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		<title>When do we grow up?</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two hundred posts! I think that merits a little reflection and reminiscence.
This blog has been an ever-shifting beast since it started, neither fish nor fowl:  I&#8217;m as likely to be writing about pop culture one day as about politics the next. I think taken as a whole, though, the selection of subjects says something about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The paradox of Shakespeare</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Open sewers run through the streets. Disease is rampant, up to and including recurring outbreaks of the plague. Criminals are routinely castrated, disemboweled, and hacked to pieces in public executions. The rotting heads of political enemies are mounted on public gates. The bloody torture of animals is a popular form of entertainment. Wretched poverty is commonplace. Literacy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elevation, from politics to popular fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slate reports that psychologists at UC Berkeley have been using Barack Obama&#8217;s speeches (among other stimuli) to study the causes and effects of a previously neglected emotional realm, dubbed &#8220;elevation.&#8221; Jonathan Chaidt of the University of Virginia, who coined the term, describes it thusly:
Powerful moments of elevation sometimes seem to push a mental &#8216;reset button,&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There are real problems, and then there&#8217;s this</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1 in 5 young adults has personality disorder
CHICAGO – Almost one in five young American adults [ages 19-25] has a personality disorder that interferes with everyday life&#8230;
The disorders include problems such as obsessive or compulsive tendencies and anti-social behavior that can sometimes lead to violence. The study also found that fewer than 25 percent of [...]]]></description>
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