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		<title>On &#8220;Science Turns Authoritarian&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Comments on "Science Turns Authoritarian" by Kenneth Green from the American Enterprise Institute. More political propaganda by a very unscientific man.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.essayweb.net/2010/07/28/on-science-turns-authoritarian/</link>
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		<title>Mass Effect 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mass Effect 2 and the problems of Role Playing Game design. Too much dialog and no way to fast forward through it turns this excellent game into a cheap audio book.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.essayweb.net/2010/07/11/mass-effect-2/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s all the fuss with Mirror Neurons?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What are mirror neurons? What do they do in humans? This post attempts to sort through the nonsense and hype and separate the facts about mirror neurons, and their role in action vocabularies, empathy, morality and theory of mind.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.essayweb.net/2010/06/27/whats-all-the-fuss-with-mirror-neurons/</link>
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		<title>Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill explained. Where will the oil end up? Prevailing wind and water currents in the Gulf of Mexico determine which coastlines are most at threat.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.essayweb.net/2010/05/19/deepwater-horizon-oil-spill/</link>
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		<title>Australopithecus sediba &#8211; a new human ancestor?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Newly discovered fossils indicate a new species - Australopithecus sediba - which may be ancestral to man. The significance of these fossils is discussed.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.essayweb.net/2010/04/08/135/</link>
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		<title>The Neanderthal Predation Theory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Comments on Danny Vendramini's theory about Neanderthal Predation as the driving force for the evolution of modern humans.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.essayweb.net/2010/02/16/the-neanderthal-predation-theory/</link>
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		<title>What to do about Internet Advertising</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Internet advertising is in a pathetic state at present, with revenues declining for publishers, and angry consumers who feel that ads are too intrusive. Here are some ideas about how to solve this problem.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.essayweb.net/2010/01/04/what-to-do-about-internet-advertising/</link>
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		<title>How to Cook Indian Style Lentils</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a recipe I&#8217;ve been using for a while. I sort of came up with it on my own, after tinkering with various recipes I found on the web. It&#8217;s very similar to a lot of &#8220;tempered&#8221; dal recipes found in cookbooks, but the spices have been adjusted to my own tastes. If you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.essayweb.net/2009/12/20/how-to-cook-indian-style-lentils/</link>
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		<title>Changing the cache location in Chrome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why would you want to do this? Because you’re using Windows. Because file fragmentation is a problem with every version of Windows, and it inexorably slows down your computer the longer you use it. Because browser caches are some of the highest file activity regions on your disk, which means they make the disk fragment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.essayweb.net/2009/11/07/changing-the-cache-location-in-chrome/</link>
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		<title>Fixing the Start Menu in Windows 7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like the start button in Windows 7, specially the search feature and the ability to pin frequently used programs to both the start menu and the task bar (just right click the icon and choose “pin” or “unpin”). In Windows XP, I had all my programs on the start menu sorted into directories, so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.essayweb.net/2009/11/07/fixing-the-start-menu-in-windows-7/</link>
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