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		<title>Updates to the Academic Publishing Debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akshayk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fight against academic publishers is heating up as Tyler Neylon&#8217;s website continues to gain support against Elsevier. If you haven&#8217;t heard, the website is a place where you can publicly declare that you will boycott Elsevier, one of the academic publishers with particularly terrible practices. It may have been created in response to Timothy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Interesting Articles</title>
		<link>http://www.akrish.net/blog/2012/01/21/some-interesting-articles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I found several interesting online articles that I&#8217;d like to share here. The first relates to SOPA and PIPA, the two legislative acts about fighting online copyright infringement. I personally don&#8217;t know too much about them but in an effort to learn about these pieces of legislation, I found a report published by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Code Book</title>
		<link>http://www.akrish.net/blog/2012/01/12/the-code-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akshayk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Simon Singh Singh recounts the history of cryptography, starting from the primitive ciphers used in ancient times, through the famous protocols used in World Wars I and II, and up to the current state of the art in public key cryptography, including a brief tour of quantum cryptography. His discussion starts with the famous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fahrenheit 451</title>
		<link>http://www.akrish.net/blog/2012/01/09/fahrenheit-451/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akshayk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Ray Bradbury In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury describes a dystopian supposedly-futuristic society in which reading is not allowed. This policy is enforced by book burnings orchestrated by government-employed firemen. The novel follows Guy Montag, a fireman who starts questioning the censorship policy after meeting a young girl with a unique curiosity, and after he watches [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Born to Run</title>
		<link>http://www.akrish.net/blog/2012/01/02/born-to-run/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 02:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akshayk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Christopher McDougall In &#8220;Born to Run,&#8221; sports journalist McDougall helps organize an epic 50-mile race between some of the best long-distance runners in the world. These athletes include several champion ultra-marathoners from the U.S. as well as several Tarahumara, a native american people living in the Copper Canyons of Mexico. Organizing the race is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Call of the Wild</title>
		<link>http://www.akrish.net/blog/2011/12/31/the-call-of-the-wild/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akshayk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Jack London The first e-book I have read, &#8220;The Call of the Wild&#8221; is one of those teenage-classics that everyone reads when they are in high school. I never read it so when I found that it was free in the iTunes book store I figured I might as well. It is a good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life of Pi</title>
		<link>http://www.akrish.net/blog/2011/12/30/life-of-pi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>akshayk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Yann Martel Disclaimer: This review will ruin the book for you if you have not read it. Please read the book (it is fairly short) and then come back here. The book is amazing so I highly recommend it anyway. &#8220;Life of Pi&#8221; is superficially a story about a boy lost at sea and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guns, Germs, and Steel</title>
		<link>http://www.akrish.net/blog/2011/12/28/guns-germs-and-steel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Jared M. Diamond In &#8220;Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies,&#8221; Diamond answers a fundamental question that shaped human history: What enabled some groups of people to colonize, obliterate, or otherwise exert substantial influence over other groups? One popular belief is that some groups of people are simply more intelligent, more aggressive, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How We Decide</title>
		<link>http://www.akrish.net/blog/2011/12/24/how-we-decide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 20:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Jonah Lehrer In &#8220;How We Decide,&#8221; Lehrer recounts many of the scientific developments in neuroscience that contribute to our current understanding of how humans make choices and decisions. This discussion inevitably leads to philosophical topics like rationality, ethics, and morality so Lehrer also presents popular philosophical ideas that can be reconciled with modern scientific [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ender&#8217;s Game</title>
		<link>http://www.akrish.net/blog/2011/11/28/enders-game/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Orson Scott Card One of the classic sci-fi novels, Ender&#8217;s Game is the first of novel in the Ender saga. The novel is probably more suitable for younger readers but it is a fun, quick read and there are certainly some interesting takeaways. The novel follows Ender, a child prodigy as he is trained [...]]]></description>
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