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		<title>A “Fresh Eye” interview with Caroline Hatton PART 3.</title>
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Welcome to the final installment of my interview with author and scientist Caroline Hatton, where we’ll learn more secrets about her sources and explore personal aspects of her life as well.
Welcome, Caroline!
Let’s revisit that somewhat hair-raising interview you did with Steve Elliott, the scientist who invented NESP, a blood-boosting drug for kidney patients and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A “Fresh Eye” interview with Caroline Hatton PART 2.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 02:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Thanks for joining us for Part 2 of my intriguing interview with author and scientist Caroline Hatton, whose nonfiction book, The Night Olympic Team: Fighting to Keep Drugs out of the Games, is a real page-turner for kids (and adults!).
• I’m confident that writers everywhere, novice as well as established, will also find much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A “Fresh Eye” interview with Caroline Hatton PART 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 02:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
As a fellow member of SCBWI (the premiere organization for children’s book writers and illustrators world-wide), I’ve known Caroline Hatton for 7 years. She’s a fascinating blend of scientific rigor, literary creativity, and writerly generosity. As a scientist, she’s tested Olympic athletes for performance-enhancing drugs that are prohibited in sports. As a writer of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Part 2 of the Historical Detective INDEX for 2010</title>
		<link>http://vickileon.com/blog/?p=672</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 09:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Aug. 31: The Sphinx knows….do you?  Billboard for September
Sept 3 blogpost: September, the honeyed harvest month
Sept 7 blogpost: Confessions of a serial shoe-maniac
Sept 10 blogpost: 1-minute mystery from history
(Julius Caesar and ‘The die is cast’)

Sept 14 blogpost: Ancient Evidence in Unlikely Places
(Questions put to an oracle)
Sept 17 blogpost: Ancient Evidence in Unlikely Places
(Letter from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear readers of Vicki León,  Historical Detective:</title>
		<link>http://vickileon.com/blog/?p=663</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
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• Copious thanks for your attentive readership and your piquant comments during the seven months that this blog has been live in 2010.
• I’m an amazingly lucky writer&#8212;people have actually paid money to have me research and write about wildly oddball subjects.  I’m doing an roundup of 2010 for those of you who might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A “Fresh Eye” BLOG interview, Part 2 , with Dr. Alan Hirshfeld</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 06:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
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Welcome to the second half of our fascinating conversation with Alan Hirshfeld, professor at the University of Massachuetts Dartmouth and a stellar figure in astrophysics as well as an author of highly readable nonfiction.
Q: Al, what can you tell us about your latest scientific passion?
A: This is a hard one to answer, there are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Fresh Eye” interview, Part 1, with Dr. Alan Hirshfeld</title>
		<link>http://vickileon.com/blog/?p=642</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
On today’s “Fresh Eye” interview, we’re  privileged to host Dr. Alan Hirshfeld, astrophysicist, teacher, and author of three terrific biographies of ancient scientists. Alan’s honors include winning the 2004 Power of Purpose international award from the John Templeton Foundation for his essay, “How Wonderfully We Stand Upon This World.”
Q: Welcome, Alan! Faraday, Herschel, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>December is scintillating! (from “scintilla,” the ancient word for spark)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 06:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
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• This month, you’ll gaze at all things glittering and celestial, from meteors ancient and modern, to an award-winning skywatcher in our world today
• Dec. 5—read my guest post on ancient Greek timekeeping at scientist and fellow author Holly Tucker’s Wonders &#38; Marvels site: www.wondersandmarvels.com.
• Dec. 7 and 14—a lively, two-part interview with Dr. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The author as trained seal: Six spill their guts about their worst public moments part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ • We continue our muckraking exposé of the sordid tasks that working authors today are obliged to do in order to flog their wares. The gang of six authors I’m profiling here run the gamut of genres, from books for younger readers to historical fiction and nonfiction. Their common thread? All six authors write [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The author as trained seal: six spill their guts about their worst public moments</title>
		<link>http://vickileon.com/blog/?p=617</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ • Far too many of you out there, wistful writers and blissful non-writers alike, vicariously picture yourselves living The Life of a Published Author. Admit it. You fantasize about sprinting to your glam book-signing event past lines of adoring fans. Getting cosy late-night calls from your agent, announcing the latest kindle numbers for your [...]]]></description>
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