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		<title>Ten days of code</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Open code in academic computational science should be the standard. After all, the scientific ideal is to share information toward progress. This is at least an idealistic view of why we publish so competitively, with standards that demand we share our findings with our peers and with the public. And while the computational methods of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sphericalcow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5383880&amp;post=801&amp;subd=sphericalcow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Neuroethics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I often like to say that, in my line of work in computational neuroscience, they don&#8217;t let me deal directly with other humans. This is jokingly said to reflect the fact that I have no interpersonal skills or rather to suggest that the results from my mathematical models are narrow in scope and likely not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sphericalcow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5383880&amp;post=780&amp;subd=sphericalcow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Love in the time of swine flu</title>
		<link>http://sphericalcow.wordpress.com/2011/01/30/love-in-the-time-of-swine-flu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 06:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have an unabashed love for the city of Boston. I&#8217;ve explored its neighborhoods intimately on foot, weaving through the city on long, ambling runs. I wander the MFA and MOS regularly and use the Boston Public Library&#8217;s main branch at Copley Square as a source of much of my non-work related reading. Today I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sphericalcow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5383880&amp;post=752&amp;subd=sphericalcow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shackleton&#8217;s Endurance</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 04:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m reading the classic book Endurance by Alfred Lansing, on loan from a friend CT. I had to laugh aloud when I read this poignant line that reminded me of the deceptively simple allure of ultrarunning: &#8220;And in the space of a few short hours, life had been reduced from a highly complex existence, with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sphericalcow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5383880&amp;post=750&amp;subd=sphericalcow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LaTeX modernization challenge</title>
		<link>http://sphericalcow.wordpress.com/2010/12/27/latex-modernization-challenge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those in technical fields, the LaTeX typesetting system is only slightly more invaluable than infuriating, not to mention shady to search for appropriately on the internet. As they say, LaTeX makes very difficult tasks easy and very easy tasks difficult. Though there are several excellent GUIs that address many of these shortcomings, there&#8217;s a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sphericalcow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5383880&amp;post=744&amp;subd=sphericalcow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Faces</title>
		<link>http://sphericalcow.wordpress.com/2010/10/30/faces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 17:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just wanted to share this Kahlil Gibran poem. There&#8217;s a memorial outside of the Boston Public Library for Gibran, a beloved writer and one of my favorites. I don&#8217;t always understand his writing, but his poem &#8220;Faces&#8221; resonates with me. I have seen a face with a thousand countenances, and a face that was but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sphericalcow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5383880&amp;post=726&amp;subd=sphericalcow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BP oil spill in the Gulf</title>
		<link>http://sphericalcow.wordpress.com/2010/05/02/bp-oil-spill-in-the-gulf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 13:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BP oil well that sprung a leak has led to one of the most concentrated environmental disasters, especially for the Gulf Coast region of the Southeastern United States and surrounding coastal areas. The majorly oversimplified problem is that there is a leak in the well far below the water surface, and it&#8217;s hemorrhaging oil [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sphericalcow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5383880&amp;post=714&amp;subd=sphericalcow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unshod</title>
		<link>http://sphericalcow.wordpress.com/2010/04/22/unshod/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 04:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the running world, one of the most polarizing topics of conversation these days is minimal footwear. For most runners, shoes are intensely personal and are blamed for as many injuries as they&#8217;re lauded for preventing. Likewise, my experiences with minimal footwear is personal, and the lessons I&#8217;ve learned might be useful to other runners [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sphericalcow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5383880&amp;post=699&amp;subd=sphericalcow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Browser spaces</title>
		<link>http://sphericalcow.wordpress.com/2010/03/17/browser-spaces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like many, my work involves computers, and researching scientific articles is almost completely online now. Ever since Xerox&#8217;s Tab Manager that was a drop in replacement for Progman.exe (oh yeah) in Windows 3.1 (was it autoexec.ini that you edit?), I&#8217;ve been hooked on tabs. Tabbed browsing could not have appeared fast enough, but it&#8217;s now [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sphericalcow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5383880&amp;post=705&amp;subd=sphericalcow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Running goals for the new year</title>
		<link>http://sphericalcow.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/running-goals-for-the-new-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Running]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s look back at the last decade of running, shall we? Let&#8217;s make it a 12-year Doublewood, or else this decade&#8217;s running would really only include two years. 1998: I ran 4-8 miles each morning before school, which started at 8:30 am. It was the last time I was ever considered a morning person. also [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sphericalcow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5383880&amp;post=686&amp;subd=sphericalcow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Race training: just one hill</title>
		<link>http://sphericalcow.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/race-training-just-one-hill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mount Washington Auto Road Race]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[New England runners will surely catch the reference to the mother of all &#8220;hill&#8221; races in the Northeast: the Mount Washington Auto Road Race. It&#8217;s a 7.6 mile race that climbs almost 5,000 vertical feet. There are those among us who love running hills and running in the mountains, and this is sounds like a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sphericalcow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5383880&amp;post=682&amp;subd=sphericalcow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Numerical solver design</title>
		<link>http://sphericalcow.wordpress.com/2009/12/25/numerical-solver-design/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Numerical solver design is a topic that I know next to nothing about. I always say I know a tiny bit of MATLAB very well, but lately in my push to become MATLAB-independent, I&#8217;ve been trying to remove bits of proprietary code from my own simulations. (My transition from MATLAB to Octave failed in part [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sphericalcow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5383880&amp;post=678&amp;subd=sphericalcow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The kilomile</title>
		<link>http://sphericalcow.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/the-kilomile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Running]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kilomile]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of runners chase the 1,000 miles per year distinction. It&#8217;s kind of a nice, round number, so it&#8217;s a fun goal to aspire to. I&#8217;ve been logging miles on RunningAhead since mid-June of 2008. Today, on a run with RH, I completed my 1,000th mile (i.e. the kilomile), which ended precisely (plus/minus) at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sphericalcow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5383880&amp;post=668&amp;subd=sphericalcow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FIFA World Cup 2010 Group Predictions</title>
		<link>http://sphericalcow.wordpress.com/2009/12/05/fifa-world-cup-2010-group-predictions/</link>
		<comments>http://sphericalcow.wordpress.com/2009/12/05/fifa-world-cup-2010-group-predictions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[FIFA World Cup 2010]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today the FIFA World Cup 2010 South Africa groups were drawn. I don&#8217;t have my finger on the pulse of football as much these days, so most of this will be more established wisdom than anything particularly groundbreaking, but here goes some early predictions. Of course, anything can change from now and next summer, so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sphericalcow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5383880&amp;post=662&amp;subd=sphericalcow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Numerical ODE Solvers</title>
		<link>http://sphericalcow.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/numerical-ode-solvers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In MATLAB, the suite of numerical solvers for systems of ordinary differential equations are functions that accept variables, including other functions. Since I learned to program MATLAB for my numerical solutions, I am accustomed to this system of passing a function of equations and variables to the ODE solver function. While there is something gratifying [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sphericalcow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5383880&amp;post=655&amp;subd=sphericalcow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saving figures in MATLAB and string concatenation</title>
		<link>http://sphericalcow.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/saving-figures-in-matlab-and-string-concatenation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[MATLAB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[saveas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[saving figures]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An economics graduate student and friend of mine recently asked Google out of frustration, &#8220;How the hell do I save a plot in MATLAB?&#8221; Google, being the unfeeling robot that it is, did not empathize with his question, but many of us certainly can. The useful commands here are &#8216;print&#8217; and &#8216;saveas&#8217;. Here is a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sphericalcow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5383880&amp;post=648&amp;subd=sphericalcow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Evolved to run?</title>
		<link>http://sphericalcow.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/evolved-to-run/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 03:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Running]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ardi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Born to Run]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lucy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a new book called Born to Run, author Christopher McDougall explores an interesting theory that humans have evolved to be distance runners. Woven into the story of a running tribe called the raramuri of the Copper Canyons of Mexico, McDougall explores the research from human evolutionary biologists Daniel Lieberman and Dennis Bramble. The basic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sphericalcow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5383880&amp;post=637&amp;subd=sphericalcow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Running angry. On skis. For 50 miles: A VT50 race report</title>
		<link>http://sphericalcow.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/vt50-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Running]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ultramarathon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vermont]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vermont 50]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VT50]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I hate mud. That was the mantra that carried me through my last 13 miles of the Vermont 50 race this weekend. Actually, that&#8217;s the G rated, family friendly version of the actual thing that I was chanting throughout the end of the race, which starred the Mud. My trip to Vermont started a few [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sphericalcow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5383880&amp;post=602&amp;subd=sphericalcow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Psychosomatic health</title>
		<link>http://sphericalcow.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/psychosomatic-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Neuroscience]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[depression]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t qualify posts like this enough; they are zeroth order thoughts that are more like armchair musings than they are even close to anything scientific. Fairly often I come across a science news article about some study that correlates behavioral/mental health with some kind of somatic manifestation. There&#8217;s a term that many bandy around, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sphericalcow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5383880&amp;post=599&amp;subd=sphericalcow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dreams of Vermont</title>
		<link>http://sphericalcow.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/dreams-of-vermont/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 04:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Running]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pain]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I kept telling myself that I had plenty of time and was not worried about it. I missed the start, actually, and I had to miss my McDonald&#8217;s breakfast in order to make it to the starting line. I kept returning to the starting line, for some reason. And on top of that, it was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sphericalcow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5383880&amp;post=596&amp;subd=sphericalcow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Toes and training runs</title>
		<link>http://sphericalcow.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/toes-and-training-runs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Running]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middlesex Fells]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trail running]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been kind of training for the upcoming Vermont 50 Miler going on in two weeks (now in a few days). My weekly mileages are hovering around 50-75 miles per week, which isn&#8217;t too shabby, with my normal runs around 8-10 miles. I have been planning a 30 miler for a few weeks now, to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sphericalcow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5383880&amp;post=592&amp;subd=sphericalcow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Repurposing Sept 1</title>
		<link>http://sphericalcow.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/repurposing-sept-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Running]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moving Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Running Commute Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[September 1]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[September 1 is a special day in Boston. It&#8217;s Moving Day. More aptly, it&#8217;s the biggest mess of frantic young, new residents to our fair city who are desperately trying to move in or move around the city. Nearly every single lease turns over on Sept 1, so this affects a large part of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sphericalcow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5383880&amp;post=588&amp;subd=sphericalcow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An ode to my socks</title>
		<link>http://sphericalcow.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/an-ode-to-my-socks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Running]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drymax Socks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[night running]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sonnets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trail running]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Floating through the woods at night full of bliss, Countless thoughts slip in and out of my mind. Despite my fatigue, constant awareness Is necessary down hills I have climbed. Cruising along to chase the spot of light, Sounds on either side of me amplified. A rustling of a bear is out of sight, Or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sphericalcow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5383880&amp;post=583&amp;subd=sphericalcow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>9.595! 9.595!</title>
		<link>http://sphericalcow.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/9-595-9-595/</link>
		<comments>http://sphericalcow.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/9-595-9-595/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Running]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[19.19]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IAAF World Championships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Usain Bolt]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Usain Bolt just did the equivalent of running 2 back to back 9.595 s times for over 100 meters. Of course, they call this competition the 200 m, and that makes his time 19.19 s. If 9.4 can be met in the 100 m, it seems incredibly possible that perhaps sub-19 seconds can be attained [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sphericalcow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5383880&amp;post=580&amp;subd=sphericalcow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Korea&#8217;s leaders</title>
		<link>http://sphericalcow.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/koreas-leaders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Dae-jung]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noh Mu-hyun]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Even as an American citizen, I identify strongly with my joint Korean-American culture. I&#8217;ve always naturally considered the South Korean president to be a representative of me as well, since Korea is a small country with a relatively small population of people. Today, as we celebrate the life and legacy of deceased President Kim Dae [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sphericalcow.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5383880&amp;post=576&amp;subd=sphericalcow&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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