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		<title>More Natural Oil Spills than Manmade</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska&#8217;s Prince William Sound released 10.8 million gallons of oil &#8212; or almost 250,000 barrels of oil.  But natural oil seeps off California release up to 80 times that amount.  And natural seeps in the Gulf of Mexico release twice the amount as the Exxon Valdez every year. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alfin2100.wordpress.com&amp;blog=628489&amp;post=15&amp;subd=alfin2100&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can Senator Obama Help Black Males?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a sense of optimism among many US blacks regarding the so-far successful candidacy of Barak Obama. This ecstatic burst of utopianism extends well beyond the US black community into Europe&#8211;even to Islamic terror organisations&#8211;but it is US blacks whose hopes are elevated to the most rapturous levels. If Obama could do anything to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alfin2100.wordpress.com&amp;blog=628489&amp;post=12&amp;subd=alfin2100&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Post-Humans Among Us</title>
		<link>http://alfin2100.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/post-humans-among-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image Source The recent IEEE Spectrum special on the singularity brought a lot of comment across the blogosphere. The NYT&#8217;s John Tierney weighed in on the topic recently with a piece: When Do Post-Humans Show Up? Tierney gives Ray Kurzweil a chance to fight back against the &#8220;singularity deniers&#8221;, and Kurzweil obliges. These critics obviously [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alfin2100.wordpress.com&amp;blog=628489&amp;post=11&amp;subd=alfin2100&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heaven Is A Long-Shot Gamble</title>
		<link>http://alfin2100.wordpress.com/2008/05/10/heaven-is-a-long-shot-gamble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 18:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Asteroid Apophis, a 390 m Aten asteroid , has a rendezvous with near-Earth space on 13 April 2036.    We will not really know how close a rendezvous Apophis will have with Earth in 2036, until its 2029 near-Earth fly-by.   Earth-crossing asteroids such as Apophis represent both hazard and opportunity.   The hazard of being struck by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alfin2100.wordpress.com&amp;blog=628489&amp;post=10&amp;subd=alfin2100&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Earth&#8217;s Carbon Cycle</title>
		<link>http://alfin2100.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/earths-carbon-cycle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first image portrays the Earth&#8217;s carbon cycle in the absence of life and the biosphere.  Atmospheric carbon levels are quite high, lacking the feedbacks that a living biosphere provides. In the geological carbon cycle, carbon moves between rocks and minerals, seawater, and the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reacts with some minerals to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alfin2100.wordpress.com&amp;blog=628489&amp;post=9&amp;subd=alfin2100&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Crichton&#8211;Hero of the Al Fin Republic</title>
		<link>http://alfin2100.wordpress.com/2007/02/24/michael-crichton-hero-of-the-al-fin-republic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Feb 2007 19:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since The Andromeda Strain, I have followed the story of Michael Crichton&#8211;his life and works. Michael Crichton graduated from Harvard Medical School, and chose a career in publishing and the entertainment media over medicine. Although Crichton would have made a very good physician, his impact has probably been much greater through the world of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alfin2100.wordpress.com&amp;blog=628489&amp;post=8&amp;subd=alfin2100&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is That a Robot! In Your Pocket (Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?)</title>
		<link>http://alfin2100.wordpress.com/2007/01/27/is-that-a-robot-in-your-pocket-or-are-you-just-happy-to-see-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robots are getting smaller&#8211;micro-robots, or microbots as they are called. Small and almost invisible, but with good optics. It is not impossible that you are being watched by a robot at this very moment. Especially if you are a terrorist. Israel is developing a robot the size of a hornet to attack terrorists. And although [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alfin2100.wordpress.com&amp;blog=628489&amp;post=7&amp;subd=alfin2100&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Civilisation Can Fall</title>
		<link>http://alfin2100.wordpress.com/2007/01/09/how-civilisation-can-fall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It happened before. When Rome fell, Pax Romana was ended. International trade ground to a standstill while international piracy, brigandry, and warlordism prospered. It is happening in Europe now, gradually but inexorably. Let&#8217;s look at Russia: There are ten million people in Moscow. Do you know how many of them are Muslim? Two and a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alfin2100.wordpress.com&amp;blog=628489&amp;post=6&amp;subd=alfin2100&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lagrange Points as Space Stations to Deep Space</title>
		<link>http://alfin2100.wordpress.com/2007/01/06/lagrange-points-as-space-stations-to-deep-space/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jan 2007 00:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lagrange points are stable orbital positions in specific spatial relation to two massive orbital bodies, such as the Earth and Sol. These points were discovered by Joseph Louis Lagrange in 1772 while working on the &#8220;3 body problem.&#8221; Nextsteps, a fascinating report on the best near term plan for space exploration, discusses the placing of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alfin2100.wordpress.com&amp;blog=628489&amp;post=5&amp;subd=alfin2100&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Psychological Neoteny: Bruce Charlton&#8217;s View</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problems of the neotenous society, and psychological neoteny, have received extensive coverage on another Al Fin blog. But it seems that I am not the only one to ride this particular hobbyhorse. Bruce Charlton is an Evolutionary Psychiatrist at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Charlton is the author of a fascinating online ebook&#8211;The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alfin2100.wordpress.com&amp;blog=628489&amp;post=4&amp;subd=alfin2100&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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