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	<title>Brandon Keim &#124; Earthlab Notes</title>
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	<description>Spare thoughts, brightly colored stones, pieces of string, seashells, driftwood, cocktail napkins and hand-colored postcards from the future.</description>
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		<title>Spring!</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2013/05/08/spring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 19:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[trees]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s all.]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on Taxidermy, Fashion &amp; Bighorn Sheep</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2013/02/21/taxidermy-fashion-bighorns/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2013/02/21/taxidermy-fashion-bighorns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 02:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[fashion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[taxidermy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Seen on the G train: A bookish young hipster bringing home the taxidermied head of a bighorn ram. As a kid I saw bighorn sheep several times, though I&#8217;m not sure whether the memories are my own or appropriated clips from Marty Stouffer&#8217;s Wild America. Probably both. Sure-footed and wary, deep-chested rams colliding with an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snow Cream! Recipe</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2013/02/08/snow-cream-recipe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2013/02/08/snow-cream-recipe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Etcetera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snow cream]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When life gives you snow&#8230; 1/2 cup cream 4 tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 egg 6 cups snow 2 cups snow (to keep aside) Optional: 3/4 cup shredded coconut 1/2 cup chopped walnuts Dash of cinnamon 1 cup dark chocolate chips 1/2 cup white chocolate chips (or whatever other treats your heart desires) Mix [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gold Road</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2013/01/07/gold-road/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2013/01/07/gold-road/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 02:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The sun sets early in winter, but while it&#8217;s high the light is so, so glorious. Photo: Brandon Keim/Flickr]]></description>
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		<title>Fall Birds</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2012/12/11/fall-birds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2012/12/11/fall-birds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 02:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rambling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Flickr set.]]></description>
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		<title>Overheard Wisdom</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2012/11/25/overheard-wisdom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2012/11/25/overheard-wisdom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 02:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From a conversation between two old acquaintances seeing one another at a restaurant. Elderly woman: You&#8217;ve got one leg in heaven. Elderly man: But the other leg is so heavy! Photo: A jeepney near Dagupan City, Philippines. (Brandon Keim/Flickr)]]></description>
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		<title>Autumn, Trees</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2012/10/21/autumn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2012/10/21/autumn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 02:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Of all the insights contained in the genomes of these trees, the feel of a fall day is not among them. Images: Brandon Keim/Flickr]]></description>
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		<title>September 11, Fall Migration and Occupy Wall Street</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2012/10/01/september-11-migration-ows/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2012/10/01/september-11-migration-ows/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 03:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my way to Ground Zero on the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001, I stopped for a slice a pizza and to clear my head. The previous week had been a somber one; every anniversary recalls the past, but some make you reflect on what&#8217;s happened since, and a cloud hung over the intervening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Parrot Nests in Brooklyn</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2012/08/27/a-parrot-nests-in-brooklyn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2012/08/27/a-parrot-nests-in-brooklyn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 03:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Escaped from an ornithologists&#8217; crate that fell to the tarmac at JFK, refugees from pet owners, released by a guerilla naturalist in Greenwood Cemetery: Whatever their origins, monk parrots have settled in Brooklyn, favoring utility pole transformers for building their Smart Car-sized, hive-shaped colonial nests, which are unexpectedly tolerated by Con Edison, the city&#8217;s electricity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quiet Places</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2012/08/19/quiet-places/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2012/08/19/quiet-places/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 01:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>

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		<title>Good-Bye and Thank You, Mr. Bradbury</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2012/06/06/good-bye-and-thank-you-mr-bradbury/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2012/06/06/good-bye-and-thank-you-mr-bradbury/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 04:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Well, what do you make of it?&#8221; A small boy, stunned by the circus-poster effect of the old man&#8217;s attire, blinked, in need of nudging. The old man nudged: &#8220;My shirt, boy! What do you see!?&#8221; &#8220;Horses!&#8221; the child blurted, at last. &#8220;Dancing horses!&#8221; &#8220;Bravo!&#8221; The doctor beamed, patted him, and strode on. &#8220;And you, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marilynne Robinson, Subway Ride, Lesson</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2012/05/02/lesson/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2012/05/02/lesson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 04:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Favorites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rambling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the opening essay of When I Was a Child I Wrote Books, Marilynne Robinson writes of the miraculous improbability that is every human being: each mind containing more neurons than stars in our universe, arranged in patterns complicated beyond our reckoning, loving and hurting and thinking, floating through a vast vacuum gulf; if from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marathon</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2011/11/20/marathon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2011/11/20/marathon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rambling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I hadn&#8217;t planned to watch the New York City Marathon but was caught on the far side of Bedford Avenue, separated from my house by the runners, and fortunately so. Having only watched the highly competitive runners before, those at the front of the pack, rather than the great mass in the middle, I had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Atlantic Ocean</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2011/09/24/atlantic-ocean-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2011/09/24/atlantic-ocean-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 22:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Places]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Atlantic Ocean sensations: A high, clear astringency; golden-toned and defiant; bunchgrass perseverance, slate, the mercy of wind and sand.]]></description>
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		<title>Jamaica Bay Snapshots</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2011/07/19/jamaica-bay-snapshots/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2011/07/19/jamaica-bay-snapshots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 03:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Images from the great, terrible, destroyed, verdant urban wilderness of Jamaica Bay. Full images and past images.]]></description>
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		<title>Patterns in a Field</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2011/07/12/patterns-in-a-field/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2011/07/12/patterns-in-a-field/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 03:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late in June, within a space of several acres. Ubiquitous, ephemeral, as magnificent as any Pollock. Full images.]]></description>
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		<title>My Friendly Neighborhood Octopus</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2011/06/14/my-friendly-neighborhood-octopus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2011/06/14/my-friendly-neighborhood-octopus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 02:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On the corner of Willoughby &#38; Nostrand, a school closed due to cephalopod (one wishes).]]></description>
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		<title>Alton Bog</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2011/05/06/alton-bog/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2011/05/06/alton-bog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2011 03:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the bottom of Alton Bog is an ancient silt seabed; atop that, ten thousand years of vegetal remains, raising the bog&#8217;s center above the surrounding wetlands. The soil is acidic, infertile, hypoxic; plants receive only what nourishment falls from the sky, and trees standing a few feet tall can be hundreds of years old. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Perfect Bookstore</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2011/03/17/the-perfect-bookstore/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2011/03/17/the-perfect-bookstore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Favorites]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know if a Platonic ideal of bookstore exists. Maybe one&#8217;s tastes are shaped, as with food or love, by first experience. Whatever the case, my original bookstore is my favorite: Lippincott Books, which I first browsed more than twenty years ago, and which will close this month. Lippincott doesn&#8217;t overwhelm, like book barns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Other Seasons</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2011/03/02/the-other-seasons/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2011/03/02/the-other-seasons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 04:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though winter isn&#8217;t yet over in Maine, spring has signaled its arrival. Evenings are brighter; sparrows are flocking; here and there a warm breeze surprises the cold. But before spring fully arrives comes a period of thaws and rain known locally, for self-evident reasons, as mud season. And then, after spring but before true [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snow Lesson</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2011/02/27/snow-lesson/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2011/02/27/snow-lesson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rambling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Snow transforms not only shape, I realized today, but space. Photos in winter.]]></description>
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		<title>In Defense of Objectivity</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2010/12/28/in-defense-of-objectivity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2010/12/28/in-defense-of-objectivity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 04:36:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s become customary in some circles to dismiss the principle of journalistic objectivity. It&#8217;s considered impossible, misguided, even cowardly; at best, it&#8217;s ancillary to transparency. To an extent these criticisms are a valuable corrective against objectivity taken to grotesque extremes, but they miss a fundamental point. Objectivity is not supposed to be an outcome. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the WikiLeaks Address Won&#8217;t Be Found Here</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2010/12/07/why-the-wikileaks-address-wont-be-found-here/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2010/12/07/why-the-wikileaks-address-wont-be-found-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In calling on citizens to Tweet the digital address of WikiLeaks, civil liberties activist John Perry Barlow was right to declare that an infowar is on, and online citizens its soldiers. But the WikiLeaks army is not one I will join. Many people I respect, including my Editor in Chief Evan Hansen, want WikiLeaks to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Window Seat</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2010/11/11/window-seat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2010/11/11/window-seat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 05:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each time I fly I think of how many billions of people across millions of years have looked at the birds, and wished. Image]]></description>
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		<title>Bat Request</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2010/10/26/bat-request/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2010/10/26/bat-request/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 23:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.earthlab.net/?p=313</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always tried to keep this site separate from my work, but there&#8217;s an exception to every rule. Right now I&#8217;m working on a story about White Nose Syndrome, a disease that&#8217;s killing cave-dwelling American bats at a pace unprecedented in known animal history. The work will be published on Wired and is being produced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Tundra</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2010/09/27/summer-tundra/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2010/09/27/summer-tundra/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 02:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For most of the year, ice and snow cover the tundra. A couple feet below the surface, soil is frozen year-round; only lichen and shallow-rooted plants grow, and summer is brief. To make up for lost time, vegetation blooms as if on fire. Photographs from a recent trip to Iqaluit.]]></description>
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		<title>On Waldman’s Pond</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2010/08/15/on-waldmans-pond/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2010/08/15/on-waldmans-pond/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Favorites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.earthlab.net/?p=279</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The water,&#8221; said John Waldman, &#8220;varies between green and shockingly green.&#8221; Perched on a thin strip of grass between a road and the water&#8217;s edge, he stared intently at the surface. On a postcard fall noon it was the color of fresh spinach, the algae and silt so thick that the sun was swallowed just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Maine State of Mind</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2010/06/14/a-maine-state-of-mind/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2010/06/14/a-maine-state-of-mind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 02:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Etcetera]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our famous signpost (reportedly now metal, alas). The town names are real. It always represented to me the power of imagination, the transfigurative possibilities of appreciating depth and detail in one&#8217;s surroundings, and the richness of Maine. Original postcard here.]]></description>
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		<title>An iPad Critique</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2010/05/02/an-ipad-critique/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2010/05/02/an-ipad-critique/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 20:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.earthlab.net/?p=266</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Several days ago a friend asked what I thought of my iPad. I didn&#8217;t answer right away, as we were communicating via instant message, and typing more than a few words on said device is a miserable process; and more than a few words are needed. The iPad is a marvelous device — but that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birds</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2010/04/11/birds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2010/04/11/birds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 03:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.earthlab.net/?p=259</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals.  Remote from universal nature, and living by a complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge, seeing thereby a feather magnified, the whole image in distortion.  We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water &amp; Stone</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2010/03/30/water-stone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2010/03/30/water-stone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.earthlab.net/?p=255</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Are in some ways the same. Water &#38; Stone Flickr Set]]></description>
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		<title>The Bamboo By Li Ch&#8217;e Yun&#8217;s Window</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2010/02/03/the-bamboo-by-li-che-yuns-window/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2010/02/03/the-bamboo-by-li-che-yuns-window/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rambling]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.earthlab.net/?p=244</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t cut it to make a flute. Don&#8217;t trim it for a fishing Pole. When the grass and flowers Are all gone, it will be beautiful Under the falling snow flakes. Po Chu I, translated by Kenneth Rexroth]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy for Sale</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2010/01/22/a-dark-time-for-democracy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2010/01/22/a-dark-time-for-democracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 05:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Favorites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.earthlab.net/?p=210</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For anyone who believes that all people are created equal and entitled to a government of, by and for them, it is a dark moment. The Supreme Court&#8217;s elimination of limits on corporate political speech guarantees that democratic power will now be directly sold to the highest bidders. There are only two intellectually honest ways [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Dad&#8217;s Story</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2010/01/10/my-dads-story/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2010/01/10/my-dads-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Favorites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rambling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Roger Charles Keim passed away Saturday night, December 26, at the Eastern Maine Medical Center. He was 67 years old. Roger was born October 9, 1942 in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania to Charles  and Ruth Keim. Though the region&#8217;s character and ecology have been largely lost to sprawl, Roger&#8217;s childhood setting was pastoral, and farm country and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Snowfall for Dad</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2010/01/05/a-snowfall-for-dad/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2010/01/05/a-snowfall-for-dad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[These photographs are for dad, who cherished winter and forests and snow, and would have loved this storm. Taken with one of his beloved old Nikon lenses; I like to think that whatever I shoot with them, he will see. Rest of the set here.]]></description>
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		<title>Fleabane</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2009/12/11/fleabane/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2009/12/11/fleabane/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Etcetera]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.earthlab.net/?p=156</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[About two years ago, I started a list on Wordie of fine-sounding words. When I last went to add a word, however, the update function was disabled. I&#8217;d probably logged in so infrequently that a defunct-account subroutine kicked in, though I prefer to think of dust gathering on the computers, and a repairman&#8217;s sneeze sending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Tree Grows in Brooklyn</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2009/12/02/a-tree-grows-in-brooklyn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2009/12/02/a-tree-grows-in-brooklyn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rambling]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.earthlab.net/?p=177</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Queens, actually.]]></description>
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		<title>Fall Colors</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2009/11/08/the-colors-of-fall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2009/11/08/the-colors-of-fall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Favorites]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.earthlab.net/?p=163</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I learned only this year that when leaves change color, their essential color is emerging, revealed by a decline in chlorophyll production. There is something deeply gratifying about that. These gold-red fields, this final radiance, are gentle words from an autumn goddess: &#8220;Let go. Don&#8217;t cling, don&#8217;t worry, stop concentrating, stop trying. Let go, for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Desert</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2009/10/20/the-desert/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2009/10/20/the-desert/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.earthlab.net/?p=146</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Beduin of the desert, born and grown up in it, had embraced with all his soul this nakedness too harsh for volunteers, for the reason, felt but inarticulate, that there he found himself indubitably free. He lost material ties, comforts, all superfluities and other complications to achieve a personal liberty which haunted starvation and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just a Spider</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2009/10/19/just-a-spider/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2009/10/19/just-a-spider/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[And a street and some flowers and cargo horses, too.]]></description>
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		<title>The 21st Century Polaroid</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2009/08/28/the-21st-century-polaroid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2009/08/28/the-21st-century-polaroid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 03:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.earthlab.net/?p=130</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is the iPhone; its limitations are its virtues. The rest of them here. (Best at smaller sizes.)]]></description>
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		<title>Notable Mice In My Life</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2009/08/27/notable-mice-in-my-life/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2009/08/27/notable-mice-in-my-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Favorites]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rambling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first was a gerbil named Herbie. I was about ten years old. He came with another male gerbil, who turned out not to be male; many more gerbils followed. They had names, too, but Herbie is the only one that survives in memory. Some of their great-grandchildren escaped into a hospital office building; I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wrong Numbers</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2009/07/23/wrong-numbers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2009/07/23/wrong-numbers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Favorites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rambling]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.earthlab.net/?p=115</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The phone rang yesterday afternoon. I picked it up. &#8220;Hi, is this Chicky&#8217;s Run?&#8221; asked the caller. She had a jaunty voice with a hint of country drawl. &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry, you&#8217;ve got the wrong number,&#8221; I said. &#8220;Oh. Sorry about that!&#8221; she said brightly. &#8220;No problem,&#8221; I said. &#8220;Have a good one.&#8221; &#8220;You too!&#8221; Afterwards, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes on Science Writing</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2009/07/01/notes-on-science-writing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2009/07/01/notes-on-science-writing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.earthlab.net/?p=105</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Science writer J.R. Minkel recently asked journalists &#8220;how you handle the pressures of the job and what motivates you to get up in the morning.&#8221; Below is my response, originally posted in my outtakes catchment. Though I try to keep this blog separate from my work, I&#8217;m making an exception here, because the answer touches [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photographs From British Columbia</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2009/06/14/photographs-from-british-columbia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2009/06/14/photographs-from-british-columbia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.earthlab.net/?p=100</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some photographs from my recent trip to Vancouver Island, one of the sweller places on Earth. Full gallery here.]]></description>
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		<title>In Grace We Rust</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2009/05/25/in-grace-we-rust/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2009/05/25/in-grace-we-rust/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 00:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.earthlab.net/?p=87</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Spring grasses are tall and already seeding; summer is in the breeze that blew the last blossoms off the apple trees today. I wonder at these odd iron creatures — coal tenders, perhaps? — in the wood at the edge of the field, and how many seasons they&#8217;ve seen. Photographs from this set.]]></description>
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		<title>Crocodile Regrets</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2009/05/17/crocodile-apologies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2009/05/17/crocodile-apologies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 21:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.earthlab.net/?p=79</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Corporate capitalism seems more complicated now than when I was twenty-two years old, thought the WTO, IMF and World Bank were evil incarnate, and didn&#8217;t want to admit that corporations could be an effective organizational form, markets a dynamic wealth-generating system, and capital guided by ethics as well as greed. But a few industries and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Language of Horses</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2009/04/19/the-language-of-horses/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2009/04/19/the-language-of-horses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:38:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a few slender leg bones and fragments of milk-stained pottery, archaeologists recently found evidence of one of the more important developments in human history: the domestication of horses. Unearthed from a windswept plain in Kazakhstan, the remains were about 5500 years old, and suggested that a nomadic people now called the Botai had learned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Out the Window</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2009/04/19/out-the-window/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2009/04/19/out-the-window/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My relationship to lower Manhattan is ambiguous — on the one hand, the villages and lower east side feel like a hipster theme park for art school kids and six-figure bohos; on the other, I still go there, and when entertaining out-of-town visitors am envious of their unencumbered enjoyment of what is usually called &#8220;the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taxis in Iqaluit</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2009/04/11/taxis-in-iqaluit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2009/04/11/taxis-in-iqaluit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Favorites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rambling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Iqaluit is a place where people seem to wash ashore, like Indian wedding decorations or terra cotta pot shards in Jamaica Bay. How did they get there? Where are they going? Who knows? Apart from Inuit and government administrators, it&#8217;s a rare person who can explain just how he came, by long-thought plan, to live [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2009/03/01/facebook/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2009/03/01/facebook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.earthlab.net/?p=72</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve lately noticed several symptoms of a premature slide into curmudgeonhood — frustration at trying to converse in restaurants that play music loudly, which in New York City is most of them; a dislike of mass-market documentary techniques; and the hipsters! Don&#8217;t get me started — but the most fully-formed is my relation to Facebook, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January, February: Blinked, Missed Them</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2009/03/01/january-february-blinked-missed-them/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2009/03/01/january-february-blinked-missed-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Favorites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been exactly two months since I last wrote here; but though my words ran dry, I managed to take a few pictures. From a trip to Jamaica Bay, a walk by the Gowanus Canal, the Westminster Kennel Club show, the ice by my parents&#8217; driveway and a beach in Victoria, British Columbia.]]></description>
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		<title>Ozymandias, King of Penguins</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2009/01/01/ozymandias-king-of-penguins/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2009/01/01/ozymandias-king-of-penguins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 04:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Etcetera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rambling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I stumbled across this photograph several days ago, and am endlessly cheered by it: the shipwreck&#8217;s skeleton a classic symbol of human aspirations broken and forgotten and on the shoals of fate, as embodied by nature; but the penguins give fate&#8217;s indifference a comic, even absurd, aspect. All dreams, in the end, come to nothing; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>See You Space Cowboy</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/12/28/see-you-space-cowboy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/12/28/see-you-space-cowboy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Etcetera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rambling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Something I&#8217;ve been wondering: Why does style matter? One possibility: because the context in which style is expressed — a task, an ordeal — is often unavoidable, or unimportant, or impossible, and requires nothing more than utilitarian resignation; style is personal triumph against the impersonality of fate, a joy in process rather than product, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Winter Ritual</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/12/04/a-winter-ritual/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/12/04/a-winter-ritual/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Favorites]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the first things I did with a digital camera was photograph ice: specifically, ice that forms on forest pools and is left behind as they empty, as thin and brittle and rich as old parchment. This is an explorative and appreciative rather than creative act. The ice is common, but largely hidden: without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swallows</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/12/02/swallows/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/12/02/swallows/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the last several months I&#8217;ve had on my tongue&#8217;s tip a quote about the importance of preserving mystery, and the poverty of its absence. To wit: on a summer evening, when swallows pluck insects from a pond&#8217;s surface, their downwards trajectories display minimalist exactitudes that might have been calculated by a missile interception system. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Story Ideas</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/11/28/three-story-ideas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/11/28/three-story-ideas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Etcetera]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Three vague story ideas which for lack of time and talent I will probably not write: During a 17th century plague quarantine, the residents of each home are expected to appear daily at a window and proclaim their condition to the inspector outside, after which they receive supplies according to their number. As members of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Objectivity, Partisanship, Journalism, Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/11/06/objectivity-partisanship-journalism-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/11/06/objectivity-partisanship-journalism-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Favorites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As a science journalist who often covers politics, I feel obligated to disclose that I volunteered last weekend in Cleveland, Ohio for the campaign to elect Barack Obama. This may make some readers uncomfortable. Until the first door opened it made me uncomfortable as well; not because I believed my ability to fairly cover science [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of Bear</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/10/06/the-importance-of-bear/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/10/06/the-importance-of-bear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Favorites]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even if I can&#8217;t see them, it is important that this landscape contain bear. Not because bear are a top-level predator necessary for a healthily functioning Rocky Mountain ecosystem; the definition of healthy function is entirely arbitrary, and for most people it&#8217;s irrelevant whether the Rocky Mountain ecosystem even exists, much less functions. Neither is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/10/05/i-am-going-to-panama-to-live-like-a-savage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/10/05/i-am-going-to-panama-to-live-like-a-savage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Overheard today, the quintessential modern question: &#34;Why am I beeping?&#34; Image: Detail of Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?]]></description>
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		<title>A Farewell to Yankee Stadium</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/09/25/a-farewell-to-yankee-stadium/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/09/25/a-farewell-to-yankee-stadium/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[baseball]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[redsox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yankees]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.earthlab.net/?p=62</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Yankees defeated the Baltimore Orioles 7-3 in the 6,850th and final baseball game ever played at Yankee Stadium. As someone who loves old sports venues and believes their demolition is a loss to the experience of sport, I ought to care; but I don&#8217;t. Four years ago, when I made my first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old Postcards</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/07/28/old-postcards/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/07/28/old-postcards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Etcetera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seaglass]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There’s something magical about old postcards, especially hand-colored; a mélange of real and imagined,  medium fitting the passage of time; perhaps on the back is a message, and no matter how mundane it has the quality of sea glass. Image: Somewhere, sometime in Switzerland. For high-resolution scans, visit my Flickr postcard set.]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughtlessness</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/07/21/thoughtlessness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/07/21/thoughtlessness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Favorites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rambling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, as I descended the stairwell leading from the locker rooms to the pool at my YMCA, I was brought up short by a child who made a tent with his fingers and stopped to waggle them, oblivious to the person walking just behind him. His mother shouted at him and apologized, but the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uncapitalized Thoughts on Democracy</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/07/09/uncapitalized-thoughts-on-democracy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/07/09/uncapitalized-thoughts-on-democracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mccain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Update: Aw, screw it. I&#8217;m tired of feeling cynical and (relatively) disenfranchised. This post suspended until further notice. An email dialogue about democracy with a fellow media grunt who, after an argument about Barack Obama&#8217;s election chances, sent this article in a message entitled, &#34;ain&#8217;t gonna be as easy as you think.&#34; BK : so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scene From a Courtroom</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/06/30/scene-from-a-courtroom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/06/30/scene-from-a-courtroom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rambling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vignette]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A spacious, stone-floored room lined in cheap oak and pine veneer, old and poorly lacquered, shining stickily in milky light from a row of unwashed windows, high on the wall with blinds askew. In the back half of the room, wooden benches with straight backs; in front of them, a yard-sale hodgepodge of office tables. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From an Antique Land</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/06/17/from-an-antique-land/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/06/17/from-an-antique-land/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[museum antiquity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.earthlab.net/?p=56</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Photographs from aimless wandering of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with two conscious avoidances: the 18th and 19th century European sculpture, as they belonged in the living room of an old lady who serves hard candy to visitors; and the Egyptian collection, victim of its own popularity, like skinny jeans. I met a traveller from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here Be Tygers</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/06/11/here-be-tygers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/06/11/here-be-tygers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Favorites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I had one of those odd I-live-in-NYC experiences today, when after covering a press conference at the Explorer’s Club I spent the day working from their board room, accompanied by, among other things, a stuffed emperor penguin and the mounted tusks of an elephant shot by Theodore Roosevelt. (A friend once gave me a tour [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Go Speed Racer!</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/05/24/go-speed-racer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/05/24/go-speed-racer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 15:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grinch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[speedracer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Somewhere inside Anthony Lane is the little boy he once was, and that little boy is annoying as fuck and probably doesn’t like Halloween, either. Same goes for the Chicago Sun-Times&#8216; Jim Emerson, who calls out the hypocrisy of a General Mills- and McDonald&#8217;s-sponsored &#34;packaged commodity that capitalizes on an anthropomorphized cartoon of Capitalist Evil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phenomena for Which There Should Be a Word #001</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/05/22/phenomena-for-which-there-should-be-a-word-001/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/05/22/phenomena-for-which-there-should-be-a-word-001/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 14:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rambling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[happiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rain]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When you enter the subway and it’s dark and raining heavily, and when you get out it’s lighter and the rain is soft and the world is quiet and peaceful and you feel good, like a small bird is fluttering in your heart. Image: Vilhelm Sjostrom]]></description>
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		<title>If God Wanted Me to Schmooze More, He Would Have Given Me Ass-Shaped Lips</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/05/18/if-god-wanted-me-to-schmooze-more-he-would-have-given-me-ass-shaped-lips/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/05/18/if-god-wanted-me-to-schmooze-more-he-would-have-given-me-ass-shaped-lips/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 03:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rambling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[celebritechture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[schmoozing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I attended the New Yorker Stories From the Near Future conference a week or so ago, and managed not to schmooze with a single New Yorker writer. This was harder than it sounds. They were all over the place &#8212; one could hardly move without tripping over Malcolm Gladwell or stepping on James Surowiecki&#8217;s toes. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things That Provoke in Me a Vague Embarrassment, Though For Whom I’m Not Sure</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/05/18/things-that-provoke-in-me-a-vague-embarrassment-though-for-whom-i%e2%80%99m-not-sure/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/05/18/things-that-provoke-in-me-a-vague-embarrassment-though-for-whom-i%e2%80%99m-not-sure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 1999 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rambling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The snack packet given to shuttle passengers left waiting for an hour on the tarmac contained exactly 21.5 peanuts. On a linguistically relevant note, I can’t remember whether to use “which” or “that” no matter how many times it’s explained to me, and by default go with the latter. Image: Sakurako Kitsa. Doesn&#8217;t have anything [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not All Defeats Are Created Equal</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/05/12/not-all-defeats-are-created-equal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/05/12/not-all-defeats-are-created-equal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 04:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hillary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shitforbrainjournalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The scorn heaped upon Hillary Clinton for continuing to campaign despite the near-impossibility of victory is, I suspect, related to the nature of her constituency and of the people criticizing her. Old, working-class, white and rural: hardly the sort of people whom national political reporters, being young-ish and upper-middle-class and urban, take seriously. (The whiteness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Minor Dilemma</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/05/10/a-minor-dilemma/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/05/10/a-minor-dilemma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 22:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The first story in Tao Lin’s Bed &#8212; entitled “Love is a Thing on Sale for More Money Than There Exists”,  in which a young-twentysomething relationship dissolves as the man slips into self-centered torpor, delivered by Lin in a smartly faux-slacker voice that nearly veils, and thus magnifies, an underlying desperation &#8212; is excellent. Garret&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Annals of Odd Conversation #002</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/04/20/annals-of-odd-conversation-002/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/04/20/annals-of-odd-conversation-002/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rambling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inscrutability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pigeons]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An old Chinese woman, kneeling in a circle of pigeons as she feeds them, shouts when our eyes meet: “I am not an inventor! I do not sell anything.” Image: Hideaki Shinohara]]></description>
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		<title>The End of the World as We Know It</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/04/15/the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/04/15/the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shiver]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[People prophecy doom. It’s what we do. Sometimes it’s celestial, inevitably unfulfilled; for the last hundred years it’s been self-directed, and narrowly avoided &#8212; totalitarianism during the early 20th century, nuclear annihilation during the Cold War, famine and overpopulation towards its end. Now there is climate change and its attendant social, economic and environmental disaster. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hand-Colored Postcards From the Future</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/04/05/hand-colored-postcards-from-the-future-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/04/05/hand-colored-postcards-from-the-future-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rambling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the nicest things about old second-hand books is what falls unexpectedly from them: notes, shopping lists, receipts, dried flowers. Best of all are letters; almost always written, if the book is old enough, in an elegant hand, no matter how rough the words. Serendipity and a sense of time&#8217;s passage &#8212; a literal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Counterfeit This Bag</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/03/31/counterfeit-this-bag/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/03/31/counterfeit-this-bag/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[counterfeit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[New York City police claim to have seized $25 million of fake Chinatown gear this year. &#8220;Easy and sleazy money,&#8221; to use Mayor Bloomberg&#8217;s phrase. The latest raid came in what he called the &#8220;counterfeit triangle&#8221; down between Canal, Walker, Baxter and Centre streets, a hypercongested market mecca frequented by nearly every 30-and-under NYC visitor, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York City From Above</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/03/27/new-york-city-from-above/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/03/27/new-york-city-from-above/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[perspective]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t much like these photographs when I took them, but enjoyed them more at second look. There&#8217;s always something &#8230; shifting &#8230; about seeing the city from the air; geologic contours are revealed that are hidden at a human scale, where the city seems to exist outside of immediate time and nature. Perhaps I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Airplane Thoughts</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/03/25/airplane-thoughts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/03/25/airplane-thoughts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rambling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alpenglow spring]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today my airplane pulled up at the last moment, circled the city and then landed. The pilot didn’t explain why &#8212; congestion &#8212; until we’d flown over Manhattan and the Bronx to the George Washington Bridge. The city was golden. Many of the passengers were vocally distressed, and a few made references to jihadists. That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And That&#8217;s How I Knew I Needed a Vacation</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/03/23/and-thats-how-i-knew-i-needed-a-vacation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/03/23/and-thats-how-i-knew-i-needed-a-vacation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rambling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fortunecookies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tired]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The fortune cookie read, &#8220;Your happiness is intertwined with your outlook on life.&#8221; And I muttered, &#8220;No f&#8212;ing s&#8211;t. Thanks for the f&#8212;ing advice.&#8221; Image: Aby Arabit]]></description>
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		<title>Nocturnal Aviation Association</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/03/22/ipower-web-strikes-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/03/22/ipower-web-strikes-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rambling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terriblewebhost]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After a month of technical purgatory, Earthlab Notes is on a new host and ready to return to intermittently updated glory! Just remember, friends don&#8217;t let friends use iPower Web. (As for those friends to whom I recommended iPower &#8230; um, sorry. I&#8217;ll help you transition out when the time comes.) Image: Dokmarius]]></description>
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		<title>Rest on the Flight to Egypt</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/03/06/rest-on-the-flight-to-egypt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/03/06/rest-on-the-flight-to-egypt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[painting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tipsy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In this tender scene, the Holy Family is shown resting in their flight to escape Herod, the ruler of Galilee. Joseph had been warned in a dream that Herod was searching for the Christ child to kill him. Attended AAAS a couple weeks ago with the intention of letting ideas percolate on their own, without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Price of Soda in America</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/03/05/the-price-of-soda-in-america/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/03/05/the-price-of-soda-in-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rambling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumerism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illogic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soda]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I went to see The Kite Runner. (I&#8217;m not ashamed.) At the concession stand my friend asked for a popcorn, I for a small Diet Coke. &#8220;For a quarter more you can get a large,&#8221; said the concessionaire. &#8220;How about a medium?&#8221; I asked. No, he said. Is it possible to be less [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of Dogs and Men</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/03/04/of-dogs-and-men/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/03/04/of-dogs-and-men/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[westminster]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With a camera at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show last month.]]></description>
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		<title>Wired Science Kudzu</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/03/03/wired-science-posts-kudzu-style/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/03/03/wired-science-posts-kudzu-style/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This page has been obsoleted.]]></description>
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		<title>Fables of the Reconstruction</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/03/01/fables-of-the-reconstruction/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/03/01/fables-of-the-reconstruction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 06:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rambling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After a two week hiatus caused by the incompetency of my host, iPower, Earthlab Notes has returned — with, sadly, few of its faculties intact. Rebuilding in progress. Image: from my NYC set]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on &#8220;Darkmans&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/02/11/thoughts-on-darkmans/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/02/11/thoughts-on-darkmans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jesters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tea]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If Thomas Pynchon had a daughter who learned from his mistakes, that daughter would be Nicola Barker, author of Darkmans. I don&#8217;t know quite how to describe it, except by recommending you put on some good headphones and blast Animal Collective&#8217;s &#8220;Fireworks&#8221; until your eardrums vibrate on their own. But before that, listen to an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overheard Airplane Conversation Thought</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/02/08/overheard-airplane-conversation-thought/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/02/08/overheard-airplane-conversation-thought/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rambling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To write a fable is perhaps to tell oneself a fable; you assume the presence of universals in human spirit and stories, that strangers to whom you find yourself utterly unable to relate could still be characters &#8212; heroes or villains or minor players, it doesn&#8217;t matter &#8212; in the same tale. Image: Mark Boucher]]></description>
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		<title>Fox Invents Time Machine</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/02/04/fox-invents-time-machine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/02/04/fox-invents-time-machine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[football]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meaning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t expect to care so much about this Superbowl. I hardly care about football to begin with. Even when I did, I disliked the Patriots; they embodied a Route 128-style Massachusetts suburbia. Of course, that was before I experienced even worse suburban forms. At least a strain of pig-headedly generous New England provincialism still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Head in Sand, Feels Good</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/02/02/head-in-sand-feels-good/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/02/02/head-in-sand-feels-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neuroscience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reductionism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soul]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If I think too hard about it, I become very frustrated with the inability of science, especially neuroscience, to explain my inner life &#8212; my feelings, thoughts, moods; in short, my life &#8212; in any meaningful way. As a baseline, I feel, or at least feel that I ought to feel, like a lump of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unmonumentally</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/01/27/unmonumentally/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/01/27/unmonumentally/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newmuseum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[overrated]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The New Museum&#8217;s exterior is far more appealing than its office cubicle-turned-warehouse interior; likewise, the time-lapse video of its construction is more interesting than anything now inside it. With a few exceptions, what isn&#8217;t derivative is banal. Or both. The messages come across as inchoate or simplistic; the &#8220;formal and ideological power of juxtaposing found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on &#8220;The Orphanage&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/01/26/thoughts-on-the-orphanage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/01/26/thoughts-on-the-orphanage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fantasy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[horror]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[movies]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://earthlab.net/?p=32</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Guillermo Del Toro uses horror-movie tropes to set an atmosphere that is frightening, but not too frightening. A door swinging shut, a grotesque doll, a ghost child: they&#8217;re less vehicles of fear than a vernacular of suspensefulness with which to tell a story of maternal loss and devotion. One unusually graphic scene, involving a torn-open [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Full Moon</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/01/24/a-full-moon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/01/24/a-full-moon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moon]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://earthlab.net/?p=31</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Proverbially bright enough to read by. [Flickr]]]></description>
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		<title>A Tree Grows (Out of Season) in Brooklyn</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/01/24/a-tree-grows-out-of-season-in-brooklyn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/01/24/a-tree-grows-out-of-season-in-brooklyn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://earthlab.net/?p=30</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent warm spell led to the block tree&#8217;s unexpected blossom. (One block, one tree. Lovely Bed-Stuy.) Probably a bit disappointing for the tree, but he&#8217;ll manage. Was going to say something deep about climate change and a sense of season &#8230; but why worry? It&#8217;s a pretty tree. From the same weather, the aforementioned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on &#8220;Samedi the Deafness&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/01/23/thoughts-on-samedi-the-deafness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/01/23/thoughts-on-samedi-the-deafness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[purpleprose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[worlddomination]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://earthlab.net/?p=29</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A potentially great plot; one wishes it was Jesse Ball&#8217;s third or fourth novel, rather than his first. Betrayed by the clunkiness of his protagonist, who after a few chapters as half nebbish, half cipher &#8212; a person empty of desire, initiative and introspection &#8212; becomes capable, as if a page were turned, of eloquence, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 2007 Color of the Year</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/01/22/the-2007-color-of-the-year/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/01/22/the-2007-color-of-the-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Etcetera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[colors]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://earthlab.net/?p=28</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The 2007 Color of the Year, Pantone 18-3943, also known as blue iris. By definition, the color on your screen isn&#8217;t it.]]></description>
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		<title>Three Variations on Inscrutability</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/01/20/three-variations-on-inscrutability/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/01/20/three-variations-on-inscrutability/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rambling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inscrutability]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://earthlab.net/?p=19</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s impossible to gauge the emotions of the man who works the all-night shift at the gas station under my window. Is he happy or sad? Bored or engaged? He doesn&#8217;t speak and his face is always neutral, his gestures always made at the same unhurried pace. If you knock on the thick glass divider [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Annals of Odd Conversation #001</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/01/13/annals-of-odd-conversation-001/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/01/13/annals-of-odd-conversation-001/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rambling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hipsters]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://earthlab.net/?p=27</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Overheard at the cafe today, an artsy lesbian couple on an awkard early date: &#8220;I wanna make people mad. I wanna shit shit up. That&#8217;s what I want to be my legacy to the world.&#8221; &#8220;I want to change the world, more than anyone&#8217;s ever changed it.&#8221; &#8220;How do you want to change it?&#8221; &#8220;I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pig Seen Flying Through Snowstorm In Hell</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/01/02/pig-seen-flying-through-snowstorm-in-hell/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2008/01/02/pig-seen-flying-through-snowstorm-in-hell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[juvenilia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[limitation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://earthlab.net/?p=26</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My photographs are all in one place, more or less. I&#8217;ll be posting assorted galleries in coming days, in lieu of having to punch out more words. Up first: a collection I hadn&#8217;t even planned to put up, comprised of images shot, scanned, tweaked and tugged from 1999 to roughly 2002. I&#8217;m not sure what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Are So Beautiful to Me, Pigeon</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2007/12/25/you-are-so-beautiful-to-me-pigeon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2007/12/25/you-are-so-beautiful-to-me-pigeon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alpenglow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pigeons]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://earthlab.net/?p=24</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a pet store a few blocks away, down on Myrtle. The owner is a thick, middle-aged black fellow who sits on the sidewalk in the summertime, pit bull at his side. A scary creature, though I&#8217;ve seen it be friendly; and the puppies and kittens in the window, a litter every few weeks, invariably [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aw, Shucks (Blushes)</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2007/12/24/aw-shucks-blushes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2007/12/24/aw-shucks-blushes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2007 00:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brucesterling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[me]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://earthlab.net/?p=23</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just to strut my peacock for a moment, Bruce Sterling &#8212; cyberpunk pioneer turned futurist turned viridian green turned design wonk turned every which way, and a minor personal hero to boot &#8212; gave me a shout out yesterday. A little old shout implying that he sees me as the sort of journalist from whom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protest, Pillowfight or Both?</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2007/11/29/protest-pillowfight-or-both/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2007/11/29/protest-pillowfight-or-both/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pillows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protest]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://earthlab.net/?p=22</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Absolut &#8220;Boum&#8221; advert. What does it mean? Protesters and riot police fill the streets of Paris. The former are dressed simply and wave yellow banners that catch the sun, and obviously are righteous; the latter in black armor, faces hidden, outnumbered but armed and obviously wrong. The chants grow insistent, the police lower their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing is Natural, Everything is Natural</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2007/11/25/nothing-is-natural-everything-is-natural/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2007/11/25/nothing-is-natural-everything-is-natural/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anthrome nature urban]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://earthlab.net/?p=21</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The downfall of traditional, REI catalog-style environmentalism is the dichotomy it posits between natural and unnatural. Real nature, we&#8217;re encouraged to think, exists somewhere else, somewhere without people, unless they&#8217;re familiar with the language of base layers or prayer wheels. We might live in the suburbs, in a patchwork of forests, but that&#8217;s not nature; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I am eating the Wonka bar and I taste something that is not chocolate.</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2007/11/25/i-am-eating-the-wonka-bar-and-i-taste-something-that-is-not-chocolate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2007/11/25/i-am-eating-the-wonka-bar-and-i-taste-something-that-is-not-chocolate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 04:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[awesomeness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[goldenticket]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[roalddahl]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://earthlab.net/?p=20</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is there anything more absolutely, totally, incredibly, magnificently, marvelously, stupendously cool than an authentic Wonka Golden Ticket? From Sugar Sugar International, whose link no longer works. From Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 2006 version: Grandpa George: The kids who are going to find the golden tickets are the ones who can afford to buy candy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As America Slides Into the Second World</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2007/11/24/as-america-slides-into-the-second-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2007/11/24/as-america-slides-into-the-second-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 05:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shiver]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://earthlab.net/?p=18</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day my father wondered why the U.S. doesn&#8217;t play hardball with OPEC countries &#8212; cut the oil prices or we turn your sand to glass. Civilized objections aside, I said, it&#8217;s because they have us over a (ha) barrel: their businesses are pegged to the dollar. If they bail on our currency, our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bedtime Advice</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2007/11/24/bedtime-advice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2007/11/24/bedtime-advice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 05:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rambling]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://earthlab.net/?p=14</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Don’t read stories about a matriarchal Christian cult founded by a Papua New Guinean cannibal who believes that hallucinations caused by a brain- and body-wasting prion disease are evidence of God, and evangelizes by surreptitiously feeding infected flesh to the uninitiated and donating infected blood to the Red Cross, members’ bodies wracked and twisted by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rest In Peace, Audrey Santo</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2007/11/24/rest-in-peace-audrey-santo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2007/11/24/rest-in-peace-audrey-santo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 23:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[faithhealer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[saints]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://earthlab.net/?p=17</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend I learned that Audrey Santo is dead. Santo, who at age three fell into a swimming pool and spent the final eleven years of her life in a comalike state known as akinetic mutism, was believed by many to be a victim soul, chosen by the Virgin Mary to take upon herself the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Return of Pedro</title>
		<link>http://www.earthlab.net/2007/11/11/the-return-of-pedro/</link>
		<comments>http://www.earthlab.net/2007/11/11/the-return-of-pedro/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 04:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pedro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[redsox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sports]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://earthlab.net/?p=13</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pedro Martinez came back late this summer. He&#8217;d spent the last twelve months rebuilding a shoulder shredded by a lifetime of throwing a baseball better than anyone born in the last forty years.It&#8217;s not easy to explain what his return as a junkballing magician meant to people my age. When we&#8217;re kids, athletes seem different [...]]]></description>
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