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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>The nature of authority</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/sociopolitical/nature-authority/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the latest post we talked about the death of Alexis Grigoropoulos: The death of Alexandros Grigoropoulos (drugs, guns, cops and tasers part II). Since then, Greece continues to be shocked by riots, protests and various forms of resistance against authority.
Some people even managed to occupy the national tv network, at the same time, that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The death of Alexandros Grigoropoulos (drugs, guns, cops and tasers part II)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Dangerous ideas revisited: Controversial books, swearing and other stuff</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/sociopolitical/dangerous-ideas-revisited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of you who read Encefalus, probably remember this article: Dangerous Ideas: Information and cultural revolution in the age of the internet or metacognition in the modern society
The reason I am mentioning this, is this article I found on the web: Ten Of The Most Controversial Books!
The latter article refers (pretty obviously) to books that [...]]]></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>Behavioral economics revisited in the face of the recent economic crisis</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/sociopolitical/behavioral-economics-revisited-face-economic-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://encefalus.com/sociopolitical/behavioral-economics-revisited-face-economic-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Encefalus</dc:creator>
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The readers of Encefalus probably remember this article: A different view on economics: maybe all we really need.
I found this article recently in the New York Times: The Behavioral Revolution. It is an article that expresses some views similar to the ones we expressed in A different view on economics: maybe all we really need, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A different view on economics: maybe all we really need</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/sociopolitical/different-view-economics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
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The recent economic crisis made me think a lot about the subject of economics. As I&#8217;ve said in earlier posts, I&#8217;m very interested in economics, and I believe them to be an integral part of cognitive science, or any science that aims to comprehend the human behavior and civilization (Some thoughts on a new micro-economic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School sucks (you know it does!) and there&#8217;s a reason why</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
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There is a blog in Psychology Today called Freedom to Learn. Its author is Peter Gray. His resume is: &#34;a research professor of psychology at Boston College, is a specialist in developmental and evolutionary psychology and author of an introductory psychology textbook, Psychology, now in its 5th edition.&#34;
This blog has some very interesting articles. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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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>
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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>Lotteries, poverty AND credit cards this time along with the proper social and scientific analysis :)</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/cognitive/lotteries-poverty-credit-cards-time-social-implications/</link>
		<comments>http://encefalus.com/cognitive/lotteries-poverty-credit-cards-time-social-implications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
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GeorgeLoewenstein
Remember the article Lotteries, poverty and social implications? I found this article in Scientific American : Lottery Tickets and Credit Cards: The Dangers of an Irrational Brain. It&#8217;s an interview with the researcher who&#8217;s work we commented in Lotteries, poverty and social implications. He is called George Loewenstein.
What I particularly liked about this interview is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The biggest crap I&#8217;ve ever read: The road to freedom of expression?</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/sociopolitical/biggest-crap-read-road-freedom-expression/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
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I was reading the other day on Psychology Today this article: Dropping atomic bombs on Japan was an act of utmost compassion. The author of the post is Satoshi Kanazawa who is also the co-author of the book Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters. I have not read the book, so I can&#8217;t comment on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pimps of Knowledge! Free resources for all! How universities exploit knowledge while the PirateBay helps you</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/general/pimps-of-knowledge-free-resources-for-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this report the other day on Eurekalert. The article reports:
&#34;Rice University&#8217;s Connexions, one of the most-visited online sites for open-educational resources, today announced it is making a popular textbook available free this fall for one of the country&#8217;s most-attended transfer-level community college courses &#8212; elementary statistics. The book, &#34;Collaborative Statistics,&#34; has been used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Psychiatry, anti-psychiatry and mental disease: Does psychiatry suck?</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/sociopolitical/psychiatry-antipsychiatry-history-mental-disease/</link>
		<comments>http://encefalus.com/sociopolitical/psychiatry-antipsychiatry-history-mental-disease/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 09:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this link in Providentia 
A Shocking Discovery (Part One)
It speaks about the discovery of the electroshock by the psychiatrists in the 1930s. As it seems, this is a series of articles discussing this issue. I felt compeled to offer my personal viewpoint concerning a few facts about psychiatry.
The above link may appear a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homosexuality, evolutionary psychology and cognition</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/cognitive/homosexuality/</link>
		<comments>http://encefalus.com/cognitive/homosexuality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Encefalus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BPS RESEARCH DIGEST: Men&#8217;s sexual orientation recognised in a fraction of a second.
The above link points to a very interesting research (Brief exposures: Male sexual orientation is accurately perceived at 50 ms). The experimenters showed a series of faces to the subjects and the subjects could identify with 57% accuracy which of them were homosexual. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lotteries, poverty and social implications</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/cognitive/lotteries-poverty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why play a losing game? Study uncovers why low-income people buy lottery tickets.
This above link is some news posted on Eurekalert. It&#8217;s a study proving that poor people are more likely to buy lottery tickets
&#34;In the study, published in the July issue of the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, participants who were made to feel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Psychology of The Dark Knight: Batman, superheroes, popular culture,art, Friederich Nietzsche, terrorism and the politics of George Bush</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/general/dark-knight-psychology/</link>
		<comments>http://encefalus.com/general/dark-knight-psychology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
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&#160;
I had the luck to watch the Dark Knight in the world premiere. This movie just stuck in my head and I couldn&#8217;t get it out. I believe that it has steered many issues and there are a lot of things to say about it, so I decided to write a post and publish some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neurons, politics and economics</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/neurology-biology/neuromarketing-neuropolicy-center-emory/</link>
		<comments>http://encefalus.com/neurology-biology/neuromarketing-neuropolicy-center-emory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Encefalus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Press Release: Neuropolicy Center Confronts the Biological Basis of Collective Decision Making
I found the above link in the Neuromarketing (Neuromarketing &#187; Neuropolicy Center at Emory). It&#8217;s a press release about the opening of a new center for the correlation between brain and political behavior.&#160;
I believe that we start to see a pattern here. At the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drugs, Guns, Cops and Tasers</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/sociopolitical/drugs-guns-cops-tasers/</link>
		<comments>http://encefalus.com/sociopolitical/drugs-guns-cops-tasers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ex-cop may be charged in case of man Tasered to death &#8211; CNN.com.
All right. This is all wacked up.
&#160;
This news article publicshed in CNN raises three important issues:
1)Drugs
2)Guns
3)Law inforcement
I want this to be a series of three articles treating all 3, saying as much as I can say in a few words. The first installment [...]]]></description>
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