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		<title>Profession, by Asimov</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 15:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Foundational, Turkey. (Vakıflı)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 23:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
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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>The Last Answer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
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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>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>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>The Last Question</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Four Laws of Robotics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With increasingly subtle moves, the players in Asimov&#8217;s epic Foundation and Earth are confronted with the daunting decision of whether to initiate an all-encompassing ethical framework, one which just might direct humanity into an acceptable future. The agents of change go unnamed for those who have yet to read it. Dr. Isaac Asimov, in his [...]]]></description>
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