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		<title>Why are psychologists afraid of math?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello there guys (and girls)!
It&#8217;s been a month and two days since I wrote my last post. I am really short on time, but as you can see I always write when I have the time and an interesting subject on my hands  

My hands
What I want to talk about today is the future [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Woah! Back from complexity people :P</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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Hello there guys! It&#8217;s been about 3 months that I haven&#8217;t posted anything! You&#8217;ve probably thought I am dead   Let me tell you guys (and gals). Encefalus ain&#8217;t dead! It&#8217;s just been that I&#8217;ve been so busy, that I literally didn&#8217;t have any time to write one of my traditional long posts.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monkey Island: This is where you live</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey, I return after nearly missing for a month. This time, I won&#8217;t write about my current interests which revolve around computation in social sciences. This time I am writing to revisit politics. Actually, I don&#8217;t know why, after a month not having published an article I feel the urge to throw some random rant. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two simple computational models I created using NetLogo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Encefalus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I had said in my previous post, I am very busy this time. Now, you are going to see why  
Lately, I decided to learn more about computation models. This will probably be reseach focus in the upcoming years. I created two models, which I want to present to you. The models were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;E&#8221; factor</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Encefalus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi there guys   It&#8217;s been a long time that I haven&#8217;t written an article. The reason is that I have SO many things to do, that I really don&#8217;t have the time to update all my projects as often. Between my new projects, like Raskolnikov&#8217;s Dream and Musikality Net, I had to deal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Please support my other projects and pay them a little visit :-)</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/general/support-projects-pay-visit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Encefalus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you may know, I also run two more projects, besides Encefalus.
I am a musician, not only a psychologist, and my first project, can be found here: Raskolnikov&#8217;s Dream.

It is a melodic electronica project. In the official site you will find more information and you will be able to listen to samples of my music.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Encefalus wishes you a happy new year!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Encefalus</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://encefalus.com/?p=1942</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Encefalus wishes you a happy new year!! This blog started near the end of july 2008 with a 100 visitors and now has over 140.000 unique visitors! I want to thank you all for your support, e-mails and comments. Let&#8217;s hope this year will be better than the last one.
Let there be new synapses into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can computation be the answer? The violation of the second law of thermodynamics</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/general/computation-answer-violation-law-thermodynamics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Encefalus</dc:creator>
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Stephen Wolfram
Lately I&#8217;ve been reading Stephen Wolfram&#8217;s A New Kind of Science. As you can guess from the title, Wolfram makes a few great remarks about the future and the methods of science.
Traditional science uses mathematics. What mathematics do, is to quantify problems, find regularities and then use equations to describe these regularities. What this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The death of Alexandros Grigoropoulos (drugs, guns, cops and tasers part II)</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/general/death-alexandros-grigoropoulos-drugs-guns-cops-tasers-part-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://encefalus.com/general/death-alexandros-grigoropoulos-drugs-guns-cops-tasers-part-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Encefalus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the first articles I had written was this one: Drugs, Guns, Cops and Tasers. I promised to write part 2 some day. There is not better occasion to write this article, than this one.
In the previous Saturday, on 6/12/08, Alexandros Grigoropoulos was murdered in the greek district of Exarchia in Athens.

Alexandros Grigoropoulos
Since then, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agent based models in social sciences</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/general/agent-based-models/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Encefalus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I&#8217;ve been digging into the subject of agent based models of social sciences. Agent based models are defined by wikipedia as following

An agent-based model (ABM) is a computational model for simulating the actions and interactions of autonomous individuals in a network, with a view to assessing their effects on the system as a whole. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two very interesting introductory articles on neuroeconomics</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/neurology-biology/interesting-introductory-articles-neuroeconomics/</link>
		<comments>http://encefalus.com/neurology-biology/interesting-introductory-articles-neuroeconomics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Encefalus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neuroeconomics Explained, Part One
Neuroeconomics Explained, Part Two
While searching the web the other day, I found two very interesting introductory articles on neuroeconomics on Psychology Today. The author is Paul J. Zak who is the founding Director of the Center for Neuroeconomics Studies and Professor of Economics at Claremont Graduate University. In his bio on his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A slight problem with my RSS feed</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/general/slight-problem-rss-feed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://encefalus.com/?p=1672</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As some of you might have noticed, my RSS feed shows sometimes earlier articles. I am writing this to tell you that I&#8217;ll try to solve the problem, so don&#8217;t worry.   If you want to get updated on the latest articles just visit http://encefalus.com to be sure.
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		<title>Encephalon 57 is out!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Go grab it at http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/10/encephalon_57_on_min.html
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		<title>Encephalon 56 is out!</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/general/encephalon-56/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Go grab it at Encephalon #56
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		<title>Encefalus grows new synapses as it reaches a 10.000 visitors!!!</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/general/encefalus-grows-synapses-reaches-10000-visitors/</link>
		<comments>http://encefalus.com/general/encefalus-grows-synapses-reaches-10000-visitors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 09:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://encefalus.com/?p=1454</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As of yesterday, encefalus reached 10000 unique visitors in less than 3 months! I want to thank all the people who supported me with their comments, e-mails and feedback. I&#8217;ll strive to bring more quality content to Encefalus, even if due to time restraints, I can&#8217;t write more than two or three articles per week. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Encephalon 55 is out!</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/general/encephalon-55/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Encefalus</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://encefalus.com/?p=1449</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Go grab it at http://neuroscientificallychallenged.blogspot.com/2008/09/encephalon-celebrates-its-emerald.html
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		<title>Some thoughts on a new micro-economic model and paradigm, through the integration of psychology into economics</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/general/new-micro-economic-paradigm-integration-psychology/</link>
		<comments>http://encefalus.com/general/new-micro-economic-paradigm-integration-psychology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Encefalus</dc:creator>
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The other day I was writing an article for Encefalus concerning economics and studying their relation to psychology. However, as I was writing it, I stumbled upon some problems, like what is the definition of economics. Obviously, modern economists might have different opinions among them, and I, as a psychologist, have a different view on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Encephalon 54 is out!</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/general/encephalon-54/</link>
		<comments>http://encefalus.com/general/encephalon-54/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Encefalus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Go get it at Encephalon 54
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		<title>Seed agrees that video games make you smarter ;-)</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/general/seed-agrees-video-games-smarter/</link>
		<comments>http://encefalus.com/general/seed-agrees-video-games-smarter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Encefalus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cognitive]]></category>
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The Creation Simulation
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants.
Remember what we were saying at How the Dark Knight, cartoons and video games make you smarter and what this has to do with the Flynn effect and More proof that video games make you smart   ?The above links will take you to two Seed Magazine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Near-Death experiences, the meaning of life, life after death etc&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/general/neardeath-experiences-meaning-life-life-death/</link>
		<comments>http://encefalus.com/general/neardeath-experiences-meaning-life-life-death/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Encefalus</dc:creator>
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Near-Death Experiences: What Really Happens?
I stumbled upon this link the other day. It&#8217;s about one of the most exciting experiments I&#8217;ve ever seen in my life. Scientists will try to study what really happens with near-death experiences.

Many reports of near-death experiences sound the same: a welcoming white light and a replay of memories. But now [...]]]></description>
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