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	<title>Crazy Ideas &#187; Humanities</title>
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	<description>they came in a dream and took me away...</description>
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		<title>Normal people</title>
		<link>http://thecastsite.com/blog/2010/12/normal-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 03:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Machiavelli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I often have conversations, referring offhandedly to &#8220;weird people&#8221; and &#8220;normal people,&#8221; and am challenged by the phrase, &#8220;there&#8217;s no such thing as normal.&#8221; Clearly, you do not know how to identify normal people.1 I understand the difficulty: Normal people are a diverse group. They are that generic looking guy who walked passed you on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Tip</title>
		<link>http://thecastsite.com/blog/2010/02/dont-tip/</link>
		<comments>http://thecastsite.com/blog/2010/02/dont-tip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Machiavelli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why tip? People say that it gives the waiter an economic incentive to do his job better. Because of this incentive, the meal will get to the table faster and the experience is generally more enjoyable. Makes sense, no? A waitress who takes your food 10 meters from the bench to your table deserves a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Artificial Virginity Kit</title>
		<link>http://thecastsite.com/blog/2010/01/artificial-virginity-kit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Machiavelli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chinese company Gigimo advertises its Artificial Hymen Virginity kit across the Arab world. The kit, which allows women to fake sexual purity on their wedding night, is the sort of product one might find in a novelty store or sex shop in America. But in Egypt, nuptial night virginity is deadly serious business. Women [...]]]></description>
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		<title>X-Prize: Osama Bin Laden</title>
		<link>http://thecastsite.com/blog/2010/01/x-prize-osama-bin-laden/</link>
		<comments>http://thecastsite.com/blog/2010/01/x-prize-osama-bin-laden/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Machiavelli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2004 aerospace designer Burt Rutan and financier Paul Allen led the first private team to build and launch a spacecraft capable of carrying three people to 100 kilometers above the Earth twice within two weeks. They were racing against 26 other teams to win the $10 million X-Prize and to achieve international fame and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Typical Ursula.</title>
		<link>http://thecastsite.com/blog/2010/01/typical-ursula/</link>
		<comments>http://thecastsite.com/blog/2010/01/typical-ursula/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Machiavelli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Miracle Jones blogs about the petition against the Google Book Settlement created by science fiction writer Ursula Le Guin, winner of five Hugo awards and six Nebulas. Leguin is urging professional writers who are opposed to the terms of the settlement to sign her online petition before the January 28th deadline. From the petition: &#8220;The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Literature Publishing of the Future</title>
		<link>http://thecastsite.com/blog/2010/01/literature-publishing-of-the-future/</link>
		<comments>http://thecastsite.com/blog/2010/01/literature-publishing-of-the-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Machiavelli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I forsee the publishing house of the future offering, for instance, a poet&#8217;s latest work in multiple formats simultaneously, each at a different price: an e-text version with links to all current reviews, related scholarly and popular comment, and bundled with its own discussion forum that links owners of each of the books; a hard-copy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incinerate Rabbits for Fuel</title>
		<link>http://thecastsite.com/blog/2010/01/incinerate-rabbits-for-fuel/</link>
		<comments>http://thecastsite.com/blog/2010/01/incinerate-rabbits-for-fuel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 02:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Machiavelli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The city of Stockholm enlists fluffle1 cullers and carrion contractors to warm the homes of its citizens. &#8220;[Rabbits] are a very big problem,&#8221; said Tuvunger. The rabbits are eating their way through the city&#8217;s central parks. &#8220;Once culled, the rabbits are frozen and when we have enough; a contractor comes and takes them away.&#8221;2 It&#8217;s normal in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Urban Vertical Farming</title>
		<link>http://thecastsite.com/blog/2010/01/urban-vertical-farming/</link>
		<comments>http://thecastsite.com/blog/2010/01/urban-vertical-farming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Machiavelli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dickson Dispommier, a Columbia University professor and visionary champion of vertical farming, claims that a 30-story glass skyscraper using nonsoil farming could produce enough food on a single city block to feed 50,000 people. But his farm would cost $200 million to build. Other seers are promoting more modest vertical schemes, such as Sky Vegetables, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Working in the Private Sector</title>
		<link>http://thecastsite.com/blog/2010/01/stop-working-in-the-private-sector/</link>
		<comments>http://thecastsite.com/blog/2010/01/stop-working-in-the-private-sector/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Machiavelli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From a new Cato Institute report on &#8220;Employee Compensation in State and Local Governments&#8220;: The study&#8217;s author, Chris Edwards, found that the wage premium for public sector employees was about 34 percent and for benefits about 70 percent. Lineage: Reason &#60;- Cato]]></description>
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		<title>Kalashnikovs</title>
		<link>http://thecastsite.com/blog/2010/01/kalashnikovs/</link>
		<comments>http://thecastsite.com/blog/2010/01/kalashnikovs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Machiavelli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since the Kalashnikov&#8217;s introduction in the Soviet Union in 1947 it has been a favorite due to its simple design. Of between 90 and 122 million assault rifles estimated to have been produced since World War II, between 70 and 100 million were Kalashnikovs. Together, these small arms have been responsible for more civilian deaths than [...]]]></description>
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