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	<title>Memento Mari</title>
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	<description>A reminder that you must eat marie biscuits!</description>
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		<title>You can never leave it up to the politicians</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#60;This written in response to reading a post on Law24&#62;
If you believe in democracy you have to concede that ultimately, the people who are elected into office represent the people who you voted for. I think the mistake that is made is thinking that politicians are a different kind of people. We hold them up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.therandomist.com/mementomari/2010/04/you-can-never-leave-it-up-to-the-politicians/</link>
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		<title>Love is only a feeling&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Drifting a away)
&#60;Queue visuals of a sea of lighters&#8230;.&#62;
So basically, my sister gave me an assignment yesterday and this is my response. The question was:
Is love, a feeling, an action or a choice?
My initial reaction is why can&#8217;t love be all 3? Why can&#8217;t they be 3 different facets of the same diamond? It seems [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.therandomist.com/mementomari/2008/09/love-is-only-a-feeling/</link>
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		<title>Counter-Intuitivity (Pt 3)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you ever think there must be a word or phrase for that concept? You know, like vituperation or some other word that&#8217;s difficult to pronounce or spell? Like, what do you call it when you observe things for yourself and then use that as a bias and infer things of other people? Oh that&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.therandomist.com/mementomari/2008/08/counter-intuitivity-pt-3/</link>
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		<title>Anthropology and social morals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, last year sometime, I read a story about a Brazilian tribe and the ritual infanticide they perform. I couldn&#8217;t really understand or process what I was reading. What was especially disturbing to me was this quote:
&#8220;We are fighting against doctors and anthropologists who say we must not interfere with the culture of the people.&#8221;
Are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.therandomist.com/mementomari/2008/04/anthropology-and-social-morals/</link>
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		<title>Context matters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I happened across this story awhile ago about Joshua Bell, a world-class violinist, playing in a subway:
On that Friday in January, those private questions would be answered in an unusually public way. No one knew it, but the fiddler standing against a bare wall outside the Metro in an indoor arcade at the top of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.therandomist.com/mementomari/2007/05/context-matters/</link>
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		<title>Atheism halfway between pro-choice and pro-life?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know this is a touchy subject so I&#8217;m going to be as diplomatic as possible in the interest of (hopefully) promoting discussion. To be honest, I&#8217;m still new to this being an atheist thing and I find that I&#8217;m still changing viewpoints that I have long since held because I&#8217;ve reinterpreted them in terms [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.therandomist.com/mementomari/2007/04/atheism-halfway-between-pro-choice-and-pro-life/</link>
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		<title>James Gray missing or The Answer to the Trolley Problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DISCLAIMER: I hope people will read this post the way it was intended. I didn&#8217;t know James Gray so I don&#8217;t have any personal attachment to him. That, however, doesn&#8217;t mean that I don&#8217;t find his disappearance tragic and hope for his safe return. 
There was a lot of buzz in my myopic view of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.therandomist.com/mementomari/2007/03/james-gray-missing-or-the-answer-to-the-trolley-problem/</link>
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		<title>Counter-Intuitivity (Pt 2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Previous post on this subject can be found here.
So awhile ago, the BBC ran a story on bicycle helmets, the byline of which read as follows:
Cyclists who wear protective helmets are more likely to be knocked down by passing vehicles, new research from Bath University suggests.
It turns out that cars tend to give cyclists more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.therandomist.com/mementomari/2007/02/counter-intuitivity-pt-2/</link>
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		<title>Frivolous Journalism &amp; Technology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my previous post, I included another topic I&#8217;ve got a pet peeve about. Technology and bad journalism. Today I read another article by the great social communities commentator, Clay Shirky. He&#8217;s been following the press regarding Linden Labs, Second Life:
Second Life (abbreviated SL) is an online virtual world provided by Linden Lab which came [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.therandomist.com/mementomari/2007/01/frivolous-journalism-technology/</link>
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		<title>Perspective &amp; Global Warming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure everyone can agree that the media would not be where it is today if it weren&#8217;t for sensationalism. I used to really fear the effect that Global Warming was going to have on earth if we didn&#8217;t do something. I remember, after hearing about CFCs for the first time, running around the house, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.therandomist.com/mementomari/2007/01/perspective-global-warming/</link>
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