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<title>Gizmos: Battery Discharger</title>
<description><![CDATA[ It's been a while since I've built a gizmo; here's the latest. Ever since I got a 30 minute NiMH battery charger, I've noticed that certain batteries are rejected by it as &ldquo;not chargeable&rdquo;, but that if I drain...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:18:50 Z</pubDate>
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<title>Reading List: Term Limits</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Flynn, Vince. Term Limits. New York: Pocket Books, 1997. ISBN&nbsp;978-0-671-02318-8. This was the author's first novel, which he initially self-published and marketed through bookshops in his native Minnesota after failing to place it with any of the major New...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:35:42 Z</pubDate>
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<title>Reading List: Culture of Corruption</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Malkin, Michelle. Culture of Corruption. Washington: Regnery Publishing, 2009. ISBN&nbsp;978-1-59698-109-6. This excellent book is essential to understanding what is presently going on in the United States. The author digs into the backgrounds and interconnections of the Obamas, the Clintons,...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:53:11 Z</pubDate>
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<title>Reading List: The Year I Owned the Yankees</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Lyle, [Albert] Sparky and David Fisher. The Year I Owned the Yankees. New York: Bantam Books, [1990] 1991. ISBN&nbsp;978-0-553-28692-2. &ldquo;Sparky&rdquo; Lyle was one of the preeminent baseball relief pitchers of the 1970s. In 1977, he became the first American...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:25:12 Z</pubDate>
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<title>Reading List: End the Fed</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Paul, Ron. End the Fed. New York: Grand Central, 2000. ISBN&nbsp;978-0-446-54919-6. Imagine a company whose performance, measured over almost a century by the primary metric given in its charter, looked like this: Now, would you be likely, were your...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:31:42 Z</pubDate>
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<title>Reading List: We Are Doomed</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Derbyshire, John. We Are Doomed. New York: Crown Forum, 2009. ISBN&nbsp;978-0-307-40958-4. In this book, genial curmudgeon John Derbyshire, whose previous two books were popular treatments of the Riemann hypothesis and the history of algebra, argues that an authentically conservative...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:52:14 Z</pubDate>
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<title>Reading List: The Nuclear Rocket</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Dewar, James with Robert Bussard. The Nuclear Rocket. Burlington, Canada: Apogee Books, 2009. ISBN&nbsp;978-1-894959-99-5. Let me begin with a few comments about the author attribution of this book. I have cited it as given on the copyright page, but...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:05:06 Z</pubDate>
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<title>Reading List: The Glass Giant of Palomar</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Woodbury, David O. The Glass Giant of Palomar. New York: Dodd, Mead, [1939, 1948] 1953. LCCN&nbsp;53000393. I originally read this book when I was in junior high school&mdash;it was one of the few astronomy titles in the school's library....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:05:45 Z</pubDate>
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<title>Reading List: Forbidden Science.  Vol. 2</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Vallee, Jacques. Forbidden Science. Vol.&nbsp;2. San Francisco: Documatica Research, 2008. ISBN&nbsp;978-0-615-24974-2. This, the second volume of Jacques Vallee's journals, chronicles the years from 1970 through 1979. (I read the first volume, covering 1957&ndash;1969, before I began this list.) Early...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:23:01 Z</pubDate>
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<title>Reading List: Heart of the Assassin</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Ferrigno, Robert. Heart of the Assassin. New York: Scribner, 2009. ISBN&nbsp;978-1-4165-3767-0. This novel completes the author's Assassin Trilogy, which began with Prayers for the Assassin (March&nbsp;2006) and continued with Sins of the Assassin (March&nbsp;2008). This is one of those...]]></description>
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<category>Reading List</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:33:24 Z</pubDate>
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<title>Reading List: Truth, Lies, and O-Rings</title>
<description><![CDATA[ McDonald, Allan J. and James R. Hansen. Truth, Lies, and O-Rings. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2009. ISBN&nbsp;978-0-8130-3326-6. More than two decades have elapsed since Space Shuttle Challenger met its tragic end on that cold Florida morning in...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:57:56 Z</pubDate>
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<title>Reading List: Executive Power</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Flynn, Vince. Executive Power. New York: Pocket Books, 2003. ISBN&nbsp;978-0-7434-5396-7. This is the fourth novel in the Mitch Rapp (warning&mdash;the article at this link contains minor spoilers) series. At the end of the third novel, Separation of Power (August&nbsp;2009),...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:02:27 Z</pubDate>
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<title>When Zucchini Go Unobserved </title>
<description><![CDATA[ Update: By popular request, the vital statistics are as follows: length from tip to tip along the curve, 58&nbsp;cm; circumference at the widest cutting plane, 28&nbsp;cm; mass, 1.4&nbsp;kg. (2009-09-28 18:22&nbsp;UTC)...]]></description>
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<category>Images</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:16:26 Z</pubDate>
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<title>Your Glass Can Fail</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Click image to enlarge. As reality-hardened&trade; engineers know, no matter how many years you've trod this Earth, there's always something new to go wrong when you least expect it. A few days ago, I went to refill my glass...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:09:26 Z</pubDate>
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<title>Respectfulness vs. Civility</title>
<description><![CDATA[It's become almost a clich&eacute; that, when urging citizens to express their disagreement and/or displeasure with their elected representatives, they're enjoined to &ldquo;be respectful&rdquo;. Why, precisely? It's one thing to be civil&mdash;to discuss policy differences, not personalities, to avoid shouting,...]]></description>
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<category>Politics</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:09:24 Z</pubDate>
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