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		<title>The Third Man&#8230; neurological defect or a glitch in The Matrix?</title>
		<link>http://brokenspines.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/the-third-man-neurological-defect-or-a-glitch-in-the-matrix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt H.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With only 22 hours to spare I just finished our next tome on the existence of the Third Man. Author John Geiger distills the phenomenon of sensing the presence of another being with us during times of stress or panic as not a guardian angel or religious savior but as a neurological defect that enables [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brokenspines.wordpress.com&blog=1078006&post=854&subd=brokenspines&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recession Holding Back Education Too&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://brokenspines.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/recession-holding-back-education-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt H.</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[federal stimulus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Gladwell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outliers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[summer school]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Great&#8230; not only is the recession hurting my income today but it is likely to have a much larger economic impact on education (and thus earning potential) of future generations.  It a NY Times article last week titled &#8220;Facing Deficits, Some States Cut Summer School&#8221; many schools are cutting back or closing their summer school programs to save [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brokenspines.wordpress.com&blog=1078006&post=709&subd=brokenspines&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Close Enough to Free to Round Down</title>
		<link>http://brokenspines.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/close-enough-to-free-to-round-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bobbyjones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mike B.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Anderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Ariely]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Gladwell]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Malcolm Gladwell, a Broken Spines favorite, provides a nice counterpoint to the digital age mantra of &#8220;build it and they will come&#8221; as articulated in Chris Anderson&#8217;s new book: &#8220;Free: the Future of a Radical Price.&#8220; 
Anderson describes an experiment conducted by the M.I.T. behavioral economist Dan Ariely, the author of “Predictably Irrational.” Ariely offered a group [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brokenspines.wordpress.com&blog=1078006&post=691&subd=brokenspines&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>10,000 Hours of Deliberate, Strenuous and Boring Practice</title>
		<link>http://brokenspines.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/10000-hours-of-deliberate-strenuous-and-boring-practice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 16:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bobbyjones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mike B.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Brooks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Coyle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geoff Colvin]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brokenspines.wordpress.com/?p=634</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The next Broken Spines bout is on &#8220;Outliers&#8221; by Malcolm Gladwell.  Basically Gladwell debunks the myth that great people are innately smarter or more capable than the rest of us.  He references research that shows that 10,000 hours of practice are necessary before mastering anything.
David Brooks writes in his column this morning that this research [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brokenspines.wordpress.com&blog=1078006&post=634&subd=brokenspines&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Clean Coal Unrealistic?</title>
		<link>http://brokenspines.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/clean-coal-unrealistic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve M.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now I know there are some with a vested in clean coal, but this is a pretty scathing article from the Economist.  True?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brokenspines.wordpress.com&blog=1078006&post=556&subd=brokenspines&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jon Stewart goes &#8220;mad&#8221; on Jim Cramer?</title>
		<link>http://brokenspines.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/jon-stewart-goes-mad-on-jim-cramer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt H.</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brokenspines.wordpress.com/?p=550</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For those who missed The Daily Show last night it was awesome&#8230; Jon Stewart took it to Jim Cramer and CNBC on the lack of &#8220;financial reporting&#8221; on their supposed &#8220;financial news&#8221; cable network.  Not to be a spoiler&#8230; but there are some great video clips of Cramer off air.  Take 20 minutes of your day [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brokenspines.wordpress.com&blog=1078006&post=550&subd=brokenspines&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where&#8217;s Amazon&#8217;s Spine? Don&#8217;t give up on Kindle-Talk!</title>
		<link>http://brokenspines.wordpress.com/2009/02/28/wheres_amazons_spine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt H.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Amazon Kindle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt H.]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brokenspines.wordpress.com/?p=543</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the WSJ, Amazon is conceding audio rights with the Kindle II.  They are going to allow authors and publishers the ability to opt-out of the text-to-speech future.   I am very close to buying the Kindle and this was a compelling feature!  I get that the publishers are worried about the premium that they get [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brokenspines.wordpress.com&blog=1078006&post=543&subd=brokenspines&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Death Knell for Print News</title>
		<link>http://brokenspines.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/death-knell-for-print-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bobbyjones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mike B.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minnesota]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a lot of hand wringing about the decline and fall of print newspapers.  I canceled my subscription to the Minneapolis Star Tribune over a year ago because good writers and local content were harder and harder to find (not to mention the dearth of international news).  But instead of giving up on print [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brokenspines.wordpress.com&blog=1078006&post=482&subd=brokenspines&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why We Will Perish</title>
		<link>http://brokenspines.wordpress.com/2009/01/06/why-we-will-perish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bobbyjones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Meaning of Life]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eduardo Velasquez]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brokenspines.wordpress.com/?p=475</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Eduardo Velasquez&#8217;s &#8220;Consumer&#8217;s Guide to the Apocolypse&#8221; investigates the culture wars with improbable evidence from angst ridden pop songs from Cold Play and Tori Amos and the writings of Tom Wolfe and Chuck Palahniuk.
&#8220;we discover that the antagonisms that fuel the current cultural wars stem from the same source. Enthusiastic religions and dogmatic science, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brokenspines.wordpress.com&blog=1078006&post=475&subd=brokenspines&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wishing on a Tsar</title>
		<link>http://brokenspines.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/wishing-on-a-tsar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bobbyjones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fight Club]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fight Club&#8217;s upcoming bout is on &#8220;Time for a Model Change&#8221; by Graeme Maxton and John Wormald, two car industry veterans and writers for the Economist.  So, I thought it was fitting that this morning&#8217;s Business View in the Economist was an entertaining review of current status of Detroit bail out.
The automakers are arguing that unlike [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brokenspines.wordpress.com&blog=1078006&post=439&subd=brokenspines&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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