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	<title>Evolvemind &#187; social science</title>
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		<title>People who multitask suffer from weaker self-control</title>
		<link>http://www.evolvemind.com/2009/12/18/multi-taskers-treat-all-information-as-equally-important-while-single-taskers-focus-on-information-relating-to-their-current-objectives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cognition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[learning]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[psychology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[attention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[attention strategy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend and professor is confident her granddaughters are able to multitask without any significant negative impact on their performance. She observes them using the computer and cell phone while doing homework and listening to music or watching television. They are star students in demanding schools. 
I told her I have my doubts. I suspect [...]]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science | atmosphere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science | biology | biodiversity]]></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>My first Healthcare Reform Town Hall</title>
		<link>http://www.evolvemind.com/2009/08/23/my-first-healthcare-reform-town-hall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.evolvemind.com/2009/08/23/my-first-healthcare-reform-town-hall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social action]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday my wife and I braved the heat and sun to stand in line for over an hour for a chance to participate in Congressman Martin Heinrich&#8217;s town hall. The line outside the University of New Mexico Continuing Education Center snaked around and around the parking lot. We frequently heard perplexed voices asking, &#8220;Where is [...]]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social science]]></category>
		<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>Earth Hour: A Time for Coordinated Inaction</title>
		<link>http://www.evolvemind.com/2009/03/27/earth-hour-a-time-for-coordinated-inaction/</link>
		<comments>http://www.evolvemind.com/2009/03/27/earth-hour-a-time-for-coordinated-inaction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[collaboration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social action]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Participate in Earth Hour, Saturday March 28, 2009, 8:30 to 9:30 pm, your local time. Be a part of something BIG. Technorati Tags: earth hour, social action

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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>
		<category><![CDATA[industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></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>The Pickens Plan — Real Change or Picken the Public Pocket?</title>
		<link>http://www.evolvemind.com/2008/08/25/the-pickens-plan-%e2%80%94-real-change-or-picken-the-public-pocket/</link>
		<comments>http://www.evolvemind.com/2008/08/25/the-pickens-plan-%e2%80%94-real-change-or-picken-the-public-pocket/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural gas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pickens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wind farm]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any American who has watched a few minutes of TV programming in the past couple of weeks has seen one of T. Boone Pickens&#8217; time-for-big-change commercials. There are three TV spots out at this time. You can watch Pickens&#8217; whiteboard presentation on his web site. I admit it. His direct speech and logic are appealing. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still need convincing that we need alternatives to oil?</title>
		<link>http://www.evolvemind.com/2008/08/21/still-need-convincing-that-we-need-alternatives-to-oil/</link>
		<comments>http://www.evolvemind.com/2008/08/21/still-need-convincing-that-we-need-alternatives-to-oil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[international]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy "power plant" cement CO2 carbon environment clim]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting article explains why oil exporting nations will reduce their exports to zero long before oil runs out. One more reason to be building alternative sources while simultaneously improving efficiency by magnitudes. Thanks to The Arlington Institute for publicizing this. (By the way, I don&#8217;t buy the conclusion that massive expansion of nuclear power [...]]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[energy "power plant" cement CO2 carbon environment clim]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.evolvemind.com/blog/2008/08/17/creating-cement-from-co2/</guid>
		<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. 
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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>
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		<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, transportation, [...]]]></description>
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