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    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Multiple studies have shown that isolation can damage inmates' minds, particularly those already struggling with mental illness. In recent years, New York state has led the way in implementing policies to protect troubled inmates from the trauma of solitary confinement.

A 2007 federal court order required New York to provide inmates with "serious" mental illness more treatment while in solitary. And a follow-up law enacted in 2011 all but bans such inmates from being put there altogether.

But something odd has happened: Since protections were first added, the number of inmates diagnosed with severe mental illness has dropped. The number of inmates diagnosed with "serious" mental illness is down 33 percent since 2007, compared to a 13 percent decrease in the state's prison population.]]></description>
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    <title>Meritocracy isn't fair: Lead poisoned children are genuinely less able but still deserve great lives.</title>
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    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I often hear the word "meritocracy" kicked around rather thoughtlessly on the Internet in a context where the suggestion is that an "unfair" system is somehow the opposite of a meritocratic one. The reality is just the reverse. Meritocracy itself is often grossly unfair. A great example came yesterday from Kevin Drum, who, as you may know, is obsessed with the link between lead in children's bloodstreams and crime]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[¿Qué? – What?
¿Quién? / ¿Quiénes? – Who?
¿Cómo? – How?
¿Cuándo? – When?
¿Cuánto/a? / ¿Cuántos/as? – How much? / How many?
¿Cuál? / ¿Cuáles? – Which? / Which ones?
¿Dónde? – Where?
¿Adónde? – Where to?
¿De dónde? – From where?
¿Por qué? – Why?]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://justy.me/justy/2013/8/18/journey-to-justinnia-or-how-i-got-my-5-yo-son-to-sit-still-and-concentrate-for-almost-5-hours">
    <title>&quot;Journey to Justinia&quot;, or How I got my 5 y/o son to sit still and concentrate for almost 4 hours. — Justy!</title>
    <dc:date>2013-08-19T17:28:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://justy.me/justy/2013/8/18/journey-to-justinnia-or-how-i-got-my-5-yo-son-to-sit-still-and-concentrate-for-almost-5-hours</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[hand drawn game / adventure map]]></description>
<dc:subject>parenting kids rainyday</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:quince/b:b45e06a9b059/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.futilitycloset.com/2013/08/15/jury-duty/">
    <title>Jury Duty – Futility Closet</title>
    <dc:date>2013-08-17T23:07:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.futilitycloset.com/2013/08/15/jury-duty/</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“This paradox implies it is better to have your own opinion even if it is not as good as the leader’s opinion, in general.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>paradox</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:quince/b:b1feec63730b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/06/30/a-poem-for-sunday-64/">
    <title>A Poem For Sunday « The Dish</title>
    <dc:date>2013-07-01T00:49:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/06/30/a-poem-for-sunday-64/</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Mood” by Countee Cullen:

I think an impulse stronger than my mind
May some day grasp a knife, unloose a vial,
Or with a little leaden ball unbind
The cords that tie me to the rank and file.
My hands grow quarrelsome with bitterness,
And darkly bent upon the final fray;
Night with its stars upon a grave seems less
Indecent than the too complacent day.

God knows I would be kind, let live, speak fair,
Requite an honest debt with more than just,
And love for Christ’s dear sake these shapes that wear
A pride that had its genesis in dust,–
The meek are promised much in a book I know
But one grows weary turning cheek to blow.]]></description>
<dc:subject>poetry suicide christianity</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/traveler-magazine/photo-contest/2013/entries/206824/view/">
    <title>Fénec The soul of the desert - Traveler Photo Contest 2013 - National Geographic</title>
    <dc:date>2013-06-25T18:57:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/traveler-magazine/photo-contest/2013/entries/206824/view/</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><dc:subject>fennec cute</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:quince/b:bd159f8309ad/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.childbirthconnection.org/home.asp?Visitor=Woman">
    <title>Childbirth Connection's Pregnancy Website for Women and Families</title>
    <dc:date>2013-06-22T03:42:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.childbirthconnection.org/home.asp?Visitor=Woman</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><dc:subject>parenting</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:quince/b:a6959a4c7eb6/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/ttfrm.htm">
    <title>A Talk of Ten Wives on Their Husbands' Ware</title>
    <dc:date>2013-06-04T17:01:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/ttfrm.htm</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[15th C dirty poem]]></description>
<dc:subject>history poetry middleages</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:quince/b:7d9d32ed7e9f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peltzman_effect">
    <title>Risk compensation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</title>
    <dc:date>2013-06-02T18:34:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peltzman_effect</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><dc:subject>risk psychology</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:quince/b:44645e1ea961/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://wildehack.tumblr.com/post/51688225495/but-ask-yourself-why-is-there-that-knee-jerk">
    <title>But ask yourself: Why is there that knee-jerk...</title>
    <dc:date>2013-05-30T02:32:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://wildehack.tumblr.com/post/51688225495/but-ask-yourself-why-is-there-that-knee-jerk</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[But ask yourself: Why is there that knee-jerk rejection of any effort to “overthink” pop culture? Why would you ever be afraid that looking too hard at something will ruin it? If the government built a huge, mysterious device in the middle of your town and immediately surrounded it with a fence that said, “NOTHING TO SEE HERE!” I’m pretty damned sure you wouldn’t rest until you knew what the hell that was — the fact that they don’t want you to know means it can’t be good.
Well, when any idea in your brain defends itself with “Just relax! Don’t look too close!” you should immediately be just as suspicious. It usually means something ugly is hiding there.
- David Wong

]]></description>
<dc:subject>popculture analysis</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:quince/b:340221d7ec94/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://aidanmoher.com/blog/featured-article/2013/05/we-have-always-fought-challenging-the-women-cattle-and-slaves-narrative-by-kameron-hurley/">
    <title>“‘We Have Always Fought’: Challenging the ‘Women, Cattle and Slaves’ Narrative” by Kameron Hurley — A Dribble of Ink</title>
    <dc:date>2013-05-28T17:10:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://aidanmoher.com/blog/featured-article/2013/05/we-have-always-fought-challenging-the-women-cattle-and-slaves-narrative-by-kameron-hurley/</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><dc:subject>feminism gender writing sf</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:quince/b:355eba6b19d5/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:quince/t:gender"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:quince/t:writing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:quince/t:sf"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://ozyreads.tumblr.com/post/51092207666/thebestworstidea-resilientkate-softgore">
    <title>Ozy's Tumblr Thing | thebestworstidea: resilientkate: softgore: ...</title>
    <dc:date>2013-05-28T03:59:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://ozyreads.tumblr.com/post/51092207666/thebestworstidea-resilientkate-softgore</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“This piece was primarily a trust exercise, in which she told viewers she would not move for six hours no matter what they did to her.  She placed 72 objects one could use in pleasing or destructive ways, ranging from flowers and a feather boa to a knife and a loaded pistol, on a table near her and invited the viewers to use them on her however they wanted. 
Initially, Abramović said, viewers were peaceful and timid, but it escalated to violence quickly.  “The experience I learned was that … if you leave decision to the public, you can be killed… I felt really violated: they cut my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the public. Everyone ran away, escaping an actual confrontation.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>art parenting bullying</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:quince/b:a0e97f9b07d1/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:quince/t:art"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:quince/t:parenting"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:quince/t:bullying"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.experimentcalculator.com/">
    <title>How long will your experiment take?</title>
    <dc:date>2013-05-15T14:14:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.experimentcalculator.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><dc:subject>lean ericries software a-btesting</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:quince/b:01b080c7c37f/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:quince/t:ericries"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:quince/t:software"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:quince/t:a-btesting"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/nadiabolzweber/2013/03/sermon-the-parable-of-the-prodigal-father/">
    <title>Sermon: The Parable of the Prodigal Father</title>
    <dc:date>2013-05-09T00:00:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.patheos.com/blogs/nadiabolzweber/2013/03/sermon-the-parable-of-the-prodigal-father/</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><dc:subject>bible nadia-bolz-weber</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:quince/b:e13098e7783c/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:quince/t:nadia-bolz-weber"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9175394/out-great-alone">
    <title>Out in the Great Alone</title>
    <dc:date>2013-04-29T22:10:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9175394/out-great-alone</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><dc:subject>sports writing iditarod freezing alaska</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:quince/b:7d19657436e9/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:quince/t:writing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:quince/t:iditarod"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:quince/t:freezing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:quince/t:alaska"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://book-of-flights.tumblr.com/post/47205150611/the-antikythera-shipwreck-exhibit-dated-to-60-50">
    <title>Ash on my tomatoes!, The Antikythera Shipwreck Exhibit Dated to 60-50...</title>
    <dc:date>2013-04-13T19:19:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://book-of-flights.tumblr.com/post/47205150611/the-antikythera-shipwreck-exhibit-dated-to-60-50</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><dc:subject>archeology greece art statues</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:quince/b:12f3d9c1d040/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:quince/t:greece"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:quince/t:art"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:quince/t:statues"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
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<item rdf:about="http://i.imgur.com/WUOn8VC.jpg">
    <title>bunny</title>
    <dc:date>2013-02-08T03:43:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://i.imgur.com/WUOn8VC.jpg</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><dc:subject>bunny gif</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:quince/b:621cd1cedc12/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:quince/t:gif"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://blog.safeshepherd.com/15/how-to-write-an-intro-email-like-a-boss/">
    <title>How to write an intro email like a BOSS</title>
    <dc:date>2013-01-19T01:40:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blog.safeshepherd.com/15/how-to-write-an-intro-email-like-a-boss/</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:quince/b:4252fcbe9052/</dc:identifier>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamjuly2008_djvu.txt">
    <title>Full text of &quot;Guerilla Open Access Manifesto&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2013-01-15T19:00:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamjuly2008_djvu.txt</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Guerilla Open Access Manifesto 

Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for 
themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries 
in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of 
private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the 
sciences? You'll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier. 

There are those struggling to change this. The Open Access Movement has fought 
valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure 
their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it. But 
even under the best scenarios, their work will only apply to things published in the future. 
Everything up until now will have been lost. 

That is too high a price to pay. Forcing academics to pay money to read the work of their 
colleagues? Scanning entire libraries but only allowing the folks at Google to read them? 
Providing scientific articles to those at elite universities in the First World, but not to 
children in the Global South? It's outrageous and unacceptable. 

"I agree," many say, "but what can we do? The companies hold the copyrights, they 
make enormous amounts of money by charging for access, and it's perfectly legal — 
there's nothing we can do to stop them." But there is something we can, something that's 
already being done: we can fight back. 

Those with access to these resources — students, librarians, scientists — you have been 
given a privilege. You get to feed at this banquet of knowledge while the rest of the world 
is locked out. But you need not — indeed, morally, you cannot — keep this privilege for 
yourselves. You have a duty to share it with the world. And you have: trading passwords 
with colleagues, filling download requests for friends. 



Meanwhile, those who have been locked out are not standing idly by. You have been 
sneaking through holes and climbing over fences, liberating the information locked up by 
the publishers and sharing them with your friends. 

But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It's called stealing or 
piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a 
ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn't immoral — it's a moral imperative. Only 
those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy. 

Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate 
require it — their shareholders would revolt at anything less. And the politicians they 
have bought off back them, passing laws giving them the exclusive power to decide who 
can make copies. 

There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the 
grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public 
culture. 

We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with 
the world. We need to take stuff that's out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need 
to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific 
journals and upload them to file sharing networks. We need to fight for Guerilla Open 
Access. 

With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the 
privatization of knowledge — we'll make it a thing of the past. Will you join us? 

Aaron Swartz 

July 2008]]></description>
<dc:subject>aaronsw copyright</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:quince/b:e73b1212b737/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2013/01/10/health/0110-health-SCORECARD.html?ref=health">
    <title>Differences in Life Expectancy - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2013-01-15T18:57:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2013/01/10/health/0110-health-SCORECARD.html?ref=health</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[it's almost like socialized healthcare kicks in around 65-70]]></description>
<dc:subject>medicare health america</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:quince/b:109cf76da93e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.flickr.com/photos/55432261@N03/5999213422/">
    <title>Solar System Hat! | Flickr - Photo Sharing!</title>
    <dc:date>2012-12-05T15:25:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.flickr.com/photos/55432261@N03/5999213422/</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><dc:subject>hat</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:quince/b:d7102851a1db/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/11/is-anna-karenina-a-love-story.html">
    <title>Is “Anna Karenina” a Love Story? : The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2012-12-03T14:46:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/11/is-anna-karenina-a-love-story.html</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The novel leaves us with an answer that is also a riddle. Why was Levin able to find this peace, while Anna was not? Levin’s realization itself suggests that there’s no answer to that question. In “The Hedgehog and the Fox,” Isaiah Berlin writes that, for Tolstoy, wisdom consists in the ability “to grasp what human will and human reason can do, and what they cannot.” The only way to find those limits is to struggle against them, but gently, with the goal of finding and accepting them. You can’t think your way to the limits. You have to feel your way, learning through experience and suffering. And there is a risk in experimenting with what will and will not work in life, which is that it might not work. You might move to New York to pursue your dreams, and end up with no career to speak of. You might think you can wait to find the perfect spouse, but wait too long, and end up alone. You might think you can have that affair and still have the love of your spouse and children—but you may be mistaken about what’s possible, and lose everything.
There’s a deep conservatism to this way of thinking. It’s fatalistic, in an off-putting way, since it suggests that the limits of what’s possible are just not knowable in advance, and that experience and tradition are probably our best guides. In Anna’s case, it suggests that she should have tried harder to accept her unhappy marriage with Karenin. If she did try, and found herself hemmed in by limits on all sides, then there’s no making sense, in human terms, of her suffering. “Vengeance is mine; I will repay” is from Paul’s Epistle to the Romans; it’s in the middle of a beautiful passage about the difficulties of accepting injustices and differences. “We have many members in one body,” Paul says, “and all members have not the same office.”]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2012-11-06T20:11:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://specialolympicsblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/an-open-letter-to-ann-coulter/</link>
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    <dc:date>2012-11-04T23:37:30+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>BABY DALEK</title>
    <dc:date>2012-10-29T21:02:57+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><dc:subject>doctorwho</dc:subject>
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    <title>How to eat a Triceratops : Nature News &amp; Comment</title>
    <dc:date>2012-10-25T14:15:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nature.com/news/how-to-eat-a-triceratops-1.11650</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Theirs was the immortal battle: a fierce tyrant battling a defender armed with three lethal horns and protected by a bony frill around its neck. Yet the violent fight between Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops is hardly the stuff of Hollywood hype. Tyrannosaurus bite marks are well known on the fossil bones of Triceratops but, so far, such fossils have always been studied in an isolated manner.

In a departure from this precedent, work presented last week at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology’s annual meeting in Raleigh, North Carolina, reports on an examination of numerous bite-scarred Triceratops bones and a theory of how Tyrannosaurus fed.

Denver Fowler at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, and his colleagues studied numerous Triceratops specimens from Montana's Hell Creek Formation to identify how many had the characteristic tooth marks of Tyrannosaurus on them. They found 18, most of which were skulls. When they looked closer, they noted something important: none of the bones showed any signs of healing, indicating that the bites were inflicted on dead animals that were in the process of being eaten.

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As Fowler and his colleagues examined the various types of bite mark on the skulls, they were intrigued by the extensive puncture and pull marks on the neck frills on some of the specimens. At first, this seemed to make no sense. “The frill would have been mostly bone and keratin,” says Fowler. “Not much to eat there.” The pulling action and the presence of deep parallel grooves led the team to realise that these marks were probably not indicative of actual eating, but repositioning of the prey. The scientists suggest that the frills were in the way of Tyrannosaurus as it was trying to get at the nutrient-rich neck muscles.

“It's gruesome, but the easiest way to do this was to pull the head off,” explains Fowler with a grin. The researchers found further evidence to support this idea when they examined the Triceratops occipital condyles — the ball-socket head–neck joint — and found tooth marks there too. Such marks could only have been made if the animal had been decapitated.

Bites and nibbles
“Innovative and thorough, this work really shows the value of incomplete specimens and large samples for interpreting palaeobiology,” says palaeontologist Andrew Farke at the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology in Claremont, California.

It also shows that Tyrannosaurus also had a daintier side. Fowler and his team found precise, even delicate, bites along the front of several Triceratops skulls, and suggest that these are nibbles on the tender meat found on the face.

The discoveries led Fowler and his colleagues to question whether the feeding behaviour of Tyrannosaurus changed substantially as the animals grew. The team proposes that, with their particularly thick teeth, adult tyrannosaurids would have been well-suited to tearing apart something as tough as a Triceratops, whereas younger individuals may have had to rely on different feeding strategies to prevent them from damaging their teeth.

There is also the question of how the creatures might have evolved over time. “It is going to be interesting to see if similar patterns of prey processing occurred earlier in time,” says Farke. “I really wonder what the smaller tyrannosaurs that lived millions of years before T. rex were doing.”]]></description>
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    <title>Dick Balzer's Website: Thaumatropes</title>
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    <dc:date>2012-10-13T23:21:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://bada-bum.blogspot.com.es/search/label/taumatropo</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[thaumatropes from spain (modern)]]></description>
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    <title>[6] TIL when you see something for the first time then start to see it everywhere, it is called the 'Baader-Meinhof phenomenon'. : todayilearned</title>
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    <title>Ask Polly: I’m About To Have A Baby And I’m Freaking Out | The Awl</title>
    <dc:date>2012-09-27T19:35:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theawl.com/2012/09/turning-the-screw#more-139419</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Remember: Obsessing about your legacy, whether you're just starting out or world-famous, is like sniffing your own mess. If you have to do it, at least have the common courtesy not to do it in public.
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    <title>If on a winter's night a traveler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-18T00:02:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_on_a_winter's_night_a_traveler</link>
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    <title>The Public Burning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-18T00:02:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Public_Burning</link>
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    <title>Neighborhood concrete slides - SFGate</title>
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    <link>http://www.sfgate.com/thingstodo/article/Neighborhood-concrete-slides-3174460.php</link>
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    <title>www.bacds.org/series/contra/san_francisco/2012summer.pdf</title>
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    <title>Berkeley Juggling &amp; Unicycling Festival</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-17T10:28:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://berkeleyjuggling.org/festival2012/#logistics</link>
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    <title>Cal-Sailing Club OpenHouse/Intro to Sailing at Cal-Sailing Club, 8/19/2012 - SF Gate</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-17T10:28:38+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>Aurora Jungle-Juice</title>
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    <link>http://www.thecampuscompanion.com/party-lab/2011/10/21/aurora-drink/</link>
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    <title>Steven Andersin Ankle Booties | SHOPBOP</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-09T23:45:36+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[8.5"]]></description>
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    <title>Why a Female Scientist in a Pink Dress Is No Hero to Girls - The Daily Stat - August 6, 2012 - Harvard Business Review</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-06T19:59:08+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[
AUGUST 6, 2012
Why a Female Scientist in a Pink Dress Is No Hero to Girls
Adolescent girls' plans for taking college math drop if they're shown feminine-looking women excelling in technological fields. After 11- to 13-year-old girls heard about women who were successful in science and wore dark-colored clothing, their expectations of taking math averaged 5.57 on a 1-to-7 scale, say Diana Betz and Denise Sekaquaptewa of the University of Michigan. But when girls learned about science-achieving women who wore makeup and pink clothes, their expectations of taking math fell to 4.04. Feminine-looking scientists may seem a rare breed to gender-stereotyping adolescents, and past research suggests that unattainable role models aren't inspiring, they're threatening.]]></description>
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    <title>Mass Lottery - Random Hall cartel discussion</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-03T16:26:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.mass.gov/ig/publications/reports-and-recommendations/2012/lottery-cash-winfall-letter-july-2012.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><dc:subject>lottery gaming massachusetts MIT randomhall</dc:subject>
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    <title>Biologists reveal potential 'fatal flaw' in iconic sexual selection study</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-27T00:01:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120626092714.htm</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[fruit flies]]></description>
<dc:subject>ev-psych science biology mutations</dc:subject>
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    <title>Free audio files</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-22T00:44:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://stims.cnbc.cmu.edu/Sound%20Databases/AuditoryLab/</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[All content available on this site is provided under the terms defined in the Legal Notice at the top of the table. In a nutshell: please cite me if you use any of these sounds for research, and commercial users must apply for a different license. This table contains a database of sound events with corresponding movies, pictures, and descriptive text. Sounds are 16-bit, 44.1kHz .wav files, movies are .mov, pictures are .jpg, and text is .rtf (Many of the original sounds were recorded in 24bit, 96kHz format.)

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    <dc:date>2012-05-18T01:51:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://web.mit.edu/ahailes/Public/instructions.jpg</link>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.6206">
    <title>[1204.6206] Did the ancient egyptians record the period of the eclipsing binary Algol - the Raging one?</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-18T01:51:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.6206</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The eclipses in binary stars give precise information of orbital period changes. Goodricke discovered the 2.867 days period in the eclipses of Algol in the year 1783. The irregular orbital period changes of this longest known eclipsing binary continue to puzzle astronomers. The mass transfer between the two members of this binary should cause a long-term increase of the orbital period, but observations over two centuries have not confirmed this effect. Here, we present evidence indicating that the period of Algol was 2.850 days three millenia ago. For religious reasons, the ancient Egyptians have recorded this period into the Cairo Calendar, which describes the repetitive changes of the Raging one. Cairo Calendar may be the oldest preserved historical document of the discovery of a variable star.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>astronomy arxiv egypt history</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-the-lowest-difficulty-setting-there-is/">
    <title>Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is – Whatever</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-16T23:55:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-the-lowest-difficulty-setting-there-is/</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Dudes. Imagine life here in the US — or indeed, pretty much anywhere in the Western world — is a massive role playing game, like World of Warcraft except appallingly mundane, where most quests involve the acquisition of money, cell phones and donuts, although not always at the same time. Let’s call it The Real World. You have installed The Real World on your computer and are about to start playing, but first you go to the settings tab to bind your keys, fiddle with your defaults, and choose the difficulty setting for the game. Got it?
Okay: In the role playing game known as The Real World, “Straight White Male” is the lowest difficulty setting there is.
This means that the default behaviors for almost all the non-player characters in the game are easier on you than they would be otherwise. The default barriers for completions of quests are lower. Your leveling-up thresholds come more quickly. You automatically gain entry to some parts of the map that others have to work for. The game is easier to play, automatically, and when you need help, by default it’s easier to get.
Now, once you’ve selected the “Straight White Male” difficulty setting, you still have to create a character, and how many points you get to start — and how they are apportioned — will make a difference. Initially the computer will tell you how many points you get and how they are divided up. If you start with 25 points, and your dump stat is wealth, well, then you may be kind of screwed. If you start with 250 points and your dump stat is charisma, well, then you’re probably fine. Be aware the computer makes it difficult to start with more than 30 points; people on higher difficulty settings generally start with even fewer than that.
As the game progresses, your goal is to gain points, apportion them wisely, and level up. If you start with fewer points and fewer of them in critical stat categories, or choose poorly regarding the skills you decide to level up on, then the game will still be difficult for you. But because you’re playing on the “Straight White Male” setting, gaining points and leveling up will still by default be easier, all other things being equal, than for another player using a higher difficulty setting.
Likewise, it’s certainly possible someone playing at a higher difficulty setting is progressing more quickly than you are, because they had more points initially given to them by the computer and/or their highest stats are wealth, intelligence and constitution and/or simply because they play the game better than you do. It doesn’t change the fact you are still playing on the lowest difficulty setting.
You can lose playing on the lowest difficulty setting. The lowest difficulty setting is still the easiest setting to win on. The player who plays on the “Gay Minority Female” setting? Hardcore.
And maybe at this point you say, hey, I like a challenge, I want to change my difficulty setting! Well, here’s the thing: In The Real World, you don’t unlock any rewards or receive any benefit for playing on higher difficulty settings. The game is just harder, and potentially a lot less fun. And you say, okay, but what if I want to replay the game later on a higher difficulty setting, just to see what it’s like? Well, here’s the other thing about The Real World: You only get to play it once. So why make it more difficult than it has to be? Your goal is to win the game, not make it difficult.
Oh, and one other thing. Remember when I said that you could choose your difficulty setting in The Real World? Well, I lied. In fact, the computer chooses the difficulty setting for you. You don’t get a choice; you just get what gets given to you at the start of the game, and then you have to deal with it.
So that’s “Straight White Male” for you in The Real World (and also, in the real world): The lowest difficulty setting there is. All things being equal, and even when they are not, if the computer — or life — assigns you the “Straight White Male” difficulty setting, then brother, you’ve caught a break]]></description>
<dc:subject>gaming gender privilege scalzi metaphor</dc:subject>
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    <title>The Munger Games - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-12T03:23:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=Buxr0zy5tFE</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From the Columbia Business School Follies Spring 2012 Show
]]></description>
<dc:subject>hungergames mba columbia follies</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&amp;sid=aRelVKWbMAv0#share">
    <title>Apple iPhone Will Fail in a Late, Defensive Move: Matthew Lynn - Bloomberg</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-18T13:58:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&amp;sid=aRelVKWbMAv0#share</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Apple iPhone Will Fail in a Late, Defensive Move: Matthew Lynn
]]></description>
<dc:subject>prediction apple bloomberg</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:quince/b:d293ae5bfc1b/</dc:identifier>
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    <title>The Maddow Blog - 'What is it about working men and women they find so offensive?'</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-29T00:49:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/28/10532944-what-is-it-about-working-men-and-women-they-find-so-offensive</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><dc:subject>obama uaw maddow labor moralpolity</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:quince/b:87a53dfcb485/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/q5jfa/reddit_my_son_is_five_and_he_is_begging_me_to_do/">
    <title>Reddit: My son is five, and he is begging me to 'do science.' Are there any cool (but inexpensive) experiments we could do at home that would blow his mind? : AskReddit</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-28T04:19:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/q5jfa/reddit_my_son_is_five_and_he_is_begging_me_to_do/</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Corn starch & water
Volcano
Mentos + Diet Coke, followed by soda bottle vortex
Pepper in a bowl of water
Moebius strip
Penny and nickel battery
Egg in a bottle
Soap, milk and food coloring
Crushed soda can
Film canister rocket
Liquid with layered colors
Cork rocket
Frozen bubbles
Supercooled water
Clouds in a bottle]]></description>
<dc:subject>reddit kids education science</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:quince/b:d172d2ec0ebb/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/">
    <title>Courtney Love does the math - Music - Salon.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-26T19:31:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><dc:subject>music piracy courtneylove salon</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/01/world-building-301-some-projec.html">
    <title>World building 301: some projections - Charlie's Diary</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-22T03:09:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/01/world-building-301-some-projec.html</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><dc:subject>prediction stross</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://experimentaltheology.blogspot.com/2012/02/race-politics-and-christianity-in.html">
    <title>Experimental Theology: Race, Politics, and Christianity in the American South</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-07T03:52:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://experimentaltheology.blogspot.com/2012/02/race-politics-and-christianity-in.html</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><dc:subject>race politics goldwater experimentaltheology america south elections</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://boingboing.net/2012/01/23/good-news-whale-and-dolphins.html?">
    <title>Good news: Whale and dolphins are friends - Boing Boing</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-24T00:50:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://boingboing.net/2012/01/23/good-news-whale-and-dolphins.html?</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><dc:subject>interspeciesplay biology play cetaceans whales dolphins boingboing</dc:subject>
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    <title>Comfy USA - Wide Band Crop Pant - Black - Comfy USA at Fawbush's</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-10T03:56:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.fawbushs.com/product.asp?lt=c&amp;catid=14314&amp;pfid=FAW09726</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Comfy USA
Comfy U.S.A. is designed for customers who want modern, trend appropriate clothes. Young in spirit, realistic in fit, they are timeless, ageless, clean and sophisticated. A new style for us, the Wideband Crop Pant pulls on for ease and comfort and has a full wide leg with gorgeous draping detail. The look of a skirt with the simplicity of a pant]]></description>
<dc:subject>pants</dc:subject>
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    <title>Glitch - Achievement helper</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-10T01:53:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://glitch.fczbkk.com/missing-achievements.php?tsid=PHFA34U992D20C8&amp;showall=1</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><dc:subject>glitch</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2011/12/23/english-pronunciation/">
    <title>English Pronunciation | The Poke:</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-08T02:10:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2011/12/23/english-pronunciation/</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation’s OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Fe0ffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won’t it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!
English Pronunciation by G. Nolst Trenité]]></description>
<dc:subject>english language poetry pronunciation</dc:subject>
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    <title>6 Ways to Tie a Scarf [Infographic] : CollegeCandy</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-08T00:44:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://collegecandy.com/2011/12/29/6-ways-to-tie-a-scarf-infographic/</link>
    <dc:creator>quince</dc:creator><dc:subject>scarves fashion howto</dc:subject>
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