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		<title>Arcade Fire, the weirdest Bowie cover, and bad photoshopping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arcade Fire put up a million dollars for Haiti &#60;&#8211; At the Festival d&#8217;Ete de Quebec, Arcade Fire announced that they will match donations to Kanpe, a Montreal-based NGO working on rebuilding Haiti, dollar for dollar up to one million dollars. You can donate $5 by texting &#8220;STAND&#8221; to 30333. I don&#8217;t know much about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radarlake.com/2010/07/arcade-fire-the-weirdest-bowie-cover-a-bad-photoshopping/</link>
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		<title>Stories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was listening to an interview with George Dawes Green yesterday on NPR when he said something I&#8217;ve noticed without ever really being conscious of it. The time one person can speak uninterrupted in a conversation is getting shorter. Talking specifically about New York City, he said that people have too much ego and/or testosterone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of cars and plants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the Aspen Environment Forum 2010, a moderator of one of the panels stated that British kids could more easily identify Japanese cars than native plants and animals (h/t: Tomorrow&#8217;s Table). On one hand, given that cars move fast and do exciting things while plants just sit there, that&#8217;s not surprising at all. It also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radarlake.com/2010/07/of-cars-and-plants/</link>
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		<title>Three good and three bad things about Montreal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On my bike ride home yesterday, I encountered three stereotypes of Montrealers that best exemplify the type of people we don&#8217;t want non-Montrealers to know or hear about. The first was a motorbiker with an obnoxiously loud bike and a joint hanging out of his mouth. The second was a guy on a pedal bike [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radarlake.com/2010/07/three-good-and-three-bad-things-about-montreal/</link>
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		<title>With our powers combined!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Clay Shirky, who I have mentioned a couple of times on this blog already, has a new book out. I haven&#8217;t read the book yet&#8211;and to be honest, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll find the time&#8211;but his idea of cognitive surplus seems like an interesting one to explore. Wired gave a brief description of his book [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radarlake.com/2010/07/with-our-powers-combined/</link>
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		<title>The conveyor belt of the best and brightest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Jonah Lehrer&#8217;s Wired blog who got it from a blog post by Ross Douthat at the New York Times: Part of the problem with meritocracy is that it homogenizes in the name of diversity: It skims the cream from every race and class and population, puts all of the best and brightest through the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radarlake.com/2010/07/the-conveyor-belt-of-the-best-and-brightest/</link>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s in control?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We all like to think we&#8217;re in control of our decisions. But, even aside from the fact that we have no free will (thought I&#8217;d just slip that in there; UPDATE: here&#8217;s another great article about free will), other factors&#8211;things we wouldn&#8217;t want to admit are affecting our judgment&#8211;are influencing our decisions. There are many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radarlake.com/2010/07/whos-in-control/</link>
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		<title>Why &#8216;what is the meaning of life?&#8217; is the wrong question?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hate to follow up a Peters&#8217; Pick with a deep post like this but here goes: This is an idea that I think about often but have never put it out there. I&#8217;ve read a lot about the continuous debate about the role of religion in society and day to day life. One of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radarlake.com/2010/07/why-what-is-the-meaning-of-life-is-the-wrong-question/</link>
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		<title>Peters&#8217; Pick: You Say Party! We all remember a great guy.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a previous life, while fulfilling the role of “tour manager” for a local super group; I got the opportunity to spend part of an evening with the band “You Say Party! We Say Die!” at a Bishops University show. After the concert, we parted ways as their band was whisked away to play another [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.radarlake.com/2010/07/peters-pick-you-say-party-we-all-remember-a-great-guy/</link>
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		<title>Diamond Rings: 8,000 homohms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This song and video are 8,000 homohms. &#8220;Save your anesthetic for the boy next door,&#8221; is one of the best lines I&#8217;ve heard in a while. The only bad thing about this song is that at some points there&#8217;s this synth or something that makes me think my phone is vibrating.]]></description>
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