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    <title>KQED's QUEST Science Radio Podcast</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[QUEST is a TV, radio, web, and education series by KQED that explores the most important trends and issues in science, environment and nature in Northern California.
KQED's most ambitious local offering ever, QUEST includes a half-hour weekly HD television program, weekly radio segments, an innovative website and unique education guides. QUEST's geographic coverage spans from Mendocino to Monterey and from Sacramento to Santa Clara, and focuses on nine content areas: astronomy, biology, chemistry, engineering, environment, geology, health, physics and weather.]]></description>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[QUEST is a TV, radio, web, and education series by KQED that explores the most important trends and issues in science, environment and nature in Northern California.
KQED's most ambitious local offering ever, QUEST includes a half-hour weekly HD television program, weekly radio segments, an innovative website and unique education guides. QUEST's geographic coverage spans from Mendocino to Monterey and from Sacramento to Santa Clara, and focuses on nine content areas: astronomy, biology, chemistry, engineering, environment, geology, health, physics and weather.]]></itunes:summary>
    <itunes:subtitle>QUEST is a TV, radio, web, and education series from KQED that explores the most important trends and issues in science, environment and nature in Northern California. Visit our website at kqed.org/quest.</itunes:subtitle>
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    <itunes:author>KQED</itunes:author>
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      <itunes:email>quest@kqed.org</itunes:email>
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    <itunes:category text="Science &amp; Medicine"/>
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      <title>Dialing in on Traffic</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Drivers are increasingly looking to their cell phones for advice on steering clear of heavy traffic. New technology from UC Berkeley uses cell phones to plot traffic patterns, giving a real-time picture of how long it takes to get from place to place. QUEST takes a ride with an early adopter.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:54:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Drivers are increasingly looking to their cell phones for advice on steering clear of heavy traffic. New technology from UC Berkeley uses cell phones to plot traffic patterns, giving a real-time picture of how long it takes to get from place to place. QUEST takes a ride with an early adopter.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <itunes:duration>5:38</itunes:duration>
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      <title>Get the Soot Out</title>
      <description><![CDATA[That black, sooty exhaust from old diesel trucks may be a thing of the past. A landmark decision expected next week at the state Air Resources Board would mean California truckers must retrofit their diesel rigs at a price tag of about $5 billion. The cost is high, but given the health complications from diesel emissions, air pollution regulators feel they can't afford not to act.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:17:32 -0500</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[That black, sooty exhaust from old diesel trucks may be a thing of the past. A landmark decision expected next week at the state Air Resources Board would mean California truckers must retrofit their diesel rigs at a price tag of about $5 billion. The cost is high, but given the health complications from diesel emissions, air pollution regulators feel they can't afford not to act.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <itunes:duration>5:34</itunes:duration>
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      <title>The Graying of HIV</title>
      <description><![CDATA[In the U.S., powerful medications are helping many HIV-positive people live longer lives. But doctors are discovering that these patients are developing diseases of old age, like heart disease and dementia, at earlier ages than their uninfected peers. Researchers now suspect that HIV-positive patients might actually be aging at an accelerated rate.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:31:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.kqed.org/quest/</link>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[In the U.S., powerful medications are helping many HIV-positive people live longer lives. But doctors are discovering that these patients are developing diseases of old age, like heart disease and dementia, at earlier ages than their uninfected peers. Researchers now suspect that HIV-positive patients might actually be aging at an accelerated rate.]]></itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>kqed,radio,pbs,aids,HIV,virus,medicine,health,california,biology,KQED,KQED FM,Quest,San Francisco,California</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:duration>5:28</itunes:duration>
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      <title>Underwater Laboratory</title>
      <description><![CDATA[In Monterey Bay, scientists have successfully launched a deep sea laboratory that is unlike anything in the world. The $13 million dollar project is expected to revolutionize the way ocean research is done. Scientists ran 32 miles of cable out from the Monterey shoreline to power remote research equipment such as robots, seismometers and real-time video of a world deep below the ocean.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:09:54 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.kqed.org/quest/</link>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[In Monterey Bay, scientists have successfully launched a deep sea laboratory that is unlike anything in the world. The $13 million dollar project is expected to revolutionize the way ocean research is done. Scientists ran 32 miles of cable out from the Monterey shoreline to power remote research equipment such as robots, seismometers and real-time video of a world deep below the ocean.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <itunes:duration>5:34</itunes:duration>
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      <title>Looking for Mars Life on Planet Earth</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Last week, NASA declared the Mars Phoenix Lander mission completed as the lander succumbed to Martian winter and lost radio contact. NASA scientists are already preparing their next mission: to send a rover to search for evidence of life on the red planet. But to help decide what signs to look for, scientists are studying extreme life forms on our own planet.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:24:16 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.kqed.org/quest/</link>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Last week, NASA declared the Mars Phoenix Lander mission completed as the lander succumbed to Martian winter and lost radio contact. NASA scientists are already preparing their next mission: to send a rover to search for evidence of life on the red planet. But to help decide what signs to look for, scientists are studying extreme life forms on our own planet.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <itunes:duration>5:31</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>Food Safety</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Here's another item for President-Elect Barack Obama's to-do list when he takes office in January: food safety. Especially imported foods. Recent scares over melamine-laced cookies from China and salmonella-tainted Mexican jalapenos have raised stark questions: Who's monitoring the safety of imported food? And does the system work?]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:23:38 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.kqed.org/quest/</link>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Here's another item for President-Elect Barack Obama's to-do list when he takes office in January: food safety. Especially imported foods. Recent scares over melamine-laced cookies from China and salmonella-tainted Mexican jalapenos have raised stark questions: Who's monitoring the safety of imported food? And does the system work?]]></itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>kqed,radio,pbs,food,safety,FDA,toxics,health,california,imports,environment,KQED,KQED FM,Quest,San Francisco,California</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:duration>5:26</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>Oil Spill Anniversary</title>
      <description><![CDATA[It's been a year since 53,000 gallons of oil from the Cosco Busan cargo ship spilled into the San Francisco Bay. More than half of that heavy bunker fuel is still around. Now, one challenge is trying to put the long-term effects of the spill into dollar terms, and then seek a settlement with the ship's owners. Officials say this work may set the national standard for handling man-made crises.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:44:42 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.kqed.org/quest/</link>
      <guid>http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/151/510204/97211088/KQED_97211088.mp3</guid>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[It's been a year since 53,000 gallons of oil from the Cosco Busan cargo ship spilled into the San Francisco Bay. More than half of that heavy bunker fuel is still around. Now, one challenge is trying to put the long-term effects of the spill into dollar terms, and then seek a settlement with the ship's owners. Officials say this work may set the national standard for handling man-made crises.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <itunes:duration>5:42</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>Condor Return</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Fire recently scorched much of the Big Sur area - and it also threatened one of the rarest birds in the world. The California condor sanctuary in Big Sur went up in flames. Although the birds were rescued, scientists have a major job rebuilding holding pens and other equipment. But California has a lot of condor lovers, and money and volunteers have been pouring in.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:16:03 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.kqed.org/quest/</link>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Fire recently scorched much of the Big Sur area - and it also threatened one of the rarest birds in the world. The California condor sanctuary in Big Sur went up in flames. Although the birds were rescued, scientists have a major job rebuilding holding pens and other equipment. But California has a lot of condor lovers, and money and volunteers have been pouring in.]]></itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>kqed,radio,pbs,condor,california condor,big sur,ecology,endangered species,bay area,birds,lead,KQED,KQED FM,Quest,San Francisco,California</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:duration>5:57</itunes:duration>
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      <title>The Hayward Fault: A Tectonic Timebomb</title>
      <description><![CDATA[It was 19 years ago this month that the earth shook so violently under Santa Cruz and San Francisco that portions of a major highway and a segment of the Bay Bridge collapsed. Sixty three people died. Even though we generally are aloof to the possibility of a major temblor, the reality is we are surrounded by active faults and one East Bay faultline has geologists particularly worried.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:14:43 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.kqed.org/quest/</link>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[It was 19 years ago this month that the earth shook so violently under Santa Cruz and San Francisco that portions of a major highway and a segment of the Bay Bridge collapsed. Sixty three people died. Even though we generally are aloof to the possibility of a major temblor, the reality is we are surrounded by active faults and one East Bay faultline has geologists particularly worried.]]></itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>kqed,radio,pbs,earthquake,hayward fault,quake,geology,bay area,san francisco,oakland,KQED,KQED FM,Quest,San Francisco,California</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:duration>5:59</itunes:duration>
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      <title>Big Solar on the Ballot</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Proposition 7 is all about renewable energy generation. The initiative requires all utilities to generate 20 percent of their power from renewable energy by 2010 and 50 percent by 2025 and speeds up approval of renewable energy plants. You would think most leading environmental groups would be on board &mdash; but many are not.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:54:23 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.kqed.org/quest/</link>
      <guid>http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/151/510204/95744916/KQED_95744916.mp3</guid>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Proposition 7 is all about renewable energy generation. The initiative requires all utilities to generate 20 percent of their power from renewable energy by 2010 and 50 percent by 2025 and speeds up approval of renewable energy plants. You would think most leading environmental groups would be on board &mdash; but many are not.]]></itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords>kqed,radio,pbs,energy,solar,election,renewable energy,policy,environment,KQED,KQED FM,Quest,San Francisco,California</itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:duration>5:33</itunes:duration>
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