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	<description>Including weekly musings by Daan Spijer.</description>
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		<title>From the Kitchen #43</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are still people out there who do real science: they observe something, wonder why it happens, form an hypothesis, test the hypothesis, revise the hypothesis and retest it, etc.
I was privileged on Friday night to be in the audience listening to Jean Munro [1] on stage.  With her pastel-coloured, frilly dress, her coif and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thinking-allowed.com.au/2010/03/17/from-the-kitchen-43/</link>
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		<title>From the Kitchen #42</title>
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Having a new camera reminds me how much I try to capture, instead of simply enjoying, experience.  Photography as an art has its place, but coming around a bend in a road and witnessing a breath-stopping scene and whipping out the camera is questionable behaviour.
I’m not using the term ‘questionable’ in a pejorative sense, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thinking-allowed.com.au/2010/03/10/from-the-kitchen-42/</link>
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		<title>From the Kitchen #41</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No-one tells the truth and that’s the truth.  Whatever we aver to be so is at best an interpretation, filtered through our own limited experience and understanding.  I’m not confusing the truth with facts, although the boundary between the two may be blurred.
If two cars are stationary at an intersection, both with crumpled bodies, that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thinking-allowed.com.au/2010/03/03/from-the-kitchen-41/</link>
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		<title>From the Kitchen #40</title>
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Some nights ago, I was walking my dog through the local streets.  As I usually do on such outings, I was musing on life, the universe and everything.  I looked up at the part of that universe I could see and immediately saw a very bright star where a bright star ought not to be.
As [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thinking-allowed.com.au/2010/02/24/from-the-kitchen-40/</link>
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		<title>From the Kitchen #39</title>
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The Australian language is changing before our ears.  Nouns and verbs are being increasingly substitution for each other and the subjunctive seems to have gone out the door.  If only it weren’t so.
We now frequently hear people on ‘proper’ radio (the ABC) say that there is “a divide” between A and B.  Recently, on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thinking-allowed.com.au/2010/02/17/from-the-kitchen-39/</link>
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		<title>From the Kitchen #38</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
t’s good for you.  It’s bad for you.  It will kill you.  It’s been proven safe.  Don’t combine X with Y or Z.  Let’s not jump to conclusions until all the data is in.  It’s best to be cautious.
It’s a wonder any of us survives.
Almost every day there is something in the media that advises [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thinking-allowed.com.au/2010/02/10/from-the-kitchen-38/</link>
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		<title>From the Kitchen #37</title>
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Sitting here at my kitchen table, dog at my feet, mug of tea and shortbreads in front of me, I’ve drifted into thinking about connections – connections with people, places, pooches …
I have relatives in Europe and the USA, and possibly in South America.  There are people I know through travelling and writing and there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thinking-allowed.com.au/2010/02/03/from-the-kitchen-37/</link>
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		<title>From the Kitchen #36</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some years ago, a group of Australian Aborigines celebrated India’s Independence Day – 26th January [1].  They thought this much more appropriate then celebrating that day as the date the Aborigines lost their independence when the First Fleet landed in Sydney Cove (although some sources say it was 25th January).  Indian independence was seen as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thinking-allowed.com.au/2010/01/27/from-the-kitchen-36/</link>
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		<title>The CEO</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Author: Peter Ralph
Publisher: Melbourne Books, 2007
ISBN: 9781877096952
RRP $24.50,
This is a story that needs to be told again and again.  The avarice and self-serving attitudes of the principle character are depicted graphically and chillingly.  People like Douglas Aspine should be locked up as quickly as possible and ‘re-educated’, before they can do more harm.
There seems to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thinking-allowed.com.au/2010/01/25/the-ceo/</link>
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		<title>From the Kithcen #35</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every now and then we are treated to a thoroughly entertaining film that also carries important messages.  Avatar is such a film.
Most discussion I’ve heard and read has been about the spectacular computer graphics, the amazing scenery, the fast-paced action and the violence.  Only a few people have mentioned the powerful underlying issues the film [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thinking-allowed.com.au/2010/01/20/from-the-kithcen-35/</link>
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