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		<title>Patten lectures this week</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of you here in Bloomington might be interested in hearing this week&#8217;s Patten lectures at Indiana University. Andrew Knoll of Harvard will be speaking Tuesday, February 9, on the early history of life on earth, and Thursday, February 11, on the search for life on Mars. Both lectures are at 7:30 in Rawles Hall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday video: Open Your Eyes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This video is full of gorgeous images of planet Earth and its creatures, accompanied by music and the gently inspiring words of Richard Dawkins. It&#8217;s one of the finer meditations on the human condition that I&#8217;ve ever seen. For all its problems, being a bit of conscious matter on this planet is a rare and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Primate brain size</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=2717</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some things that change in time seem to be following a particular trajectory. Hard drives get smaller. Cell phones gain functionality. Internet advertising gets more annoying. Primate brains get bigger. Well, wait a minute. Human technologies may be progressing along a particular path, but the evolution of the primate brain is not quite the same. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Civilization founded on beer?</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=2698</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human origins and evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[These days I&#8217;ve been experimenting with baking bread using various sourdough cultures. Furthermore, my interest in wine has certainly deepened over the last few years. You could say that I&#8217;ve become a big fan of fermentation, and  I think sometimes about its importance in human life. My hat is off to whatever curious humans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brain blogs</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=2694</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was pleased to learn that the Thinking Meat Project appears among the 15 Best Brain Blogs of 2009 over at Online Colleges and Universities. Check it out!
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		<title>The milk of human kindness</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=2677</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brain and mind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[altruism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[empathy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human nature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s easy to feel that the milk of human kindness has curdled, or perhaps was sour to begin with. Some religious and social practices seem to assume the worst of people: our selfish, antisocial desires must be kept firmly in check by fear of god or of human authorities. However, compassion and generosity are arguably [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neanderthal jewelry</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=2672</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human origins and evolution]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neanderthals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Seashells were painted and used as adornment by early humans, and this is commonly taken to indicate an ability to think symbolically. There has been very little evidence that Neanderthals shared this ability. In fact, the belief that Neanderthals were cognitively inferior to humans has been given as a reason for why they died out. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Modern human behavior 750,000 years ago</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=2668</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human origins and evolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine a scientist going through your house to analyze the purpose and likely use of each of the different spaces based on the tools, supplies, and trash she finds in each place. Now imagine that 750,000 years of history have come and gone, making it hard to even figure out for sure where your house [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday video: Across the universe with AMNH</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=2664</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 04:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The American Museum of Natural History has put together a wonderful video that takes you from the surface of the Earth (the Himalayas, to be specific) out to the edges of the known universe. The graphics are cool and all the depictions of astronomical objects are based on our current knowledge of them. This six-and-a-half [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Busy meat</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=2651</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brain and mind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human origins and evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[synesthesia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Between keeping up with the workload and preparing for the holidays, this week has been absolutely nuts, so once again I&#8217;m afraid I&#8217;m going to simply toss a few links your way. Keep that meat thinking!

First, if you are looking for worthy secular charities for holiday giving, check out the TechSkeptic&#8217;s list of atheist charities. [...]]]></description>
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