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	<description>quantum mechanics with an attitude (or, my life as a theorist)</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Why this country needs a viable third party</title>
		<link>http://quantummoxie.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/why-this-country-needs-a-viable-third-party/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My sister got married yesterday (and, as a Maine Notary Public, I was the officiant!) and I was chatting with a few of my relatives when the inevitable political discussion arose.  Luckily we&#8217;re a big (huge) happy family regardless of politics.  But anyway, in this one particular discussion there was one Ron Paul supporter (me), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Truly dangerous thinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not long ago, over at Incoherently Scattered Ponderings, my views on standardized testing were referred to as &#8216;dangerous.&#8217; The context, however, was a (somewhat) friendly intellectual exchange and while there were strong views on both sides, everyone (at least in my opinion) was motivated by rational thought.  The same may not be said about a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Russert&#8217;s death means to Buffalo</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a brief follow-up to my post about the late Tim Russert, I feel compelled to mention what a loss it is for the community in Western New York.  Buffalo now has no one on the national stage who is as ardent and honest a supporter.  The city has, undeservedly as usual, been taking a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Requiescat in Pace, Tim Russert, CHS &#8216;68</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very sad news has just reached my ears upon returning home from work.  Emmy-winning journalist and author Tim Russert, who was a fellow Canisius High School alumnus and rabid Buffalo Bills fan, died suddenly this afternoon while he was on the job.
I never knew Tim personally, but he was one of the most vocal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post-mortem body cooling in variable environments</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent post I noted that the standard post-mortem body cooling method used to estimate time of death (TOD) does not take into account a varying environmental temperature (i.e. it assumes a constant ambient temperature when applying Newton&#8217;s Law of Cooling).
Consider the differential equation
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Suppose we take the difference between the body temperature and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I, for one, like Manny being Manny (I&#8217;m also opposed to instant replay)</title>
		<link>http://quantummoxie.wordpress.com/2008/06/07/i-for-one-like-manny-being-manny/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Manny Ramirez takes a lot of flack from the media and I think a lot of it is unnecessary.  Yeah, the guy&#8217;s a goof and a little absent-minded, but so am I.  And I haven&#8217;t heard his name mentioned in relation to the steroids scandal yet.  He seems to enjoy the game [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More consumer oddities&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://quantummoxie.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/more-consumer-oddities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hard-core outdoor power equipment manufacturer Husqvarna now makes a robotic lawnmower that is solar powered and, apparently, includes a theft protection system.  Hmmm&#8230;  Apparently it has some sort of pin code lock to protect it.  Too bad I&#8217;m so horrible at remembering codes and passwords.
The Pontiff recently posted an interesting video of a guy who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hmmm.  Did you analyze that?</title>
		<link>http://quantummoxie.wordpress.com/2008/05/31/hmmm-did-you-perform-a-spectroscopic-analysis-on-that/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 22:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So those ever-optimistic planetary scientists from the Phoenix mission have suggested that the photograph seen here indicates a layer of ice just under the surface.  Now, just from the photograph I&#8217;m not sure how you could determine it was ice.  I&#8217;d want confirmation, like, perhaps in the form of spectroscopic evidence or something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volkswagon enters electric car fray</title>
		<link>http://quantummoxie.wordpress.com/2008/05/31/volkswagon-enters-electric-car-fray/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 16:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My second favorite automaker, VW (partially owned by my favorite automaker, Porsche), has finally decided to enter the electric/hybrid market, possibly as soon as 2010.  VW has long been a provider of diesel cars that get great mileage and both VW and Porsche have made pretty efficient gasoline engines for decades (e.g. some 911s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mistakes were made&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://quantummoxie.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/mistakes-were-made/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 17:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Forensic Physics course I&#8217;m teaching this summer one of the things we study is post-mortem body cooling.  We look particularly closely at two papers that estimate various factors involved in body cooling.  In one such paper, the authors give cooling curves - plots of temperature difference ratio versus hours after death. [...]]]></description>
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