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		<title>The birthplace of Western civilization was killed during the birth of Western civilization.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 14:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deforestation from Classical Period (~1000BCE and on) mettallurgy in the Holy Land dramatically amplified the effects of an otherwise small regional trend towards a warmer and drier climate. Before 10,000 years ago, we were in a different geological and human era and you can&#8217;t say too much about civilization. But starting at 10,000 until 2,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dissertation written</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 14:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Got a preliminary draft into my advisor, with time to spare!]]></description>
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		<title>Six chapters done. Four to go.</title>
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		<title>One chapter done, nine to go</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 16:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home stretch of the dissertation.]]></description>
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		<title>Enfascination 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.&#8221; Thus spoke Martin Luther King Jr. in a great endorsement for humility, curiosity, and discovery. On Thinko de Mayo, from 1PM, you will have five minutes to help us see how dangerous we are. You may share anything at all during your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Generosity of spirit is the generosity of taking</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I used to experiment with giving. I might walk around with a bag of cherries and offer one to an acquaintance or even a random person on the street. I would try to guess who would accept my offer. Maybe I&#8217;m strange, but I found I always liked the people who took me up on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Militant atheism is oppressive atheism. c.f. Portugal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wikipedia&#8217;s list of religious slurs contains the Portugese slur &#8220;Ateu-graças-a-Deus.&#8221; It translates to &#8220;&#8216;Thank God&#8217; atheist,&#8221; and its what you call someone who is only atheist in public, but who secretly believes. Fortunately American culture doesn&#8217;t yet have a need for that kind of atheist. Its symptomatic of an atmosphere in which believers are coerced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The fall of cybernetics in anthropology, with citations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 02:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m reading an ethnobotanical ethnography of the Huastec or &#8220;Teenek&#8221; Mayans. Its a big fat impressive monograph published by Janis B. Alcorn in 1984. Here is a passage suggesting that cybernetics had come and gone from anthropology by 1980. The criticism focused on the restriction of early cybernetics modeling to closed systems. The attack is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Never too smart to be very wrong</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 04:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of my life choices and habits of thought have been devoted to never letting myself get permanently attached something that&#8217;s wrong. That&#8217;s my hell, and I think that there&#8217;s always a risk of it. Somehow there is no being humble enough. As an exercise for myself, and as an illustration of the risks, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ouroboros and the failures of complex systems</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a little intense, it should be enough to just watch enough of the initial seconds to satisfy yourself that Ouroboros exists. I&#8217;d post a photo, but the photo I saw seemed photoshopped. That&#8217;s how I found the video. A complex system has failed to integrate the proper information into its decision. I&#8217;d guess [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Undrugs: Sugar pill may work even when you know its sugar pill</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;re sick? Here&#8217;s a sugar pill. We know that it can&#8217;t work. Take it anyway. You&#8217;ll feel better. Introduced starting at 9:54. I think the interview is boring before then; he rambles. My crush on the placebo effect started at Berkeley in Prof. Presti&#8217;s molecular neurobiology course. He introduced us to a very carefully controlled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rock-Paper-Scissors ms. on Smithsonian, NBC, and Science Daily blogs.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 03:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is my first (inter)national press, I&#8217;m a little embarrassed to feel excited about it. Its also a pleasant surprise, I&#8217;d have expected my basketball paper to have way more general appeal. Its going to have been the press release. Links: The paper, Cyclic dynamics driven by iterated reasoning An NBCnews.com blog A Smithsonian Magazine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enfascination 2012 number 2 at the Complex Systems Summer School in Santa Fe, NM</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 02:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent the summer of 2012 with fascinating people. Seeing only their talent as scientists, I thought I knew how fascinating they were. But this short-notice series of short talks revealed their depth. There is no record of the proceedings, only the program: SFI CSSS Enfascination, for we must stop at nothing to start at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enfascination 2012 audio</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 02:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some things take time, but it only takes an instant to realize that you have no idea what’s going on. This epiphany-every time it happens-is punctuated by the sound of 500 stars around the universe literally exploding, dissolving their planets and neighbors in flaming atoms, in silence. It happens every instant, forever. As right as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Reesee Cup and other bits of the southern Indiana dialect</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 01:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Libary&#8221;, &#8220;supposably&#8221;, and other wonderful nuggets welcomed me to southern Indiana five years ago. I eventually also learned that the grass needs mowed, the fence needs painted, the dishes need washed, and the car needs fixed and sold. But the best ones are those that it takes you five years to realize you&#8217;ve been hearing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nerd post: Installing R packages remotely and without priviliges, thereby salvaging xgrid</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 01:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m distributing jobs and had a bit of trouble with my scripts. I don&#8217;t want to go to every computer on the cluster one-by-one to get the right scripts on them, and we&#8217;ve turned ssh off, and it&#8217;ll take going to each one to turn it on. Plus what if a later script needs different [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Seth Frey the Sandwich Guy&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In high school I ate sandwiches that with many pounds of meat. They were famous enough that I would sell them. I bought some in exchange for people&#8217;s souls. Jonathan Lazarus wouldn&#8217;t sell his, so he offered to make me a song instead, and I couldn&#8217;t have hoped for anything cooler. link This is 1998 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come Fall 2013, I&#8217;m working for Disney Research in Zurich</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They don&#8217;t currently do social science, but they&#8217;ve gotten a taste of what it can do and where it can go. They&#8217;ve hired me to help launch an interdisciplinary behavioral research agenda &#8212; economics, sociology, psychology &#8212; lab experiments, web experiments, simulations, and big data. I don&#8217;t know what to expect, but I believe its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeing the Earth, in the sky, from Earth</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Uncountably many photons have come from the sun, bounced off of me, and shot back into space. One day one of them is going to come back. Photons turn as they pass heavy things. A photon retreating from me is being turned, slowly, over billions of empty years, all the way around. A black hole [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;In the days of the frost seek a minor sun&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ From unsympathetic eyes, no science is more arrogant than astronomy. Astronomers think that we can know the universe and replace the dreams and the meaning in the skies with a cold place that is constantly dying. But I think that there is no more humble science than astronomy. No science has had so much romance [...]]]></description>
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