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		<title>Lots of Interesting Things from The AP</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/09/27/lots-of-interesting-things-from-the-ap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something&#8217;s rotten in Oklahoma City:
Long-secret security tapes showing the chaos immediately after the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building are blank in the minutes before the blast and appear to have been edited, an attorney who obtained the recordings said Sunday.
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&#8220;Four cameras in four different locations going blank at basically the same time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Politics of Calories</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/09/17/politics-of-calories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Good Calories Bad Calories]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last time, I talked about the idea that increasing carbohydrate consumption is a huge force behind increasing obesity. The jury, in all honesty, is still out, and Taubes says as much.  General philosophies that you can&#8217;t prove a negative be damned, I think we can be pretty sure at this point that low-fat diets don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheaper Health Care</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/09/12/cheaper-health-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meanwhile, the federal government made it cheaper for us to eat sugar and starch through massive grain subsidies. As the old farmer told the stars of King Corn, “You couldn’t make any money growing corn if not for the government payments.” Those government payments are the reason we feed cattle corn instead of letting them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Impact of Unconscious Communication</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/09/10/the-impact-of-unconscious-communication/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Eleven-time World Series of Poker champion Phil Hellmuth wears a hat and sunglasses when he plays poker. He does it to disguise his reactions from the other players, which might seem surprising. One would think that a man who can win 11 championships and more than $6 million over 18 years would be able to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nickleback&#8217;s &#8220;Last Day&#8221; Describes Immortal Virtues Better Than Impending Doom</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/09/08/nickleback-last-day-describes-immortal-virtues-better-than-impending-doom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Songs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transhumanism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[time management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If Today Was Your Last Day&#8221; offers better advice to an immortal than to someone who will die tomorrow. Here are some of the things in the song that would make more sense to do if you had thousands of years or longer rather than just one days left:
&#8220;Leave no stone unturned&#8230;.try to take the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Representatives Anonymous?</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/09/03/representatives-anonymous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Admittedly half-baked political reform idea that could still be useful with a bit of work: Anonymous Representatives.
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		<title>Arthur C. Clarke on Mathematics</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/08/30/arthur-c-clarke-on-mathematics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Quotomatic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;mathematics is only a tool, though an immensely powerful one. No equations, however impressive and complex, can arrive at the truth if the initial assumptions are incorrect. It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with preconceived idea that what they are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Calories, Bad Calories: A Difficult Book to Digest</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/08/26/good-calories-bad-calories-a-difficult-book-to-digest/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/08/26/good-calories-bad-calories-a-difficult-book-to-digest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finished reading Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes a few days ago. I think I&#8217;ve made a lot of progress on my goal to lose weight just by doing so (it&#8217;s the light blue square in my goal grid), although only time will tell. It&#8217;s a marvelous book with political, scientific, and health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Assume Malice Among Fast Food?</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/08/21/why-assume-malice-among-fast-food/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Found this online:
&#8230;Steven Gortmaker, who heads Harvard&#8217;s Prevention Research Center on Nutrition and Physical Activity. &#8220;If you&#8217;re more physically active, you&#8217;re going to get hungry and eat more.&#8221; Gortmaker, who has studied childhood obesity, is even suspicious of the playgrounds at fast-food restaurants. &#8220;Why would they build those?&#8221; he asks. &#8220;I know it sounds kind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everthing is Amazing</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/03/26/everthing-is-amazing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Things learned]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw this video on Thinking on the Margin. It reminds me of my &#8220;the world is strange&#8221; idea.

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		<title>Overcoming Bias: Hated Because It Might Work</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/12/13/hated-because-it-might-work-pointer/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/12/13/hated-because-it-might-work-pointer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robin Hanson, &#8220;Hated Because It Might Work,&#8221; on the always wonderful Overcoming Bias:
Saying you want to do something weird for value or symbolic belief reasons is far less threatening than saying you want to do something weird for instrumental reasons.  Common social norms encourage acceptance of weird values and symbolic beliefs, as long as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FLYING Union-Built Energy Efficient Cars!</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/08/20/obama-flying-union-built-energy-efficient-cars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2008 election]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If it sounds too good to be true&#8230; not that I would necessarily call something that creates unemployment &#8220;good&#8221;.
Obama sounds populist themes in Virginia bus tour &#8211; Yahoo News
By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 14 minutes ago
MARTINSVILLE, Va. &#8211; Democrat Barack Obama is sounding tough populist themes on the campaign trail, pledging to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Skeptical Optimist on Energy Policy</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/07/29/the-skeptical-optimist-on-energy-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/07/29/the-skeptical-optimist-on-energy-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2008 election]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Skeptical Optimist takes a humorous look at energy policy:
Q: But to encourage entrepreneurs, scientists, and companies to get moving a lot faster towards that superbattery breakthrough, the government will need to set up some kind of new incentive, won’t it?
A: Of course; I’ve been trying to tell you all along that government energy policy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Government and Charlie Brown</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/07/27/the-government-and-charlie-brown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arnold Kling writes on Econlog:
&#8230;like Charlie Brown getting ready to kick a football, we seem to have an infinite capacity to believe that it will be different this time. We think that the next top-down design introduced by government will work fine, it will never degrade, and we won&#8217;t find ourselves ten or twenty years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overcoming Bias: Ask For Help</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/07/12/overcoming-bias-ask-for-help/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/07/12/overcoming-bias-ask-for-help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robin Hanson points to an interesting case of underconfidence on my favorite blog, Overcoming Bias.
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		<title>Refreshing My Memory: Gas, Inflation, And International Markets</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/06/15/gas-inflation-markets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 08:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was talking with my friend Jeff today, and we were discussing the economy. I mentioned that GMU Professor Bryan Caplan has pointed to the falling dollar at EconLog as a cause of rising gas prices. The article at US News pointed to by Caplan has a more detailed explanation, but, alas, no charts&#8230;.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Would A Car Company Short Gasoline?</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/05/13/refuel-americ/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 06:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Predictions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone out there believes that gas prices are going to fall, or at least not rise very much in the future, and Chrysler seems to believe them. The company is currently offering to pay the difference between $2.99 and whatever the current cost of gasoline is, if you get one of their vehicles.
This is interesting, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David D. Friedman on Homeschooling</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/03/18/david-d-friedman-on-homeschooling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The famous David D. Friedman writes on his blog about the decision against homeschooling in California:
 The term &#8220;fascist&#8221; has been overused, and in any case I know nothing about Croskey&#8217;s views on economics. But I find it extraordinary that he would be willing to explicitly argue that public schools exist largely to indoctrinate children [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pirates 1, Ninjas 0</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/02/22/pirates-1-ninjas-0/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pirate ships had checks and balances on power. 
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		<title>Marginal Revolution: What if you always get the same outcome?</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/01/30/marginal-revolution-what-if-you-always-get-the-same-outcome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s often been said that doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is insanity. Here&#8217;s a fascinating thought:
If there are recurring outcomes of this kind in your life or relationships, perhaps you are being chosen, whether you know it or not.
- Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution, What if you always get [...]]]></description>
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