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		<title>Summertime Blues</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 07:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summer. It’s been hot; I’ve been teaching and dealing with undergrads and trying not get too cranky. There’s been no time to post – plus my office gets too darn hot. (Whoever said ‘summertime and the livin’ is easy clearly had air conditioning). So, some thoughts on summer, written years ago and published in Chatelaine, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medical myths, cholesterol and more</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 00:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If only I&#8217;d known &#8230; &#8220;  I&#8217;ve heard it a lot, that phrase, when people talk to me about their various medical misadventures. &#8221; If only&#8221; someone had realized the potential consequences of that surgery or those drugs or that ostensibly innocuous test &#8211; before they&#8217;d done it. Maybe they&#8217;d have asked for a second [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m cool like that</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turns out watching Jon Stewart’s Daily Show is a contradiction in personality terms. Who knew.
Last week I read that I’m cool – apparently, according to the Globe and Mail’s TV columnist, Conan O’Brien’s move to cable was a brilliant tactical move because only stodgy middle aged people watch Leno and Letterman at 11 on whatever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ObamaCare &#8211; damning with faint praise all one can do</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago President Obama signed what is being called an “historic” health care bill, and belated the United States is to have a sort-of-almost-maybe national health care system. Except that much like the Holy Roman Empire, which was neither Roman, holy nor an empire, US health care will not be universal (some fifteen million [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Entropy and economics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Entropy. It means disorder, more or less, and refers to the tendency that all things in the universe have  to gradually lose coherence. To fall apart.
The term comes from thermodynamics – heat and work – and explains, with blinding simplicity, howeven the most efficient of closed systems will lose energy and become less efficient with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Viva Vancouver!</title>
		<link>http://www.susanbaxter.ca/blog/2010/03/viva-vancouver/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 02:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When things work out well &#8211; contrary to expectation &#8211; it is only right and proper that one acknowledge this. And, as it turns out, the Olympics (whatever the long-term consequences might be) appear to have been a stellar experience.  People even less enthused about them than I (whose interest, to quote Edward Lear, would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Your opinion matters&#8221; (and low flying pigs such a nuisance)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s difficult to feel too curmudgeonly when one is in Paris, wandering around at exhibits and stopping for a coffee at decent intervals (usually when the last cup of coffee has caught up with one), but it seems as though the entire Occident &#8211; Paris included &#8211; is run by bureaucrats and administrators taking stupid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winning at all cost seems vaguely inelegant</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sport, said George Orwell, is war minus the shooting. It brings out the worst in us: violence, jealousy and boastfulness. As I’ve watched bits of the coverage on the many screens around town (difficult to avoid no matter how hard one tries) it seems to me the only noun he missed was “irony”.
Here we are, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flamin&#8217; heck</title>
		<link>http://www.susanbaxter.ca/blog/2010/02/flamin-heck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I serendipitously saw the Olympic torch today.
I was heading to an appointment; I usually take the bus but today I had some things to do (plus it was rainy and cold), so I took the car. At Oak and 25th traffic came to a dead halt &#8211; and sirens blared, lights flashed and lo and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There is a thin line between genius and insanity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There is a thin line between genius and insanity,&#8221; said the curmudgeonly Oscar Levant, &#8220;and I have erased this line.&#8221; We have too – unfortunately, we went straight to crazy without so much as a pause at intelligent, never mind genius.




It seems like only yesterday when a modicum of civil discourse was possible – and one [...]]]></description>
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