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	<description>Presently suffering a dearth of witticisms</description>
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		<title>Ethics Class</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago this morning I sat down in Ethics class next to an American friend and asked, &#8220;What happens now?&#8221; &#8220;Bush goes ape,&#8221; he said. I remember that’s what I was afraid of that morning. Not the attacks themselves, but what the attacks might make us do. Sitting far away in a small Canadian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scrimisms.com/2011/09/11/ethics-class/</link>
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		<title>So little pains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand. Some commentary on the present state of media literacy from Thucydides, the Athenian who wrote the eye-witness account of the Peloponnesian War (431 BC). News is what people want to keep hidden. Everything else [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scrimisms.com/2011/06/09/so-little-pains/</link>
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		<title>Please Don’t Vote Conservative</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The media wobbles form poll result to poll result; the political parties focus on the coming election at the cost of everything else. It is left to us, the citizens, to look beyond the short term. When you vote tomorrow, think about the future. If the Conservatives hold on to power, there will be implications [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scrimisms.com/2011/05/01/please-dont-vote-conservative/</link>
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		<title>Wish I had a dark sky and a telescope</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Or even just a tripod. The Pleiades. A 30 second exposure with the camera precariously balanced on an end table on a beach, on Thanksgiving weekend. Brightness cranked way up in software after the fact.]]></description>
		<link>http://scrimisms.com/2010/10/17/wish-i-had-a-dark-sky-and-a-telescope/</link>
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		<title>Cool Physics and Astronomy Videos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sixty Symbols is a collection of short videos on topics in physics and astronomy, presented by various faculty members from the University of Nottingham. I&#8217;ve been enjoying them thoroughly. I liked the one on dark matter quite a bit. They&#8217;ve been around a while, I gather, but I just found &#8216;em, so maybe they&#8217;re new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scrimisms.com/2010/09/30/cool-physics-and-astronomy-videos/</link>
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		<title>Latest Entry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My new favorite CBC program is The Late Show, and it kind of snuck up on me. Each episode is a thirty-minute obituary of a recently deceased Canadian, in the form of interviews with people who knew them, and narrated by Gordon Pinsent. Getting Pinsent was a bit of inspired casting: his steady stage actor&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scrimisms.com/2010/08/31/latest-entry/</link>
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		<title>Garden Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember those bean plants that we’ve been growing? And how I wasn’t sure if they’d actually produce anything? It turns out reproduction was the least of our worries. Indoor Bean Fecundity Not long after my previous bean post, we noticed that the bean leaves were suffering. It appears that the bean plants attracted what google [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scrimisms.com/2010/07/04/garden-update/</link>
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		<title>Our New Toy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have an iPad.  I got it last week at the Apple Store in Montreal, where we spent the weekend being tourists.  I would have picked one up sooner, but they sold out pretty quickly in Ottawa.  I&#8217;ve had it for a week now, and figured I&#8217;d post a little review here on the old blog. In short, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scrimisms.com/2010/06/12/our-new-toy/</link>
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		<title>Tilting at Bean Plants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This summer we decided to grow some herbs in our apartment. Sweet and Thai basil, oregano, parsley, mint, and… beans? Guess which one isn’t a herb I chose bean seeds on a lark. I wanted to try to grow a few bean plants, even though beans are not too space-efficient when it comes to indoor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scrimisms.com/2010/05/29/tilting-at-bean-plants/</link>
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		<title>You might be small, but you’d better play large</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Title stolen from Dan Bern’s song about the baseball pitcher Cy Young.) And the subject of this post is certainly small. Eri Yoshida, 18 years old, 5 feet 2, is about to make her American professional baseball debut in the west-coast Golden Baseball League for the Chico Outlaws. She’s a pitcher. She throws a side-arm [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scrimisms.com/2010/05/20/you-might-be-small-but-you%e2%80%99d-better-play-large/</link>
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