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		<title>Stealth peer review &#8211; Free logic and fact check for your next writing project</title>
		<link>http://www.evolvemind.com/2011/03/13/stealth-peer-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 20:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After reading Scientific American for many years, and having added its web content to my mind diet a few years ago, I have gained a great appreciation for the incisive commentary of much of the readership. In keeping with informal observations and research on social conventions in various modes of communication, letters to the editor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>9 Planetary Boundaries &#8212; new framwork for evaluating human impacts on our own survival</title>
		<link>http://www.evolvemind.com/2009/10/14/9-critical-earth-processes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.evolvemind.com/2009/10/14/9-critical-earth-processes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:46:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[climate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[learning]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[science | atmosphere]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists propose a new framework for understanding when and how the results of our activities are bringing any of the nine most critical Earth processes close to thresholds beyond which irreversible, catastrophic global destabilization will occur. Some sort of rational, structured approach seems necessary for organizing resources to investigate the areas of greatest global survival [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More evidence that childhood stress negatively impacts intelligence</title>
		<link>http://www.evolvemind.com/2009/04/04/more-evidence-that-childhood-stress-negatively-impacts-intelligence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.evolvemind.com/2009/04/04/more-evidence-that-childhood-stress-negatively-impacts-intelligence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[brain science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cognition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psychology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[social action]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that poverty and the endless ills that accompany being poor are passed from generation to generation. The Economist reports on research that further confirms the brain science behind apparently inherited lack of resourcefulness. The bottom line is that growing up in resource deprived circumstances creates persistent stressors. Stress provokes natural physiochemical responses that, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Next? Earth: The Sequel</title>
		<link>http://www.evolvemind.com/2009/03/15/whats-next-earth-the-sequel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.evolvemind.com/2009/03/15/whats-next-earth-the-sequel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[engineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A page at the Environmental Defense web site provides links to video segments from the Discovery Channel 1-hour special based on Fred Krupp&#8217;s outstanding book, Earth: The Sequel. Krupp does what is probably the best job to date in outlining how the alternative energy sector of the economy will very quickly become simply the energy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raptors 2 &#124; Doves 0</title>
		<link>http://www.evolvemind.com/2008/08/30/raptors-2-doves-0/</link>
		<comments>http://www.evolvemind.com/2008/08/30/raptors-2-doves-0/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ethology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wildlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooper's Hawk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[desert cottontail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dove]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[prairie falcon]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[white-winged dove]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today marked the second time I have seen a raptor snatch a dove from my back yard.]]></description>
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		<title>Creating cement from CO2</title>
		<link>http://www.evolvemind.com/2008/08/17/creating-cement-from-co2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.evolvemind.com/2008/08/17/creating-cement-from-co2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[climate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[engineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy "power plant" cement CO2 carbon environment clim]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Scientific American (www.SciAm.com) reports on a technology that can create cement from the carbon dioxide exhaust from power plants. It&#8217;s an intriguing idea. Each ton of cement created in this manner would sequester a half ton of CO2.]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainable transportation &#124; Project Better Place</title>
		<link>http://www.evolvemind.com/2008/08/02/sustainable-transportation-project-better-place/</link>
		<comments>http://www.evolvemind.com/2008/08/02/sustainable-transportation-project-better-place/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[engineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recommendation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Project Better Place aims to see to it that the electric car operators&#8217; network is put in place globally, one country at a time. Due to its size and technological readiness, Israel has agreed to be one of the first countries to establish an infrastructure to support plug-in electric vehicles. Technorati Tags: sustainable transportation, sustainability, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How accurate are climate models?</title>
		<link>http://www.evolvemind.com/2008/06/08/how-accurate-are-climate-models/</link>
		<comments>http://www.evolvemind.com/2008/06/08/how-accurate-are-climate-models/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[belief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bias]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[computing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A favorite object of ridicule is any claim that the climate is changing significantly due to human activity. Within that general area of denial, climate models are especially favored targets.]]></description>
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		<title>Apes mimic to eat; Humans mimic to please teachers</title>
		<link>http://www.evolvemind.com/2008/02/24/apes-mimic-to-eat-humans-mimic-to-please-teachers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.evolvemind.com/2008/02/24/apes-mimic-to-eat-humans-mimic-to-please-teachers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[primatology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ape]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chimp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cognition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intelligence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today, when I should have already begun researching for my dissertation idea paper, I was just getting up from brunch when the PBS Nova series began. Expecting another episode on nebulas or colliding galaxies, I started from my chair. But then I saw that the topic was ape intelligence, specifically, what accounts for the differences [...]]]></description>
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