp;subd=phdnonsense&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Paradox of Choice: &#8220;Career&#8221; versus &#8220;Life&#8221;</title>
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		<title>Is Humour the Solution?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A fantastic idea was put forward in a March issue of the Resource magazine in Wageningen: “lower the temperature in all university buildings by 1.4 degrees, thus greatly reducing our carbon footprint”. The economical savings generated by this venture would partly be put in making the Wageningen University hooded sweaters more affordable. The idea was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=phdnonsense.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7144017&amp;post=63&amp;subd=phdnonsense&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Polite Ways of Asking Someone to Shut Up!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now this one reveals some practical wisdom that (some of) the editors gathered while working on the first issue. Due to confidentiality agreements, we cannot reveal names but rest assured; some of these have come in handy while others will be tried out soon! Oh and by the way, we started out trying to remain [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=phdnonsense.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7144017&amp;post=68&amp;subd=phdnonsense&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gender Equity: An Open Issue within WUR</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After an unpleasant experience at a conference during my first year as a (female) Wageningen PhD student, I would have needed support. When I later inquired at my graduate school about a gender equality contact person, I was informed that not a single employee at Wageningen University (WUR) is responsible for dealing with gender issues. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=phdnonsense.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7144017&amp;post=44&amp;subd=phdnonsense&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CouchSurfing: Seeing the World through the Eyes of Locals&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wanted to have a local travel guide everywhere in the world? CouchSurfing is something I ran into a couple of years ago and have fallen in love with ever since: it’s an online community of travel-lovers. Officially, “CouchSurfing is a worldwide network for making connections between travellers and the local communities they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=phdnonsense.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7144017&amp;post=71&amp;subd=phdnonsense&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When did your &#8216;Environmental Education&#8217; begin?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Besides being a PhD person, I also hold a secretarial position in a small NGO based in Croatia that was formed about a year ago. Raising environmental awareness, popularizing biodiversity issues and protecting natural resources through education and communication are some of the main objectives of our work. We recently submitted a proposal for funds [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=phdnonsense.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7144017&amp;post=74&amp;subd=phdnonsense&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to NonSense&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Having escaped yet another lecture on what great researchers they might become, young and hopeful PhDs sat in the first springtime weather and let their imagination run wild. They were under-slept and high on coffee — the optimal state of the successful PhD. They talked and talked and wouldn’t stop, and in the midst [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=phdnonsense.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7144017&amp;post=3&amp;subd=phdnonsense&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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