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		<title>How to spot a liar</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 16:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[stieha]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pamela Meyer, the author of Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception, has a TED talk title &#8220;How to spot a liar.&#8221;  After watching it (and many episodes of Lie to Me), I wanted to list small signs that suggest lying, but the most important thing in this talk isn&#8217;t the techniques she talks about.  The [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Protocol for collecting the ephemeral</title>
		<link>http://lifetinkerer.com/?p=366</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 13:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[stieha]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After many snows, I finally had a decent snow to try and collect snowflakes.  This snow had nice flakes that weren&#8217;t all stuck together in huge blobs. My procedure quickly came back to me.  The biggest thing is to make sure everything is cold, including your gloves.  Any heat will quickly melt your snowflakes. Equipment: [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Earth Evolution: The Intersection of Geology and Biology</title>
		<link>http://lifetinkerer.com/?p=356</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 16:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[stieha]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Modifying Organisms]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went to Science&#8216;s website thinking I could find some free articles to talk about, but I will have to explore the free content more.  What immediately grabbed my attention were the results from the 2012 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge.  I&#8217;m a sucker for some awesome Viz. In the Posters and Graphics section, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Use Video Game Engagement in Real Life</title>
		<link>http://lifetinkerer.com/?p=281</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 19:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[stieha]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In silico]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[games]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Chatfield (in7 ways video games engage the brain; embedded at the end) says that wanting combined with liking equals engagment.  This simple equation keeps people engaged in video games long enough to accomplish minor quests that are the basis of pretty much every role-playing game and major in-video-game tasks, such as building a battleship.  [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>What you produce vs what you want to produce</title>
		<link>http://lifetinkerer.com/?p=334</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2013 14:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[stieha]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Modify the Self]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inspiration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ira Glass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kinetic typography]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ira Glass on Storytelling from David Shiyang Liu on Vimeo. Produce.  And produce lots of it.  I&#8217;ve seen this in myself: I am producing something and it&#8217;s just not right or it&#8217;s off and doesn&#8217;t feel as good as I could be, but I can&#8217;t make that jump to making it as good as it [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I will work harder.&#8221; -Boxer</title>
		<link>http://lifetinkerer.com/?p=331</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 17:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[stieha]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The phrase &#8220;I will work harder&#8221; from Boxer in George Orwell&#8217;s Animal Farm has me thinking not about the Russian working class or unquestioning belief and trust, but about consistency and choosing what you will work harder on. There is working harder and getting a lot done  and there is also not working harder, but [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Art of Keeping a Field Notebook</title>
		<link>http://lifetinkerer.com/?p=321</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 23:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[stieha]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right now, I am on a naturalist kick.  I&#8217;ve picked up books about drawing nature and have almost finished reading Tinbergen&#8217;s &#8220;A Curious Naturalist.&#8221; (Get a used hardback = cheaper).  I don&#8217;t remember how it hit my radar, but &#8220;Field Notes on Science &#38; Nature&#8221; came out and I snapped up the copy from the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>My Evolving Book Population</title>
		<link>http://lifetinkerer.com/?p=315</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[stieha]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been studying my population of books the past couple of years and have noticed some trends. Early on, most of my books were about dinosaurs.  I also went through most of Judy Blume&#8217;s work, Encyclopedia Brown, and some crazy choose your own adventure novels.  I don&#8217;t remember much about my middle school books.  I [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Visualizing Data</title>
		<link>http://lifetinkerer.com/?p=300</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[stieha]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of TechBookClub, we decided to read Nathan Yau&#8217;s (flowingdata.com) book Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics. Working through Chapter 4, I grabbed the census data from 1790 to 2010 for the cities of Lexington, Kentucky and Lousiville, Kentucky, as well as the for the whole state of Kentucky from [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Five ways to be smarter</title>
		<link>http://lifetinkerer.com/?p=292</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[stieha]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Modify the Self]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[article of the day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrea Kuszewski wrote a guest piece for Scientific American about how to increase fluid intelligence, which is your capacity to learn new information, remember the information, and use the new knowledge (and be creative!).  She gives five basic steps for doing this, which I&#8217;ll repeat here mainly so I always know where they are. Seek [&#8230;]]]></description>
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