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		<title>Almost Contextless Links from Summer 2009</title>
		<link>http://beyondrivalry.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/almost-contextless-links-from-summer-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So many links saved up in bookmarks, so little time to synthesis them. So without further ado, these are some articles and essays and such that I found interesting during the summer of 2009.
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Even Now, There’s Risk in ‘Driving While Black&#8217;, by Brent Staples, June 14, 2009, NYT:
&#8220;Being black in America today,” Ms. Pager writes, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondrivalry.wordpress.com&blog=5974704&post=2881&subd=beyondrivalry&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>November</title>
		<link>http://beyondrivalry.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/november/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lots of things in my &#8216;blog fodder&#8217; list but either too busy or too tired to do it right now.
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Meanwhile, it&#8217;s November, the perfect time for poetry and images.
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&#8220;November&#8217;s sky is chill and drear,
November&#8217;s leaf is red and sear.&#8221;
-   Sir Walter Scott
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&#8220;November comes
And November goes,
With the last red berries
And the first white snows.
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		<title>Psychopaths: Fearful but Distracted?</title>
		<link>http://beyondrivalry.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/psychopaths-just-distracted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Studies have suggested that psychopaths may not feel fear &#8212; but perhaps they &#8220;just find it harder to pay attention to what is scary and what is not.&#8221;
In this study of 125 male prisoners who scored as psychopathic (looking at levels of narcissism, impulsivity and callousness), fear-potentiated startle responses (in the form of blinks) were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondrivalry.wordpress.com&blog=5974704&post=2863&subd=beyondrivalry&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Status, Dominance and Motive Blindness</title>
		<link>http://beyondrivalry.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/status-dominance-and-motive-blindness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Robin Hanson at Overcoming Bias, commenting on a study about assessment of social power:
&#8220;Humans clearly attend closely to status, an important part of status is dominance, and a key way we show dominance is to tell others what to do.  Whoever gets to tell someone else what to do is dominating, and affirming their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondrivalry.wordpress.com&blog=5974704&post=2859&subd=beyondrivalry&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Searching for a Sectional</title>
		<link>http://beyondrivalry.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/searching-for-a-sectional/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We spent five hours we&#8217;ll never get back yesterday shopping for a sectional for the family room. I&#8217;ve never wanted one before but since I first saw this room, it&#8217;s the only thing I&#8217;ve been able to imagine here.  Imagination ≠ actuality.
First, they&#8217;re not cheap. I&#8217;ve found only one I really like (this Norwalk Horizon [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondrivalry.wordpress.com&blog=5974704&post=2842&subd=beyondrivalry&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One Week</title>
		<link>http://beyondrivalry.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/one-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve lived in the new house for one week now, as of 4 p.m. today. My feelings and thoughts so far:
In general, the house is feeling like a home but New London doesn&#8217;t. I miss my old town  and my friends, routines, and places there.
What I miss about the old house:

the deck (a lot): being [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondrivalry.wordpress.com&blog=5974704&post=2836&subd=beyondrivalry&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Moving Experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been in the throes of buying a house and moving for the last month or so, with all the packing, paperwork, logistical planning, reconnaissance, and other organising and agonising involved in that endeavor.
Finally, last Friday, we moved, and this week is devoted to unpacking, arranging the house, finding a vet, calming the dog, starting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondrivalry.wordpress.com&blog=5974704&post=2828&subd=beyondrivalry&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Magic Hat Bottlecaps Found While Packing</title>
		<link>http://beyondrivalry.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/magic-hat-bottlecaps-found-while-packing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the Cost of the thing you have Lost?
The Devil is in the Potato Salad.
Find Salvation through acts of Creation.
 Tagged: adages, bottlecaps, creation, devil, magic hat, salvation, sayings      <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondrivalry.wordpress.com&blog=5974704&post=2823&subd=beyondrivalry&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>30 Thoughts in 30 Mins</title>
		<link>http://beyondrivalry.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/30-thoughts-in-30-mins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or rather, 18 thoughts in 30 mins, from April. I found this list (inspired by Dave Pollard&#8217;s post) when I was getting things ready to pack for my trip to NH tomorrow to buy a(nother) house!
I remember, in April, not being able to think of anything new after a while. My brain went kind of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondrivalry.wordpress.com&blog=5974704&post=2818&subd=beyondrivalry&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Good, the Bad, and Wishful Thinking</title>
		<link>http://beyondrivalry.wordpress.com/2009/09/06/the-good-the-bad-and-wishful-thinking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Jane Haddam&#8217;s Living Witness (2009), crime fiction set in small town America about tensions between secular humanism and simple-minded Christianity, small town prejudices and newcomer arrogance, the pride of ignorance and the benefit of a liberal education, and the science of evolution and the morality of &#8216;Intelligent Design&#8217;:
&#8220;&#8216;The world is never what we expect [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=beyondrivalry.wordpress.com&blog=5974704&post=2808&subd=beyondrivalry&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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