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		<title>To Science, Morality Isn&#8217;t Special</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 22:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing Either Good Or Bad? You’re a 10-year-old girl in Africa, lying nervously on your back with your lower body fully exposed. You don’t know why, but the grown-ups nearby keep assuring you that the tradition they’re about to carry &#8230; <a href="http://okaysteve.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/to-science-morality-isnt-special/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=okaysteve.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15002210&amp;post=497&amp;subd=okaysteve&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conquering All Mysteries By 100 Billion Rules and Lines and Brain Cells</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:33:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The starry heavens above and the moral law within &#8212; these were the two things that Immanuel Kant claimed were immune to scientific investigation. Equally untouchable was the vague abstraction known as consciousness. That was in the 1700s. This book-length book &#8230; <a href="http://okaysteve.wordpress.com/2011/06/23/conquering-all-mysteries-by-100-billion-rules-and-lines-and-brain-cells/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=okaysteve.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15002210&amp;post=477&amp;subd=okaysteve&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Miracle of Neuroscience: A Life of Grad School, Research, Science Literacy, and What These Really Mean</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 22:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists are bipolar masochists in white coats. And we are okay with that. This post will be somewhat atypical. No science-heavy references, no hard data, no hypotheses &#8212; nothing new. It&#8217;ll be just one general and optimistic story for the &#8230; <a href="http://okaysteve.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/the-miracle-of-neuroscience-a-life-of-grad-school-research-science-literacy-and-what-these-really-mean/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=okaysteve.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15002210&amp;post=450&amp;subd=okaysteve&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lady Gaga was a Geneticist: Why &#8220;Born this Way&#8221; Accurately Interprets the Biology of Homosexuality</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 02:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intro: It doesn&#8217;t matter if you love him, or capital H-I-M Just put your paws up &#8216;Cause you were born this way, baby Test tubes with DNA and canvases with brushstrokes. Einstein and Shakespeare. Science and humanities. These two cultures &#8230; <a href="http://okaysteve.wordpress.com/2011/04/15/lady-gaga-was-a-geneticist-why-born-this-way-accurately-interprets-the-biology-of-homosexuality/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=okaysteve.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15002210&amp;post=436&amp;subd=okaysteve&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This is Your Brain on Happiness</title>
		<link>http://okaysteve.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/this-is-your-brain-on-happiness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 19:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>okaysteve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When people think of &#8220;science,&#8221; they naturally think of atoms, planets, robots — things they can touch and see. They know that subjective experiences such as happiness are important, but they believe that such experiences can&#8217;t be studied scientifically. That belief &#8230; <a href="http://okaysteve.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/this-is-your-brain-on-happiness/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=okaysteve.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15002210&amp;post=426&amp;subd=okaysteve&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good Ideas Have a Lot of Sex</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a proposed answer to the question of where good ideas come from, presented in style, courtesy of the RSA. In an attempt to revolutionize how education is delivered, the RSA has been converting lectures from all disciplines into visually &#8230; <a href="http://okaysteve.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/good-ideas-have-a-lot-of-sex/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=okaysteve.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15002210&amp;post=397&amp;subd=okaysteve&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The end of the world, parenting, and stars</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Short post: Ever wonder how to prevent the end of the world? Or how to be a good parent? Or how Newton invented calculus just to prove a point? With characteristic wit and excitement, astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson answers 10 &#8230; <a href="http://okaysteve.wordpress.com/2011/02/21/the-end-of-the-world-parenting-and-stars/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=okaysteve.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15002210&amp;post=390&amp;subd=okaysteve&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brains, magic tricks, and Neil Tyson</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NOVA scienceNOW deserves all the funding it gets. Here&#8217;s an absolutely wonderful segment on how the brain works, aptly titled &#8220;How does the Brain Work?&#8221; It&#8217;s 50 minutes long and undoubtedly worth watching, as it is a clear example of &#8230; <a href="http://okaysteve.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/brains-magic-tricks-and-neil-tyson/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=okaysteve.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15002210&amp;post=384&amp;subd=okaysteve&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Neuroscience Will Win</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh no they deh-ent. Creationists and Intelligent Design Iterators of &#8220;True&#8221; Science (IDiots) have given up on attacking evolution and now have taken aim at neuroscience. The article is reproduced fully over at NeuroWhoa! The ring-leader is psychiatrist Jeffrey M. &#8230; <a href="http://okaysteve.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/why-neuroscience-will-win/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=okaysteve.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15002210&amp;post=376&amp;subd=okaysteve&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bill and Bill on Religion</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 04:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love Bill O&#8217;Reilly as much as the next person (omg jk&#8217;z), but this is a fantastic back-and-forth between O&#8217;Reilly and Maher, in characteristic fashion, on religion and how to interpret the Bible. It&#8217;s a schoolyard fight of TV hosts. &#8230; <a href="http://okaysteve.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/bill-and-bill-on-religion/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=okaysteve.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15002210&amp;post=369&amp;subd=okaysteve&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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