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	<description>Towards a new Liberalism: rational, compassionate and progressive</description>
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		<title>Scientists of Bygone Days</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2012/03/27/scientists-of-bygone-days/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Idle Thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last evening the sky was littered with tumbling and blowing clouds, thwarting my aspirations for further astrophotography. So I did the next best thing, I stayed in, curled on the couch, reading an e-book about symmetry and group theory. Before bedtime, I got as far as starting to read about quantum mechanics and the beginnings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fish Evolve Resistance to Religious Ritual</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/11/05/fish-evolve-resistance-to-religious-ritual/</link>
		<comments>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/11/05/fish-evolve-resistance-to-religious-ritual/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 23:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fish evolve immunity to religious ritual]]></description>
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		<title>Conservative dogs</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/10/13/conservative-dogs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[conservative liberal gene]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recent studies link human conservative social (and potentially political) behavior to variation in a particular gene (the 5-HTTLPR gene). Interestingly, the relevant variants in this gene are split almost 50/50 in the human population of European descent. I just read a story about dogs having innate &#8220;pessimistic&#8221; or &#8220;optimistic&#8221; responses to novel stimuli, and associated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Earth in a Special Place in the Cosmos?</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/09/10/is-the-earth-in-a-special-place-in-the-cosmos/</link>
		<comments>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/09/10/is-the-earth-in-a-special-place-in-the-cosmos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Physical Science]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent story indicates there may be variation in the fine structure constant (which relates to the fundamental strength of electromagnetic interactions) over time and over space. The time-variation shows up as the astronomers looked out into space, and thus back into time. This variation has been claimed to exist by some, but the jury [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chickens and Eggs: A Proof of God</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/07/14/chickens-and-eggs-a-proof-of-god/</link>
		<comments>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/07/14/chickens-and-eggs-a-proof-of-god/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The media is all atwitter about how new research indicates the crystallization mechanism in eggshells involves a catalytic protein. This implies there has to be a chicken to make the protein, before the egg gets made. Ergo: Chicken &#8211;> egg. Poppycock. Here&#8217;s an answer I came up with a long time ago: 1) According to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberty: The Best Idea in History</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/07/11/liberty-the-best-idea-in-history/</link>
		<comments>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/07/11/liberty-the-best-idea-in-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rights and Liberties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The American Experiment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Towards a New Liberalism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today, with your permission, I'd like to pay homage to the speechifying tradition. To keep things <strong>polite</strong>, I'm not going to talk about a particular candidate or party, nor praise a specific policy or polity.  In fact, I promise not to talk about anything controversial at <strong>all</strong>; and will, for the sake of friendliness and universality, limit my discourse to the following non-controversial topics:  science, economic policy, politics and religion. I will tie them with the common thread of liberty.  We'll leave more fractious debates and incendiary topics to others, and stick with these <strong>comfortable</strong> issues.  Now, I suspect you might consider this a full, perhaps <strong>too-full</strong>, agenda for such a beautiful day.  Likewise, I am obliged to be mindful of the plans you may have made-- for this evening, and will keep my comments brief.  But before you decide I've set myself an impossible task, I hasten to remind you that last year the same allotment of time proved sufficient to make good headway regarding The Meaning of Life.   Today's few topics should, <em>by comparison</em>, be much easier to manage.  So please, give me the liberty to speak for a few minutes more.]]></description>
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		<title>Cracklin&#8217; Sky!</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/06/18/cracklin-sky/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 03:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The same day that brought nifty clouds also presented an opportunity for catching the lightning&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>A storm rolls through</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/06/18/a-storm-rolls-through/</link>
		<comments>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/06/18/a-storm-rolls-through/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 22:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://netcogito.com/blog/?p=165</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Rob for the idea to &#8220;picturify&#8221; the shelf cloud. More fun with nature in my back yard &#8211; or close to it.]]></description>
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		<title>Punctuated Equilibrium and Universality</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/06/09/punctuated-equilibrium-and-universality/</link>
		<comments>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/06/09/punctuated-equilibrium-and-universality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://netcogito.com/blog/?p=164</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Punctuated equilibrium is a refinement of natural selection theory. To cut to the chase, it proposes that speciation happens in bursts during periods of rapid genetic change; often in response to environmental factors. It occurs to me that bursts of creativity and innovation also sometimes stand as bookends to periods of status-quo in other areas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the way home from breakfast&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/03/26/on-the-way-home-from-breakfast/</link>
		<comments>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/03/26/on-the-way-home-from-breakfast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;we saw a blue heron. Zipping home to grab my camera, we came back to find it still fishing in the pond nearby. Nice birdy!]]></description>
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