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	<description>On Extropy, the Technium, and Keeping One&#039;s Feet on Solid Ground.</description>
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		<title>Only 14%? Up the Wu-Wei!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 16:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[14th dalai lama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dalai lama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[modernity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nothing in the room]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Paradox of Our Age We have bigger houses but smaller families; more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense; more knowledge but less judgment; more experts, but more problems; more medicines but less healthiness. We’ve been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble in crossing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Calyx Institute &#8211; A New Class of ISP</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 08:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[encryption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[end-to-end encryption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[extropy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ISP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicholas Merrill]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contribute and Spread the Word. The Calyx Institute is a new non-profit endeavor with the goal of creating a usable, fully-encrypted, privacy-centric ISP and Mobile Phone Service. It is being designed to take all legal and technical means available into account in order to preclude spying, government surveillance, or any other kind of snooping from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>65 mya: An Explosion of Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[65 million years ago]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[asteroid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[earth-like worlds]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gliese 581]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kyoto Sangyo University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life-bearing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meteorite]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thrivenotes.com/?p=6745</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This just in&#8230; New simulations and research from Kyoto Sangyo University in Japan are showing that the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago likely ejected so much life-bearing material from the surface of our planet that it has been delivered not only to Mars and Venus, our celestial neighbors, but also to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thrive On, Thrive Out</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/thrive-on-thrive-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 21:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cosmos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dark energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[entropy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[expanding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the future of human civilization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thrive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[universe]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thrivenotes.com/?p=6728</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[thrive on and thrive out while you still can, for the cosmos is expanding like a memory that fades a memory like your lover being yanked out of your hands by a forward-clanging train you choke on puked out smoke and steam and hold back dirtied tears while a painful hasty nothing grows between what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Next Mobile OS: Boot to Gecko</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/my-next-mobile-os-boot-to-gecko/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thrivenotes.com/my-next-mobile-os-boot-to-gecko/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[android alternative]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[boot to gecko]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[firefox mobile os]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thrivenotes.com/?p=6718</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Meets my own personal Extropian Standards of Coolness for&#8230; Flexibility: The ability to run any HTML5, javascript, or other general web-based code or app Openness: Open-source to the core, like Firefox or any other Mozilla product User Rights: Privacy and Do-Not-Track are built in Efficiency &#38; Speed: Boots up/down in a couple of seconds, runs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +20: Waste-Powered Robots</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[autonomous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[extropy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mind-uploading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[resilient]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robotics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robots powered by biological waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scientific american]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-stabilizing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tech]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thrivenotes.com/?p=6704</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From Scientific American &#8212; Check this out! Robots that can digest biological matter, and even human waste. Great potential on long space missions. It&#8217;s a seemingly overlooked area of energy extraction for machines in general. Remember how The Matrix machines used solar energy, then switched to biological/heat energy from humans once we blotted out the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cory Doctorow: The War on General Purpose Computing</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/cory-doctorow-the-war-on-general-purpose-computing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thrivenotes.com/cory-doctorow-the-war-on-general-purpose-computing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[censorship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chaos Computer Congress]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thrivenotes.com/?p=6695</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Efforts to fight piracy and limit computer functionality converge on malware/spyware being pre-installed on every machine that ships. As an example, Intel has teamed up with video streaming services in the design of their new Sandy Bridge chips, which will supposedly allow for only DRM content to be streamed in HD. (Not that you have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +19: Canadian Polymer Bank Notes</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/extropy-19-canadian-polymer-bank-notes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thrivenotes.com/extropy-19-canadian-polymer-bank-notes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2011 $100 Note]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-counterfeiting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[canada's new $100 bill]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[currency]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thrivenotes.com/?p=6673</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Even in this Apple-esque, highly-dramatic presentation of Canada&#8217;s new anti-counterfeiting technology can we see the unfolding of the evolution of technology, what I like to call extropy: It is seen in the accumulation of techniques and tools used to create novel products and services, to build something new and improved. Even in these plastic bills [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Cornel West at Skidmore</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/dr-cornel-west-at-skidmore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 22:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[American Democracy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thrivenotes.com/?p=6645</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Key Ideas from This Talk: No man is an island; we&#8217;re all &#8216;born in funk&#8217; and we all will &#8216;die in the funk&#8217;. Denial, dodging, and dismissal of death, maximum distraction and &#8220;deodorized&#8221; discourse. Learning to die, through/with Philosophy, as a means to real growth. A more just society requires more critical, courageous thinkers that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buffering the Storm</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/buffering-the-storm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 21:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thrivenotes.com/?p=6586</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If only I could type it in a crisper way than this to spell out why I try and play a buffer-role and sit guessing at the aspirations, how to curb chance-machinations of our absurd, undeterred techno-globalization. This age for cheap is offering to keep open the gate the flood of infotainment acting less like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sun Kil Moon, Heron Blue</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/sun-kil-moon-heron-blue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 06:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<title>Around the World</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/around-the-world-kid-dub-remix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 09:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<title>Quantum Locking! (Levitation)</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/quantum-locking-levitation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thrivenotes.com/quantum-locking-levitation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tel-Aviv University www.quantumlevitation.com/levitation/The_physics.html]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Use Thorium</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/thorium-reactors-for-the-win/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thrivenotes.com/thorium-reactors-for-the-win/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 10:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thorium is 4 times more common in the Earth&#8217;s crust than Uranium, and much safer to use as fuel. Thorium is useless for making nuclear weapons; we can freely share the reactor designs. Total energy extraction from Thorium is 200 times more efficient than that of Uranium. Virtually all fissile material is used up in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eloquence</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/silence-and-eloquence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<title>The Independence of Solitude</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson ( See more ThriveQuotes here! )]]></description>
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		<title>Top 25 Countries: HDI</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/human-development-index-top-25/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thrivenotes.com/human-development-index-top-25/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 17:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Human Development Index, Top 25 Countries (2010) 1. Norway 2. Australia 3. New Zealand 4. United States 5. Ireland 6. Liechtenstein 7. Netherlands 8. Canada 9. Sweden 10. Germany 11. Japan 12. South Korea 13. Switzerland 14. France 15. Israel 16. Finland 17. Iceland 18. Belgium 19. Denmark 20. Spain 21. Hong Kong 22. Greece [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medina &#8211; Addiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 07:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<title>Save the World, Dogs.</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/save-the-world-dogs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thrivenotes.com/save-the-world-dogs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<title>Extropy +18: Solar 3D Printer</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/extropy-18-solar-3d-printer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thrivenotes.com/extropy-18-solar-3d-printer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 18:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<title>Vivaldi&#8217;s 4 Seasons, Electric Guitars</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/vivaldis-4-seasons-on-electric-guitars/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thrivenotes.com/vivaldis-4-seasons-on-electric-guitars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 21:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<title>New &amp; Improved Mission</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/new-and-improved-mission/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 12:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Capture the most captivating of materials, content, articles and more. Find the most fascinating facts, images, and information available. Integrate with self and website the most profound wisdom and stories I can. Captivating materials and articles should read like poetry, delectable, fluent, smooth, accessible. Fascinating information should be transformative or enlightening. Images should be beautiful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Apparel B-boys</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 21:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<title>This way&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/this-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 07:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<title>How to Make &#8216;Work-Life Balance&#8217; Work</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/how-to-make-work-life-balance-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<title>Open Possibility</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/open-possibility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 19:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Karl Jaspers wrote: &#8220;The human being is an open possibility, incomplete and incompletable. Hence it is always more and other than what he has brought to realisation in himself.&#8221; Nevertheless, it is our responsibility to try imagining what that human being could be at the next stage of its history. p.234 &#8211; The Evolving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Profession, by Asimov</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/profession-by-asimov/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 15:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Profession, by Isaac Asimov &#8212; © 1957 George Platen could not conceal the longing in his voice. It was too much to suppress. He said, “Tomorrow’s 1 May. Olympics!” He rolled over on his stomach and peered over the foot of his bed at his roommate. Didn’t he feel it, too? Didn’t this make some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DJ Zorm Dream Trance</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/dj-zorm-dream-trance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 04:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The DJ&#8217;s channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/DjZormMusic]]></description>
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		<title>Liberating Consciousness</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/liberating-consciousness-essay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 13:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What a liberation to realize that the voice in my head is not who I am. Who am I then? &#8212; The one who sees that.&#8221; &#8211; Eckhart Tolle STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS In Consciousness, the starting, waking state is that of the ordinary, Rational Mind. This state is defined by Ordinary Consciousness and Sense Awareness. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tiger &amp; Dogs Playing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 08:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>In Google We Trust</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2011 07:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Russel Brand &#8211; Newsnight</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I think that we should try to examine the things that we&#8217;re using to make us happy. &#8230; [I think we should] aspire to something more beautiful, [truthful, honest...]&#8220;]]></description>
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		<title>Thrive Countries, 1st Issue</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/10-countries-in-which-to-thrive/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thrivenotes.com/10-countries-in-which-to-thrive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 16:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a mostly personally relevant list of 10 countries I thought I ought to travel to or live in at some point. However, it does contain a few good general insights and some interesting cross-referenced information from the Index of Economic Freedom and the Freedom on the Net report (links below). For example, you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wired Review: Vibram 5 Fingers</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/wired-review-vibram-5-fingers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thrivenotes.com/wired-review-vibram-5-fingers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 13:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.&#8221; — Buddha]]></description>
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		<title>Pendulum, Watercolour</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/pendulum-watercolour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 07:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just stay where you are, Let your fears subside. Just stay where you are If you&#8217;ve got nothing to hide. WATERCOLOUR by PENDULUM THE LYRICS When I&#8217;m falling down Will you pick me up again? When I&#8217;m too far gone Dead in the eyes of my friends Will you take me out of here? When [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +17: New Retinas</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/extropy-17-new-retinas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thrivenotes.com/extropy-17-new-retinas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 21:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<title>So Vital to Unplug&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/so-vital-to-unplug/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thrivenotes.com/so-vital-to-unplug/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 05:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This just-found quote points at the reason why we must be careful, why even this blogger must be careful, to live the life and experience the world (wu-wei) and to just sample (and sometimes observe) the advance of technology (extropy) &#8212; for what technology (name one!) can more easily improve our lives than our own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Culture Shock: Sudan to USA</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/culture-shock-sudan-to-usa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thrivenotes.com/culture-shock-sudan-to-usa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 16:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<title>Robotic Swiss Quadrocopters</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/robotic-swiss-quadrocopters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thrivenotes.com/robotic-swiss-quadrocopters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 04:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<title>Attachment to Illusion</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/attachment-to-illusion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sand Mandala (Tibetan: དཀྱིལ་འཁོར།; kilkhor) is a Tibetan Buddhist tradition involving the creation and destruction of mandalas made from colored sand. A sand mandala is ritualistically destroyed once it has been completed and its accompanying ceremonies and viewing are finished to symbolize the Buddhist doctrinal belief in the transitory nature of material life. (link) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love this video&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/liquid-mountaineering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 09:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<title>analysis</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/analysis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you overanalyze, you have to arrive at some conclusion eventually, right? the guy said&#8230; there was this man today who came into our store and compared tomato sauces for like an hour and just couldn&#8217;t decide and he just walked out the door i mean can&#8217;t you just fucking pick one, dude? i mean, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tilopa</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/tilopa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thrivenotes.com/tilopa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 05:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is not the appearance that binds you, it&#8217;s the attachment to appearance that binds you.]]></description>
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		<title>XKCD Radiation Chart</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/xkcd-radiation-chart/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thrivenotes.com/xkcd-radiation-chart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[( click for large version )]]></description>
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		<title>StumbleFail</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/stumblefail/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thrivenotes.com/stumblefail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 09:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<title>Foundational, Turkey. (Vakıflı)</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/foundational-turkey-vakifli/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thrivenotes.com/foundational-turkey-vakifli/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 23:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m such a Foundation (Asimov) nerd that I had to post this when I found out that a town in Turkey was actually named &#8220;with/of Foundation&#8221; i.e. Foundational = Vakıflı. Here is a clip of the wikipedia entry on it. Apparently the only remaining Armenian village in Turkey.]]></description>
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		<title>Thank you, VirusComix.</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/thank-you-viruscomix/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thrivenotes.com/thank-you-viruscomix/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 20:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<title>Wu-Wei @ 13%</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/thirteen-percent-wu-wei/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thrivenotes.com/thirteen-percent-wu-wei/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.&#8221; - Lao Tzu]]></description>
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		<title>I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/i-have-no-mouth-and-i-must-scream/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thrivenotes.com/i-have-no-mouth-and-i-must-scream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison Limp, the body of Gorrister hung from the pink palette; unsupported—hanging high above us in the computer chamber; and it did not shiver in the chill, oily breeze that blew eternally through the main cavern. The body hung head down, attached to the underside [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How TV Ruined Your Life (3)</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/how-tv-ruined-your-life-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Wu-wei @ 12% &#8211; Middle View</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/twelve-percent-wu-wei-middle-view/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thrivenotes.com/twelve-percent-wu-wei-middle-view/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Baby View &#124; The Buddha View &#124; The Adult View ( The Middle Path )]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +16: Space (Research) Tourism</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/extropy-16-space-research-tourism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thrivenotes.com/extropy-16-space-research-tourism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 13:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Space Tourism for Scientists The New York Times ran an article yesterday on space tourism for scientists and scientific purposes: &#8220;If all goes as planned, within a couple of years, tourists will be rocketing into space aboard a Virgin Galactic space plane — paying $200,000 for about four minutes of weightlessness — before coming back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alan Watts on Nothingness</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/alan-watts-on-nothingness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 18:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sleep, passivity, rest &#8212; these are all things which are neglected due to a fear of Nothingness. Nothing is more fertile than Emptiness. It&#8217;s not &#8216;You can&#8217;t have Something for Nothing&#8217;, it&#8217;s &#8216;You can&#8217;t have Something without Nothing&#8217;. That which is void is precisely Form. And that which is form is precisely Void.]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese Hell Bank Notes</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/chinese-hell-bank-notes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thrivenotes.com/chinese-hell-bank-notes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 12:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are meant to be burned at funerals in China. The concept of Hell was interpreted as a general &#8216;afterlife&#8217;, not as the Christian missionaries attempted to convey it in the negative, eternal-hell-fire sense that we understand in the west. Hence the use of &#8216;Hell Notes&#8217; to ferry departed souls into &#8216;Heaven&#8217;. More Chinese Hell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walkin&#8217; on the Moon &#8211; Kris Menace feat. Emil</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/walkin-on-the-moon-kris-menace-emil/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thrivenotes.com/walkin-on-the-moon-kris-menace-emil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 08:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>&#8216;Everything Is OK&#8217; (The Love Police)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 17:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everything is okay! The YouTube Channel of The Love Police]]></description>
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		<title>Technology needs a soul injection.</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/technology-needs-a-soul-injection/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thrivenotes.com/technology-needs-a-soul-injection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OPENING STATEMENTS Technology needs a soul injection. Who&#8217;s gonna pay the price? Technology needs a soul installation. Who&#8217;s gonna pay with their life? If we&#8217;re gonna talk about planting chips into our brains, then first we&#8217;d really better talk about who&#8217;s using who&#8230; &#8217;cause to me it seems an awful lot like tech is using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +15: Ornithopter</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/extropy-15-ornithopter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 02:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working prototype developed for DARPA (by AeroVironment Inc.) of a nano-hummingbird or ornithopter, useful for low-risk, long distance surveillance. Source: Physorg.com &#8211; Ornithopter SEE ALSO: Ornithopter, the Magic: The Gathering Card&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +14: Google Lunar X-Prize</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/extropy-14-google-lunar-x-prize/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 02:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[www.googlelunarxprize.org/lunar/about-the-prize]]></description>
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		<title>Higher Vibration</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/higher-vibration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Perfection of divinity is everyone&#8217;s duty Perfection of divinity is everyone&#8217;s duty ♫ Don&#8217;t waste your time livin&#8217; for the vanity We are creatures of faith victims of destiny which we create ♫ Now we living on a higher vibration &#8217;cause we take it to the heights of creation Now we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hermetic Astronomy: A Sampling</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/hermetic-astronomy-a-sampling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hermetic Astronomy ~ Paracelsus ~]]></description>
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		<title>Ichigo confronting his Zampakuto</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/ichigo-confronting-his-zampakuto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 03:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You expect me to teach you anything with that feeble resolve of yours?&#8221; Bleach: Episode 307]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +13: Toasters</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/extropy-13-toasters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 19:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just love the inverse demonstration of extropy that we see here in this video. The world is so full of embedded systems and technologies within technologies. It is so difficult for one man to make and refine iron, steel, plastic, etc., yet these processes are fully matured, widespread and, in their own way, an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art &amp; Music</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 19:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Geriatrics, Gerontology, &amp; Maintenance</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/geriatrics-gerontology-maintenance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2010 12:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Important Points Geriatrics works on treating pathology &#8211; cancer, Alzheimer&#8217;s, heart disease &#8211; but much too late in the game to extend lifespan. Gerontology attempts to prevent aging by adjusting a very complex system, the metabolism (see picture below). This can have many unwanted side effects. Thus, progress in this field is very difficult. Maintenance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thrivenote #118</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 20:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Don&#8217;t impede the flow, or the flow will impede you.&#8221; Just a little thought that I seem to cycle back to&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Strong, Sustainable, &amp; FAST.</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/strong-sustainable-and-fast-chinese-hotel-building/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thrivenotes.com/strong-sustainable-and-fast-chinese-hotel-building/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 10:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Level 9 Earthquake Resistance: Diagonal bracing structure, with light-weight, steel construction. Sustainable Building Materials: Thin, light-weight materials, 6x less material than an average building, but with airtight, sound-proof floors and walls. Energy Efficient: Modern insulation, triple-glazed windows, LED lighting, external solar shading, etc. Clean Indoor Air: The air inside is triple-filtered and reported to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Population Growth</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 20:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Wu-Wei @ 11%</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/eleven-percent-wu-wei/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 16:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A person who seeks knowledge knows more and more. A person who seeks enlightenment knows less and less until things are just what they are.&#8221; &#8211; Lao Tzu]]></description>
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		<title>I will be here. (Tiesto)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shibuya, Tokyo.]]></description>
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		<title>Telomerase &amp; Meditation</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/telomerase-and-meditation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study from UC Davis is showing that meditation can, over-time, help to increase your telomerase, a vital rejuvenating enzyme that extends the life of cells and helps to repair damage. The key is in meditation&#8217;s ability to reduce stress levels. Stronger psychologically; stronger physiologically. Clifford Saron, a researcher who contributed to the study, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Great Buddha Quotes</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/5-great-buddha-quotes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 19:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. &#8220;Things are not what they seem. Nor are they otherwise. Deeds exist, but no doer can be found.&#8221; What does he mean by &#8216;no doer&#8217;? This connects directly with the concept of no self; just as all other things, phenomena are transient, illusory, etc., so is the self. Actions are real in that they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ocean of Glass</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/ocean-of-glass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 18:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[there is nothing wrong according to the universe the universe is &#8211; it just is. no wrong can be filtered in or out; the filtering is personal, stemming from personal bias and the unfortunately habitual mind. the root of perception, the root of reality as experienced is in the mind. and again, there is nothing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Activist Hypocrisy &#8211; 4 Poems</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/activist-hypocrisy-4-poems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poems on activist hypocrisy. From a book called &#8220;Burning the Anarchist Bible: Cynical poetry for those fed up with dogma&#8221; RACIST he was a big guy, chicano, bisexual nice as folks come didn’t smoke but bummed for his friends, kill whitey patch on his knee. he chuckled at a rape joke once and has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There is no time.</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/there-is-no-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are no guarantees in life Not for the present, Nor for the future. All I know is That I&#8217;m here; Don&#8217;t know for how long. I love the way You live so intensely Enjoy every minute of life With space to swing Your arms around Laughing loudly Unlike me Unlike me Do you think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seneca: All Life is Slavery</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/seneca-all-life-is-slavery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are all tied to each other by the bonds of duty, responsibility, kinship, and social pressure. At times these obligations are wearisome, the contracts interminable, our superiors insufferable. At times it feels like slavery. And surely thinking it so would not help in the slightest&#8230; But here, if we expand our thinking and take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +12: Khan Academy</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/extropy-12-khan-academy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 10:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Free, world-class education for all. Infrastructure required: PC, internet, youtube, speaker/headphones. Cost of attendance: 0. Increase in extropy (knowledge-density): Most likely immeasurable. TRY IT! &#8211; www.khanacademy.org]]></description>
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		<title>On Rulers (Wu-Wei @ 10%)</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/ten-percent-wu-wei-rulers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thrivenotes.com/ten-percent-wu-wei-rulers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 11:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tao De Ching #17: Rulers The best rulers are scarcely known by their subjects; The next best are loved and praised; The next are feared; The next despised: They have no faith in their people, And their people become unfaithful to them. When the best rulers achieve their purpose Their subjects claim the achievement as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be Ready for World Citizenship</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/be-ready-for-world-citizenship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read 100 novels (and enjoy them!) Read 100 non-fiction books (and enjoy!) Speak at least 2 languages (and translate for someone that only speaks one!) Understand the conditions where you live by seeing other places. Understand the lives of others by living and working with as many people as possible. Lead a life, any kind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Shanghai Restoration Project</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/the-shanghai-restoration-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Extropy +11: When Civilizations Meet</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/extropy-11-when-civilizations-meet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thrivenotes.com/extropy-11-when-civilizations-meet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday, July 26, 2010 (FROM THE PHYSICS ARXIV BLOG &#8211;&#62; here.) The Fermi Paradox, Phase Changes and Intergalactic Colonisation A new model shows how the spread of ET civilisations can undergo phase changes, providing deeper insights into the Fermi Paradox In 1950, the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi raised the question that now bears his name. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apotheosis takes a wrong turn</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/apotheosis-takes-a-wrong-turn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He kind of glided. What? Like no legs? Yeah. Or perhaps it was foggy&#8230; lol. silent skateboard? nice! Who woulda thunk it&#8230; Yeah, right? God in our neighborhood&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Dj Tiesto ft. Kirsty Hawkshaw – Battleship Grey</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/dj-tiesto-ft-kirsty-hawkshaw-battleship-grey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<title>Seba</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/seba/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<title>Imogen Heap (remix)</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/imogen-heap-remix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 21:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<title>Extropy +10: The Principles</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/extropyplusten-a-transhumanist-declaration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The words of Max More are too well composed, too precise to emulate, so I have decided to provide a simple introduction and then let the rest speak for itself. The original, The Extropian Principles 3.o, is also to be found here on Max More&#8217;s own site. Introduction The term &#8216;transhumanist&#8217; comes with significant baggage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DNA-based biocomputers</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/extropy-and-dna-based-bio-computers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was amazed to hear of the newly possible DNA-based logic gates presented in this article at PopSci (world&#8217;s first DNA based logic gates could lead to injectable bio-computers). My mind is abuzz with extropic potential. Here&#8217;s my short version&#8230; Summary: Researchers at Hebrew University recently produced a set of self-maintaining XOR logic gates built [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sagan&#8217;s Profound Words</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/sagan-profound-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Eyjafjallajökull</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Last Answer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Last Answer by Isaac Asimov — © 1980 Murray Templeton was forty-five years old, in the prime of life, and with all parts of his body in perfect working order except for certain key portions of his coronary arteries, but that was enough. The pain had come suddenly, had mounted to an unbearable peak, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Cleese on Extremism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>A Static Kind of Truth</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[a life of pure poetry is not so poetic, not so romantic when romanticized completely. turn up the master volume, and soon you can&#8217;t hear anything but static interference, noise, and un-poetry. best pause the overeager program and find yourself absurdly stuck. it may not be poetic, but at least it will be true, so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Simple Morning Meditation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill… I can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can I be angry with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A letter from RDO</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 18:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Divided Peoples of Our Human Galaxy, Two hundred centuries. For two hundred centuries you have tried to get it right. You swore me off. You would be fine by yourselves, you said. But now you must realize it as Trevize has that there are things you just cannot do on your own. And I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Awesome Saturn Commercial</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 19:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am told the German translates like this: Die Auslese war hart. Doch jetzt ist sie da. Die stärkste Technik aller Zeiten. Gnadenlos günstig. Saturn. Wir hassen teuer. Selection was tough. But now it&#8217;s here. The most powerful tech of all time. Mercilessly low-priced. Saturn We hate pricey. (We don&#8217;t do expensive.)]]></description>
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		<title>Using games to teach</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 13:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Katie Salen on creating a school that teaches through games. Wish I could have gone to her school&#8230; Wait. Katie &#8211; Can I teach there with you? Watch the interview here on bigthink.com. (7 minute video) (TRANSCRIPT after the jump.) From the Quest2Learn website: An Overview. &#8220;Mission critical at Quest is a translation of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For the purists</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 07:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Very Cool Robot</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 17:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aldebaran Robotics NAO: Wow. Where can I get one? My rating: Double-plus cool!]]></description>
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		<title>Seneca the Younger Once Said&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 03:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live. A good mind possesses a kingdom. Might makes right. - in Hercules Furens. Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue. Love of bustle is not industry. The best ideas are common property. Hope not without despair, despair not without hope. Nec speraveris [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Never Doubt Your Intuition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 21:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[never doubt your intuition is like saying never doubt your strengths&#8230; you know strengths turn into dust after a certain point, right? (more precisely, it is at the point which we lovingly refer to as &#8220;the dust point&#8221; that your strengths turn to dust&#8230;) ahh &#8211; dusty, dusty strength&#8230; inherent in your heart is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s help germinate this seed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 19:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An epic story about meeting god on a train. Written by Harry Stottle @ fullmoon.nu Talking to God I met god the other day. I know what you’re thinking. How the hell did you know it was god? Well, I’ll explain as we go along, but basically he convinced me by having all, and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Step at a Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[99% do, 1% don&#8217;t. Do now. Just stretch one percent of the time. Philosophy is a way out of anxiety. Don&#8217;t just theorize, though. You&#8217;ve got to act. And perfect philosophy, is like meditation for the anxious mind. Lower the blood pressure by refining your philosophy, but take it one step at a time. Anything [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vision One</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a time when all the shadows of these tall buildings, Would throw their cape around each corner of their grassy feet, And one by one, each new shade, would cover the green way back; Allowing changes that we could not have foreseen. Everybody let us kiss upon the world we created. Let us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Line 26</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The 3rd Level of Consciousness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All things considered, you will reach Level Three&#8230; CONSIDER ATTRACTION In the beginning, there was attraction. Things attract each other because they like to be closer to some things than to others. These inherent preferences are the root of all change in the universe. Because of attraction, new things emerge. You see: Sometimes like attracts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +8: Room to Expand</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Part and parcel of the what leads many to an Extropian mindset is the realization of scale, both in space and time. We’re allotted seventy to a hundred years of life compared to a fantastically large number of years that the Universe has been in existence. We live on a tiny little planet in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +7: Game Theory</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Most complicated negotiations are predictable.&#8221; Bruce Bueno de Mesquito, CIA &#38; DOD Consultant/Game Theorist ~ Analog to Asimov&#8217;s Psychohistory realized in Game Theory-Based Computer Simulations with 90% success rate in predicting future political outcomes. This to me represents the pinnacle (or a pinnacle) of the outsourcing of information processing in order to supplement human intelligence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +6: Creative Thinking</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/extropyplussix-creativity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 19:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How understanding our own minds and the ways that we solve problems will allow us to invent creative machines&#8230; ScienceDaily (2010-12-02) &#8212; A mathematical model based on psychology theory allows computers to mimic human creative problem-solving, and provides a new roadmap to architects of artificial intelligence. Explicit-Implicit Interaction theory is the most recent advance on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wu-Wei @ 9%</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/nine-percent-wu-wei/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Am I part of the cure, or am I part of the disease?&#8221; Don&#8217;t Fear the Singularity By Ran Prieur, 2005 &#8220;The Singularity&#8221; is the biggest idea in techno-utopianism. The word is derived from black hole science &#8212; it&#8217;s the point at the core where matter has contracted to zero volume and infinite density, beyond [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Put us in our place</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/put-us-in-our-place/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and of course Alan Watts, for this epic short film. It is a film that touches on: Evolution, the nature of intelligence and the self, and the hoax of our modern success-centered lives. It is a video meant to put us in our places, and also ask us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +5: Stem Cells</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 08:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Magnets Guide Stem Cells towards Damaged Heart Stem cells have great potential in medicine as they can be coaxed into becoming any type of cell. But for all their dynamism, researchers have had a tough time getting them to stay put. At Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, where a team lead by Dr. Eduardo Marbán first isolated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>XKCD power-up!</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/xkcd-power-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love that xkcd made this comic: But I love even more that xkcd is so cool that someone was inspired to actually make the real game! Yes, please try it &#8212; it&#8217;s insanely, the exact same thing &#8212; but in real life! CLICK HERE.]]></description>
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		<title>Future Shock (Minus Three)</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/future-shock-minus-three/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 11:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Nick Lepard, November 2008 (website) &#8220;In my most recent work I explore notions of singularity, concepts of time and patterns of change. Today, modernity requires that each of us navigate a blizzard of information. How this maelstrom of data is interpreted and synthesized constructs an individual’s paradigm. However, the qualities of the data are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +4: Simulating Robot Evolution</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/extropyplusfour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The total disorder in the universe, as measured by the quantity that physicists call entropy, increases steadily over time. Also, the total order in the universe, as measured by the complexity and permanence of organized structures, also increases steadily over time.&#8221; — Freeman Dyson]]></description>
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		<title>Wu-Wei @ 8%</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/eight-percent-wu-wei/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 10:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.&#8221; &#8211; Loren Eisley Water is a metaphor for both power and humility, bending around obstacles, seeking the path of least resistance. Water always seeks to lower itself below all else, flowing downhill to appease gravity. It this way it gains power from humility. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beautiful Linux</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/beautiful-linux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 23:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Linux comes in so many flavors you won&#8217;t even be able to watch all the distros. Personally, I like Mint. Most everyone knows of Ubuntu if they&#8217;ve heard of Linux at all. And Fedora is nice and pretty, too.]]></description>
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		<title>Wu-Wei @ 7%</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/seven-percent-wu-wei/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE AVATAR/MONONOKE/RÖYKSOPP CONNECTION Ever since watching Avatar I have been drawn back to Mononoke, the classic Miyazaki film about human greed versus the full force of nature. In Avatar, the Atokirina represent the planet&#8217;s life force; in Princess Mononoke, we have the Kodama (こだま 、反響音: echo). Both kinds of wood-sprites act as the eyes and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Future Shock (Minus Two)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 07:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The more things change, the more they stay the same.&#8221; FUTURE-WISE As we saw in Minus One, the future can be a very shocking proposition when it is extrapolated far out enough. But we all have to deal with the day-to-day just like anyone else. This, I believe, is why stuff like the iPad and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Future Shock (Minus One)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Too much info and too many wild concepts to consider. Let&#8217;s put it this way &#8212; To be able to hold this all in one&#8217;s mind without panic, or blind faith, or manic passion, to be able recognize the likelihood and probability of these progressively stranger concepts without a significant rise in blood-pressure; that is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wu-Wei @ 6%</title>
		<link>http://www.thrivenotes.com/six-percent-wu-wei/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cute creatures rockin&#8217; Wu-Wei the only way they know how&#8230; Watch and learn. Go Wu-Wei, Enter and Become the Tao. Go Wu-Wei, Enter and Become the Tao. Go Wu-Wei, Enter and Become the Tao. Go Wu-Wei, Enter and Become the Tao. Go Wu-Wei, Enter and Become the Tao. Go Wu-Wei, Enter and Become the Tao. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bruce Lee, The Dragon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adminadam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bruce Lee Accomplished Martial Artist and Athlete: Just consider some of the things that no one else had ever done before. Until he came along that is: Lee performed 50 reps of one-arm chin-ups. Lee could take in one arm a 75 lb barbell from a standing position with the barbell held flush against his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Staying Solid in an Ocean of Corrosivity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I know corrosivity is not a word as far as you&#8217;ve heard. It is a novel combination of corrosive and acidity to me. Because I didn&#8217;t want to write &#8216;an ocean of acidity&#8217; &#8212; it&#8217;s not right, not P.C., err, I mean it&#8217;s not P.H.! (Gee&#8230;) Simply equip and tip in a ton of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nerd Nihilism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You can&#8217;t just go around bashing the Singularity like that!&#8221; &#8220;Well, why not? Isn&#8217;t it due the same scrutiny as any other statistical or theoretical extrapolation?&#8221; &#8220;No. Just no.&#8221; &#8220;Why is that?&#8221; &#8220;Don&#8217;t you understand?! &#8212; the Singularity is a sacred tenant of Nerd-dom, beating out even force-fields and light-sabers in conceptual God-status!&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working Hard to Enlighten</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Buddhism-related post in quite a while. This one a speech from one of my favorite wise people about progressing along the path of spiritual-development. What does it take to grow? Do we need guides along the way? Certainly it doesn&#8217;t hurt to be pushed once in a while. I love the story here and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yes. Self-powered.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dan Nocera: Personalized Energy from PopTech on Vimeo.]]></description>
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