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		<title>Inescapable Truth #5: Humans Seek Meaning</title>
		<link>http://vellon.com/2010/02/15/inescapable-truth-5-we-are-all-seeking-something/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By any reasonable measure, I have everything I have ever wanted: a beautiful wife who loves me in spite of my faults; two great kids (one at Princeton another with a good chance of getting in); a big house in a great neighborhood; good friends all around the world; good health; enough money to retire on. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inescapable Truth #4: Nothing is Perfect</title>
		<link>http://vellon.com/2010/01/31/inescapable-truth-4-nothing-is-perfect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right off the bat, let me clarify that I&#8217;m talking about the physical world that you and I inhabit. This post is not a theological exploration of whether or not God can create an immovable object.
Instead, I want to explore some things regarding which I believe people have unreasonably high expectations, namely:

Justice
Elections
Science

There&#8217;s probably others that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inescapable Truth #3: There Will Be Poor Always</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the U.S., poor people are more likely to be obese than rich people. Obesity is inversely proportional to family income.
Doesn&#8217;t this just blow you away? Surely, poor people don&#8217;t have enough money to buy food, right? How can they be obese?
The answer, of course, is that in the U.S. fast, unhealthy, food is cheaper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inescapable Truth #2: People Act in Their Own Self Interest</title>
		<link>http://vellon.com/2009/12/28/inescapable-truth-2-people-act-in-their-own-self-interest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the keystones of the scientific method is the concept of reproducibility. If you perform an experiment, someone else should be able to reproduce your results. Few experiments have been subjected to this test as often as that of the Prisoner&#8217;s Dilemma. In this experiment, two prisoners can either stay quiet or rat on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inescapable Truth #1: We Not All Created Equal</title>
		<link>http://vellon.com/2009/12/23/inescapable-truth-1-we-not-all-created-equal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are no pygmies playing in the NBA. Only women have babies. Whites are six times more likely to die of skin cancer than blacks.
Duh.
Clearly, there are genetic differences between different groups of people in the world. Whether we group people by gender or ethnicity, it is easy to find certain differences based on genetic [...]]]></description>
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