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		<title>Less than a Virus</title>
		<link>http://magisteria.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/less-than-a-virus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We animals are susceptible to a bewildering array of infections. On the largest scale we can be infested by other animals. Worms, lice and other parasites can rather literally get under our skin and cause great harm. Smaller than the animals are bacterial infections. Single celled organisms that reproduce far more rapidly than our own [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=magisteria.wordpress.com&blog=2285585&post=289&subd=magisteria&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Medical Ethics</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Often in life we are faced with problems that we cannot solve ourselves. In many cases we can go to specialists who will be more able to analyse the problem and give us a solution. When your car breaks down and you take it to the garage to be repaired you trust that the service [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=magisteria.wordpress.com&blog=2285585&post=283&subd=magisteria&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Infinity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The manager of Hilbert&#8217;s Hotel had a problem. He prided himself on the fact that his hotel, having an infinite number of rooms, was always open and had space for new guests. It was what made Hilbert&#8217;s that little bit special. The hotel could afford to run since an infinite number of guests had arrived [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=magisteria.wordpress.com&blog=2285585&post=263&subd=magisteria&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Revelation at Kurukshetra</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arjuna stood in the chariot and gazed out over the valley. Thousands of warriors had gathered here at Kurukshetra, alliances of Kings bound together into two great forces. Spearmen, archers, chariots and elephants filled Arjuna&#8217;s sight. The larger force was on the other side of the valley, lead by Arjuna&#8217;s cousin. This was a family [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=magisteria.wordpress.com&blog=2285585&post=253&subd=magisteria&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Spiritual Centrist</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Siddhartha Gautama was born, his father the King sent for the wise men to foretell his future. After examining the infant child they all proclaimed the same thing: &#8220;Siddhartha is destined to become either a great ruler whose Empire will cover the world, or else to become a great prophet, who will discover the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=magisteria.wordpress.com&blog=2285585&post=245&subd=magisteria&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The problem with parody</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has often been noted that in some cases parody becomes almost impossible. The idea of parody is to take ideas to their extremes, but what if your subject is more extreme than can be believed? This is most apparent in trying to distinguish parody like the Landover Baptist church from the real (if equally [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=magisteria.wordpress.com&blog=2285585&post=235&subd=magisteria&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Echo</title>
		<link>http://magisteria.wordpress.com/2009/03/28/echo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was often the case that the goddess Juno would search for her errant husband in order to catch him at his most beloved hobby, that of seducing the fair nymphs that lived on the mountainsides and in the streams of the world. But during her search she would often be waylaid by one particularly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=magisteria.wordpress.com&blog=2285585&post=225&subd=magisteria&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Darwin, Incest and Plant Sex</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the heart of Berlin in the  1790&#8217;s  a theologian named Spengel was hard at work investigating the sex of plants. Up until that time it was generally assumed that many plants, having both male and female parts, would fertilise themselves. Spengel spent much time examining plants and came to rather different conclusions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=magisteria.wordpress.com&blog=2285585&post=217&subd=magisteria&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Idol Words</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Postmodernism is often taken a little too far. One idea that springs up a lot from the university campus is that since we cannot have any concrete foundation on which to place our knowledge, all knowledge is relative and interchangable, a cultural imposition rather than anything &#8216;real&#8217;. Of course such people live their lives as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=magisteria.wordpress.com&blog=2285585&post=206&subd=magisteria&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dark Energy Makes Us Special</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nobody likes Dark Energy. The name itself, like Dark Matter, tells us that we don&#8217;t know what it is. It&#8217;s a placeholder name for some anomalies between theory and observation. It started in 1998 with some distant supernovae that suggested that the rate at which the universe is expanding is increasing. There is a type [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=magisteria.wordpress.com&blog=2285585&post=196&subd=magisteria&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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