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		<title>The Russian revolution on Mars</title>
		<link>http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/the-russian-revolution-on-mars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an offbeat bit of cinema for your weekend viewing pleasure: Aelita: Queen of Mars, a 1924 silent film made in the Soviet Union about space travelers who arrive on Mars and help the downtrodden workers unite and throw off their exploiting overlords.  You might want to fast-forward through the early bits to get [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=2274&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Homer as an anthropologist</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What happens when you stop thinking of the Iliad as a work of fiction but instead see it as a primary text to help explain an ancient society?
That&#8217;s what archaeologist Tara Carter does in lecture 21 and lecture 22 of her great UC San Diego course Prehistory and the Birth of Civilization (feed).
She presents the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=2267&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 7: not ready for prime time</title>
		<link>http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/windows-7-not-ready-for-prime-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows 7]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are a Mac or a Linux user, or if you lack the computer nerdiness gene, you&#8217;ll want to skip this post. But if you are tempted by the current hoopla to upgrade your Windows XP machine to Windows 7, read on. It is a cautionary tale.
I have a reasonably peppy 18-month-old Dell OptiPlex [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=2261&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unwanted side effects of democracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe it&#8217;s the legacy of the Cold War &#8212; all of those years of being the bastion of freedom and democracy &#8212; but somehow Americans got in the habit of viewing democracy as something completely good, something that everyone in his or her right mind must want, like a chocolate sundae with no calories.
But democracy, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=2256&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Cold War is history</title>
		<link>http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/the-cold-war-is-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many conditions were necessary for the end of the Cold War to happen as it did.
In an academic conference, entitled The Cold War is History (iTunes, website), Stanford historian James Sheehan reminds us that even when the Berlin wall fell, reunification of Germany was not a done deal. In fact, there were two enormously important [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=2249&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Financial Crisis in a Historical Mirror</title>
		<link>http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/todays-financial-crisis-in-a-historical-mirror/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Economist and blogger extraordinaire Brad DeLong takes a whirlwind tour of economic history in his recent talk, Today&#8217;s Financial Crisis in a Historical Mirror (weblink).
First comes the tale of the Panic of 1825. As DeLong tells it, this was the first time a central bank (Bank of England) intervened to avert a financial crisis by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=2240&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We think what we speak</title>
		<link>http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/we-think-what-we-speak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each language has a toolkit to help us learn what to pay attention to.
So argues Stanford psychology professor Lera Boroditsky during this episode of the Stanford University radio show Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature) (website, iTunes).
Boroditsky studies how the languages we use influence the way we think. And she&#8217;s come up with some startling [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=2235&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doubt and the New Testament</title>
		<link>http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/doubt-and-the-new-testament/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yale University religion professor Dale Martin has some words of warning for the students in his course Introduction to New Testament History and Literature (website, iTunes):
&#8220;De omnibus dubitandum.&#8221;
Say it loud, he tells his students.  Say it with feeling.  &#8220;Say it tonight, before you go to sleep. Say it in the morning, when you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=2225&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to find the good stuff on iTunes U</title>
		<link>http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/how-to-find-the-good-stuff-on-itunes-u/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you have asked how I find the good stuff on iTunes U. After all, a lot of colleges offer mainly PR fluff, like virtual campus tours and welcoming speeches by the dean of students.
So, here are my secrets.  Every few days I do some of the following.
1. Survey the main iTunes U [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=2212&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why we stopped foraging and started farming</title>
		<link>http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/why-we-stopped-foraging-and-started-farming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The invention of agriculture was probably the most important change in human history but scholars argue about why it happened, and propose three main conflicting theories.
These theories, and the difficulties in domesticating plants and animals are the subjects of lectures 14 and 15 in UCSD anthropologist Tara Carter&#8217;s great course, Prehistory and the Birth of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=2205&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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