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	<description>The unexamined life is a life not worth living</description>
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		<title>Dolphins are smart</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure why Marginal Revolution only just now linked to a Guardian article from 2003, but it&#8217;s still a seriously good read. The dolphin in the article was trained to help keep her pool clean by bringing any waste paper that falls into her pool to the keepers for a reward. Over time, one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Knights of the Cardboard Castle</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After much vacillation, I have decided to split my gaming related content to a new blog, Knights of the Cardboard Castle. This makes the theme and subject matter of the two different blogs much clearer. This means that henceforth no new posts on games or gaming related subjects will be added to this blog. Calltoreason.org [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red Faction: Guerrilla</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wankongyew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>
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Most shooters start the player off with some kind of assault rifle, maybe a sub-machine gun if the designers are feeling stingy, plus a dinky little side-arm that never actually sees any use. Not so Red Faction: Guerrilla. In this game, right after the introductory cutscene, you&#8217;re given a humongous sledgehammer and a satchel of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dominion Cardgame</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
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Ever since I first learned to play Magic: The Gathering more than ten years ago, I&#8217;ve been a big fan of card-based games. Using cards allows games to get away with a relatively simple core ruleset while adding additional rules and exceptions to the established rules as needed on the cards themselves. This means that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent Interesting Science Articles (October ‘09)</title>
		<link>http://calltoreason.org/?p=5061</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wankongyew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bit early this month but I need to make space for more updates next week. The most unusual thing about this installment is that none of the three articles this month are from The Economist! Two of the three articles are about biology while the last one is very speculative, very theoretical physics.
The first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weaver of tales</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wankongyew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>
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CarcaSean received a shipment of new games last week so everyone was eager to try them out. Of these, Heroscape: Rise of the Valkyrie was easily the most visually impressive with its Lego-like terrain pieces and pre-painted miniatures. The most unusual however was the new edition of Tales of the Arabian Nights which is barely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on the 2010 Malaysian Budget</title>
		<link>http://calltoreason.org/?p=4983</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wankongyew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before I go into my views on the budget, I&#8217;d like to express my disappointment with the poor quality of the discourse that I&#8217;ve read on the topic over on the LYN forums. Most people over there, including at least one moderator, seem to be basing their evaluation of it entirely on how it benefits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avengers Assemble!</title>
		<link>http://calltoreason.org/?p=4934</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wankongyew</dc:creator>
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Being somewhat of a fan of superhero comics, I&#8217;d noticed the Marvel Heroes box sitting on a shelf on the very first day I stepped into CarcaSean. It wasn&#8217;t until much later that I ventured to ask Sean about it. At that time, he told me that he had only played it once himself and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-vaccination nutjobs</title>
		<link>http://calltoreason.org/?p=4918</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wankongyew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a skeptic, I&#8217;ve never been a fan of alternative medicine or even herbal remedies. I prefer that any medical treatments that I take be experimentally controlled, peer reviewed and statistically compared for efficacy against competing treatments. It feels however that I&#8217;m in the minority on this and even people who have a reasonably sound [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life of a Martian terrorist</title>
		<link>http://calltoreason.org/?p=4880</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wankongyew</dc:creator>
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Is it just me or is there something about Mars that inspires stories about underground resistances against an oppressive authority? The 1990 film Total Recall starring Arnold Schwarzenegger used this theme and it was a recurrent subplot on J.M. Straczynski&#8217;s Babylon 5 television series. Even in Kim Stanley Robinson&#8217;s Mars Trilogy, the story about the [...]]]></description>
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