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		<title>a note about passwords</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Passwords bug me. Specifically, password management on most websites is maddening. Here are a few things to keep in mind when designing yours: List your password-format rules up front. All too often, sites ask for a password with no indication of their format rules, then scream &#8220;ERROR!&#8221; when you don&#8217;t guess correctly. Yell at your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://globalspin.com/2012/01/a-note-about-passwords/</link>
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		<title>watching space stations dance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re in Southern California on January 5th, you might get a chance to see two space stations in the sky at the same time. (Pretty cool, right?) If it&#8217;s clear enough, and if I&#8217;ve read the magnitudes and times and directions correctly on Heavens Above, here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ll be doing that night: At 5:00pm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mpemba Effect: A Good Case For Citizen Science?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just read an intriguing article on the Mpemba effect at Skulls in the Stars. Between the history of the effect and the continuing puzzle of what causes it, this is the best example of science-as-a-process I&#8217;ve ever seen: Mpemba made his accidental discovery in Tanzania in 1963, when he was only 13 years old [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://globalspin.com/2011/06/the-mpemba-effect-a-good-case-for-citizen-science/</link>
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		<title>this is not a science blog post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I (and Global Spin) have changed a bit over the last few months. Nothing you&#8217;d notice much, but I&#8217;ve set aside a few projects and picked up a few others. Specifically, I&#8217;m starting the long road toward becoming a licensed scientician. Long story short: Global Spin is shifting towards science blogging. For the remainder of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://globalspin.com/2011/03/this-is-not-a-science-blog-post/</link>
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		<title>why I won&#8217;t fly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t fly. Since the TSA put its latest set of security-theater rules in effect, I just can&#8217;t do it (or ask my family to) in good conscience. It comes down to this: I know too many people who would be traumatized by the kind of treatment the TSA has made mandatory. I can think [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://globalspin.com/2011/01/why-i-wont-fly/</link>
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		<title>an analogy for particles with spin one-half</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This may seem like an odd diversion, but John asked about it just this morning so I thought I&#8217;d share with the rest of the class. Electrons, in their secret life as wibbly-wobbly quantum particle-wavey things, have a property called spin. To quote a handy article I just ran across: One of the things that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://globalspin.com/2010/12/an-analogy-for-particles-with-spin-one-half/</link>
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		<title>the rule of telling children anything</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had to post this in response to the flurry of rumors around NASA’s announcement that this Thursday they will “discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life.” The rule is simple: When you tell a child anything, they will ignore most of it and leave only the words [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://globalspin.com/2010/11/the-rule-of-telling-children-anything/</link>
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		<title>assumptions and their ills</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I did something dumb, and I only realized it today because I don&#8217;t trust an easy success. Let&#8217;s see if you can spot the flaw in my reasoning: Background: A process (X) is run on a series of items in a queue. Items are added to the queue continuously, about 500 per hour. A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://globalspin.com/2010/09/assumptions-and-their-ills/</link>
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		<title>a cat… standing up!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may have noticed how quiet Global Spin has become, yet again. With the rise of Twitter and Reader and Tumblr and other such thing-share-ers, our little community no longer has much reason to post their thoughts to a group blog. In response, I&#8217;m quitting! … checks notes Oh wait, that&#8217;s not it… shuffles papers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://globalspin.com/2010/04/a-cat%e2%80%a6-standing-up/</link>
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		<title>the 42nd monkey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lee shared a thoughtful and entertaining Cracked article* by David Wong about the Monkeysphere. In short, the idea is that we can maintain less than 150 relationships (our monkeys**), so there&#8217;s no way for us to care about everyone. Lee also shared a Derek Sivers article that hits right in the gut. As Lee pointed [...]]]></description>
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