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		<title>Book review: Brain storm: Harnessing the power of productive obsessions</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=3207</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brainstorm: Harnessing the Power of Productive Obsessions, by Eric Maisel and Ann Maisel.
Eric Maisel is a psychotherapist and a well-known creativity coach, with many books to his credit. His co-author is his wife Ann, who is, according to the jacket blurb, busy researching the productive obsessions of others. They&#8217;ve produced a book of advice and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Center for Inquiry online course</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=3205</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Center for Inquiry is offering a two-month online course this fall on the topic of nature and morality. I have never taken a course from the CFI so I can&#8217;t vouch for their quality, and this doesn&#8217;t appear to count for any kind of college credit, but I thought it looked interesting enough to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Killer stress</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=3193</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Being human]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stress]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This article from Wired describes the work of Robert Sapolsky, who studies stress. It gives a good overview of the causes and costs of stress, some suggestions for how to cope, and fascinating news about work toward a vaccine against stress.
Sapolsky&#8217;s book Why Zebras Don&#8217;t Get Ulcers, Third Edition describes how the body reacts to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The human shoulder</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=3189</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 21:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human origins and evolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What turned humans into such a force to reckon with? There are a number of usual suspects when the topic comes up: We&#8217;re bipedal; we have these big brains that allowed us to a) develop language and b) cooperate; we have these cool opposable thumbs. NPR recently ran a story about the humble yet complex [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How will I know?</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=3181</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mating and sex]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pop singers have asked how you can tell if someone loves you or if his or her love is lasting and true. Countless books and a long-running magazine column have helped dubious lovers explore the long-term potential of their marriages and other relationships. Now a psychological tool, the Implicit Association Test (IAT), has been put [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The power of language</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=3163</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 17:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brain and mind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[language]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One night in the summer of 1987, I was awake late at night at a mountaintop solar observatory. The town of Sunspot, New Mexico, had maybe somewhere between seventy-five and a hundred inhabitants, all of them asleep as far as I could tell, but I was restless that night, emotionally unsettled by my grandmother&#8217;s recent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gray world</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=3158</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brain and mind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[perception]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Although we sometimes refer to sadness as &#8220;the blues,&#8221; depression can often feel more like a state of unrelieved gray. Some recent research has found that in the retinas of depressed people, the response to black/white contrasts was notably lower than in healthy people. This backs up an earlier study which found that depressed people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday video: A species grows up</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=3148</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This video, which pairs words from Carl Sagan with images from from Stephen Hawking&#8217;s Into the Universe and Brian Cox&#8217;s Wonders of the Solar System, gives Carl Sagan&#8217;s poetically expressed description of how our species has grown into a better understanding of the universe. Enjoy.

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		<title>More on apes and violence</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=3145</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bonobos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve posted a couple of links lately to stories about humans, chimps, and violence. The New York Times recently ran a brief interview with two primatologists who study bonobos, the hippy cousin of chimps and humans. The title of the article is &#8220;Why Bonobos Don&#8217;t Kill Each Other,&#8221; and while that question isn&#8217;t really answered, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happine$$ (or not) around the world</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=3110</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[happiness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m really enjoying Eric Weiner&#8217;s book The Geography of Bliss: One Grump&#8217;s Search for the Happiest Places in the World, in which he describes his travels in 10 different countries in search of the meaning of happiness. (Oddly enough, of all the places I&#8217;ve read about so far, the one I can see myself being [...]]]></description>
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