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• Bid Protests and Baseball – An Analogy

  
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  by rouelshimi Fiscal 2008 saw more protests filed at the Government Accountability Office (GAO) than any year in the past decade, and an increase of 17% over fiscal 2007. Looking further into these numbers, of those protests that went all the way to a final decision, 21% were sustained (meaning that GAO directed the ...
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• Grand challenges, X-prizes and Mars volunteers: stimulating bold wonders

  
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  Grand challenges!  Its an approach to stimulating research and technology that has been around for a while, stretching back to the  British "longitude prize"  of the 1700s.   Aviation medals and awards  spurred rapid advances during the 1920s and 1930s and sparked breakthroughs in human-powered flight in the ...
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• An Autistic Mind Opens Mine (Can It Open Yours?)

  
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  Listening to the brilliant Temple Grandin speak about the autistic brain gets me thinking further about the possible connection between introversion and autism. read more
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• CoffeeCON 2013

  
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  Perhaps the biggest irony is that nobody should ever need a CoffeeCON . As we posted last year, on the same day as the inaugural CoffeeCON 2012, we were instead attending the Grand Tasting of La Paulée de San Francisco: a $300-per-person consumer Burgundy appreciation event backed by a tremendous amount of wine ...
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• Pretty in pink

  
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  Check out Charles Krauthammer’s downplaying analogy over at the NRO for Obama’s ‘Red Line’ ultimatum with Syria using chemical weapons and what the Right thinks is dithering (or “fudging and fumbling”) in the face of the worry they’ve used them.  The headline: Pink Line over Damascus Get it?  Not ...
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• Who Am I?

  
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  Unlike the relatively stable genome, the menome is always changing. read more
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• Limits

  
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  Every Wednesday I get a few minutes with the children of our Preschool and Kindergarten. Today I shared about helium and a lesson about God that it can help us understand.  I got this idea from our Children’s Minister. It is a simple object lesson: we cannot see the helium, but we can see what […]
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• Magic Trees

  
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  Imagine an island on which magic trees grow. These trees, as it turns out, are exactly like the trees everywhere else, except for three things. First, these trees never die . Second, the trees always grow to exactly 100 feet tall eventually . And third, to pass time on this boring island the villagers place bets on ...
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• Bad Christian Analogy #4: KFC’s Boneless Chicken

  
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  Have you guys seen that commercial with the guy eating at KFC who freaks out because he isn’t sure whether or not he’s eaten chicken bones or not? Just the best. Love that guy. I don’t so much like the guy sitting across from him because he does nothing to help the panicked plight of his friend, but everyone ...
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• Eternalism and presentism

  
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  Here is an argument against eternalism: If eternalism is true, times are like places. Times are not like places. So, eternalism is false. There are a number of arguments for (2). Many, though not all, of them have something to do with the directionality of time, given that space lacks such ...
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• Secrets of Giant Pumpkin Farmers

  
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  Hu ge pumpkins dont happen by accident (courtesy of Temple Community Garden ) Everybody loves a colossal pumpkin. The darlings of farmer markets and fairs, gargantuan pumpkins stand out from the crowd. They attract a tremendous amount of attention, win prizes, and reap fame and glory for their farmers. In a ...
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• Boston Bombing Doesnt Somehow Negate Gun Concerns

  
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  Yep. Special kind of moron. Bad analogies make me crazy. Oh, I know, Im sure Ive made a few, not every attempt at cleverness is a success. And in a world that is now ruled by social media memes, it seems even the most horrific happening is (quickly) turned into them. Some are truly clever, thought provoking and ...
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• Melanie’s great epiphany part one: The illustrious rock tumbler of human existence

  
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  I had a very big break thru while playing in a poker tournament Sunday.  It was one of my greatest epiphany’s of all time (besides my awakening with ayahuasca).  It has to do with duality, going deeper into your fears, belief, faith, courage and trust. The framework needed to be able to deeply feel this epiphany ...
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• Bad Christian Analogy #3: Push Notifications

  
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  So push notifications. Depending on how active you are with your phone, you may already have a fully-formed opinion on this technology. But in case you don’t, let’s discuss them briefly. I like to run, right? Haha no wait. I have that wrong. I don’t like to run. I run so I don’t feel awful about eating good ...
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• new book – ‘Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking’ by Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander

  
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  Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking by Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander (Basic Books, 2013) (kindle ed.), (amazon.co.uk) Book description from the publisher: Analogy is the core of all thinking. This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer Prize–winning author Douglas ...
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• Teaching Square Roots with a Non-PC Analogy

  
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  Ive been teaching square roots (and other radical manipulations) for years with a terrible analogy. Every time I teach it I get a little nervous. "Someday Im going to jail for this," I think. But I do it - and get away with it - because I grew up in a very redneck community. And I have quite a few redneck ...
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• Analogical Language, Doctrine of God, and the World

  
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  In God’s world, everything is, after all, comparable to everything else. Granted, we tend to wince a bit when something we love or admire is compared to what we consider an unworthy object… Everything is related to everything else. There is nothing that ‘has nothing to do with’ anything else… To criticize a ...
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