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	<title>Ramblemuse Touch Points &#187; Politics</title>
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		<title>Accounting for Total Costs</title>
		<link>http://www.ramblemuse.com/rmtp/2011/09/22/accounting-for-total-costs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the economic shortcomings that&#8217;s more or less obvious in &#8220;just letting the market handle it&#8221; is that the market often doesn&#8217;t include total costs of use. The situation is akin to letting someone buy supplies for a large party, holding the party on common land, and then simply walking off, leaving the trash [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts as Needed Today as 50 Years Ago</title>
		<link>http://www.ramblemuse.com/rmtp/2011/01/20/thoughts-as-needed-today-as-50-years-ago/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 01:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remembering on both sides, that civility is not a sign of weakness and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. Let both sides explore what problems unite us, instead of belaboring those problems which divide us. Let both sides, for the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black Markets and Agent-Based Modeling</title>
		<link>http://www.ramblemuse.com/rmtp/2009/05/29/blackmarkets-and-agent-based-modeling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 18:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I was browsing a post by Chet Richards (Certain to Win) at Defense and the National Interest on 4GW comes to a town near you, 4GW being an acronym for fourth generation warfare. In particular, what caught my eye was a statement Richards makes about disconnection from (or marginalization by) the nominal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on Greg Mortenson</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back toward the end of last year, I&#8217;d posted a short piece about the book Three Cups of Tea, profiling Greg Mortenson&#8217;s work building schools in remote parts of Pakistan. NY Times Op-Ed Columnist Nicholas Kristof just wrote a column about Mortenson &#8212; It Takes a School, Not Missles. Kristof also extends the discussion and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roadkill and Resurrection &#8212; Nearing Two Months</title>
		<link>http://www.ramblemuse.com/rmtp/2008/07/15/roadkill-and-resurrection-nearing-two-months/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ramblemuse.com/rmtp/2008/07/15/roadkill-and-resurrection-nearing-two-months/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is one of those bits and pieces posts. Being almost two months out from being sacked in the LLNL layoffs has added both to my learning curve and to my lists of tasks done. Last Sunday marked the fourth of four weekly required newspaper publications of my filed fictitious business name &#8220;Ramblemuse Associates&#8221;. What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Addendum on Environment</title>
		<link>http://www.ramblemuse.com/rmtp/2008/06/12/an-addendum-on-environment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chet Richards, a protégé of the late military strategist John Boyd, recently wrote the book Certain to Win applying Boyd&#8217;s concepts to business competition. It&#8217;s a book well worth the reading. In a blog post titled &#8220;Can Boyd be implemented?&#8220;, Richards makes some profound comments on environment; comments that any institution dedicated to accomplishment, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science Policy, Culture Change, and Working Environment</title>
		<link>http://www.ramblemuse.com/rmtp/2008/06/12/science-policy-culture-change-and-working-environment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ramblemuse.com/rmtp/2008/06/12/science-policy-culture-change-and-working-environment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a column in the June 7th edition of the newly revamped Science News, Harvard University Provost Steven Hyman points out the disparities in attitudes between trends in research funding in the U.S. versus those in Singapore and China. A major difference between the United States and Singapore and China is the rapid growth rates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roadkill and Resurrection &#8212; Eating the Seed Corn; Razing the Legumes</title>
		<link>http://www.ramblemuse.com/rmtp/2008/06/08/roadkill-and-resurrection-eating-the-seed-corn-razing-the-legumes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ramblemuse.com/rmtp/2008/06/08/roadkill-and-resurrection-eating-the-seed-corn-razing-the-legumes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>keg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At just over two weeks since my lay-off from LLNL, the lab is already starting to seem a memory seen through the aerosol-induced haze of distance. By focusing and working intensely on other endeavors, such as networking () and the general bibliography, I&#8217;ve deliberately accelerated my own psychological perception of the passing of time. Simply [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roadkill &amp; Resurrection &#8212; After a Week</title>
		<link>http://www.ramblemuse.com/rmtp/2008/05/30/roadkill-resurrection-after-a-week/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ramblemuse.com/rmtp/2008/05/30/roadkill-resurrection-after-a-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 18:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A week after becoming &#8220;roadkill&#8221; in LLNL&#8217;s involuntary separation process, life goes on. During the past week, I&#8217;ve filed a fictitious business name under which to do technical consulting, and rounded up the required two sponsors and sent in my membership application to the National Association of Science Writers (NASW). The latter is a delayed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fossil Fuel Emissions Verification</title>
		<link>http://www.ramblemuse.com/rmtp/2008/05/26/fossil-fuel-emissions-verification/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ramblemuse.com/rmtp/2008/05/26/fossil-fuel-emissions-verification/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 06:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in April, while still at LLNL, I was working on a proposed project to improve methods and observations for fossil fuel emissions verification (FFEV). AB32, California&#8217;s landmark climate change legislation, requires fossil fuel emissions verification, as well as including mandatory source reporting. Part of FFEV is modeling where emissions are transported by winds. This [...]]]></description>
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