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	<description>and other rantings from a philosophically literate mathematician</description>
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		<title>Comfort Kills</title>
		<link>http://mousomer.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/comfort-kills/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 14:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My uncle is dying. In less than a month, he would probably be gone. The doctors say he&#8217;s dying from cancer. But, in truth, is he&#8217;s dying from fear and superstition.
It was almost two years ago that he was diagnosed with kidney cancer. A low-danger tumor. He was invited to schedule an operation. A simple [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mousomer.wordpress.com&blog=2174270&post=83&subd=mousomer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mascagni&#8217;s widow</title>
		<link>http://mousomer.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/mascagnis-widow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 00:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For his 30th birthday, Pietro Mascagni bought himself a girl. It was 4 years since the premiere of his short opera Cavalleira Rusticana, which made him a celebrity by night. He was now director of the Scuola Musicale Romana, in Rome, and his status at the high society in Rome demanded something more presentable than a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mousomer.wordpress.com&blog=2174270&post=62&subd=mousomer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Waste my blog</title>
		<link>http://mousomer.wordpress.com/2009/04/12/waste-on-my-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 09:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[ecology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Both avid readers of my blog have surely noticed that I have been silent for a long time. I have been building a home, and have moved. You are most welcome to visit. And I need some net help.
When we built the house, we put the local soil (which we dug to build the house) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mousomer.wordpress.com&blog=2174270&post=70&subd=mousomer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some good takes on the baking catastrophe</title>
		<link>http://mousomer.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/some-good-takes-on-the-baking-catastrophe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although they were posted nearly a year ago, they are just getting more and more relevant.
Welcome Bird and Fortune &#8211; SubPrime Crisis: 
And &#8211; Bird and Fortune &#8211; Financial adviser: 
Both are great. And, unfortunately, very true.
If you want a mathematician&#8217;s take on these matters, better look at Mark&#8217;s blog:
Mortgage basics 1
Mortgage basics 2
How disaster [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mousomer.wordpress.com&blog=2174270&post=56&subd=mousomer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A philosophy-of-science proof of the afterlife</title>
		<link>http://mousomer.wordpress.com/2008/10/22/a-philosophy-of-science-proof-of-the-afterlife/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matt Springer has a nice (and very confused) take on the problem of scientific proof.  Following him I have devised this amazing scientific proof  to the existence of an afterlife:
There are two possibilities:

Proposition 1: There is no after-life. I do not exist after my death.
Proposition 2: There is an after-life. I would still [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mousomer.wordpress.com&blog=2174270&post=49&subd=mousomer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brother, can you spare me a viable Economic Theory?</title>
		<link>http://mousomer.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/brother-can-you-spare-me-a-viable-economic-theory-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Theory of Democracy]]></category>
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Prof. Robert Nadeau, through Scientific American claims that current economic theory is a severe (and irrational) hindrance to fighting global warming.
(the exact link is:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=brother-can-you-spare-me-a-planet ).
The claim is:


Current (neo-classical) economics is based on false premises.
These false premises include this important premise: That nature is irrelevant to economic growth (and that natural resources are boundless).

Because the irrelevance [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mousomer.wordpress.com&blog=2174270&post=46&subd=mousomer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More power can be much less</title>
		<link>http://mousomer.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/more-power-can-be-much-less/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Theory of Democracy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some people I&#8217;ve been talking with have been wondering how an extremely mediocre person such as Ulmert got to be the prime minister of Israel. Well, it is nigh time I start writing on subjects I fully comprehend. So, I present to you another lesson in election theory &#8211; when can more power mean less [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mousomer.wordpress.com&blog=2174270&post=41&subd=mousomer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The true, sad story of a data analysis expert</title>
		<link>http://mousomer.wordpress.com/2008/06/07/the-true-sad-story-of-a-data-analysis-expert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And then I was suddenly awake. It was the middle of the night, and something was wrong. Terribly wrong. I felt it in by bones. I felt it in the dark room closing around me. I was aware of a terrible inconsistency in the way I slept. It took me a few minutes to understand: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mousomer.wordpress.com&blog=2174270&post=37&subd=mousomer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Findings of the week</title>
		<link>http://mousomer.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/findings-of-the-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 15:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Janne in Osaka &#8211; when does a political party become mindless?
And a study in the benefits of bounded rationality from the New York Times: sometimes, learning is costly, so it&#8217;s only for the environmentally challenged. Hey, damn it! We humans are environmentally challenged. Are we smart enough for it?
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		<title>Back from Hell, or the Wonders of Connectivity</title>
		<link>http://mousomer.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/back-from-hell-or-the-wonders-of-connectivity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 16:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The couple of avid readers I have (dear, dear people, what&#8217;s life worth without you?) might have noticed my month long silence. I wasn&#8217;t home. I was in Miluim. Military reserve duty.
I was in the Palestinian Occupied territories. It was hell, for all the wrong reasons. I should (and will) write about it soon. But [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mousomer.wordpress.com&blog=2174270&post=31&subd=mousomer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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