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		<title>&#8220;humour was a high artform in Paris in the 20&#8217;s&#8221; Alexander Rower</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Calder]]></category>

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&#8220;One of the misconceptions about the circus was that it was fun and great, but in reality, humor was a high art form in the late &#8217;20s in Paris,&#8221; said Alexander S. C. Rower, a grandson of Calder and director of the Calder Foundation, which manages the artist&#8217;s estate. &#8220;So much so that when Calder [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatyamazakireads.wordpress.com&blog=699048&post=333&subd=whatyamazakireads&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Night Clerk At The Royalton Hotel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;Cousteau asked if I&#8217;d like to travel with him from Paris to the French Atlantic port of La Rochelle, where the prototype for a new ship, with a wind-propulsion system he and his colleagues had just invented, was being tested. I jumped at the chance, rose at five A.M. in order to meet him at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatyamazakireads.wordpress.com&blog=699048&post=322&subd=whatyamazakireads&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gimme Some Truth</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jillian Burt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time Magazine, December 10. 2007. Barack Obama: The Contender
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		<title>algorithm: no voice but amplifies voices</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jillian Burt</dc:creator>
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		<title>Would Albert Einstein&#8217;s Phone Be A Google Android?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the movie I.Q., I discovered that Albert Einstein had been fascinated with compasses since childhood. &#8220;When he was four and sick in bed, Albert Einstein&#8217;s father gave him a magnetic compass. Albert practiced turning the compass every which way, soon becoming fascinated by the new toy. No matter which way he turned it, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatyamazakireads.wordpress.com&blog=699048&post=304&subd=whatyamazakireads&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Machine Language becomes poetry</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jillian Burt</dc:creator>
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Language development is a process that starts early in human life, when a person begins to acquire language by learning it as it is spoken and by mimicry. Children&#8217;s language development moves from simplicity to complexity. Infants start without language. Yet by four months of age, babies can read lips and discriminate speech sounds. Usually, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatyamazakireads.wordpress.com&blog=699048&post=298&subd=whatyamazakireads&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Love Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jillian Burt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went to see WALL-E today. The branch of robotics I write about isn&#8217;t anthropomorphic. Machines that allow one to work with something from a distance began with the Manhattan project with the scientists being able to manipulate the radioactive materials from a safe distance, and it&#8217;s hard to romanticise that kind of creation myth. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatyamazakireads.wordpress.com&blog=699048&post=290&subd=whatyamazakireads&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Tools of Telepresence in Your Phone</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jillian Burt</dc:creator>
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Dr Robert Ballard speaking at the TED conference May 29, 2008
We're entering a new golden age of exploration Dr Robert Ballard told the audience at the TED conference in May. He's commandeered a US Navy Boat, the Okeanus Explorer. "It's mission is as good as you can get. Its mission is to go where no-one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatyamazakireads.wordpress.com&blog=699048&post=284&subd=whatyamazakireads&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Partying Like It&#8217;s 1929</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jillian Burt</dc:creator>
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Tom Waits performs &#8220;Brother, Can You Spare a Dime&#8221; with lyrics by E.Y. Harburg. Photographs are scenes from the Depression of the 1930&#8217;s.
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jillian Burt</dc:creator>
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Fire by Alexis Rockman from a new show of his paintings.
He applies paint with abandon, using tools such as turkey basters, eye droppers, toothbrushes, and sponges. He depicts landslides, waterspouts, hurricanes, crumbling Arctic ice, and other weather-related phenomena. The paintings look like Abstract Expressionist works, save that along the edges he applies his talent for realist [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=whatyamazakireads.wordpress.com&blog=699048&post=279&subd=whatyamazakireads&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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