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	<title>Running After My Hat &#187; Science &amp; Medicine</title>
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		<title>Real-Life Dialogue (Awkward Moments Edition)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[The scene opens in the waiting room of Super Mega Giant medical center in a mid-sized city in northern Florida, USA. He is a middle-aged male, and has been for some time. This report includes two Shes: A, a medical assistant; and J, a nurse practitioner.] A: Mr. He? He: Right here. A: Very good, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Think You Know What&#8217;s Coming?</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/think-you-know-whats-coming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From whiskey river: If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next &#8212; if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions &#8212; you&#8217;d be doomed. You&#8217;d be as ruined as God. You&#8217;d be a stone. You&#8217;d never eat or drink or laugh or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Spoke from Midnight</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/07/outlasting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From whiskey river: Moonrise And who has seen the moon, who has not seen Her rise from out the chamber of the deep, Flushed and grand and naked, as from the chamber Of finished bridegroom, seen her rise and throw Confession of delight upon the wave, Littering the waves with her own superscription Of bliss, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Spook, by Mary Roach</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/07/book-review-spook-by-mary-roach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just posted my latest review for The Book Book; it covers non-fiction author Mary Roach&#8217;s Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife. This was Roach&#8217;s second book. The first, Stiff, was about what happens to the human body after death. You can see that she&#8217;s attracted to odd, even icky topics; and you may guess from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Destiny Has No Beeper</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/06/destiny-has-no-beeper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[See Note at bottom of this post for information about this image.] From whiskey river: Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of Pssst that you usually can&#8217;t even hear because you&#8217;re in such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JES Has Come Unstuck in Time (by Choice and Training)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[See note at bottom of the post for information about this image.] One of these days, if I&#8217;m feeling very ambitious, I might expand this dream (from the other morning) into a whole story or book. Until then, feel free to use it for your own purposes. Should you take it to publication, I&#8217;m sure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Moment, a Moment Long&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/06/a-moment-a-moment-long/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: The Meteor of 1860, by Frederic Edwin Church] This summer marks the 150th anniversary of a remarkable celestial event: an Earth-grazing meteor procession of interest not just to the scientific world, but to the literary one as well. It wasn&#8217;t just notable: it was flat-out forgotten until recently. First, some definitions: An Earth-grazing meteor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medical Update</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/05/medical-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 14:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Stepdaughter and The Missus: both doing fine, albeit exhausted. The immediate crisis &#8212; borne mostly by the former, although vicariously by The Missus and the rest of us &#8212; finally passed last night, sometime after midnight. Now begins a loooong period of physical and psychological recovery. This has been a sad, scary, tiring week. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real-Life Dialogue (Household Hints Edition)</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/05/real-life-dialogue-household-hints-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 16:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The scene: a suburban home in North Florida, USA. Family gathering for Kentucky Derby viewing: gambols and gambles. Much food and beverage being prepared and consumed. He has just returned to house after walking Pooch. Everyone but She is in the living room, talking, laughing, watching TV. He: [entering kitchen, where He knows She must [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things vs. Other Things</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/04/things-vs-other-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Internet, Sorry I&#8217;ve been so&#8230; so&#8230; casual about our relationship over the last few days. No, the dog hasn&#8217;t eaten my posts here and my comments elsewhere. The dog &#8212; specifically, The Pooch &#8212; has in fact eaten damned little of anything at all. She&#8217;s recovering from surgery on both back knees, to correct [...]]]></description>
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