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		<title>Old videos I&#8217;ve been thinking about</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like this guy&#8217;s take on things. Enjoy.
-Peter


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		<link>http://thebigupshot.com/archives/758</link>
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		<title>Tea Parties and the hunger for meaning, intimacy and social power</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had written off the “Tea Party” as the right-wing equivalent of a sale on anarchy T-Shirts. Corporate sponsored populist rage does not a “movement” make. It&#8217;s viral marketing on behalf of the Right Wing directed at conspiracy theorists. However, the Reverend Billy Talen of the Church of Stop Shopping has a different, interesting take. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thebigupshot.com/archives/755</link>
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		<title>Coffee makes us happy</title>
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As if we didn&#8217;t already know, coffee makes us happy. Actually, any warm drink would do, it seems. And it&#8217;s not so much happy as it is cooperative and trustful. It&#8217;s Science!
Neuroscience Marketing reminded me of this phenomenon. I saw it first in a documentary about making decisions. It seems that the NYT noticed it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thebigupshot.com/archives/749</link>
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		<title>Screw Greenpeace &#8211; more nuclear!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	I do not support Greenpeace. That organization has been really pushing itself near the U. of Texas campus lately, and I do not like it. If the environmental situation is as bad as some would have us believe (have a look at what the UK&#8217;s top science advisor has to say) then we are on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thebigupshot.com/archives/745</link>
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		<title>On Standing Desks</title>
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Arguably not a strong selling point, Donald Rumsfeld is known to use a standing desk. You may not like the man, but anyone has to admit that he got stuff done. I read somewhere that some of the Founding Fathers also favored them. According to wikipedia, they were popular in the 1700&#8217;s, so maybe that&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thebigupshot.com/archives/738</link>
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		<title>Review of Steve Pavlina&#8217;s “Personal Development for Smart People”</title>
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S. Pavlina wrote  this book,  “Personal Development for Smart People,” in the same field as 7 Habits, which I reviewed earlier. The 7 Habits has a somewhat paternal tone, which I think puts off some readers. I like Steve Pavlina&#8217;s “Personal Development for Smart People” because it is written much more from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thebigupshot.com/archives/733</link>
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		<title>From Chandler to Sunbird, Goosync and my Nokia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some time back I posted a little review of my experience with Chandler and the Getting Things Done. I liked Chandler, but it ended up being a bit slow for my old PC. I found the Lightning add on for Thunderbird, which is an implementation of Sunbird, the Mozilla calendar. After having some installation problems [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thebigupshot.com/archives/727</link>
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		<title>Nootropics 2010: Starting the year off smartly</title>
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I&#8217;m in the mood to look at nootropics (smart drugs) again. Here are some things I think are good and that should be harmless at the recommended levels on the package. I&#8217;m not a physician, so don&#8217;t take my word for it.
Non-synthetic: I have tried these and found a subtle effect.
Fish oil (inexpensive suplement)
A good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thebigupshot.com/archives/717</link>
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		<title>Review: Surviving America&#8217;s Depression Epidemic</title>
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The commodification of relationships hurts them. In Surviving America&#8217;s Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy Bruce Levine  discusses how the patient-psychiatrist relationship has been undermined by consumerism. On one hand,  managed health care demands snappy diagnoses and generic prescriptions – not exactly a fertile scenario [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thebigupshot.com/archives/709</link>
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		<title>Amazing first decade, futurists, and suffering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Jester has has his time for long enough. Once he crosses the line into flagrant paranoia, I have to step in. 
It&#8217;s a new year and a new decade. The decade might have been better for Science (still no flying cars) but all-in-all, I&#8217;m pretty happy. We&#8217;ve seen tissue engineering come a long way [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thebigupshot.com/archives/700</link>
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