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		<title>(more) On Zimbabwe</title>
		<link>http://eskeptic.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/zimbabwe-a-thought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To demonstrate its broad applicability, Aflatoun [a financial-literacy programme designed for six- to 14-year-olds] was piloted in economies beset by different difficulties. Zimbabwe, for example, was selected for its astronomical inflation rate. The course was adapted to encourage children to save by buying assets such as pencils, which, unlike the country&#8217;s money, could be a store [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eskeptic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1184834&amp;post=256&amp;subd=eskeptic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thought for the new year</title>
		<link>http://eskeptic.wordpress.com/2007/12/23/thoughts-for-the-new-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Question posed in L’Intransigeant during the summer of 1922: &#8220;An American scientist announces that the world will end, or at least that such a huge part of the continent will be destroyed, and in such a sudden way, that death will be the certain fate of hundreds of millions of people. If this prediction were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eskeptic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1184834&amp;post=255&amp;subd=eskeptic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Feeding the poor: A sustainable contribution model</title>
		<link>http://eskeptic.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/feeding-the-poor-a-sustainable-contribution-model/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.freerice.com/  Give free rice to hungry people by playing a simple word game.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eskeptic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1184834&amp;post=254&amp;subd=eskeptic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Posting for October is effectively over</title>
		<link>http://eskeptic.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/posting-for-october-is-effectively-over/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Off for a month of gallivanting around East Asia, but I am leaving a barrage of questions in my absence&#8230; From Radical Evolution: “Remember the comic-book superheroes of the 1930’s and 1940’s, from Superman to Wonder Woman? Most of their superpowers right now either exist or are in engineering. If you can watch a car chase [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eskeptic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1184834&amp;post=249&amp;subd=eskeptic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Seriously?</title>
		<link>http://eskeptic.wordpress.com/2007/10/04/seriously/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 23:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[13Fs, and other public displays of his thought process [try here and here] reveal–perhaps–the mind of a type of man Immanuel Kant may have envisioned when he composed, embedded within a larger answer, the following response to the question: “What is Enlightenment?”  For there will always be a few who think for themselves, even among [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eskeptic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1184834&amp;post=253&amp;subd=eskeptic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Evolutionary Algorithms</title>
		<link>http://eskeptic.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/evolutionary-algorithms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Faster and cheaper than ever, supercomputers used to simulate the evolutionary process (many millions of generations/iterations) in technological design are now innovating within the span of days: Among [the devices] revealed at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference held in London this summer were long-life USB memory sticks, superfast racing-yacht keels, ultra-high-bandwidth optical fibres, high [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eskeptic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1184834&amp;post=250&amp;subd=eskeptic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anatomy of a “fire sale”</title>
		<link>http://eskeptic.wordpress.com/2007/10/02/anatomy-of-a-%e2%80%9cfire-sale%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 04:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[IMF, September 2007 Global Financial Stability Report]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eskeptic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1184834&amp;post=251&amp;subd=eskeptic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Überreicht: Das Otaku</title>
		<link>http://eskeptic.wordpress.com/2007/09/29/uberreicht-das-otaku/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These (↲-anyone want to translate the Spanish for me?,↓) guys (along with the Craigslist posters) may be the manifestation of some sort of twisted Malthusian population equilibrator:   “Naruse is part of a mushrooming fantasy world in the city&#8217;s Akihabara district, where make-believe maids are spilling out from their original novelty cafes to lure mostly male [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eskeptic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1184834&amp;post=248&amp;subd=eskeptic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kahneman, On thinking</title>
		<link>http://eskeptic.wordpress.com/2007/09/28/kahneman-on-thinking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Lots of very very good people went on with the missing parameter for three hundred years—theory has the blinding effect that you don&#8217;t even see the problem, because you are so used to thinking in its terms. There is a way it&#8217;s always done, and it takes somebody who is naïve, as I was, to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eskeptic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1184834&amp;post=247&amp;subd=eskeptic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stephen Roach Op-Ed Piece</title>
		<link>http://eskeptic.wordpress.com/2007/09/25/stephen-roach-op-ed-piece/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roach reminds readers (ahem, the FOMC) that altruism is not the impetus driving foreign entities to fund our nation’s debt, and that “no nation has ever devalued its way into prosperity.” [NYT]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=eskeptic.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1184834&amp;post=246&amp;subd=eskeptic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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