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	<title>Joe Carter</title>
	
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		<title>The Math Behind Love-Matching</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 10:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The founder of online dating site OKCupid explains how his site&#8217;s love-matching algorithms work.]]></description>
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		<title>How to Catch a Rabbit Using a Venomous Snake</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 20:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever needed to catch a wild rabbit? Here&#8217;s how: Step #1 &#8211; Find a deadly snake . . . (Via: 22 Words)]]></description>
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		<title>Day Jail for Kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are schools for? Here&#8217;s John Holt&#8217;s theory: society demands of schools, among other things, that they be a place where, for many hours of the day, many days of the year, children or young people can be shut up and so got out of everyone else&#8217;s way. Mom doesn&#8217;t want them hanging around the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Write a Love Letter and Salvage Valentine’s Day (A Guide for Men)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Carter</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/joecarter/?p=1790</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you’ve waited until today to make plans you’ll find yourself at the Quik-E-Mart fighting other pathetic slobs for the last Whitman’s sampler or single-stem plucked-in-November rose. But I have an alternative to cheap candy and wilted flowers. It’s thoughtful. It’s romantic. And most importantly, it’s cheap. It’s the love letter. Follow these steps in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Are You Most Likely to Run Over a Deer?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Carter</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/joecarter/?p=1771</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In some states, a deer crossing sign serves as a warning. But if you live in South Dakota, Iowa, or Michigan, the signs serve as foreshadowing for your inevitable fate. Using its claims data and state licensed driver counts from the Federal Highway Administration, State Farm calculated the chances of a motorist striking a deer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J.R.R. Tolkien Killed a Beatles Lord of the Rings Movie</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/joecarter/2013/02/j-r-r-tolkien-killed-a-beatles-lord-of-the-rings-movie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can you imagine a Lord of the Rings movie starring the Beatles and directed by Stanley Kubrick? No? Well, neither could J.R.R. Tolkien: Once upon a time, the Fab Four—having slain the pop charts—decided to set their sights on the Dark Lord Sauron by making a Lord of the Rings feature, starring themselves. One man [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Real ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Wasn’t in Texas, Didn’t Involve a Chainsaw, and Wasn’t a Massacre</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 13:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Carter</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/joecarter/?p=1756</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Film critic J.C. Maçek III examines the urban legend behind The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the real story of it&#8217;s inspiration, Ed Gein: Although Gein is sometimes referred to as a “serial killer”, he was only ever proven to have killed two people (his crimes were more of the “grave robbing” sort), there is absolutely no evidence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Second Graders Learn Grammar by Correcting the Tweets of Pro Football Players</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/joecarter/2013/02/second-graders-learn-grammar-by-correcting-the-tweets-of-pro-football-players/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 13:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Carter</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.patheos.com/blogs/joecarter/?p=1706</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Elmwood Franklin School&#8217;s second grade students applied their lessons in proper sentence structure, noun and verb usage, spelling, and punctuation to correct the tweets of professional football players. Here&#8217;s an example of their useful lesson: Getting tackled by a 200 lb linebacker is probably not as painful as having your grammar corrected by a second [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Hatchet-wielding Homeless Hitchhiker is a Hero</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/joecarter/2013/02/this-hatchet-wielding-homeless-hitchhiker-is-a-hero/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 11:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In what will likely go down as one of the most bizarre stories of 2013, a hatchet-wielding homeless hitchhiker saves the day by stopping an attack by a racist who thinks he&#8217;s Jesus Christ.]]></description>
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		<title>The Seven Best Super Bowl Commercials (That Aren’t Beer Ads)</title>
		<link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/joecarter/2013/02/the-seven-best-super-bowl-commercials-that-arent-beer-ads/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/joecarter/2013/02/the-seven-best-super-bowl-commercials-that-arent-beer-ads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Carter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contrary to the trite assertion made every year by people who don&#8217;t know how to appreciate football, it&#8217;s not really true that the commercials are the best thing about the Super Bowl (at least not always). Sure, it seems that way because the television viewer is seeing commercials than actual game play (in an average [...]]]></description>
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