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	<description>an "insect psychologist" contemplates human behaviour</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 21:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Are You &#8220;Slow&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/are-you-slow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 00:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the &#8220;slow one&#8221; in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forms Most Beautiful</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/forms-most-beautiful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 00:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lining Things Ups]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Wordless Wednesday]]></category>

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		<title>&#8220;CATS ARE NICE.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/cats-are-nice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 00:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cats]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Geeks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I meant,&#8221; said Iplsore bitterly, &#8220;what is there in this world that makes living worthwhile?&#8221;
Death thought about it. &#8216;CATS&#8217;, he said eventually, &#8220;CATS ARE NICE.&#8221;
~ Terry Pratchett
Two great videos about two great things we love, Geeks and Cats.
This first one is captioned; Data is trying to train his cat, Spot. Well, that was the plan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maths * Chem = Ranting^2</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2008/05/10/maths-chem-ranting2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 17:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why are so many math books poorly written?  Even many of the physical sciences books seem to have this terrible dichotomy between the text explaining the concepts, and the text explaining the calculations.  I suspect it&#8217;s partly  because one person is writing the conceptual text, and another person is writing the calculations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Don&#8217;t Say</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2008/05/10/you-dont-say/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 01:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“How can you not tell me when you are flunking English?!”
&#8220;Can&#8217;t you ever do anything right?&#8221;
“Do you really want to fail 8th-grade math and take it over again?!”
There is no answer that is going to be acceptable to anyone. I mean, would you go up to your parents and say, “I really want to fail [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Erudition / Inteligibility Check</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/erudition-inteligibility-check/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 13:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a question for you all!  Shall we take a vote?
So. The other day I came across the following widget on someone&#8217;s blog and found it intriguing; you can get your blog rated for its reading level!  I plugged my general blog URL in, and got this, which I then posted on [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">blog readability test</media:title>
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		<title>It&#8217;s A System For Tubes</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/its-a-system-for-tubes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 04:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Florida Swamp of Superstition</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/the-florida-swamp-of-superstition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 03:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>qw88nb88</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[OMG]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I swear, this country is getting more nucking futz every week.
In Land O&#8217; Lakes, Florida, a substitute teacher named Jim Pikulas was fired for wizardry.  Meaning, he briefly showed a class how to do a bit of sleight-of-hand.
Pat Sinclair, who oversees substitute teachers in the Pasco County School District, was on the phone. She [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home on the Range</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/home-on-the-range/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 16:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
It&#8217;s spring, and with spring we were once again entertaining the invasion of the Little Black Ants*.  (Yes indeedy, sometimes the common names of insects are actually straightforward, and we have things like Little Black Ants or Soft Brown Scale.)   Every year I put out the bait traps and spend several days [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catapulting to Conclusions</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/catapulting-to-conclusions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 18:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because you can get there so much faster if you use a big machine to throw you right over annoying factual hurdles in your way.
I&#8217;ve been meaning to dissect this issue for over a week, but a lot of things have been happening over here. A recent news story has prompted a lot of discussion, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Potpourri</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/potpourri/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 22:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updates on several stories:
In a post from almost a year ago (&#8220;That Kind&#8220;), I discussed three cases of discrimination against autistics. Cindy Earnshaw was an animal control officer and has Asperger&#8217;s, and is now filing a suit against her former employer, the city of Overland Park.
Another old post (the wheels of law grind v e r [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;i&#8217;m going to ghana, why take garlic pill&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/im-going-to-ghana-why-take-garlic-pill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 05:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now if you guessed that cryptic headline means this is another issue of Weird Search Terms, then you&#8217;re right!  (I&#8217;ve plenty of serious posts to write, but am not feeling spiffy, so I&#8217;m posting this instead.)
For those of you who aren&#8217;t familiar with such, about once a month I make &#8220;Dada-ist&#8221; poems out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feeling sluggish</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/feeling-sluggish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>BADD But Not Rude</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/badd-but-not-rude/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
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I did it!
Today I actually put into action my previous plan.  It wasn&#8217;t long* or eloquent, but it was polite.  A student made a remark about doing something &#8220;retarded&#8221;, and I asked in a sympathetic tone,
&#8220;Please don&#8217;t use that word.  You can say you&#8217;re doing something foolish, or that you&#8217;re tired, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clonal antibodies</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/clonal-antibodies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Prosopagnosia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Clonal antibodies&#8221; was the phrase that came to mind.  Which really had nothing to do with the news image I was seeing, it was just my brain doing the AD/HD-randomizer trick again.
Or, maybe the words did have something to do with the photograph. I was looking at an AP Photo by Tony Gutierrez, one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skeptic&#8217;s Circle #85: Looking under rocks</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/skeptics-circle-85-looking-under-rocks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
It&#8217;s amazing what you can find if you start looking under rocks.  You can find isopods, fossils, a spare key to the front door, ant colonies, Hitler Zombies &#8230; and of course, the inevitable proof of physics (F = m*a) if you stumble and &#8220;OW!&#8221; 
Today the Skeptic&#8217;s Circle meets out on the rocky [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In which I am Stiff</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/in-which-i-am-stiff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is morning after some afternoon yard work (a couple hours spent lopping back a shrub by 2/3, and then cutting down those branches for pickup), and I am waiting for arthritis medicine to kick in.
Then I realise that it has. Enough time has passed, and this is &#8220;better&#8221; (at least for the medicinally-mediated improvement). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New season, eternal science illiteracy</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2008/04/21/new-season-eternal-science-illiteracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cognitive biases]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s spring for sure because the frogs and toads have been singing, the daffodils and dandelions and forsythia are blooming, and it&#8217;s impossible to keep my nails clean. Earlier today I was able to get this shot of the chief noisemaker from the backyard pondette; it&#8217;s the American Toad (cleverly named Bufo americanus, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bugs in the System</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/bugs-in-the-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 02:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m exhausted and permanently chilled, dunno why; hopefully I&#8217;m not coming down with some &#8220;bug&#8221;.  But here are some great images from around the Web:
Bug Dreams has a fabulous closeup-shot, partially described as, &#8220;A Sawfly larva dwarfs an adult fly in this demonstration of a Vulcan mind meld.&#8221;
I can haz LOL Invertebrates?  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>12 Ways to Annoy Your Asperger&#8217;s / Autistic Pal</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/12-ways-to-annoy-your-aspergers-autistic-pal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Not in order of importance.)
1. Make chit-chat about events in the news related to sports, celebrities or other obscure pop-culture subjects before the first cup of tea or coffee.
2. Insist on eating out at Chuck-E-Cheese or a similar place full of flashing lights, competing noises, and crowds of loud, shrieking children running around.
3. Serve them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Odd One Out</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/odd-one-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>

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		<title>Don&#8217;t say that word</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/dont-say-that-word/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am fetching one of my teaching props, or retreating to the whiteboard to make a quick diagram &#8230; just doing something besides speaking at the moment, when one of my students accidentally knocks over her soda can.
&#8220;Sorry!  Just a retarded moment there,&#8221; she apologises into the sudden quiet, snatching the can upright and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DIY WST DADA</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/diy-wst-dada/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last time I posted my Weird Search Terms as dada-ist poems, I thought to myself,  why should I have all the fun? This time I&#8217;m posting my WST in a list for you to enjoy.
Make some poems of your own (as many as you like), and post them in the Comments section!  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shucks, not Disabled</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/shucks-not-disabled/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of all the people in the world, my eldest would be the least likely to be dismayed by becoming a &#8220;wheelie&#8221;.  Every time we visited the science museum in Denver, dad and I could always count on at least a solid hour of book-reading time as the kids played with the wheelchairs in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More &#8220;Trap Bias&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/more-trap-bias/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever I read statistics about the &#8220;increasing rates of autism&#8221;, I heave a big sigh. Those statements invariable contain a whole number of assumptions, many of them flat-out wrong, or at least unexamined.  In the epidemiological data, there are diagnostic issues and census issues and statistical issues and of course, the inevitable agenda issues [...]]]></description>
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