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		<title>Libertines</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salahudin al-Rawandi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Luddee: Mr.Anthony Randsonhauss, you are a Nobel prize winning traffic manager and you have earned the recognition of 37 governments around the world as the best of the best. Could you share your philosophy with us so that we may all benefit from your genius?
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		<title>Finding Eid via the moon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 22:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salahudin al-Rawandi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bedouin tribes used stars to navigate through the featureless landscape of the desert in the distant past. But despite man&#8217;s conquest of the moon and ability to look back at time via the Hubble telescope, Muslims still have great difficulty locating the moon. &#8211; Zafar M Khan
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		<title>The difference between lawyers and philosophers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salahudin al-Rawandi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There is a major distinction between the &#8216;lawyer&#8217; and the &#8216;philosopher.&#8217; The lawyer participates in an argument: takes a side and fights for it. A philosopher, however, should attempt to undermine the debate itself; to show where both sides are wrong. In other words, the philosopher must show that not only are there bad arguments [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silsilajahilliya.wordpress.com&blog=4252365&post=196&subd=silsilajahilliya&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trends: Resurgency of evolution in multiple fields</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 19:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salahudin al-Rawandi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There I was, slightly sulking at the fact that memetic theory was dead even before I adopted its world view, feeling a little embarrassed to be behind the intellectual trends of science&#8230; when I discovered and adopted evolutionary psychology. It was all the rage and I could see why. But now I&#8217;m pleased to know [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silsilajahilliya.wordpress.com&blog=4252365&post=192&subd=silsilajahilliya&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Morality evolved</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 17:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salahudin al-Rawandi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Frans de Waal, a primate behaviourist at Emory University, Atlanta,  Georgia, said: &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe animals are moral in the sense we  humans are – with well developed and reasoned sense of right and wrong –  rather that human morality incorporates a set of psychological tendencies  and capacities such as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silsilajahilliya.wordpress.com&blog=4252365&post=190&subd=silsilajahilliya&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Human brain: temporal experience processing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 17:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salahudin al-Rawandi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daniel Gilbert and Randy Buckner explain how the human brain differs from other animals&#8217;, in processing experience and constructing possible future scenarios. It&#8217;s a fascinating read because the article appreciates how complex our brain is and explains the survival advantage our processing ability gives. Read it here.
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		<title>New Scientist authors exhibit promiscuous teleology</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 17:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salahudin al-Rawandi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading a book review over at the New Scientist website. And I came across this paragraph:
Physics and cosmology alone may have the answers, says Calle. Combine eternal inflation, in which the primordial false vacuum continuously grows and decays, with string theory and you end up with a multiverse &#8211; a vast collection of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silsilajahilliya.wordpress.com&blog=4252365&post=185&subd=silsilajahilliya&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New telescopes being prepared to detect alien life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 17:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salahudin al-Rawandi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SIGNS of life on planets beyond our own solar system may soon be in our sights. Experiments and calculations presented at an astrobiology meeting last week reveal how the coming generation of space telescopes will for the first time be capable of detecting &#8220;biosignatures&#8221; in the light from planets orbiting other stars.
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		<title>Chemists on course to create RNA</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 17:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salahudin al-Rawandi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An English chemist has found the hidden gateway to the RNA world, the chemical milieu from which the first forms of life are thought to have emerged on earth some 3.8 billion years ago. He has solved a problem that for 20 years has thwarted researchers trying to understand the origin of life — how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silsilajahilliya.wordpress.com&blog=4252365&post=176&subd=silsilajahilliya&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mr.Dyson attacks our cognitive mechanism of scientific thinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 00:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salahudin al-Rawandi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The New Scientist
&#8220;I would say the strategy in looking for life in the universe [should be] to look for what&#8217;s detectable, not what&#8217;s probable,&#8221; he said on Saturday at a conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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