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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:18:50 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>The Global Climate Change debate really explaine</title>
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                        <description><![CDATA[ <br /><br /><a href="http://lesswrong.com/lw/1ph/youre_entitled_to_arguments_but_not_that/1mdz" title="Steve_Rayhawk comments on You\'re Entitled to Arguments, But Not (That Particular) Proof">Perfect</a> ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:18:00 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Darpa's New Plans: Crowdsource Intel, Edit DNA</title>
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                        <description><![CDATA[ "The Pentagon's science agency has big plans for next year: crowdsourcing military intelligence, creating an "immune system" for Defense Department networks, and even research that might one day lead to editing a soldier's DNA."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/02/darpas-new-plans-crowdsource-intel-immunize-nets-edit-dna/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A wired%2Findex %28Wired%3A Index 3 %28Top Stories 2%29%29&utm_content=Google Feedfetcher" title="Darpa%u2019s New Plans: Crowdsource Intel, Edit DNA | Danger Room | Wired.com">http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/02/darpas-new-plans-crowdsource-intel-immunize-nets-edit-dna/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A wired%2Findex %28Wired%3A Index 3 %28Top Stories 2%29%29&utm_content=Google Feedfetcher</a> ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:40:00 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Australia To Enforce Mandatory Chinese-Style Internet Censorship</title>
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                        <description><![CDATA[ The Australian government is set to impose Chinese-style Internet censorship by enforcing a universal national filter that will block websites deemed controversial, as part of a wider agenda to regulate the Internet according to free speech advocates.<br /><br /><a href="http://afteramerica.wordpress.com/2010/01/03/australia-to-enforce-mandatory-chinese-style-internet-censorship/" title="Australia To Enforce Mandatory Chinese-Style Internet Censorship � AfterAmerica\'s Blog">http://afteramerica.wordpress.com/2010/01/03/australia-to-enforce-mandatory-chinese-style-internet-censorship/</a> ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:10:00 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Group That Shaped Death Penalty Gives Up on Its Own Work</title>
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                        <description><![CDATA[ Last fall, the American Law Institute, which created the intellectual framework for the modern capital justice system almost 50 years ago, pronounced its project a failure and walked away from it.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/us/05bar.html?partner=rss&emc=rss" title="Sidebar - Group That Shaped Death Penalty Gives Up on Its Own Work - NYTimes.com">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/us/05bar.html?partner=rss&emc=rss</a> ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:48:00 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Roko Mijic at Good.is: The Utopia Force</title>
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                        <description><![CDATA[ "If we consider all the possible ways that the universe could be arranged, and rank them in terms of how good they would be, Banks’ utopia certainly gets a very high rank. But it seems unlikely that it is the very best—or even close to the best. Banks’ utopia represents the limit of good experiences that we can currently think of and realize are good according to our complex values. Just how much better could it get?"<br /><br /><a href="http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/2009/12/roko-mijic-at-goodis-the-utopia-force/" title="Accelerating Future Roko Mijic at Good.is: The Utopia Force">http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/2009/12/roko-mijic-at-goodis-the-utopia-force/</a> ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:46:00 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Would cutting the minimum wage raise employment?</title>
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                        <description><![CDATA[ "..the belief that lower wages would raise overall employment rests on a fallacy of composition. In reality, reducing wages would at best do nothing for employment; more likely it would actually be contractionary."<br /><br /><a href="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/16/would-cutting-the-minimum-wage-raise-employment/" title="Would cutting the minimum wage raise employment? - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com">http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/16/would-cutting-the-minimum-wage-raise-employment/</a> ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:47:00 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Less Wrong: 11 core rationalist skills</title>
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                        <description><![CDATA[ An excellent way to improve one's skill as a rationalist is to identify one's strengths and weaknesses, and then expend effort on the things that one can most effectively improve (which are often the areas where one is weakest). This seems especially useful if one is very specific about the parts of rationality, if one describes them in detail. <br /><a href="http://lesswrong.com/lw/1ht/11_core_rationalist_skills/" title="Less Wrong: 11 core rationalist skills">http://lesswrong.com/lw/1ht/11_core_rationalist_skills/</a> ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:39:00 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Arming Goldman With Pistols Against Public</title>
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                        <description><![CDATA[ "I just wrote my first reference for a gun permit," said a friend, who told me of swearing to the good character of a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker who applied to the local police for a permit to buy a pistol. The banker had told this friend of mine that senior Goldman people have loaded up on firearms and are now equipped to defend themselves if there is a populist uprising against the bank. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=ahD2WoDAL9h0" title="Arming Goldman With Pistols Against Public: Alice Schroeder - Bloomberg.com">http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=ahD2WoDAL9h0</a> ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:41:00 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>The 10 Most Amazing Things the Sky Can Do | Light | DISCOVER Magazine</title>
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                        <description><![CDATA[ <br /><br /><a href="http://discovermagazine.com/photos/04-the-10-most-amazing-things-the-sky-can-do" title="The 10 Most Amazing Things the Sky Can Do | Light | DISCOVER Magazine">Photo gallery</a> ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 06:44:00 -0500</pubDate>
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                        <description><![CDATA[ <br /><br /><a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/04/amazon-launches-public-data-sets-to-ease-research/" title="Amazon Launches Public Data Sets To Ease Research">Amazon Launches Public Data Sets To Ease Research</a> ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:36:00 -0500</pubDate>
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                        <description><![CDATA[ <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5101430/prescription-handguns-for-the-elderly-and-disabled-this-wont-end-well" title="">Prescription handguns for the elderly</a> ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:05:00 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Animoto</title>
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                        <description><![CDATA[ <a href="http://animoto.com/" title="">Animoto</a>: the end of slideshows. Clever. ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:34:00 -0500</pubDate>
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