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		<title>Congress to Peer Review Science Funding?</title>
		<link>http://guitchounts.com/2013/05/13/congress-to-peer-review-science-funding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 13:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grigori Guitchounts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a bill circulating in the House of Representatives, sponsored by Lamar Smith of Texas, that aims to give Congress the power of oversight over government grants for scientific research. Grants from the National Science Foundation are given out &#8230; <a href="http://guitchounts.com/2013/05/13/congress-to-peer-review-science-funding/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The President&#8217;s BRAIN Initiative</title>
		<link>http://guitchounts.com/2013/04/05/the-presidents-brain-initiative/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 00:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grigori Guitchounts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At three pounds, 100 billion cells, 10,000 as many connections, the human brain makes Facebook look like child’s play of a network, not without reason: our brains are solely responsible for our every thought, emotion and action. The human brain is the most complicated machine in &#8230; <a href="http://guitchounts.com/2013/04/05/the-presidents-brain-initiative/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Idolatry in Science</title>
		<link>http://guitchounts.com/2013/01/13/idolatry-in-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grigori Guitchounts</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chomsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[idols]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[publishing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Gary Marcus recently celebrated Noam Chomsky in an essay about the famous linguist’s life and influence on the field of linguistics over the past fifty years. There is no doubt that Chomsky has had tremendous impact on American intellectual life &#8230; <a href="http://guitchounts.com/2013/01/13/idolatry-in-science/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Runaway Selection in Birds of Paradise</title>
		<link>http://guitchounts.com/2013/01/06/runaway-selection-in-birds-of-paradise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 20:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grigori Guitchounts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I watched a program on PBS the other night about birds of paradise – exotic birds from New Guinea with elaborate displays. To attract females, males have evolved these intricate feathers and courtship dances and rituals. A Parotia male, for &#8230; <a href="http://guitchounts.com/2013/01/06/runaway-selection-in-birds-of-paradise/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<link>http://guitchounts.com/2012/11/18/2982/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2012 23:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grigori Guitchounts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago in the New York Times, David Ewing Duncan wrote an article, “How Science Can Build a Better You,” describing a brain-machine interface called Braingate that supposedly uses a tiny bed of &#8220;electrons&#8221; to read out brain activity. &#8230; <a href="http://guitchounts.com/2012/11/18/2982/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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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>
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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>
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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>
		<comments>http://guitchounts.com/2011/12/06/science-religion-and-values-magisteria-redefined/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 04:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Grigori Guitchounts</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[beauty]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://guitchounts.com/?p=2957</guid>
		<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>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://guitchounts.com/?p=2955</guid>
		<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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