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		<title>Kevin O&#8217;Leary is a Stereotype of a Rich Person</title>
		<link>http://hearsayandbacktalk.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/kevin-oleary-is-a-stereotype-of-a-rich-person/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 22:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If 25% of the content on the Toronto Star website can be viral videos (that&#8217;s a slight exaggeration, of course), then I see no reason to continue upholding my self-imposed restriction against reposting videos to my blog. It&#8217;s still lazy &#8230; <a href="http://hearsayandbacktalk.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/kevin-oleary-is-a-stereotype-of-a-rich-person/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hearsayandbacktalk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2928045&amp;post=182&amp;subd=hearsayandbacktalk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Normativity and Temporality</title>
		<link>http://hearsayandbacktalk.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/normativity-and-temporality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Historians and historically-minded sociologists and philosophers of science routinely critque &#8220;traditional&#8221; conceptions of science and scientific knowledge as ahistorical: &#8220;The philosophies of Carnap and Popper are timeless: outside time, outside history.&#8221; Such conceptions are not sensitive to the historical dimensions &#8230; <a href="http://hearsayandbacktalk.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/normativity-and-temporality/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hearsayandbacktalk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2928045&amp;post=180&amp;subd=hearsayandbacktalk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Direction</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So it turns out that I am not as good as managing my time as I once assumed, and I am not able to produce relatively long and polished pieces on a more-than-sporadic basis (or less-than-sporadic? Does &#8220;more-than-sporadic&#8221; mean &#8220;more &#8230; <a href="http://hearsayandbacktalk.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/new-direction/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hearsayandbacktalk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2928045&amp;post=178&amp;subd=hearsayandbacktalk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jack Layton, Hope, and Cynicism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the outpouring of public emotion and sympathy towards Jack Layton&#8217;s passing has now calmed, I thought I would take the chance to offer some (hopefully non-knee-jerk) reflections on a now notorious op-ed piece written by Christie Blatchford which &#8230; <a href="http://hearsayandbacktalk.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/jack-layton-hope-and-cynicism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hearsayandbacktalk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2928045&amp;post=168&amp;subd=hearsayandbacktalk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Conversation about Animal Rights and Star Trek: TNG</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SM: So I was thinking about the value of the natural world for animals versus the sometimes materially more prosperous/leisurely one of captivity/domestication, and it got me thinking about the Prime Directive in Star Trek. So anyway, I wanted to &#8230; <a href="http://hearsayandbacktalk.wordpress.com/2011/07/20/a-facebook-exchange-about-animal-rights-and-star-trek-tng/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hearsayandbacktalk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2928045&amp;post=163&amp;subd=hearsayandbacktalk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some Undeveloped Thoughts on Realism, Instrumentalism, Science, and Ethics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 20:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We cannot be certain that science provides better accounts of nature since anti-foundationalism shows that nature does not give us anything directly. But I am far from convinced that the realisation that we do not have direct access to the &#8230; <a href="http://hearsayandbacktalk.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/some-undeveloped-thoughts-on-realism-instrumentalism-science-ethics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hearsayandbacktalk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2928045&amp;post=157&amp;subd=hearsayandbacktalk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Parody of a Satire of a Caricature</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 02:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The quantum states of liminality define the borders that characterise the myth of the dialectic of reality and representation. We are haunted by the spectre of the external world. But what is externality if not the apotheosis of internality? For &#8230; <a href="http://hearsayandbacktalk.wordpress.com/2011/06/16/a-parody-of-a-satire-of-a-caricature/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hearsayandbacktalk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2928045&amp;post=149&amp;subd=hearsayandbacktalk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Making Sense of Junk Science Reporting</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve read a few of Heather Mallick&#8217;s columns in the Toronto Star, you&#8217;ll know that her writing is often characteristic of the triteness and superficiality (masked by an air of folksy-wisdom) that one finds in many newspaper editorials (on &#8230; <a href="http://hearsayandbacktalk.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/making-sense-of-junk-science-reporting/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hearsayandbacktalk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2928045&amp;post=137&amp;subd=hearsayandbacktalk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some people think that aliens will conquer earth</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 04:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But I think it is equally likely that humans will conquer another planet (while decimating  its indigenous population(s), of course). In films: Not but<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hearsayandbacktalk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2928045&amp;post=132&amp;subd=hearsayandbacktalk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Academic Catchwords</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 05:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heterogeneity, complexity, contingent, local, constructed, situated, value, empowering, violence (of all kinds: epistemic, representational, ideological&#8230;), boundaries, networks, code/coding, embodiment, interestedness, meaning(s), post-anything, multiplicity, multivalent, unfolding, assemblage, imagining/imaginaries, hegemony (an oldie but a goodie), etc. Addendum courtesy of Marianne Madeline Lau: &#8230; <a href="http://hearsayandbacktalk.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/academic-catchwords/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hearsayandbacktalk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2928045&amp;post=129&amp;subd=hearsayandbacktalk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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