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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 17:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For various reasons, future new posts on the Thought Flashes Original Thinking site will be made at the following website address:  http://thoughtflashes.com/ Please visit that site for new blog posts. Twitter updates will likely still be made through here on the sidebar.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtflashes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12936754&amp;post=105&amp;subd=thoughtflashes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eric Kandel and the Molecular Basis of Memory</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 23:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One reason that I am currently writing down my thoughts is that I do not hang onto them as long as I used to. Therefore, I need a mechanism to record what I have thought about in case I need to refer to them later on. I used to hang onto my thoughts and repeat [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtflashes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12936754&amp;post=89&amp;subd=thoughtflashes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>YouTube Turns 5!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 15:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, I didn&#8217;t realize that YouTube turns 5 this month! I&#8217;ve been a regular YouTube user for probably about 4 years or so. YouTube is one of those amazing disruptive technologies that completely changes the way that our planet functions. Now, it is so easy for people to watch many interesting excerpts and videos of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtflashes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12936754&amp;post=87&amp;subd=thoughtflashes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Did Dinosaurs Sound Like?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 03:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the 19th century, it was proposed that birds were derived from certain dinosaurs. Throughout most of the 20th century, however, this idea that birds had evolved from certain dinosaurs was not supported. There has more recently been validation in the last 30-40 years of the earlier theory that that some dinosaurs were probably the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtflashes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12936754&amp;post=77&amp;subd=thoughtflashes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We Are At One With the Universe</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 01:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is also one of the basic tenets of Buddhism.  I believe that in high school or so, I had understood this concept that we are at one with the universe and with nature.  I understood that when we die, for example, we will be returned to the earth, from where we had come.  Recently, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtflashes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12936754&amp;post=58&amp;subd=thoughtflashes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Achieving Your Full Potential: Breadth and Depth for Variety and Specialization in Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have spent a lot of my free time studying successful people and history, thinking about and trying to understand how and why people excel.  One of the cornerstone concepts that I have come across from my reading, watching, hypothesizing, analyzing, and thinking is that people who do well tend to assimilate information from a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtflashes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12936754&amp;post=30&amp;subd=thoughtflashes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Near the Turn of the 21st Century: A Pivotal Point in Human History</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rate of new knowledge generated since I was a kid three decades ago has been phenomenal and probably unmatched in any previous period in history to date.  Both in new scientific knowledge and in technological advances, the human race has made much progress. The last 30-year-period traversing the turn of the 21st century has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtflashes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12936754&amp;post=28&amp;subd=thoughtflashes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Using the Bamboo Fun Wacom Tablet for Clicking with the Left Hand</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being left-handed, I&#8217;ve felt quite weird using a right-handed mouse for so long.  There is an option to set the mouse to become a left-handed mouse, but I don&#8217;t really want to set it to a left-hand mouse because if I were to use public computers, I would not be used to using a right-handed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtflashes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12936754&amp;post=15&amp;subd=thoughtflashes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How We Think &#124; How People Think &#124; How Humans Think</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading an interesting autobiography of Nicola Tesla, one of the greatest inventors / electrical engineers in history at the following web page: http://robinchew.com/library/96jul/teslaautobio.html In his autobiography, Tesla noted that we think or act according to the senses that we perceive from the external world.  For example, he found that if he just saw [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtflashes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12936754&amp;post=6&amp;subd=thoughtflashes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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