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	<title>The Shifting Balance of Factors</title>
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	<description>Research in Philosophy, Informatics, and Evolutionary Biology by Adam M. Goldstein PhD MSLIS</description>
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		<title>Grand rounds for teachers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Teachers at all levels might benefit from adopting a practice used by physicians: grand rounds. Grand rounds are regular meetings of physician staff members at which another physician or researcher gives a talk on his or her research, or presents a case study. For instance, the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins holds grand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, you can boot Mac OS 10.6.4 via eSATA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As my MacBook Pro enters the twilight of its long and storied career as my day-to-day  working machine, I have begun to back it up obsessively. I have Time Machine back up to a 500GB La Cie drive attached by USB to an Airport Extreme base station, and I clone the laptop disk each night [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shiftingbalance.org/?p=852</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Avalanche control&#8221; in scientific literature: A role for informatics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In &#8220;We Must Stop the Avalanche of Low-Quality Research,&#8221; it is claimed that much of the scientific research literature published recently is &#8220;redundant, inconsequential, and outright poor&#8221; and that &#8220;research has swelled in recent decades, filling countless pages in journals and monographs.&#8221; &#8220;Countless&#8221; is intended in a negative sense here. No argument is provided for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shiftingbalance.org/?p=846</link>
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		<title>Matt Ridley: The promiscuity of things and ideas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the evening of Wednesday, 19 May, 2010, author Matt Ridley gave an hour-long talk on his new book, The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves. He spoke at the New York Academy of Sciences, at its headquarters at the newly constructed 7 World Trade Center, which provides stunning views of Manhattan and, as Ridley pointed out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shiftingbalance.org/?p=802</link>
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		<title>BibDesk 1.5.2 released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new version of BibDesk, the bibliographic reference manager for users of BibTeX on OS X with extensions for use with word processing software, is now available. Visit http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/, or use the &#8220;Check for updates&#8221; menu item from within BibDesk itself.
Many thanks to contributors to the bibtex-users mailing list, who, as usual, tested nightly builds, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shiftingbalance.org/?p=790</link>
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		<title>Blog Carnival of Evolution #23</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings all! Everyone go visit
http://blogs.springer.com/evoo/?p=369
and look at this month&#8217;s Blog Carnival of Evolution.
All posts are really excellent, focusing on important topics in evolutionary biology. It makes for exciting and informative reading.
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		<link>http://shiftingbalance.org/?p=613</link>
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		<title>EE&amp;O archives to be available free, indefinitely</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over at the Evolution: Education &#38; Outreach blog, I have posted some important news. The journal will be available on PubMed Central after a 12 month embargo (&#8220;moving wall&#8220;), starting in about six months. Read about it at http://blogs.springer.com/evoo/?p=361.
Editors and Editorial Board members are excited about this new development. The intention was to create a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shiftingbalance.org/?p=522</link>
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		<title>New Blog Carnival of Evolution!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey everyone!
Check out the latest blog carnival of evolution!
Cheers!
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		<link>http://shiftingbalance.org/?p=516</link>
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		<title>Ontology of fear</title>
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Brian Rea, a designer, art director, and artist, is the topic of a recent online article in Fast Company magazine. Rea has created two giant murals (7 x 3.5-meters, according to Fast Company), on which he has written the names of various fears, organized by type. For instance, there are major categories for fears about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shiftingbalance.org/?p=499</link>
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		<title>Probably it&#8217;s nonfat, right?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend we went to Miriam in Park Slope. The check is rather curious. I am happy I wasn&#8217;t charged for the order of Nothing which appears on it, and the fact is, I don&#8217;t really remember the waitress bringing it to us, or having eaten it. I suppose that&#8217;s just as well.

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		<link>http://shiftingbalance.org/?p=489</link>
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