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	<description>When we see things that aren’t, we miss the wonderful things that are.</description>
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		<title>Alain de Botton&#8217;s TEDTalk: Atheism 2.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent TEDTalk, Alain de Botton argues convincingly that atheism has much to gain by adopting forms and traditions of religion that satisfy our need as humans for morality, guidance, consolation, community, institutions and ritual. He refers to this new &#8220;religion for atheists&#8221; as Atheism 2.0. It&#8217;s an excellent talk and I&#8217;m in general [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrissasaki.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14156390&amp;post=415&amp;subd=chrissasaki&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When we see sinister things that aren&#8217;t&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On November 22nd, 1963, it was bright and sunny in Dallas, as home movies and photographs taken that day clearly show. Why, then, is a dark-suited man holding an open umbrella aloft just as President Kennedy&#8217;s motorcade passes and shots are fired? In his fascinating short film, The Umbrella Man, Errol Morris explores the question [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrissasaki.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14156390&amp;post=399&amp;subd=chrissasaki&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How we know homeopathy doesn&#8217;t work</title>
		<link>http://chrissasaki.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/how-we-know-homeopathy-doesnt-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chrissasaki</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[science literacy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cory Doctorow today posted the following on the always entertaining, always stimulating boingboing.net: &#8220;Homeopathy multinational sues blogger over statements that its mythological curative had no &#8216;active ingredient&#8217;.&#8221; The blogger is Samuele Riva; the multinational is the largest manufacturer of homeopathic products in the world, a company called Boiron, based in France. On blogzero.it, Riva makes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrissasaki.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14156390&amp;post=389&amp;subd=chrissasaki&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Birthers, Deathers and the End of the World</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 05:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chrissasaki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m posting this on May 22nd 2011—which means the planet was not torn asunder by an  apocalyptic earthquake yesterday and the faithful have not been called up into heaven in The Rapture. It seems Harold Camping, the president of the American Christian radio network, Family Radio, erred in proclaiming “THE END OF THE WORLD IS [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrissasaki.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14156390&amp;post=348&amp;subd=chrissasaki&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian government muzzling federal scientists</title>
		<link>http://chrissasaki.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/canadian-government-muzzling-federal-scientists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chrissasaki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ad Astra Science Fiction convention in Toronto might seem an odd setting for the panel discussion, “The Muzzling of Canadian Federal Scientists: Is 1984 Here?”. But, as moderator Pippa Wysong pointed out in her opening remarks, the muzzling of scientists would make a good plot line for a science fiction thriller. Government control of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrissasaki.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14156390&amp;post=339&amp;subd=chrissasaki&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Gallery of Galapagos Hawks</title>
		<link>http://chrissasaki.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/a-gallery-of-galapagos-hawks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chrissasaki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, the Galapagos National Park resumed its efforts to eradicate from the islands one of the most harmful of invasive species: rats. Using poison bait, the GNP has already succeeded in ridding several islands of these pests. They have now begun releasing the bait on the island of Rabida. While this approach works, it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrissasaki.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14156390&amp;post=306&amp;subd=chrissasaki&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Darwin Correspondence Project and other online Darwin resources</title>
		<link>http://chrissasaki.wordpress.com/2010/12/31/the-darwin-correspondence-project-and-other-online-darwin-resources/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 04:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chrissasaki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a post about some online archival resources I&#8217;ve found relating to Charles Darwin and The Origin of Species: The first is the Darwin Correspondence Project, a fascinating website that lets you &#8220;read and search the full texts of more than 6000 of Darwin’s letters.&#8221; These include letters to and from his grandfather Eramus, Beagle [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrissasaki.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14156390&amp;post=277&amp;subd=chrissasaki&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Am Not An Atheist</title>
		<link>http://chrissasaki.wordpress.com/2010/12/12/why-i-am-not-an-atheist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 05:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chrissasaki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the November 26th Munk Debate in Toronto, Tony Blair and Christopher Hitchens squared off on either side of the resolution that religion is a force for good in the world. Former British Prime Minister Blair was introduced as a recently converted Roman Catholic; Hitchens, not surprisingly, as an atheist. Of course, Hitchens is one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrissasaki.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14156390&amp;post=250&amp;subd=chrissasaki&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Not Easy Being a Spider</title>
		<link>http://chrissasaki.wordpress.com/2010/11/26/its-not-easy-being-a-spider/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 18:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two items I recently wrote for a children&#8217;s science and nature magazine: Assassin bug vs. Spider! When a leaf falls into a spider’s web, the spider can tell from the vibrations it hasn’t caught an insect. But when it feels fluttering insect wings, it knows dinner has arrived. It also knows to attack quickly, before [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrissasaki.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14156390&amp;post=226&amp;subd=chrissasaki&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Does Understanding Evolution Make Us Better Citizens?</title>
		<link>http://chrissasaki.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/how-does-understanding-evolution-make-us-better-citizens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chrissasaki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On his Discover blog today, Carl Zimmer asks “&#8230;how understanding evolution allows American citizens to formulate more informed decisions about societally important matters. How does a good understanding of evolution better prepare us to make decisions as citizens?&#8221; He invited readers to submit their views. Here&#8217;s the answer I posted in reply: It is not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrissasaki.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14156390&amp;post=216&amp;subd=chrissasaki&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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