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		<title>Indian Style Beef Curry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a very common recipe in northern India. This is basic meat &#8220;curry&#8221; &#8211; the way meat is most commonly cooked in homes every day, with no frills or fancies. I’ve described the procedure in some detail for people (like myself) who don&#8217;t know much about the kitchen and prefer to have everything spelled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Math of Cooking Perfect Rice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rice is one of the easiest things to cook, but many people are afraid of it because they&#8217;re turned out overcooked soggy mushy rice in the past, and don&#8217;t know how to fix that. The problem is that there are so many recipes available for such a simple thing, and all of them are different. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.essayweb.net/2011/07/31/the-math-of-cooking-perfect-rice/</link>
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		<title>Ancient Bacteria</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ancient DNA: Is it possible to revive bacterial spores that are millions of years old, or extract intact DNA from fossils that are millions of years old? Here is a summary of some of the work done in this area, as well as general comments about the plausibility.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.essayweb.net/2010/09/22/ancient-bacteria/</link>
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		<title>The Origins of &#8220;YHWH&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The origins of the name "YHWH". Is it derived from the Midian god?]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.essayweb.net/2010/09/01/the-origins-of-yhwh/</link>
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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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