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		<title>Friday video: A bit of perspective</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know how I first ran across the original version of this time-lapse video taken on Mauna Kea in Hawaii (home of many telescopes). At any rate, I found it an unexpectedly poignant look at humankind&#8217;s place in the cosmos. The majestic night sky wheels overhead impervious to all the little human movements going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The making of humanity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several perennially fascinating questions arise in the study of humankind: What makes us so different from other animals? Was there some turning point or specific development that marks the emergence of uniquely human behavior? In other words, how did we become human? A recent workshop at Arizona State University, &#8220;Origins of Human Uniqueness and Behavioral [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Third place can be better than second</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[happiness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The other night I watched the women&#8217;s free skating in the Olympics. As always, I thought I wouldn&#8217;t mind seeing a few more of the skaters a  little further down the ranks; even if they aren&#8217;t in the running for a medal, the fact that they made it to the Olympics means they are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How daydreams can affect your thinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thought and consciousness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mating and sex]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I was an undergraduate, there was a cartoon posted on the wall of a student computing cluster in Swain East at Indiana University that I really liked. (The room was full of VT100 terminals that we used to connect to the university&#8217;s VAXes, just to give you an idea how long ago this was.) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Early human (or prehuman?) seafarers</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=2749</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human origins and evolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A recent find on Crete shakes up the current view of human prehistory. Archaeologists have found more than 2,000 stone tools, including hand axes, probably dating back at least 130,000 years on the southern shore of Crete. This is more than 100,000 years earlier than previously known arrivals at islands in that part of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talk on brain networks at IU</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=2743</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s physics colloquium at Indiana University is a talk by neuroscientist Olaf Sporns on &#8220;Mapping the Networks of the Human Brain&#8221; (abstract is available online). It&#8217;s at 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, February 17, in Swain West 119.
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		<title>Being good and being religious</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=2733</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human origins and evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cooperation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An ad appeared recently on Bloomington buses that said, &#8220;You can be good without god.&#8221; It seemed like a fairly obvious statement to me, but it took some doing to get Bloomington Transit to agree to run the ads. (Atheist ad campaigns like this one are making a modest sweep of the US; billboards with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patten lectures this week</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=2729</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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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>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=2725</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human origins and evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humans and Earth]]></category>

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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Brain and mind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human origins and evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homo floresiensis]]></category>

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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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