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		<title>Fictional realities and the function of myth</title>
		<link>http://sedgemore.com/2008/07/fictional-realities-and-the-function-of-myth/</link>
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This business about scientific naturalism, religion, alternative realities, and the mythical and poetic imagination, discussed here and here in reaction to an article by physicist Lawrence Krauss in New Scientist, continues to occupy my attention.
I am not qualified to address the issues with the depth and eloquence of English scholar Anja Müller-Wood. Instead I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t work for a woman, me. No fucking way.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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Today the Church of England&#8217;s governing General Synod will debate the subject of women bishops. Or rather how the church goes about implementing its previous decision-in-principle to grant the fairer gender the right to wear the silly hat of the episcopate, and make even bigger arses of themselves in public than has hitherto been the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2050 - Climate change and life in Britain</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
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The Macaulay Institute has produced a film that explores what life could be like in 2050 through the video diaries of a Scottish farming family. &#8220;Choosing our Tomorrows&#8221; is viewable online as a 90 second trailer and nine 4–5 minute segments.
Dr Dave Stevens of the Macaulay Institute describes the film as an attempt to stimulate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adobe cedes control of PDF</title>
		<link>http://sedgemore.com/2008/07/adobe-cedes-control-of-pdf-format/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
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We now have a new standard for finished document exchange: Portable Document Format, aka PDF.
Actually, PDF has been the de facto standard for several years now. But the Adobe corporation, which is responsible for software products such as Photoshop, has now ceded control over the document format to the International Organisation for Standardization (ISO).
For me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA, all the way!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
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Happy 4th of July to readers of an American persuasion. You did well to declare independence from Britain – a godforsaken nation-state in the North Atlantic, many of whose people appear to delight in whingeing about how ghastly Americans are. And everything else besides.
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		<title>No longer bankrolling the Mugabe regime</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis Sedgemore</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[From Spiegel Online today:
&#8220;Wir sind den Forderungen der Bundesregierung und internationaler Sanktionsinitiativen nachgekommen&#8221;
Following massive public outrage and political pressure from the German government, printing firm Giesecke &#038; Devrient has decided to stop supplying Zimbabwe with banknotes.
This is excellent news. But we cease this campaign only when Zimbabwe has a legitimate and representative government, and former [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No place for Jews in the UCU</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis Sedgemore</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It comes as no surprise to me to see high-profile resignations from the UK&#8217;s Universities and Colleges Union (UCU) following that once noble labour organisation&#8217;s degeneration into semi-naked antisemitism and futile gesture politics. I refer to the union leadership&#8217;s call for British academics to cut ties with Israeli colleagues. Israel is singled out for punishment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fiction is good for you</title>
		<link>http://sedgemore.com/2008/06/fiction-is-good-for-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following my critique of Lawrence Krauss&#8217; scientistic views on the mythical imagination, Mainz University literature scholar Anja Müller-Wood discusses the value of storytelling in terms of evolutionary psychology.
And if that&#8217;s not enough, in this week&#8217;s New Scientist is a short article by Toronto University cognitive psychologist Keith Oatley on the benefits to the individual of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bankrolling the Mugabe regime</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
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I have just sent the following letter to senior management of the German printing firm Giesecke &#038; Devrient, which prints Zimbabwe&#8217;s banknotes. The text is based on that of John Carter Wood, and links have been included for your benefit.
To:
Dr Karsten Ottenberg: karsten.ottenberg@gi-de.com
Dr Peter Zattler: peter.zattler@gi-de.com
Dr Walter Schlebusch: walter.schlebusch@gi-de.com
Dr Peter Mihatsch: peter.mihatsch@gi-de.com
Mr Michael Kuemmerle: michael.kuemmerle@gi-de.com
Dear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Viel Glück Deutschland!</title>
		<link>http://sedgemore.com/2008/06/viel-gluck-deutschland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francis Sedgemore</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[









In pre-liberation Iraq, the national football side had to answer to the dictator&#8217;s son Uday Hussein. When the team lost, Uday&#8217;s idea of motivational practice included torture.
In today&#8217;s Germany, footballers answer to the country&#8217;s prime minister, Frau Doktor Angela Merkel. If the team loses tonight&#8217;s Euro 2008 final with Spain, then its members are assured [...]]]></description>
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