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		<title>Evolution as a bad story</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 02:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[evolution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The talk by Dan McAdams that I described in my last post was mentioned in a blog post at the Chronicle of Higher Education. In discussing the importance of stories, McAdams noted that authorship (the third layer of personality) builds on agency. He also mentioned, more or less in passing, that this explains why evolutionary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three layers of personality</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 03:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting theme that emerged from the Consilience Conference was the idea of humans as makers and enjoyers of stories. Two of the leading scholars in literary Darwinism spoke at the conference (more about their work later), but the first mention of the importance of story in human life came in a talk about personality. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E. O. Wilson on how we got to be this way</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=4038</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 02:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Being human]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Human origins and evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consilience]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Distinguished evolutionary biologist Edward O. Wilson, who coined the term consilience as it was used at the conference I attended last weekend, gave the keynote address. His talk was based on his latest book, The Social Conquest of Earth. Wilson began his talk with three haunting questions that Gauguin wrote on a painting he made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consilience</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=4026</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 04:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[consilience]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend, I attended an intense and very interesting conference in St. Louis on the topic of consilience (Consilience: Evolution in Biology, the Human Sciences and the Humanities). The term consilience in this context refers to the unification of knowledge in the sciences and humanities proposed by biologist Edward O. Wilson in his book [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big history at the Stone Age Institute</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=4017</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 01:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Being human]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I am on the subject of deep history, I should mention the Stone Age Institute&#8217;s project, From the Big Bang to the World Wide Web. Kathy Schick and Nicholas Toth at the Institute addressed the problem of presenting the vast time scale of Big History by using a powers-of-10 approach. They defined ten time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perspective!</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=3979</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Being human]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Human origins and evolution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big history combines the cosmological, geological, evolutionary, and human timelines into one grand overview. It provides both insight and awe.]]></description>
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		<title>Walter Alvarez speaking on big history at IU</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=3966</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[big history]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Big history, as you may have heard me mention before, is the attempt to teach history as a unified timeline including astronomical, geological, and biological events as well as human culture and politics&#8212;the really big picture. Walter Alvarez and his father Luis Alvarez developed the theory that the dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Darwin Day!</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=3950</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mark your calendars, everyone; Darwin Day is coming up! On or about February 12, the anniversary of Darwin&#8217;s birth, people around the world gather to celebrate science and &#8220;come together as one human family in appreciation of verifiable knowledge that has been acquired solely through human curiosity and ingenuity.&#8221; (The quote is from the Darwin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movie review: Cave of Forgotten Dreams</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=3927</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 02:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human origins and evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cave of Forgotten Dreams]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cave of Forgotten Dreams, documentary film by Werner Herzog, 2010 This documentary is almost certainly as close as you will ever get to exploring the Chauvet Cave in southern France, home to the earliest known cave art, and Werner Herzog provides an excellent vicarious visit. The cave was discovered in 1994 and speedily locked up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art, loss, and memory</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=3880</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 01:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Being human]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memory]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On the Thinking Meat Project Facebook page, I recently posted this quote from The Country of Language by Scott Russell Sanders: &#8220;And I knew that my impulse to write is bound up with my desire to salvage worthy moments from the river of time. Maybe all art is a hedge against loss.&#8221; Ever since I [...]]]></description>
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