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		<title>behavioral determinism via non-verbal signaling</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Observing the behavior of my dog and cats I’m increasingly convinced that their behavior is deterministic in perhaps every respect. The elusive red dot generated by the laser pointer elicits the same “chase” and predatory instinct from the cats. The dog engages in the same, predictable dominance rituals on our walks (though I’ve learned to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>cute picture of dog and cat</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; What does their body language reveal? Any guesses?]]></description>
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		<title>cutting psychopaths some slack</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do you get when you cross someone who is impulsive, thrill-seeking, deceitful, and completely without a sense of right and wrong? A psychopath, of course. And despite the high rate of recidivism of psychopaths, perhaps they should be cut some slack. After all, they can’t help their neurological make-up. In a sense, it’s really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>two men, two paths, two smiles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While reading a commentary by Nicholas Kristof, I found something I’ve been looking for for some time – something that wasn’t actually relevant to the content of the editorial. The editorial is about two African-American males in the US, one of whom attended Johns Hopkins and was awarded a Rhodes scholarship, the other who will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>climate change solutions &#8211; on the cheap</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 16:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finally got around to reading Superfreakonomics, the economics book for people who never took an econ class in college (the book is equally useful for econ majors, btw). I finished it last night and it was well worth the read; better than the first book, I’d say. In Freakonomics, the central theme was that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>economic fallacies of the Left and Right</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 03:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[List of econ fallacies by members of both political extremes (from a very good blog site that I’m going to frequent from now on). Outline here (but click the link to read the paras corresponding to each bullet point). Fallacies on the Left are: Forgetting that things were even worse in the past Assuming that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the spoiled french</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 19:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The French go on massive strikes due to president Sarkozy’s suggestion that the retirement age be raised from 60 to&#8211;61 or 62. This is the kind of spoiled brat mentality that I don’t want to happen to the US. While some believe that capitalism eventually degrades into socialism (to some degree), perhaps Fabian socialism degrades [...]]]></description>
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		<title>people base their success relative to others</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 18:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m sure most people know this already, but our happiness is in part based on our professional success (among many other factors), and that success is determined relative to the success of others. More interesting is that who we compare ourselves to is significant. If we compare our position/compensation to our work peers (with whom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>krugman on libertarianism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 02:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brilliant Nobel prize winner and NY Times columnist Paul Krugman writes about how libertarianism simply doesn’t work (a multi-part series, it seems). I often refer to myself as a libertarian, though I’m not extreme on that point. My standpoint is that the spirit of libertarianism—limited government and “freedom by default”—is something worth preserving. On that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>time machine &#8211; how to build</title>
		<link>http://www.gmgdesign.com/go/?p=679</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 19:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting article by Steven Hawking about how to build a time machine. It’s actually pretty easy, conceptually speaking. Hint: go near a black hole or, better yet, travel really, really fast. Downside: it’s probably impossible to travel backward in time, only forward. That solves the mystery of why time travelers from the future haven’t visited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dems to seize 401k assets&#8230; not!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 03:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, hyperbole is getting the best of people (mostly conservatives/libertarians) who believe that Guaranteed Retirement Accounts (GRAs) are a form of asset seizure by the central government. GRAs—which may or may not ever come into fruition—are a bad idea in my view, but they do not represent an asset seizure (FactCheck.org has a decent write-up). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>what&#8217;s in a handshake?</title>
		<link>http://www.gmgdesign.com/go/?p=672</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 04:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago, I began studying body/facial language (I distinguish the two for clarity). I started with an easy to read, “best-seller” book. Not long after, I delved into the more academic books, mostly written or co-written by Paul Ekman, an authority on the subject of body and facial language (and yes, the main character [...]]]></description>
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		<title>how to win the climate change debate&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.gmgdesign.com/go/?p=671</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 02:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sue people who disagree with you. Libel law has certainly degraded the quaint concept of free speech in Great Britain, so why shouldn’t Canadians get sued as well for expressing their view points? Climate change (formerly known as Global Warming) may in fact be very real. Or perhaps it’s real, but subject to natural factors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>why on earth don&#8217;t we have more &#8216;green power&#8217;?</title>
		<link>http://www.gmgdesign.com/go/?p=670</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 03:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(HT to MR again…) Maybe b/c we have too many regulatory hurdles for green power. If it takes nearly a decade to maybe get the green light for an offshore wind farm, then don’t expect to replace fossil fuels anytime this century. People want to be “green,” provided that they don’t have to make any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>moral hazard, immigration</title>
		<link>http://www.gmgdesign.com/go/?p=669</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 03:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Economic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Was the financial crisis (past ones &#38; recent one) due to moral hazard, encouraged by our central government? Yes, in part, per this fascinating blog entry on a well-known econ site. Moral hazard due to previous bail-outs (which encourage excessive risk) as well as expansion of Fannie/Freddie led to the mortgage-backed meltdown, it seems. Good [...]]]></description>
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