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		<title>Arduino for Arduinians: New and higher level than the rest</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2023/05/22/arduino-for-arduinians-new-and-higher-level-than-the-rest/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2023 18:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s be real. Most books (and web sites) providing instructions for building projects with an Adruino assume the reader is just starting out in this arena of Maker-World. That is probably a reasonable assumption, but it also means that those of us who seek an Arduino guide that provides more advanced work are out of &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2023/05/22/arduino-for-arduinians-new-and-higher-level-than-the-rest/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Arduino for Arduinians: New and higher level than the rest</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Taken Ones, New Novel by Jess Lourey</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2023/05/16/the_taken_ones_jess_lourey/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2023 03:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Evangeline Reed was a woman with some seriously disturbing secrets, at least one of which threatened to sideline her in a quest to put to rest a decades old and still ongoing crime. Jess Lourey, the author who created Reed and put her in the new novel “The Taken Ones,” continues in her own ongoing &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2023/05/16/the_taken_ones_jess_lourey/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Taken Ones, New Novel by Jess Lourey</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Quarry Girls: Your next literary thriller</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2023/04/21/the-quarry-girls-your-next-literary-thriller/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2023 15:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bloodline]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Quarry Girls by Jess Lourey* is a literary thriller set in late 1970s Paynesville, Minnesota. To cut to the quick: I&#8217;m strongly recommending that you read this book. Minnesota has an interesting relationship with &#8220;caves&#8221; and tunnels. Our downtowns have flying tunnels connecting the upper floors (third or fourth, usually) of skyscrapers. There are &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2023/04/21/the-quarry-girls-your-next-literary-thriller/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Quarry Girls: Your next literary thriller</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Get this guide to the unwritten rules of college success</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2023/01/05/get-this-guide-to-the-unwritten-rules-of-college-success/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2023 17:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Secret Syllabus, A Guide to the Unwritten Rules of College Success* by Jay Phelan and Terry Burnham is an unconventional yet science-based analysis of what a student entering college should do, to make that endeavor worthwhile. It is entirely counter-intuitive, and even shocking. Phelan and Burnham toss the usual advice into the garbage heap, &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2023/01/05/get-this-guide-to-the-unwritten-rules-of-college-success/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Get this guide to the unwritten rules of college success</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Combating Specious Ideas: Review of How To Argue With A Racist</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/12/27/combating-specious-ideas-review-of-how-to-argue-with-a-racist/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2020 17:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I wrote a review of Adam Rutherford&#8217;s new book, &#8220;How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don&#8217;t) Say About Human Difference.&#8221; The review is published in American Scientist. American Scientist, by the way, is a great magazine that I highly recommend. A notch or two above all the others. Three notches &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/12/27/combating-specious-ideas-review-of-how-to-argue-with-a-racist/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Combating Specious Ideas: Review of How To Argue With A Racist</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Dictionary Of Difficult Words: Great kids book for all ages</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/12/15/the-dictionary-of-difficult-words-great-kids-book-for-all-ages/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2020 19:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Dictionary of Difficult Words: With more than 400 perplexing words to test your wits! by Jane Solomon, illustrated by Louise Lockhart* is a grandiloquent lionization of lexicon, with a plethora of terms allowing you to emulate an egghead as you enunciate extemporaneously. No flapdoodle in this tome, a true juggernaut of of pithy cirumlocutious &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/12/15/the-dictionary-of-difficult-words-great-kids-book-for-all-ages/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Dictionary Of Difficult Words: Great kids book for all ages</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Encyclopedia Of Animals: Time to upgrade the science shelf in your library</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/11/23/encyclopedia-of-animals-time-to-upgrade-the-science-shelf-in-your-library/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2020 16:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Animals]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[When I was a kid, I had an encyclopedia of animals. I cherished it, read it several times. For a long time, until I was in middle school, I knew more about animals than anyone else I knew because I had read that book. I also used it as a jumping off point to learn &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/11/23/encyclopedia-of-animals-time-to-upgrade-the-science-shelf-in-your-library/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Encyclopedia Of Animals: Time to upgrade the science shelf in your library</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Excellent Book Series for Kids and their Adults</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/11/18/excellent-book-series-for-kids-and-their-adults/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2020 03:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[An odd group of adults, including Mr. Benedict, his two live-in assistants, and his usually not at home spy, contrive to attract and collect an odd group of children, each with a unique and stunning set of abilities, in order to enlist them in a dangerous and critically important adventure. Then they do that again &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/11/18/excellent-book-series-for-kids-and-their-adults/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Excellent Book Series for Kids and their Adults</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Superlative Beauty and Beautiful Superlatives in Nature: Books</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/06/14/superlative-beauty-and-beautiful-superlatives-in-nature-books/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2020 11:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Superlative: The Biology of Extremes is almost as extreme, or shall we say, hopeful, in its marketing-cover claims as the animals discussed are outlandish. If the cure for cancer was going to be found in a shark, we would have already found it. But despite what the book promises on its cover, Matthew D. LaPlante&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/06/14/superlative-beauty-and-beautiful-superlatives-in-nature-books/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Superlative Beauty and Beautiful Superlatives in Nature: Books</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Overthrowing The Big Bang Theory</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/06/13/overthrowing-the-big-bang-theory/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2020 11:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dear Professional Physicist, I have a new theory of the origin of the universe. (You&#8217;re old theory vs my new theory) I would like you to stop what you are doing and listen to my theory, which simultaneously explains why everything you know is wrong, but that&#8217;s OK, I know what is TRUE INSTEAD. There &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/06/13/overthrowing-the-big-bang-theory/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Overthrowing The Big Bang Theory</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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