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		<title>The Difference Between the Theoretical and the Practical</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists such as Thomas Huxley and the anatomist Carl Gegenbaur found lungfish to be essentially a cross between an amphibian and a fish. Locals found them delicious. [page 33] What&#8217;s important depends on your perspective. (from Neil Shubin&#8217;s Your Inner Fish)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slumberpowered.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10017875&amp;post=813&amp;subd=slumberpowered&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Laugh and the World Laughs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Laugh and the world laughs with you; / Weep, and you weep alone&#8221; is not an ancient proverb. It is the opening two lines of the poem &#8220;Solitude&#8221; by Ella Wheeler Wilcox which was first published in 1883. Strange, but apparently true. [found on page 60 of When You Were a Tadpole and I Was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slumberpowered.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10017875&amp;post=837&amp;subd=slumberpowered&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Back to Blogging with a Movie Commentary</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>c. wagner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Avatar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, it&#8217;s about time I get back on the blogging bandwagon. Since I&#8217;m home sick with a sore throat and runny nose (the same one that put my girlfriend out of commission for three days), it seems like a good time to start back up. I went to see Avatar the other night&#8230;. That was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slumberpowered.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10017875&amp;post=815&amp;subd=slumberpowered&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flannery (1995 &#8211; 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>c. wagner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rest in mayhem and catnip, Flannery.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slumberpowered.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10017875&amp;post=792&amp;subd=slumberpowered&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Probably my last Scientology post</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>c. wagner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a relatively small church (or relatively large cult), Scientology takes a lot of bashing. Not that the organization doesn&#8217;t deserve it, of course. But, you know, I should be able to find something else to whine about on this blog. Bigger fish to fry and all that. So, I&#8217;m going to get all the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slumberpowered.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10017875&amp;post=727&amp;subd=slumberpowered&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hypnotism, Scientology, and cults</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>c. wagner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inside Scientology by Robert Kaufman is one of the earliest books about what Scientology teaches and how it does it. Written by someone who joined the&#8211;dare I say it&#8211;cult in the early days and followed its teachings for years in the hopes of self-improvement (and profit, of course). One of the more interesting phenomena he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slumberpowered.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10017875&amp;post=721&amp;subd=slumberpowered&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Evolution according to L. Ron Hubbard</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>c. wagner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What to Audit lists a series of incarnations or a &#8220;time-track&#8221; from the beginnings of the universe to man: the evolution, or &#8220;genetic line,&#8221; of the human body. According to Hubbard, the &#8220;time-track&#8221; runs back to a point where the individual seemed to be &#8220;an atom, complete with electronic rings.&#8221; After which came the &#8220;cosmic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slumberpowered.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10017875&amp;post=752&amp;subd=slumberpowered&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Embraced by the numinous</title>
		<link>http://slumberpowered.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/embraced-by-the-numinous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>c. wagner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I spent a mostly enjoyable two hours watching a video called The Four Horsemen&#8211;a conversation between Richard Dawkins, Dan Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens (I could have done without Hitchens&#8217; closing statement as it tripped off one of my phobias.). I was very surprised by some of what I heard. For four guys [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slumberpowered.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10017875&amp;post=733&amp;subd=slumberpowered&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Disney, status, and clothing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>c. wagner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting reflection on determining the status of Disney characters based on what they look like: I would later learn that if you are a Disney character who wears clothes, no matter what your species, you can then own pets, who themselves wear no clothes at all, except perhaps for a collar. Pluto runs around naked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slumberpowered.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10017875&amp;post=696&amp;subd=slumberpowered&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Astrologers and Kuiper belt objects</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>c. wagner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Astrology is a &#8220;discipline&#8221; notoriously immune to change. So, what are astronomers to do as more and more good-sized objects, some of them bigger than that formerly-known-as-a-planet &#8230; thingie, Pluto, are discovered at the fringes of the solar system? The article ends with Vanity Fair astrologer Michael Lutin saying that he will consider the newcomers, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slumberpowered.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10017875&amp;post=701&amp;subd=slumberpowered&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Studying the solar system in grade school</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>c. wagner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everybody reading this remember memorizing the names of the planets (nine for me, probably eight now)? Maybe building a model solar system out of painted styrofoam balls and straightened coat hangers? Maybe some mentions of asteroids and comets, yeah? Neil deGrasse Tyson has some words for you and your teachers. Because of exercises such as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slumberpowered.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10017875&amp;post=703&amp;subd=slumberpowered&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just waiting for the bus</title>
		<link>http://slumberpowered.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/just-waiting-for-the-bus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>c. wagner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t seen My Neighbor Totoro, you should.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=slumberpowered.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10017875&amp;post=628&amp;subd=slumberpowered&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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