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	<title>Edward Willett</title>
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	<description>Canadian author of science fiction, fantasy and non-fiction for both adults and children.</description>
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		<title>The Willetts on Wine: Wine &#8211; it&#8217;s what&#8217;s for dinner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Continuing the run-up to the release of the spring issue of Fine Lifestyles Regina, here&#8217;s &#8220;The Willetts on Wine,&#8221; the wine column penned by my wife, Margaret Anne, and myself, from winter issue of FLR, in which it premiered. Eventually there&#8217;ll be a dedicated Willetts on Wine website to replace the old Blogger blog we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edwardwillett.com/2010/03/the-willetts-on-wine-wine-its-whats-for-dinner/</link>
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		<title>Mike and Karla Sillinger have been everywhere&#8230;but Regina is home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Spring 2010 issue of Fine Lifestyles Regina, for which I&#8217;m the editor, is just around the corner. In honour of that, here&#8217;s my cover story from the Winter issue, which featured former NHL player Mike Sillinger.
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Mike Sillinger holds the National Hockey League record for playing with the most teams—12 in all. He was traded [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edwardwillett.com/2010/03/mike-and-karla-sillinger-have-been-everywhere-but-regina-is-home/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s on the tip of my tongue&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How often has this happened to you?
“So I was talking to&#8230;to&#8230;oh, you know, that guy, the one in the head office, big hair, bad teeth, only listens to Perry Como records&#8230;geez, why can’t I remember his name? It’s on the tip of my tongue!”
It’s a common phenomenon, and it’s not just people&#8217;s names. Sometimes you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edwardwillett.com/2010/03/its-on-the-tip-of-my-tongue/</link>
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		<title>Terra Insegura is an Aurora Award finalist!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just heard this morning that Terra Insegura, my sequel to last year&#8217;s Aurora Award-winning science fiction novel Marseguro, is a finalist for this year&#8217;s Aurora Award for best science fiction or fantasy novel in English. Sounds like they had a record number of nominations, too, so that makes it even sweeter.
The other finalists are Wake, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edwardwillett.com/2010/02/terra-insegura-is-an-aurora-award-finalist/</link>
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		<title>Fred Morrison&#8217;s wonderful invention, the Frisbee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fred Morrison died on Tuesday at the age of 90, one of those people you may never have heard of, but really should have.
Morrison invented the Frisbee.
Since millions of these and other flying discs have been sold since the 1950s, it’s perhaps a bit humbling to discover, though, that even though throwing a Frisbee well [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edwardwillett.com/2010/02/fred-morrisons-wonderful-invention-the-frisbee/</link>
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		<title>A reminder about Aurora Award nominations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The deadline for nominating works for a Prix Aurora Award is fast approaching. Today is the day when mail-in ballots must be postmarked by, and the deadline for online nominations is February 15.
The Aurora Awards, for the best Canadian works of science fiction and fantasy, are nominated and voted on by fans. Any Canadian citizen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edwardwillett.com/2010/02/a-reminder-about-aurora-award-nominations/</link>
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		<title>Spray-on liquid glass</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Spray-on liquid glass” sounds like a product you’d see advertised at two o’clock in the morning in an infomercial.
It sounds even more like a 2 a.m. infomercial product when you see headlines about it that claim it is “about to revolutionize everything.”
Maybe it’d sound more impressive if I used its more formal name, which is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edwardwillett.com/2010/02/spray-on-liquid-glass/</link>
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		<title>Fuel from germs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For years, we’ve been turning crops such as corn, wheat and sugar beets into fuel, using yeast to convert sugar into alcohol.
But there’s an obvious problem with this. That stuff we’re turning into fuel is also food for humans and feed for animals.
(And as an aside, how come we always call it “animal feed” as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edwardwillett.com/2010/01/fuel-from-germs/</link>
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		<title>My review of Globe Theatre&#8217;s production of Marion Bridge&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;has already shown up online, even though it won&#8217;t appear in print until tomorrow. This is the first time I&#8217;ve seen something I&#8217;ve written pop up that far ahead of the ink-on-paper version, though maybe I just haven&#8217;t noticed until now.
The review begins:
I confess that I went into the opening night performance of Marion Bridge [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edwardwillett.com/2010/01/my-review-of-globe-theatres-production-of-marion-bridge/</link>
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		<title>Social contagions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Parents (I don’t think I’m giving away any parental secrets here) worry about peer pressure&#8211;not least because parents remember how much their behavior was influenced by peers when they were young.
The fact is, we’re all influenced by the people around us&#8230;and we often think of that influence as a bad thing.
As the Bible puts it, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://edwardwillett.com/2010/01/social-contagions/</link>
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