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		<title>The Essence of Science in 63 Seconds</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 01:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A blog post which blends Richard Feynman with Wislawa Szymborska cannot be with&#173;out merit.  As a bonus, this one links to Maria Popova&#8217;s Brain Pickings. &#8211;Paul]]></description>
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		<title>Gender Gap</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following chart is taken from America&#8217;s Young Adults at 24, a news release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (via Carpe Diem): According to the 2011 Projections of Education Statistics from the U.S. Department of Education, the total number of Ph.D. degrees granted to women first exceeded those granted to men sometime in 2007-2008. Over the next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charles Murray</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an opinion piece for the Washington Post, Charles Murray, author of the new book Coming Apart: The State of White Amer­ica, 1960-2010, identifies five common myths about white people: Working-class whites are more religious than upper-class whites. Elite colleges are bastions of white upper-middle-class privilege. Marriage is breaking down throughout white America. White working-class [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Memory of W. B. Yeats</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by W. H. Auden I He disappeared in the dead of winter: The brooks were frozen, the airports almost deserted, And snow disfigured the public statues; The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day. What instruments we have agree The day of his death was a dark cold day. Far from his illness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Ryan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Ryan represents Wisconsin&#8217;s 1st Congressional District which includes his home town, Janesville &#8212; not far north of the Illinois border. He earned his BA from Miami University of Ohio, in economics and political science, and was elected to Congress in 1998 at the age of 28. Over the past decade, Ryan has gradually emerged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neutrinos</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to an article by Charles Krauthammer, this joke is circulating the internet: &#8220;We don&#8217;t allow any faster-than-light neutrinos in here,&#8221; says the bartender. A neutrino walks into a bar. The CERN Press Release describes the result as an anomoly &#8211; which indeed it is if the neutrinos arrived in Gran Sasso 60 ns. before leaving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Donald Kagan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my deep satisfactions during the past decade has been reading Donald Kagan&#8217;s The Peloponnesian War. I realize that not everybody shares my obsession for Greek his­tory, and it would probably make more sense, anyway, to start with Thucydides. But Yale has now done us the great service of making available the lecture videos [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walter Russell Mead</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walter Russell Mead is James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Hu­man­i&#173;ties at Bard College, and Editor-at-Large of The American Interest.  Mead, the son of an Episcopal priest, was educated at Groton, which he calls &#8220;Pundit High&#8221;, and Yale, where he still teaches International Security Studies. From 2003 until 2010 Mead was the Henry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fragment from Ash Wednesday</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 03:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by T. S. Eliot From the wide window towards the granite shore The white sails still fly seaward, seaward flying Unbroken wings And the lost heart stiffens and rejoices In the lost lilac and the lost sea voices And the weak spirit quickens to rebel For the bent golden-rod and the lost sea smell Quickens [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alicia and Andrew</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 10:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alicia Doudna and Andrew Kratzat are two gifted young classical musicians &#8212; Alicia, an outstanding violinist teaching in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Andrew, a talented young bassist who just received a scholarship to Peabody Institute. They were engaged to be married. On July 26, they were on I-94, heading across the state for Andrew&#8217;s birthday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Communities of Choice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 03:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The internet and social media have greatly extended the range of choices available in modern life. This is usually taken to be a good thing &#8212; or at least to be harmless. We can now more easily transcend limitations of physical location and spatial dis­tance, not only to access goods and services, but also to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kreutzer Sonata</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 04:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beethoven&#8217;s Kreutzer Sonata was composed in 1803, while he was working on the Eroica Sym­phony, and barely six months after his Heiligenstadt Testament. The Kreutzer revitalized the violin sonata.  Sub­titled molto concertante, it demanded a new kind of virtu­osity from the violin and piano, and anticipated the more ex­pan­sive emotional land­scape of Beethoven&#8217;s mid­dle period. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jonathan Haidt</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 03:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first heard about Jonathan Haidt&#8217;s courageous talk to the annual meeting of the So­ci­ety for Personality and Social Psychology from this discussion, by Russell K. Niell on Minding the Campus. Dr. Haidt has now made available the talk itself: haidt.postpartisan-social-psychology]]></description>
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		<title>From East Coker</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 08:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by T. S. Eliot So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty years&#8211; Twenty years largely wasted, the years of l&#8217;entre deux guerres&#8211; Trying to learn to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only learnt to get the better [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liquid Thorium</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 21:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over a year ago I wrote a post on Thorium Reactors, noting the &#8220;miniscule&#8221; amount of radioactive waste produced by such reactors. A recent article by Robert Hargraves and Ralph Moir, Liquid Fuel Nuclear Reactors, in the Physics and Society forum of the American Physical Society, contains an excellent discussion of the safety advantages of this [...]]]></description>
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