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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>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Castellano</dc:creator>
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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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		<title>8 Ways to Reduce Health Care Costs</title>
		<link>http://arcaneknowledge.org/log/?p=136</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Castellano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Currently, most discussion in the United States regarding health care reform is focused on the extent to which health care costs are covered by public or private insurance. However, it will make little difference whether health care is funded privately or publicly if the cost of health care is not held in check. Even with ]]></description>
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		<title>Mushroom Clouds and Moral Mediocrity</title>
		<link>http://arcaneknowledge.org/log/?p=130</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 16:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Castellano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leave it to a comedian to state plainly that Truman&#8217;s use of atomic weapons was a war crime, only to backpedal out of political expediency faster than you can say Arlen Specter. This short-lived moment of lucidity has occasioned a lively discussion on the topic, by no means confined to the political left. Although many ]]></description>
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		<title>A Behavioral Approach to Social Disease</title>
		<link>http://arcaneknowledge.org/log/?p=123</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Castellano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Criticism of Pope Benedict&#8217;s recent remark on the effectiveness of prophylactics fails to distinguish between the moral and physical aspects of using such devices.  As the supreme teaching authority of the Catholic Church, the Roman pontiff is concerned mainly with the moral aspect of venereal disease transmission.  Condom usage fails to address the ]]></description>
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		<title>Keynesianism Reconsidered</title>
		<link>http://arcaneknowledge.org/log/?p=120</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Castellano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The current global financial crisis has proven profoundly resistant to typical Keynesian solutions.  Interest rates have been reduced to nearly zero, the money supply is being expanded indefinitely, and fantastic levels of government spending are proposed, yet the stock market continues to fall, investors flock to gold and other safe havens, and banks refuse ]]></description>
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		<title>Sober Facts from an Overhyped Election</title>
		<link>http://arcaneknowledge.org/log/?p=103</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Castellano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Presidential elections are generally followed by hyperbole about the significance of the outcome, and the American fixation on race has exacerbated the phenomenon this year. Now that some weeks have passed, we might look at the sociological implications more soberly.
Campaign rhetoric notwithstanding, it is hardly the case that the United States has moved into a ]]></description>
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		<title>Studies Show Most Do Not Understand Statistics</title>
		<link>http://arcaneknowledge.org/log/?p=99</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Castellano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this election season, repeated citations of polls provide reminders of how little even most educated people understand about statistics.  I should like to review a few basic errors that cause most people to overvalue the accuracy of polls and other studies based on statistical samplings and correlations.
Journalistic polls often state a &#8220;sampling error&#8221; ]]></description>
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		<title>The New Politics, Same as the Old Politics</title>
		<link>http://arcaneknowledge.org/log/?p=94</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Castellano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Both candidates for the U.S. presidency have portrayed themselves as transcending politics as usual, tacitly admitting the venality of the republic.  Nonetheless, the actual conduct of their campaigns has shown that Senators McCain and Obama are creatures of the Washington establishment and Chicago political machine, respectively, and will do little to change their parties&#8217; ]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Imperialism Backfires in the Caucasus</title>
		<link>http://arcaneknowledge.org/log/?p=88</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Castellano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After fifteen years of American imperial encroachment into Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Russia has finally reasserted itself as a power in the region, as its invasion of Georgia takes advantage of the United States&#8217; preoccupation with the Middle East.  The U.S., through NATO, has systematically sought to encircle and break Russia as a ]]></description>
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