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		<title>Benevolent Statism vs. Religious Freedom</title>
		<link>http://arcaneknowledge.org/log/?p=247</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 03:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Castellano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those who are generally unsympathetic toward organized religion may be tempted to dismiss or belittle the recent furor over the Obama administration&#8217;s mandate that all employers, including religiously-affiliated institutions, must provide coverage for sterilization, contraception and abortifacients. From a hostile secular liberal perspective, any opposition to this measure must be grounded in an irrational desire ]]></description>
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		<title>When Mathematics Fails as Theology</title>
		<link>http://arcaneknowledge.org/log/?p=241</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Castellano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is fitting that the failed California doomsday prophet should have his formal education in engineering rather than theology, since his contorted interpretation of the Bible relied on a hermeneutic that would make mathematics theologically informative. While it is easy to ridicule his particular belief, the mentality that created it is quite widespread, and can ]]></description>
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		<title>Bin Laden&#8217;s Protectors in Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://arcaneknowledge.org/log/?p=234</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 19:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Castellano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After a predictable wave of jingoistic euphoria, the death of Osama bin Laden has raised some troubling questions about Pakistan and discredited a lot of the previous conventional wisdom about his whereabouts. To summarize what we know:

Bin Laden was not constantly on the move, but had stayed in his final location for several years.
He was ]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on Egypt</title>
		<link>http://arcaneknowledge.org/log/?p=230</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Castellano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As a rule, the masses will not revolt against even the worst government unless they are starving, and Egypt is no exception. Having endured the unpopular Mubarak regime for 30 years, Egyptians did not suddenly discover the internet or develop a stronger taste for democracy. What has happened in recent months is that food prices ]]></description>
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		<title>Parsing Is Not Understanding</title>
		<link>http://arcaneknowledge.org/log/?p=225</link>
		<comments>http://arcaneknowledge.org/log/?p=225#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Castellano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The substantial advances in natural language processing made by IBM&#8217;s &#8220;Watson&#8221; supercomputer, while genuinely impressive, have unfortunately given rise to exaggerated claims of the sort that is all too common in computer science. Our tendency to anthropomorphize our creations has led many to uncritically claim that Watson has &#8220;intelligence&#8221; or is able to understand &#8220;meaning&#8221; ]]></description>
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		<title>Leaks in Government Intelligence</title>
		<link>http://arcaneknowledge.org/log/?p=220</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 18:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Castellano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The WikiLeaks scandal is exposing the internal contradictions of liberal democracy, which pretends to promote an open society while its heavily entrenched power structure relies on coercion and espionage. The hypocrisy of Western democracies is not a new thing; in fact, we can turn to the revolutionary movements of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to ]]></description>
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		<title>Invasion of the Body Scanners</title>
		<link>http://arcaneknowledge.org/log/?p=209</link>
		<comments>http://arcaneknowledge.org/log/?p=209#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2010 10:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Castellano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A funny thing happened on the way to the airport: the American public has finally stopped its docile submission to the ludicrous security measures imposed by the Transportation Security Administration, a division of Homeland Security. The last straw apparently is the new &#8220;virtual strip search&#8221; body scanning being installed by the hundreds in airports throughout ]]></description>
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		<title>Cancer: A Disease of Civilization</title>
		<link>http://arcaneknowledge.org/log/?p=205</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Castellano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The only thing surprising about the Villanova study indicating that &#8220;cancer-causing factors are limited to societies affected by modern industrialization&#8221; is that this is actually considered news. It has long been known that the incidence of cancer is extremely small in pre-industrial societies, nearly non-existent. In order to defend the current culture of emphasizing intervention ]]></description>
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		<title>Cooling the Global Warming Rhetoric</title>
		<link>http://arcaneknowledge.org/log/?p=186</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 19:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Castellano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There was no global warming from 2001 through 2009, yet we are now told that this past decade was the warmest on record. Both assertions are factually correct, though they paint very different pictures of the state of the world&#8217;s climate.

As we can see in the above graph, 1998 was an unusually hot year (due ]]></description>
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		<title>The Chimera of Life on Mars</title>
		<link>http://arcaneknowledge.org/log/?p=154</link>
		<comments>http://arcaneknowledge.org/log/?p=154#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Castellano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last November, NASA scientists rehashed an old claim &#8211; no, not that the polar cap will disappear in four years &#8211; but that there is evidence of life on Mars on an asteroid discovered in 1984. Further clarification has been offered over the weekend. Behind all the hullaballoo over how these &#8220;biomorphs&#8221; were found, one inconvenient ]]></description>
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