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		<title>Darwin film can&#8217;t find distributor</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/09/12/darwin-film-cant-find-distributor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Telegraph article titled: Charles Darwin film &#8216;too controversial for religious America&#8217;
How sad is that!
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		<title>Mind power: Brain Machine Interfaces</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/09/06/mind-power-brain-machine-interfaces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 02:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine controlling machines, typing text or juggling balls using nothing but the power of thought. What sounds like far-fetched science fiction is gradually becoming possible, providing hope for disabled patients &#8212; and new gimmicks for the computer gaming industry. Read more in Playing With Your Head: The Dawning Age of Mind-Reading Machines
What implications do these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bringing sensory richness to bleak scientific texts</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/08/06/bringing-sensory-richness-to-bleak-scientific-texts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while ago I had written about how we use language to capture intangible ideas &#8211; and the risks associated with not paying attention to these intangibles. I had said (though you can read the complete post A different language): 
For instance wine connoisseurs have developed a specialized language (which sadly is quite opaque to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Correlates of creativity</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/07/20/correlates-of-creativity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just came across this on the Ph.D. design list (a listserv for discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design) from a posting by Charles Burnette. He quotes Donald MacKinnon, author of a large study on creativity in the arts, sciences and professions: 
If I were to summarize what is most generally characteristic of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Representing DNA as code</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does it mean to represent something? Sean Nash (of Nashworld) and I have been having some fun at the expense of periodic representations (my post and his response) and even children&#8217;s books. I had been wanting to write about this for the past few days but travel, work and illness came in the way. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Darwin Day &amp; A new Gallup Poll</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/02/12/darwin-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Charles Darwin 
12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882

On this day, it is sobering to read the results of the latest Gallup Poll: On Darwin’s Birthday, Only 4 in 10 Believe in Evolution
On the eve of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin&#8217;s birth, a new Gallup Poll shows that only 39% of Americans say they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On messing with your mind</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/01/19/on-messing-with-your-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A fascinating series of illusions to reveal just how complicated a phenomenon perception is. I was particularly impressed by the &#8220;rubber hand&#8221; illusion. 
And then, from Gizmodo, comes the Yoshimoto cube. Words are not enough to describe what this mind-bending object can do, you just have to watch the video.

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		<title>Of hernias and hiccups, the evolutionary story</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2009/01/14/of-hernias-and-hiccups-the-evolutionary-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting article in Scientific American about how flaws in our biology reveal our evolutionary history. Steven Gould talked about it in his famous essay on The Panda&#8217;s Thumb. 
This is a wonderful argument for Darwinian evolution since it points not to perfection (which the deniers of evolution can point to as well as example of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The role of Vitamin D in beta-cell function</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2008/12/02/the-role-of-vitamin-d-in-beta-cell-function/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who says scientists can&#8217;t have fun. I just discovered a series of videos on (where else) YouTube about scientists expressing their doctoral research through dance!!! What can be cooler than that? Check out one of the winners: The role of Vitamin D in beta-cell function

[Youtube:http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=QiTFBRPFRh8] 
A bit of internet sleuthing revealed that this was the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Personality analysis of my blog</title>
		<link>http://punya.educ.msu.edu/2008/11/20/personality-analysis-of-my-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Punya Mishra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you know I am always intrigued by a new breed to personality analysis tools that are out there in the world (for instance see these prior postings: on PersonalDNA;  on Color IQ; and browsing for gender). So here is this new website that seeks to analyze me by studying my blog. 
Check out [...]]]></description>
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