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		<title>ice cream happy place</title>
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		<title>I like my car like I like my lightcycles</title>
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		<title>Beliefs Deserve Better Science</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When religious beliefs are placed into the sphere of scientific test, scientific criticism of those beliefs is fair game. All questions put under the framework of the scientific method enjoy the same scrutiny, and it is imperative to approach the question with the same critical toolkit as one would approach any other question. When my [...]


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<li><a href='http://steve.cooleysekula.net/blog/2010/02/23/when-values-meet-data/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: When values meet data'>When values meet data</a> <small>NPR ran a timely story tonight about how people with...</small></li>
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		<title>Second year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first month of being a faculty member was one of the most difficult months of my life. Changing jobs is always hard, but going from post-doc to faculty is a promotion without a well-defined manual. The federal government made things extra special by creating a new DOE young investigator award program, but placed the [...]


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<li><a href='http://steve.cooleysekula.net/blog/2009/12/07/were-taking-data-like-its-1999/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: We&#8217;re taking data like it&#8217;s 1999'>We&#8217;re taking data like it&#8217;s 1999</a> <small>This has been a whirlwind week for me. Ever since...</small></li>
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		<title>Back from Vacation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well . . . sort of. I took a long vacation from personal things this summer to work in Geneva, Switzerland, at the CERN laboratory. I posted lots of things in the SMU CERN blog [1] and mirrored those posts in my own professional blog [2]. If you missed those adventures, have a look. When [...]


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<li><a href='http://steve.cooleysekula.net/blog/2009/10/17/memories-of-yamamoto/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Memories of Yamamoto'>Memories of Yamamoto</a> <small>Today I learned of the death of a former mentor...</small></li>
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		<title>The Carbon Bowl</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, each year the SMU Provost hands out a book for the faculty to read. Last year, that book was Timothy Egan&#8217;s &#8220;The Worst Hard Time,&#8221; a collection of stories (including diary entries) about surviving the worst environmental disaster in American history: the dust bowl. The dust bowl was an event in the 1930s which [...]


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		<title>Take TV Anywhere</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve commented on how much I love my MythTV box, &#8220;Stevo.&#8221; I&#8217;ve found another reason to love it more: streaming recordings from my home in Texas to my laptop in France. Fundamentally, all MythTV does is take output from a TV tuner card and convert it to MPEG, writing it to disk. MythTV makes the [...]


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		<title>Summer vacation is either a lie or a memory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was a kid, I got used to the idea that summers were my own. That&#8217;s thanks to the way the U.S. school system works, starting in August and ending in June of the next year.  Summers were a time for play in my youth, yard work and play in my teens, a job [...]


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		<title>Seen and Unseen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is an immediate crisis, getting immediate attention. It poses long-term effects for sea life, coastal life, and human economics (fishing, tourism, etc.). That oil leak represents a major release of carbon into the Gulf; oil in its crude form is a thick and viscous material, rich in [...]


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		<title>Aerosols</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m nursing a cold. Laying about on the couch has given me some time to think, and I&#8217;ve been thinking about aerosols. The recent eruption of an Icelandic volcano has brought air traffic over Europe to a grinding halt. When this same thing happened after the 9/11 attacks in the U.S.,  local climate was slightly [...]


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