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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>
		<dc:creator>84adam</dc:creator>
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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 [...]


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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 not aware of any such [...]


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		<title>Working Hard to Enlighten</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>84adam</dc:creator>
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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 [...]


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		<title>Yes. Self-powered.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>84adam</dc:creator>
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Dan Nocera: Personalized Energy from PopTech on Vimeo.
     

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		<title>Five Percent Wu-Wei</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>84adam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Way that can be experienced is not true;
The world that can be constructed is not real.
The Way manifests all that happens and may happen;
The world represents all that exists and may exist.
To experience without abstraction is to sense the world;
To experience with abstraction is to know the world.
These two experiences are indistinguishable;
Their construction differs [...]


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		<title>I Want to Be Free</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>84adam</dc:creator>
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		<title>Extropy +3</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>84adam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life is resistant to entropy. Survival of the species is genetic. And selfish self-preservation is the rule. Carried out over generations, species preserve themselves. And out of humans new forms of life are springing: tools and artificial intelligence that may choose to preserve themselves at some point and push outward into the universe, saturating the [...]


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		<title>Fools Can Be Kings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>84adam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A man can&#8217;t ride your back unless it&#8217;s bent.&#8221; &#8212; MLK
KNIGHTS OF CYDONIA, by Muse
Come ride with me through the veins of history
I&#8217;ll show you a God who falls asleep on the job
How can we win when fools can be kings?
Don&#8217;t waste your time or time will waste you
No one&#8217;s going to take me alive
The [...]


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		<title>Four Percent Wu-wei</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>84adam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without going out of your door, you can know the ways of the world. Without peeping through your window, you can see the Way of Heaven. The farther you go, the less you know. Thus, the Sage knows without traveling, sees without looking, and achieves without struggle. — Lao Tse

     

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		<title>The Last Question</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>84adam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Last Question by Isaac Asimov — © 1956
The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The question came about as a result of a five dollar bet over highballs, and it happened this way:
Alexander Adell and [...]


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		<title>Three Percent Wu-wei</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>84adam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wu-wei is the principle of non-action. It is an integral part of Taoist philosophy and is a non-dualistic form of action; by choosing to not act, the Tao, or energy of the cosmos, flows unimpeded through you. This is a good state to be in. And this is why wu-wei is so important. One can [...]


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		<title>Zoom In: Cell Size and Scale</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 07:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>84adam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Begin.
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