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		<title>“Alone in the Universe”</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The biochemist Leslie Orgel once remarked that &#8220;we have no way of knowing anything about the possibility of life in the Cosmos. It could be everywhere, or we could be alone.&#8221; But physicist Enrico Fermi put the question more colorfully. If aliens had visited the Earth, he asked, then &#8220;Where is everybody?&#8221; In fact, however, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the moment</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[To &#8220;live in the moment&#8221; has become trite advice in popular thinking, a kind of doublethink motivated by guilt, regret, or nostalgia. One looks back years and wonders why, at moments of imagined happiness, one did not devise methods of perpetuating the circumstances of that moment, of making them a permanent part of one&#8217;s life. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introversion extrapolated</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among salient points in Susan Cain&#8217;s book Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World That Can&#8217;t Stop Talking) are 1) personality type in US culture was changed from rural agrarian-based values to values championed by urbanization and technology; 2) that introversion is not a failed extroversion but a distinct psychological reactivity that can be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is music?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Music is the most evanescent of arts because, by its very nature as sound, is an auditory experience that requires memory, retention, and feeling. Unlike a painting or sculpture or even the contents of a book, which require vision (vision accounts for 80% of our cognitive sense learning &#8212; and are solid objects variously interpreted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“The Sky Turns”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sky Turns is a 2003 documentary film by Mercedes Alvarez. The director revisits Aldealseñor in northern Spain, the village of her birth 30 years before, reduced now to 14 elderly residents. Alvarez&#8217;s well-crafted film places the village into the grand context of time, history, seasons and cycles. The countryside still reveals the relics of [...]]]></description>
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