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		<title>Lost Thoughts in the Wake-Sleep Transition</title>
		<link>http://guitchounts.com/2011/12/12/lost-thoughts-in-the-wake-sleep-transition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grigori Guitchounts</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[hippocampus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lost thoughts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been meaning to write about this curious phenomenon I experience every time I go to sleep. Lying in bed last night, I was thinking about a movie I had just finished watching &#8211; The Aviator, a great movie! &#8211; &#8230; <a href="http://guitchounts.com/2011/12/12/lost-thoughts-in-the-wake-sleep-transition/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<link>http://guitchounts.com/2011/12/09/2970/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grigori Guitchounts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Daily Show aired a special report by Aasif Mandvi on &#8220;an expensive lesson about bringing fish back to life,&#8221; or the dangers of leaving children with the capability to make purchases on the Apple App Store. The point of &#8230; <a href="http://guitchounts.com/2011/12/09/2970/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<link>http://guitchounts.com/2011/12/07/2966/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 04:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grigori Guitchounts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science/Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hitchens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nietzsche]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Christopher Hitchens writes in the January edition of Vanity Fair about what he believes to be a nonsensical maxim: &#8220;What doesn&#8217;t kill me, makes me stronger.&#8221; Hitchens is suffering from esophageal cancer, the primary reason for the sentiment that he &#8230; <a href="http://guitchounts.com/2011/12/07/2966/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Science, Religion and Values: Magisteria Redefined</title>
		<link>http://guitchounts.com/2011/12/06/science-religion-and-values-magisteria-redefined/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 04:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grigori Guitchounts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Perspective]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Science and religion have been archenemies for some time now, with one on a quest for knowledge and truth, and the other seeking to fill a perceived void of meaning in lives. Logical inspection confirms the two systems are incompatible &#8230; <a href="http://guitchounts.com/2011/12/06/science-religion-and-values-magisteria-redefined/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Brainy Computers</title>
		<link>http://guitchounts.com/2011/12/05/brainy-computers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grigori Guitchounts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science/Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Darpa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IBM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[simulation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“We’re not trying to replicate the brain. That’s impossible. We don’t know how the brain works, really,” says the chief of IBM&#8217;s Cognitive Computing project, which aims to improve computing by creating brain-like computers capable of learning in real-time and &#8230; <a href="http://guitchounts.com/2011/12/05/brainy-computers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dancing for Science</title>
		<link>http://guitchounts.com/2011/12/02/2948/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grigori Guitchounts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science/Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[presentation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Science is difficult to understand and even more difficult to explain. John Bohannon thinks that words are inept at explaining scientific concepts, and should stay out of the way. Powerpoint is useless too. Instead, Bohannon argues, scientific concepts should be &#8230; <a href="http://guitchounts.com/2011/12/02/2948/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Descriptive vs. Predictive Models</title>
		<link>http://guitchounts.com/2011/12/01/descriptive-vs-predictive-models/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grigori Guitchounts</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Science/Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[descriptive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[models]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[theories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When we look back at the important advances in neuroscience in the 20th and 21st centuries, what will we remember? What will we still find useful and worth pursuing further? The field is still in its nascent stages, even a &#8230; <a href="http://guitchounts.com/2011/12/01/descriptive-vs-predictive-models/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Whale Song Analysis Crowd-sourcing</title>
		<link>http://guitchounts.com/2011/11/30/whale-song-analysis-crowd-sourcing/</link>
		<comments>http://guitchounts.com/2011/11/30/whale-song-analysis-crowd-sourcing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grigori Guitchounts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science/Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Connectome]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crowdsourcing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[whales]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Scientific American is collaborating with marine scientists on a project to crowd-source analysis of whale songs and calls. Having gathered thousands of sound files from many species of whales, scientists now need to classify each call and song to get &#8230; <a href="http://guitchounts.com/2011/11/30/whale-song-analysis-crowd-sourcing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What are experts for?</title>
		<link>http://guitchounts.com/2011/11/29/what-are-experts-for/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grigori Guitchounts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science/Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservatism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[experts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is by no mistake that philosophers from Plato to Hume to Adam Smith have advocated a division of labor as a driving force of society and its economy. The more specialized one&#8217;s labor, the more advanced the resulting product. &#8230; <a href="http://guitchounts.com/2011/11/29/what-are-experts-for/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Not Another Rodent</title>
		<link>http://guitchounts.com/2011/11/28/not-another-rodent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 04:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grigori Guitchounts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[finch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[frog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lab animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[model organism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[squid]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Slate magazine had a slideshow by Daniel Engber a little more than a week ago on unusual laboratory animals and why they&#8217;re important. The slideshow was prompted by Engber&#8217;s observation that mice and rats make up an enormous proportion of &#8230; <a href="http://guitchounts.com/2011/11/28/not-another-rodent/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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