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	<title>The Thinking Meat Project</title>
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	<description>Exploring what it means to be thinking matter</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 03:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Edge question for 2009</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=1121</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year John Brockman of Edge.org poses a question to a diverse group of thinkers and publishes their responses. This year&#8217;s question relates to the fact that some technologies or discoveries have changed our lives drastically in the past, and asks people to think about what big development they expect to see in their lifetime [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Face/personality study</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=1120</link>
		<comments>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=1120#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 03:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Scientist is looking for participants in a study on personalities and facial characteristics. All you have to do is answer a few questions and mail a photo of yourself to the magazine. Photos will be merged to form composites that will appear on the cover of the magazine at some point in the future. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What really happened to the Neanderthals?</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=1119</link>
		<comments>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=1119#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
	<category>Human origins</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, that&#8217;s a good question, subject to considerable debate. This paper in PLoS One reports on some research that evaluates two factors in  the extinction of the Neanderthals: an inability to adapt to climate change, and competition with anatomically modern humans. The work involved integrating multiple data sets to estimate the ecological niches occupied [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Localizing spiritual experiences in the brain</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=1118</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 05:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
	<category>Religion &#038; spirituality</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spirituality is complicated, an experience with many facets. The current model of spiritual experience in the brain involves multiple brain areas, reflecting that complexity, and has recently received a bit more experimental support. Earlier research has suggested that the temporal and parietal lobes of the brain may play complementary roles in certain kinds of religious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science and religion: Zero-sum game?</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=1117</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
	<category>Religion &#038; spirituality</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The relationship between science and religion can be hard to pin down. Are they complementary approaches to different aspects of the unknown, or different ways of approaching the same questions, and thus destined to be at loggerheads, competing for the hearts and minds of humans? A new study suggests that thinking of life&#8217;s bigger questions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The power of music</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=1116</link>
		<comments>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=1116#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
	<category>Emotions</category>
	<category>Art</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Much Ado About Nothing, Benedick, making fun of the effect that the skillful manipulation of musical instruments has on the emotions, says, &#8220;Is it not strange that sheeps&#8217; guts should hale souls out of men&#8217;s bodies?&#8221; Strange indeed, but it&#8217;s one of the more enjoyable things about being thinking meat. This article from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antikythera Mechanism rebuilt</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=1115</link>
		<comments>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=1115#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, this story is a bit off-topic for this blog, but it&#8217;s just too cool not to post. The Antikythera Mechanism, a 2100-year-old device that calculated and illustrated the motions of the sun, moon, and planets, has been reconstructed. The working replica was built by Michael Wright, who used to work at the Science Museum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crying</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=1114</link>
		<comments>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=1114#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
	<category>Behavior</category>
	<category>Emotions</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I was struggling with a particularly difficult editing assignment, and when I took a break, I said to a friend that it was so frustrating it made me want to cry. He responded that crying seldom helped anything, with which I disagreed; sometimes I find crying to be therapeutic. &#8220;Well, if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The meaning of life</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=1113</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
	<category>Life in the cosmos</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A time-worn joke about humans is that we&#8217;re nothing more than water&#8217;s way of getting from one place to another. What if living things in general began as just another of nature&#8217;s ways of moving energy from one place to another? (Or more precisely, of minimizing energy differences by increasing energy flows from one part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lotsa cool brain blogs</title>
		<link>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=1112</link>
		<comments>http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=1112#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Online Education Database has compiled an annotated list of 101 Fascinating Brain Blogs. I link to some of them in my blogroll, but others were news to me, and perhaps to some of you, so I thought it was worth passing the link along. (And, OK, I&#8217;ll admit that I&#8217;m kind of pleased to [...]]]></description>
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