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		<title>&#8220;It&#8217;s not his fault, miss; he&#8217;s Anger Management.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/10/its-not-his-fault-hes-anger-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 22:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People will focus on what Katharine Birbalsingh said about the failure of this country&#8217;s educational establishment to serve poor black boys, but the bigger disaster, in simple numbers, is its failure to serve working-class&#160;whites. Pseudoscience, whether it&#8217;s Marxism or eugenics or anti-vaccine hysteria or educationalist psychobabble, is often characterized by rich people making money by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Bringing this agenda towards fruition&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/06/bringing-this-agenda-towards-fruition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=4561</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The resignation of Hazel Blears reminded me again that this nation&#8217;s government now has a &#8220;Department for Communities&#8221;. Letting that phrase pass my lips without implied quotation marks would be like vomiting into my mouth without washing it&#160;out. Thanks to Kevin Harris&#8217;s &#8220;neighbourhoods&#8221; blog, I can sample a little of that department&#8217;s output, a review [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not Dead</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/02/not-dead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=4272</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thank you very much to the PooterGeeker who sent me a Minolta SLR camera, lenses and other exciting goodies. You are star. I feel guilty writing so little lately when my readers are so nice to&#160;me. The person who sent me that amazing gift is someone I have never met in my life, which brings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Master Of Science</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/07/master-of-science/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/07/master-of-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3253</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A campaigner against Heathrow Airport&#8217;s third runway has attempted to glue himself to Gordon Brown at a Downing Street&#160;reception. Dan Glass, a member of Plane Stupid, was about to receive an award from the prime minister when he stuck out his superglued hand and touched his&#160;sleeve. Plane Stupid says Mr Glass, from north London, then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Let Them Eat Smoke!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/07/let-them-eat-smoke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Norm asks two questions: People on the wrong end of social and economic inequalities don&#8217;t just experience health disadvantages from smoking, but disadvantages across the board - in every area of health, in life expectancy, in the pattern of life chances in general. Shall we impose compulsory legal norms about diet, about exercise, about whatever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trouble At T&#8217; Degree Mill</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/06/trouble-at-t-degree-mill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/06/trouble-at-t-degree-mill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another &#8220;shocking state of our universities today&#8221; story has appeared on the BBC news Website. A report from the Quality Assurance Agency says the degree classification system is broken. I smiled when I read this&#160;bit: The reports from the QAA raise some worries about the effectiveness of the external examiner system, in which examiners from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growing Up</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/05/growing-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 09:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3193</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[UPDATE: Edited to use the version of the body text that actually makes some sense with the originally posted&#160;title.] I&#8217;m not that old, so I&#8217;m often puzzled by people who make historical pronouncements in ignorance of recent, relevant history, sometimes history that happened within their lifetimes but not mine. Of course, as Catholic dogma would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Signs Of The Times</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/04/signs-of-the-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;pictures&#8221; included a front-page one of the torturer dressed in a pink nurse&#8217;s outfit that stopped just above the tops of her black stockings For those of you not up to date with the PooterGeek soap opera, having been made redundant from my first permanent job in science (when the Medical Research Council closed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Irreligious Policemen</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/08/the-irreligious-policemen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not having a telly, I didn&#8217;t catch the latest from Richard Dawkins, but when I visited his Website to look for clips, I saw this photo of&#160;him: All I could think of was Michael Mann directing Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens in an atheist&#160;actioner: [A convertible Ferrari screams through downtown in slow motion, reflections of streetlights [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jib Jab</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/07/jib-jab/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=2958</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I left The Observer on the shelf at the supermarket yesterday because it had another load of bollocks about MMR and autism on the front cover. Around the blogosphere, people who A) know some science and/or B) can be arsed to use Google show the newspaper&#8217;s science editor how to do his job: lizardoid Eustonian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unrelated</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/05/unrelated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 00:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a movie called The Ring about a video so frightening that anyone who watches it&#160;dies. Here&#8217;s a link to a post at Drink-Soaked&#160;Trots.]]></description>
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		<title>A Weekend Trip To The Recycling Centre</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/01/a-weekend-trip-to-the-recycling-centre/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/01/a-weekend-trip-to-the-recycling-centre/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2007 20:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m busy so, instead of writing my own stuff, I&#8217;ll just point at the efforts of some other&#160;bloggers. This at Fisking Central is a point worth making over and over&#160;again: Utopia doesn&#8217;t refer to a better world; it&#8217;s used to describe a perfect&#160;world. Belief in human perfectability&#8212;and its accompanying rejection of all that is imperfect&#8212;is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mantel Piece</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/12/mantel-piece/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Dec 2006 18:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hilary Mantel is a novelist. I haven&#8217;t read any of her books. I have read her review of magician Derren Brown&#8217;s Tricks Of The Mind in yesterday&#8217;s Guardian. Near the end of her mostly negative assessment she tries to set up a weak joke: she &#8220;hopes&#8221; that &#8220;no intellectual snobbery&#8221; will prevent Richard Dawkins from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beige Shall Inherit The Earth</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/10/the-beige-shall-inherit-the-earth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/10/the-beige-shall-inherit-the-earth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 04:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was going to dismiss this article as cobblers until I read this bit: Within a thousand years, humans will evolve into coffee-coloured giants between six and seven feet tall, [Oliver Curry] predicts. Improved nutrition and medical science will see people growing taller and fitter, while life-spans are extended to 120&#160;years. Women &#8230; will develop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dead Trees</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/08/dead-trees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2006 08:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If our readers thought we put climate change on our front pages for the same reason that porn mags put naked women on their front pages, they would stop reading&#160;us.&#8221; &#8211;Ian Birrell, The Independent They&#8217;ve certainly stopped reading, Ian, though I suspect this is because your rag has become what someone neatly described as &#8220;the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oi, Chris Brooke, No!</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/03/oi-chris-brooke-no/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chris, you&#8217;re a bright bloke, well-read, great company and all that, but this is plain&#160;daft. The Silly Bunt&#8217;s article was a steaming pile of cack and responding to her adolescent nonsense about &#8220;the Enlightenment&#8221; (and her many justified critics in blogland) by wibbling on about &#8220;Paolo Mattia Doria&#8217;s contemporary five-fold distinction&#8221; is a bit like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;Or The Turkey Gets It</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/03/or-the-turkey-gets-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Further to the South Park / Scientology story, Richard points out that another celebrity cultist prominent believer, Tom Cruise, might have pushed Paramount to pull the &#8220;offending&#8221; episode by threatening not to co-operate in the promotion of his latest movie. There&#8217;s a chilling ultimatum: &#8220;If you broadcast that South Park episode then it&#8217;s curtains for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chef Can&#8217;t Stand Heat</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/03/chef-cant-stand-heat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientology is evil rubbish. South Park is gloriously disrespectful of every kind of religious and ideological fairy tale. So this&#160;story LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Soul singer Isaac Hayes said on Monday he was quitting his job as the voice of the lusty character &#8220;Chef&#8221; on the satiric cable TV cartoon &#8220;South Park,&#8221; citing the show&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If Only The Comprehensive System Had Died Instead</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/11/if-only-the-comprehensive-system-had-died-instead/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/11/if-only-the-comprehensive-system-had-died-instead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=1864</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Guardian devotes three pages to a tribute to the recently deceased educationalist Ted Wragg, who, like most educationalists, wouldn&#8217;t have known a controlled experiment if it was being performed on one of his own children with a bonesaw. A lot of the space is taken up with the &#8220;best of&#8221; his quotable declarations on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ultimate Sauce</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/09/the-ultimate-sauce/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/09/the-ultimate-sauce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2005 07:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think I might become a Pastafarian, oo-arr! Here be an explanation, me&#160;hearties!]]></description>
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		<title>Evangelical Scientist Refutes Gravity, Sequences Human Genome</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/08/evangelical-scientist-refutes-gravity-sequences-human-genome/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/08/evangelical-scientist-refutes-gravity-sequences-human-genome/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2005 00:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=1698</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Things fall not because they are acted upon by some gravitational force, but because a higher intelligence, &#8216;God&#8217; if you will, is pushing them down,&#8221; said Gabriel Burdett, who holds degrees in education, applied Scripture, and physics from Oral Roberts&#160;University. The funny thing about this Onion story, is that the made-up fundamentalist &#8220;scientist&#8221; quoted is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worse Than I Thought</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/05/worse-than-i-thought/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/05/worse-than-i-thought/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2005 09:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=1553</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I knew that in Turkey Mein Kampf is a bestseller. I didn&#8217;t know that the theory of evolution was widely rejected there. Thanks to Mick Hartley and this in The Panda&#8217;s Thumb I have another reason to fear for civilization: &#8220;As a result of the BAV campaign and other efforts to denounce evolution, he adds, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;d Like To Teach The World To Think</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/04/id-like-to-teach-the-world-to-think/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/04/id-like-to-teach-the-world-to-think/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2005 08:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s most pleasing about Google&#8217;s April Fool joke today is that its text is shot through with the sort of pseudoscientific nonsense that infests thousands of real products&#8217;&#160;copy.]]></description>
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		<title>Old News</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/03/old-news/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/03/old-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2005 07:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=1447</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the year 2000 a mysterious stranger journeyed from the future to tell us about his past. His name was John Titor and this is his&#160;story. (Despite his supposed online notoriety, it wasn&#8217;t until now that I had even heard of&#160;him.)]]></description>
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		<title>There In Black And White</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/01/there-in-black-and-white/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/01/there-in-black-and-white/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=698</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago The Today Programme broadcast an item about how a group of psychologists had discovered that people who prepared job applications by hand were more likely to lie in them than people who made applications through online forms. Today invited an &#8220;expert&#8221; onto the air to discuss this finding: a graphologist. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watch Out For Those Feeble-Minded Tavern Girls</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/01/watch-out-for-those-feeble-minded-tavern-girls/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/01/watch-out-for-those-feeble-minded-tavern-girls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2005 08:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=677</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Following on from my James D. Watson link, yesterday a colleague of mine lobbed me a review copy of DNA and the Criminal Justice System by David Lazer. Click the smaller image below to see an interesting diagram it reproduces from a textbook in use in the early half of the twentieth century (unfortunately it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buy Tin!</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2004/12/buy-tin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2004/12/buy-tin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I seem to have upset the proprietor of Blognor Regis lately. Apparently I &#8220;was wetting myself over David Carr&#8217;s prehistoric Band Aid rant&#8221;. I think the figure of speech he was looking for was &#8220;taking the piss out of&#8221;. Taking the piss is a traditional British craft that some of the Beavis and Butthead types [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2004/12/no/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2004/12/no/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2004 08:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=573</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It takes a professional philosopher to choose, of all the arguments for the existence of some kind of god, the most exquisitely wrong: &#8220;A philosophy professor who has been a leading proponent of atheism for more than 50 years has decided that God may exist after&#160;all. &#8220;Antony Flew, 81, now believes scientific evidence supports the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missed Opportunity</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2004/11/missed-opportunity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2004/11/missed-opportunity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite being away from the lab, I missed my chance to go to &#8220;The Wellbeing Show 2004&#8221; at the Royal Horticultural Society&#8217;s Halls. According to Time Out, if I had attended I could have tried inversion therapy, had myself screened for allergies, or had my aura photographed. Perhaps next&#160;year.]]></description>
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		<title>Terror In Cambridge</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2004/09/terror-in-cambridge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2004/09/terror-in-cambridge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2004 12:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Location, location, location: not living in an area of the World currently suffering under UN monitoring means that these are the two most frightening things that happened to me&#160;yesterday&#8230; 1. My guitar teacher wants me to learn the off-beat strumming of Supertramp&#8217;s Give A Little Bit. To do this I have ripped the song to [...]]]></description>
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