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	<description>Openly Fetishising the Human Brain since Ought-Nine</description>
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		<title>Notes from the Field</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been spending more and more time in Second Life as I prepare to do my fieldwork for my thesis, and I’m enjoying it much more than I expected.  A few days ago I stumbled onto a community called Thothica, full of folks with academic and casual interests in philosophy, science, literature, and education—this is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.philomathy.org/2011/11/04/notes-from-the-field/</link>
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		<title>Memory Dump into Log File</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A large fly that was buzzing around the room in which I’ve been doing my reading suddenly fell down and landed on the couch across from me with an audible thud.  Here’s my brain: That was a weird noise; was that the fly? It was!  Must’ve been massive to make that noise. If it’s dead, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.philomathy.org/2011/10/16/memory-dump-into-log-file/</link>
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		<title>Free Brainy Lectures for Everyone!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the goofy interests of our usual attendants (and not, though the allegation would be fair, due to the name of the event), subject matter at Evenings for Brains tends regularly towards neuroscience and psychology in general.  As a result, I was acquainted with V. S. Ramachandran’s TED Talk, and was subsequently chuffed all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.philomathy.org/2011/07/15/free-brainy-lectures-for-everyone/</link>
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		<title>Podcast Highlights, Part I</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(I usually write these posts by hand before putting them up, which means, I think, somewhat less horrible prosody that may otherwise happen, but also, that I can be side-tracked and my posts are either lost or terribly delayed.  And, because I don’t date the writing in my notebooks, I have no idea how long [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.philomathy.org/2011/04/25/podcast-highlights-part-i/</link>
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		<title>Better than Sunshine Units</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In response to the partial meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear power plant following the earthquake on March 11, 2011, there’s been an understandable but unfortunate rise in opposition to nuclear power in Canada (and elsewhere, of course) by folks like me with limited and patchy knowledge of the physics behind radiation, and cynically advanced by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.philomathy.org/2011/03/21/better-than-sunshine-units/</link>
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		<title>Alan Davies Measures String!  Amazing!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A quick post and a long video: Alan Davies of Quite Interesting fame recently featured in an episode of the venerable BBC documentary series, Horizon.  In the grand pedantic tradition of trying to answer rhetorical questions, Alan wanders through laser measuring technology, fractals, atomic structure, and quantum mechanics as he tries to figure out “how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.philomathy.org/2011/03/03/alan-davies-measures-string-amazing/</link>
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		<title>Exploring Our World meets Mark Thomas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the last year and a half I’ve been working with Jenny to host “Exploring Our World” out of St. Clements with the older Youth Group Kids.  This is billed (defensively, by me) as a “Secular Enrichment Class on Sundry Exciting Topics,” but essentially means I get to talk with intelligent and interested highschoolers about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.philomathy.org/2011/02/17/exploring-our-world-meets-mark-thomas/</link>
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		<title>Trans-dimensional Knowledge Forum!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve spoken before about the two archetypes of Internet-based distance education: asynchronous (typically using message boards, email, etc., and allowing participants to contribute at times of their convenience) and synchronous (text or video chat, immersive environments, etc., which permit instantaneous communication and feedback, but require participants to adhere to a common meeting schedule like a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.philomathy.org/2010/12/01/trans-dimensional-knowledge-forum/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a plane.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Especially for accomplished photographers who have the skill, patience, and nerve to capture mind-blowing images of nature, it&#8217;s a shame that Photoshop has ruined Truth.  Even if their motivation is internal and they’re not especially interested in riches and fame, it must be a little deflating to consider that a recent triumph needs to weather [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.philomathy.org/2010/11/28/its-a-plane/</link>
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		<title>Gems and Ink</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s an increasingly rare type of fountain pen ink that was discontinued in 2001 called Parker Penman.  The problem seems to have been that the ink was unusually saturated and included a suspension of metallic particles, achieving vibrant colours and fun reflective effects (as Diamine Majestic Blue is known to, today) but also clogging the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.philomathy.org/2010/11/26/gems-and-ink/</link>
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