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		<title>Climate Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cory Banack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend and I have been exchanging letters about climate change lately. I sent him a fairly detailed answer when he asked for my opinion about a certain video. My response started off as a criticism of the video itself, but quickly turned into a rant about how little trust people have for experts these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Like Smoking, But Way More Useful.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 01:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cory Banack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm happy to see that there's finally been a high-quality study done on the potential dangers of cellphone use. I'm less happy with the results. Especially given that their definition of "a regular cellphone user" appears to be someone who uses their cellphone for as little as one call per week. That seems a bit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life&#8217;s Goal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cory Banack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ran across this very interesting (but harsh) article the other day. It goes over some points about the dire U.S. financial situation, and spends a lot of time blaming the baby boomer generation for all the trouble. During the current Bush administration, Americans’ savings rate actually went below zero, while household debt as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bigger, More Complex, and More Violent</title>
		<link>http://blog.xanatos.ca/archives/261</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cory Banack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. (Albert Einstein) That's one of my favourite quotations, at least when it comes to my professional life. It captures what's probably the single most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perspective</title>
		<link>http://blog.xanatos.ca/archives/245</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cory Banack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing irritates me quite like listening to people complain about their lives. If the whining came from someone who'd lived a truly hard life, I could tolerate it. But I don't know anyone who fits that description. Instead, I know a lot of people who think they've got it tough, even though they've all won [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cause for Concern</title>
		<link>http://blog.xanatos.ca/archives/241</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cory Banack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had a chance to see my favourite journalist/historian/writer speak about climate change and the effect it will have on global politics. I am talking, of course, about Gwynne Dyer. Mr. Dyer was speaking to a packed theatre at the University of Alberta. His remarks were broad-ranging, insightful, and dryly laced with his typical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walkability and New Urbanism</title>
		<link>http://blog.xanatos.ca/archives/223</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cory Banack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's a concept in urban planning known as walkability. As the word itself suggests, walkability refers to how well-suited a neighbourhood is for foot traffic, and how easily a person can perform their daily activities in such a neighbourhood without needing a car. Of course, the idea of living without a car seems crazy to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sicko</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 05:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cory Banack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Moore's latest documentary, Sicko, will be released in theatres in about a week. But Moore has already said that he doesn't mind if people download or share the movie for free, so it's already on Google Video, here. I have no idea how long the free version will stay available (Sicko's distributors may not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Offended?</title>
		<link>http://blog.xanatos.ca/archives/215</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 04:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cory Banack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read a lecture by Salman Rushdie the other day. It was about the nature of free speech and democracy, and I think he had some very insightful points: The idea that any kind of free society can be constructed in which people will never be offended or insulted is absurd. So too is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Secret to Financial Success</title>
		<link>http://blog.xanatos.ca/archives/214</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 06:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cory Banack</dc:creator>
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