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	<title>Overheard In Providence</title>
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	<description>A blog by EERac</description>
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		<title>America celebrates existence of Northern Mariana Islands with commemorative quarter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During an otherwise shoddy decade, the US Mint spent most of the aughts engaged in a noble attempt to lift our nation&#8217;s spirit with its delightfully patriotic 50 State Quarters Program. Following that program&#8217;s overwhelming success (e.g. no one got hurt, many people continued to use quarters), the mint shrewdly undertook a shorter, but no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red candy corn and other innovations in nothing</title>
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After a solid century of corn-inspired confectionary, the marketing masterminds behind the world&#8217;s most artificial vegetable, candy corn, have finally noticed that there&#8217;s nothing particularly Halloween-related about their product*. As such, my own mother snagged the last bag of red and pink (yes, you heard right, RED and PINK!!!) candy corn at Varsono&#8217;s Chocolates in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.overheardinprovidence.com/2010/02/14/red-candy-corn-and-other-innovations-in-nothing/</link>
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		<title>Eric finishes thesis, rejoins society providence/internet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A brief educational retrospective:
1999: Eric graduates Stuyvesant Highschool and begins attending Brown University. At the time, he foolishly assumes that his affiliation with Brown will be limited to a mere four years.
2003: Eric graduates from Brown University with an Bachelor of Science in Applied Math/CS. In a shrewd attempt to avoid joining the workforce, or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.overheardinprovidence.com/2010/02/13/eric-finishes-thesis-rejoins-society-providenceinternet/</link>
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		<title>Lamenting Miles per Gallon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I brought this up once before, but with all the recent griping over the Cash for Clunkers Program and its lack luster milage requirements, it&#8217;s worth reflecting on how confusing miles per gallon ratings are from the perspective of trying to conserve gasoline.  What we should be talking about is gallons per mile, (or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.overheardinprovidence.com/2009/08/12/lamenting-miles-per-gallon/</link>
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		<title>Things I own from infomercials</title>
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I&#8217;ve never been sufficiently enticed by the &#8220;raw hucksterism&#8221; of television-based retail to buy a product directly off of an infomercial (i.e. to CALL NOW), but I still own at least three products which proudly bear the moniker &#8220;As seen on TV&#8221;. In support of my recent assertion that lists lend themselves to top-quality blogging, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.overheardinprovidence.com/2009/06/26/things-i-own-from-infomercials/</link>
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		<title>Celebrity Gossip</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Saturday, moments after I had posted a condemnation of math education, Jessica read me an unexpectedly relevant blurb from New York Magazine. Julia Stiles, it seems, has long felt unsatisfied with her public elementary school education, and earlier this year she decided to voice her concerns to NYC School Chancellor Joel Klein.
During the Atlantic’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.overheardinprovidence.com/2009/06/23/celebrity-gossip/</link>
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		<title>Lamenting Mathematics Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By way of Scott Aaronson, I recently read a surprisingly inspired essay on the dysfunctional state of math education. Paul Lockhart, the essay&#8217;s author, is a serious mathematician. He has a PhD in mathematics, is a former MSRI fellow and a former Brown professor. Since 2000, however, he has chosen to teach math at Saint [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.overheardinprovidence.com/2009/06/20/lamenting-mathematics-education/</link>
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		<title>But what have I done for you lately?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a relatively recent New York Times article, only 7.4 million of the 133 million blogs tracked by the blog search engine Technorati have been updated in the last 120 days. This blog has become perilously close to falling into that neglected 95%, as my last post is dated February 18th, 2009 (although to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.overheardinprovidence.com/2009/06/15/but-what-have-i-done-for-you-lately/</link>
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		<title>Award Season</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;Yes it&#8217;s that time of year again, time for one of the found-content blogs I work on to get nominated as a finalists for the Best Blog SXSW Webaward. Ok, really this has only happened once before, but it was last year, and we ended up winning. If this trend continues I am obviously destined [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.overheardinprovidence.com/2009/02/18/award-season/</link>
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		<title>How Robots are Born</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Via Ezra, then Matt, I&#8217;m reminded of Max Dean and Raffaello D&#8217;Andrea&#8217;s self-healing chair:

Really though, I find their earlier work, The Table: Childhood, to be the superior piece of autonomous furniture artwork (though less impressive technically).

On a more pragmatic note, Matt seems to have quelled his typical worries over an imminent robot uprising. Instead he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.overheardinprovidence.com/2009/02/09/how-robots-are-born/</link>
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