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		<title>For Curiosity’s Sake, a Special Weekday Edition</title>
		<link>http://www.explanationizer.com/2012/08/06/mars-landing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t usually post two days in a row, but I often post to sound off about something that&#8217;s gotten by dander up, and that&#8217;s what&#8217;s happening today. There&#8217;s a situation I just have to correct. The news reports I&#8217;ve been hearing all morning about Curiosity&#8217;s landing on Mars have all said, &#8220;The probe entered <a href='http://www.explanationizer.com/2012/08/06/mars-landing/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Browning — And We’re not Talking about Poetry</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2012 22:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When cleaning out the kitchen of a vacation house last week, we came across a seriously nasty bottle of ketchup. The space between the bottle and the top was filled with crusty black crud, and my daughter was &#8220;totally grossed out&#8221; by it. Ironically, this is the same girl who loves to set her marshmallows <a href='http://www.explanationizer.com/2012/08/05/browning/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Love the Tour de France</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 02:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[bike racing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I write this, the 2012 Tour de France is winding to a close on the streets of Paris. I&#8217;ve written two posts on the Tour in previous years, and I was going to let it pass uncommented-upon this time. But something happened last Sunday — after I&#8217;d already written last weekend&#8217;s post — that <a href='http://www.explanationizer.com/2012/07/22/i-love-tdf/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why My House Is a Fire Trap and Yours Probably Is Not</title>
		<link>http://www.explanationizer.com/2012/07/16/house-framing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 18:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[home construction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My house was built in 1870. (No, I&#8217;m not that old. I moved into it several decades after that, thank you very much.) And believe it or not, that&#8217;s all you need to know to figure out that it&#8217;s a firetrap. On the other hand, if your house is less than maybe 70 or 80 <a href='http://www.explanationizer.com/2012/07/16/house-framing/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>All the World’s a Stage</title>
		<link>http://www.explanationizer.com/2012/07/08/piaget/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 03:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[psychology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I was two or three years old, my parents and I were driving up to visit my grandparents at their summer cottage (which is now [partly] my summer cottage, and which is where I&#8217;m writing this post, which is why I thought of this topic (which will become more interesting and less about me <a href='http://www.explanationizer.com/2012/07/08/piaget/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Keep a Lid on It</title>
		<link>http://www.explanationizer.com/2012/06/24/mens-hats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 22:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[clothing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was something I was going to write about, but I can&#8217;t remember what it was. So we saw an ad for Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter the other day. It looks like fun, but I haven&#8217;t seen any reviews yet. One thing I noticed, though, was that the costumer had put Mr. Lincoln in an <a href='http://www.explanationizer.com/2012/06/24/mens-hats/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Excuse: Vacation — Needed Rest</title>
		<link>http://www.explanationizer.com/2012/06/10/united-kingdom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 01:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I had been planning to write a nice, long post about time zones (sounds fascinating, huh?) with plenty of cool maps and funny jokes. But so many of you* sent me e-mails asking about a certain aspect of last weekend&#8217;s post that I decided to devote this weekend&#8217;s post to the answer. * &#8220;so many&#8221; <a href='http://www.explanationizer.com/2012/06/10/united-kingdom/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>“We Are Coming! We Are Coming!”</title>
		<link>http://www.explanationizer.com/2012/06/03/american-colonists-were-british/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2012 22:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had been planning to write a nice, long post about time zones (sounds fascinating, huh?) with plenty of cool maps and funny jokes. But last weekend was Memorial Day, plus I&#8217;m feeling kinda sick again (no worries, just a cold), plus the dog ate my admin password, plus I didn’t feel like it. And <a href='http://www.explanationizer.com/2012/06/03/american-colonists-were-british/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Memorial Day</title>
		<link>http://www.explanationizer.com/2012/05/28/memorial-day-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 01:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Memorial Day]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[NOTE: This post was originally written on Memorial Day, 2011, but the photos are from 2012. New posts will return next weekend. Once again, I’m typing this post on a plane. I’d thought that buying tickets for Memorial Day was a brilliant idea that would guarantee us a half-filled plane and maybe room enough to <a href='http://www.explanationizer.com/2012/05/28/memorial-day-2/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Maa-aadame!</title>
		<link>http://www.explanationizer.com/2012/05/21/daa-aame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 14:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had been planning to write a nice, long post about time zones (sounds fascinating, huh?) with plenty of cool maps and funny jokes. But last weekend was Mother&#8217;s Day, plus I had classes to teach on Saturday and Sunday, plus I got sick (no worries, just a cold), plus the dog ate my admin <a href='http://www.explanationizer.com/2012/05/21/daa-aame/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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