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	<description>Scribblings, poems, ideas</description>
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		<title>Cabbage butterflies have better sex than humans?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comparing the ratio of lifespan to duration of intercourse Cabbage butterflies have terrific sex life]]></description>
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		<title>Wordlings</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Word association puzzles “Wordlings” is a mental game of word associations in which certain pre-defined words get connected through an association string. For instance, in the puzzle “from Toe to Garage” we can create the following solution (association string): “Toe, tow, -truck, Garage”. The usual format for the puzzle is: From (word) ______ to (word)  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Folding a newspaper</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A newspaper folded 100 times is thicker than the known universe (over 2.6 billion light years). The thickness of a single newspaper page is only 0.0000001233 miles, yet by the time you make your 100th fold the paper&#8217;s thickness will be: (5.87849981 × 1012 miles) x 2.6 billion]]></description>
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		<title>Second Childhood</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I lose my eyesight I learn to see, As I lose my hearing I learn to hear, As my memory starts failing I notice what’s happening around me, And as my fingers lose the nimbleness they once had My mind conjures up its own fingers, Nimbler than the ones I once had. I can’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I am optimistic about the future of the human race</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I believe that the human race is in the first phases of an epochal crescendo, an "Ascent of Man", to paraphrase Darwin, that will eventually lead to our transformation into a much more ethical and cooperative species. We turned a corner, unexpectedly, a few hundred years ago...]]></description>
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		<title>The N-Light</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Man-made technologies and tools, from the wheel to the cell phone, are extensions of our sensory and motor organs. Because they develop and get assimilated so rapidly, their effect on human development far exceeds Natural Selection as the driving force of our species’ evolution. This “Directed Evolution” differs in many ways from the biological process...]]></description>
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		<title>Talent &amp; Passion</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Use up your talent with no regard to outcomes Feel your passions fully even if they are never fulfilled” Talent is what you are good at. Passion is what you love. You may be good at something but not particularly passionate about it, or you may have a passion for which you are ill suited. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Blue Bird</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s something delicious in swimming against the current, in doing things the hard way, in reinventing the wheel...]]></description>
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		<title>Ah, what the heck&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome. If you&#8217;ve wandered in here by mistake hit that Back button on your browser and spend your precious life doing something more useful than reading my scribblings. I have not the foggiest idea why I write, why I upload it here, or for whom. I guess it&#8217;s like a dog peeing. I am marking [...]]]></description>
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