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		<title>Verner Suomi &#8211; The Need for Climate Monitoring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was noticing in the tweets coming out of the American Meteorological Society meeting in New Orleans that NASA and NOAA have renamed the recently launched polar orbiter, NPOESS preparatory project, the Suomi NPP, after the late Verner Suomi. This brought back a memory confirming in my own mind the suitability of the choice. Years [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ramblemuse.com/rmtp/2012/01/25/verner-suomi-the-need-for-climate-monitoring/</link>
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		<title>Accounting for Total Costs</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.ramblemuse.com/rmtp/2011/09/22/accounting-for-total-costs/</link>
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		<title>Santorini Topography &#8211; From Shuttle to Sim</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past week I had a rare opportunity to explore using the virtual world of Second Life (SL) as an immersive means of visualizing and exploring real life topography. Generally, a SL sim already has set terrain and arbitrarily replacing that would break everything developed on it. When a friend is obtaining a new sim [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ramblemuse.com/rmtp/2011/07/22/santorini-topography-from-shuttle-to-sim/</link>
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		<title>Just the Terrain, Ma&#8217;am</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been playing with uploading simulator (sim) terrain from Second Life and displaying it with Python and Matplotlib. The figure displays two snapshots of a sim taken a year apart. The major difference is that a deep hole has been &#8220;nuked&#8221; into the ridge near the northwest corner to make room to create caverns, caves, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ramblemuse.com/rmtp/2011/07/07/just-the-terrain-maam/</link>
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		<title>The Pervasiveness of Models</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Models and simulations of many kinds are tools for dealing with reality; they are as old as humanity itself. Humans have always used mental models to better understand reality, to make plans, to consider different possibilities, to share their ideas with others, to try out changes and alternatives, to develop blueprints for realization of some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ramblemuse.com/rmtp/2011/01/30/the-pervasiveness-of-models/</link>
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		<title>How Many California Massage Providers?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[California does not require state licensing to practice massage therapy, but instead offers, via the California Massage Therapy Council (CAMTC), a state-law authorized, voluntary certification that exempts the holders from local licensing laws. In return, certificants undergo education verification and extensive background checks. Because of this voluntary regulatory structure, there&#8217;s no centralized means of reliably [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ramblemuse.com/rmtp/2011/01/23/how-many-california-massage-providers/</link>
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		<title>ATP &#8211; It&#8217;s All About Energy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently had a massage teaching colleague ping me about: 1) Why we need mitochondria? and 2) How many molecules of ATP are used per second in typical muscle contractions? Both questions are a matter of energy, thus piquing my underlying physicist nature. Glucose to ATP The first question really was really along the lines [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ramblemuse.com/rmtp/2011/01/23/atp-its-all-about-energy/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts as Needed Today as 50 Years Ago</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.ramblemuse.com/rmtp/2011/01/20/thoughts-as-needed-today-as-50-years-ago/</link>
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		<title>Gaining an Advantage from Elite Conceit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first of two starting points for this post is David Evans&#8217;s An &#8216;Unacceptable&#8217; Degree? in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Evans is discussing hiring practices and the rejection of potential candidates who lack a &#8220;trophy degree.&#8221; One of the commentators mentions several reasons that a candidate would be rejected that, even if shared, wouldn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ramblemuse.com/rmtp/2010/06/19/gaining-an-advantage-from-elite-conceit/</link>
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		<title>Musing on Leadership, Localized Authority, and Time Constants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the serendipity of looking through various RSS feeds, I came across Don Vandergriff&#8217;s recent post, The Best Leadership Article I have Seen, which reprints and links to William Deresiewicz&#8217;s lecture Solitude and Leadership posted on The American Scholar. I agree with Vandergriff that it is a very timely and thought provoking piece of writing. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ramblemuse.com/rmtp/2010/06/14/musing-on-leadership-localized-authority-and-time-constants/</link>
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