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		<title>The e-book is killing the page</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 23:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[he e-book hasn’t killed the book; instead, it’s killing the “page.”<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blogbrut.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10552852&amp;post=1341&amp;subd=blogbrut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Alexander the Great&#8217; was a Roman invention</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 05:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bradpierce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Psychohistory]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["The first attested use of the title 'Alexander the Great' is in a Roman comedy by Plautus, in the early second century BC, about 150 years after Alexander’s death."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blogbrut.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10552852&amp;post=1331&amp;subd=blogbrut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>China/USA net labor costs for manufacturing converging fast</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 18:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bradpierce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Manufacturing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“We expect net labor costs for manufacturing in China and the U.S. to converge by around 2015. As a result of the changing economics, you’re going to see a lot more products ‘Made in the USA’ in the next five years.”<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blogbrut.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10552852&amp;post=1323&amp;subd=blogbrut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The real Socrates</title>
		<link>http://blogbrut.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/the-real-socrates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bradpierce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Influence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skepticism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[History is marbled through with fiction and distortion. "we have no direct access to the real Socrates, whoever he was. We have only interpretations and texts, which both reveal and conceal"<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blogbrut.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10552852&amp;post=1316&amp;subd=blogbrut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Entertainment is a disease</title>
		<link>http://blogbrut.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/entertainment-is-a-disease/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 18:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bradpierce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creativity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["Entertainment is a disease that infects the sense organs, then eats away at the brain leading to lack of activity, often resulting in a boring life."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blogbrut.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10552852&amp;post=1312&amp;subd=blogbrut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>US and India are intermediate-fertility countries</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 17:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bradpierce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The largest intermediate-fertility countries, in descending order of population size: India, USA, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Mexico, Egypt.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blogbrut.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10552852&amp;post=1309&amp;subd=blogbrut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Parent licenses</title>
		<link>http://blogbrut.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/parent-licenses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 17:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bradpierce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Psychohistory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["If it’s illegal to smash a person’s head against a wall, subjecting them to brain damage, why isn’t it illegal to flood the noggin of a fetus with elements that cripple cognition?"<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blogbrut.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10552852&amp;post=1307&amp;subd=blogbrut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Creativity is icky</title>
		<link>http://blogbrut.wordpress.com/2011/08/27/creativity-is-icky/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bradpierce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creativity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[People have an unconscious bias against creativity, claiming to desire it, yet actually associating it with negative words such as "vomit," "poison" and "agony."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blogbrut.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10552852&amp;post=1295&amp;subd=blogbrut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Slavery and the rise of the West</title>
		<link>http://blogbrut.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/slavery-and-the-rise-of-the-west/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bradpierce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evil]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["Blackburn concludes that the vast accumulation of capital derived from slave labor was a necessary, but not sufficient, cause of industrialization."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blogbrut.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10552852&amp;post=1293&amp;subd=blogbrut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Suing alma mater for damages</title>
		<link>http://blogbrut.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/suing-alma-mater-for-damages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bradpierce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Effectiveness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["Our elected officials should enact laws that allow graduates to sue their alma matter for damages (recover tuition costs, housing, lost income and pain and suffering) if they are not able to find meaningful employment (a full time job paying private sector market wages in their field of training) within a year of graduating."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blogbrut.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10552852&amp;post=1290&amp;subd=blogbrut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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