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	<title>Emergent Noise</title>
	<link>http://www.vartak.org</link>
	<description>a mindstream from just another statistic...</description>
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		<title>Reigning in Evolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Life is diverse. There is no doubting that. In fact, the diversity has led many to believe that the possibilities offered by the seed of complex interactions, several thousand genes and their myriad products are so large, that we shouldn&#8217;t really be surprised at just about anything we see in the biosphere.
Adding a little bit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vartak.org/2010/02/10/reigning-in-evolution/</link>
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		<title>Passive Sensationalism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

You see, this is why you begin to mistrust journalists. The passive sensationalism is, ironically blatant. I am referring to an article in the Indian Express .
Before I begin I&#8217;ll reproduce the article here&#8230;. 
&#160;
China considered India &#8216;bottomless pit&#8217; for foreign aid
Agencies Tags : Jawaharlal Nehru, Richard Nixon, Indira Gandhi 
Posted: Sunday , Jan 24, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vartak.org/2010/02/03/passive-sensationalism-3/</link>
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		<title>The Satanic Verses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A bit of good reading, with reference to the writing of a certain holy book.

Disclaimer : The following is an excerpt from Salman Rushdie's novel "The Satanic Verses". This particular excerpt is , to my knowledge , in the public domain.


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		<link>http://www.vartak.org/2009/11/06/the-satanic-verses/</link>
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		<title>Twitter finally on the Phishing Target list</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twitter finally on the Phishing Target list]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vartak.org/2009/10/28/twitter-finally-on-the-phishing-target-list/</link>
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		<title>Shades of Snow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[October 15th, 2009 at Rottach-Egern in the German Alps...the cold wave covered the region with a blanket of snow, making for pristine landscapes.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vartak.org/2009/10/26/shades-of-snow/</link>
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		<title>Google Wave Invites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
	&#160;

	To everyone who is expecting a Google Wave Invite, this is a copy of the Invitiation Wave from my account.

	As it clearly states, invites WILL NOT be sent immediately.

	Sorry , folks who are waiting!

	&#160;


		Oct 18

		Invite others to Google Wave

		Google Wave is more fun when you have others to wave with, so please nominate people you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vartak.org/2009/10/20/google-wave-invites/</link>
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		<title>Wave Mania</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I woke up today to Wavemania hitting the tubes. Google apparently decided to send out 100,000 invites to their chosen lot. Obviously , I am not one of their chosen lot &#8211; since a quick check of my inbox revealed no invitation.
Twitter however was buzzing, and Google was bombarded with searches for &#8220;Google Wave invites&#8221;, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vartak.org/2009/10/01/wave-mania/</link>
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		<title>A New Perceptive Model for Science</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
	I write this as a addendum to a series of questions on the power of science and an explanation posted by&#160; Sean Caroll at the Cosmic Variance blog. The detailed post on the misunderstandings , elaborates on why scientists can be so sure of their conclusions (when they can form them) and why society in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vartak.org/2009/07/17/a-new-perceptive-model-for-science/</link>
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		<title>The Better Man</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I watched a recent TED talk and loved this poem by Felix Dennis &#8211; poet, resurrected from drug addiction, and a titan in the publishing industry , who in his own words ‘has too much money to care about it now’.
He has a unique style of reciting his poetry, and as for this particular one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.vartak.org/2009/06/06/the-better-man/</link>
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		<title>Singing in the Rain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The original.

And VW&#8217;s ad.

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		<link>http://www.vartak.org/2009/05/31/singing-in-the-rain/</link>
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