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	<title>Noise Is Information &#187; brains</title>
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		<title>I Have the Perfect Defense Against Tigers</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/03/25/i-have-the-perfect-defense-against-tigers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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Since 1997, every night before I go to sleep, I turn around three times and chant &#8220;on-gay iger-tay&#8221;. In more than thirteen years, I have not been attacked by a tiger.  My method is perfect!
Everything I know about logic, reasoning, and causality, I learned from Peter Wehner, former deputy assistant to President Bush, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free the Willies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>necco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In light of the most recent Killer Whale attack at Sea World I think that cetaceans should not be held in captivity and forced to perform.  The animals are clearly intelligent.  They should be given the option to perform&#8230; maybe an &#8220;open&#8221; aquarium where they can voluntarily open a door, swim into and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neurogastroenterology.  Really.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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You have more neurons in your stomach and intestines than in your spinal cord or peripheral nervous system.  Some call it &#8220;the second brain:&#8221;
Technically known as the enteric nervous system, the second brain consists of sheaths of neurons embedded in the walls of the long tube of our gut, or alimentary canal, which measures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Idea Is Like Grass</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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&#8220;The idea is like grass.  It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.&#8221;
&#8211; Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
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		<title>&#8220;Brockman, to the Ants Submits&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/01/29/brockman-to-the-ants-submits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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What did people daydream about before popular culture? History? Religion? Geneology? Was I suffering from some sort of condition exacerbated by the internet culture of link and remix?
Author James Lileks explores how his own brain works.  He travels associatively from Camptown Races to Foghorn Leghorn to Lou Grant to Singin&#8217; in the Rain to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘It’s Incredibility I’m After’</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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A great article about Timothy Leary includes this bit of a conversation between Leary and media/society scholar Marshall McLuhan:
In one of their prophetic conversations McLuhan made the following prediction: ‘You’re going to win the war, Timothy. Eventually. But you’re going to lose some major battles on the way. You’re not going to overthrow the Protestant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;What Is Fire?&#8221; &#8211; Buckminster Fuller Answers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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Buckminster Fuller, in Critical Path (hello, Dr. Hoo!), answers a child&#8217;s query, &#8220;What is fire?&#8221;:
&#8220;Fire is the Sun unwinding from the tree&#8217;s log. The Earth revolves and the trees revolve as the radiation from the Sun&#8217;s flame reaches the revolving planet Earth. By photosynthesis the green buds and leaves of the tree convert that Sun [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Widen the Circle of Compassion</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2009/11/02/widen-the-circle-of-compassion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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A human being is part of the whole, called by us &#8216;universe,&#8217; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest &#8211; a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Astounding Font of Knowledge</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2009/09/21/an-astounding-font-of-knowledge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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Since 1993, The Deoxyribonucleic Hyperdimension has been bringing you esoteric and visionary knowledge (and a lot of other crap, too).  That tradition continues with their recent posting of a six-part interview with Peter Lamborn Wilson, better known in some circles as Hakim Bey.  
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		<title>An Incredible Degree of Elegance</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2009/07/21/an-incredible-degree-of-elegance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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Allowing for the identical Apollo guidance computer (AGC) in the Command Module (CM), containing a program called COLOSSUS, it is correct to say that we landed on the moon with 152 Kbytes of computer memory. 
That quote, and the link included in it, are from a paper by Don Eyles, introduced by the BBC as [...]]]></description>
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