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	<title>Apoica &#187; social contract</title>
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		<title>Capitalism and cancer</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/23/capitalism-and-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 06:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The amazing Barbara Ehrenreich makes a connection, just after the crash of 2008, the 160th anniversary of the publication of the pamphlet that ignited the world: The Manifesto makes for quaint reading today. All that talk about “production,” for example: Did they actually make things in those days? Did the proletariat really slave away in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Five hours!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/16/five-hours/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 16:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reader&#8217;s email: Five hours!  Few of us healthy folks do that &#8230; at least not often enough! As we learned in desert survival school, if something CAN grow, something WILL. And that is the history of our planet.  More things grow than die.  In the midst of cancer treatment, it&#8217;s a tonic to know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Er, uh . . . I meant totalitarian</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/12/er-uh-i-meant-totalitarian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 20:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good friend recently pointed out his surprise at my use of the word communist in this post, given my political leanings. He&#8217;s right; that wasn&#8217;t the right word. What I meant was totalitarian.  I do think that the cells in our body are locked in a kind of communism, but the negative aspect I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rapping about evolution, sociality, cheaters and slugs</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/08/rapping-about-evolution-sociality-cheaters-and-slugs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 15:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting article appeared in the NY Times a couple of days ago. I have my doubts about the general appeal of a rap performance about evolutionary biology, but maybe it&#8217;s great. Who knows? You can investigate Baba Brinkman&#8217;s &#8220;The Rap Guide to Evolution&#8221; for yourself here and here. Of particular interest, the article highlights [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ol&#8217; Cancer</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/06/ol-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 16:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve received a somewhat strong response to my last post, which is great. Keep the comments and email coming. Regarding that post, many have questioned my final comment about sympathy for my cancer. To be sure, I chose that word to be provocative, but I do have sympathy for all life that is marked for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conflict between the individual and the group</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/05/05/conflict-between-the-individual-and-the-group/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 14:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I know.  I didn&#8217;t actually blog again last night.  Sorry for that, but since I&#8217;ve been feeling so, so, so much better, I&#8217;ve begun to realize just how much work I was laying aside.  I&#8217;ve been catching up. So as a mini-catchup,  I&#8217;ll offer this symbol and some thoughts: This is a nest of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colony and individual: Cancer and cheating wasps</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/04/30/colony-and-individual-cancer-and-cheating-wasps/</link>
		<comments>http://www.apoica.com/2010/04/30/colony-and-individual-cancer-and-cheating-wasps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 01:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I study wasps.  That&#8217;s what I do. Solitary wasps, like most animals, live their life . . . well, in solitude.  Except to mate, they tend to stay away from other members of their own species.  Some build small nests for their young, and some provide a modicum of parental care—the first steps toward social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Oh, congratulations on your stem cell transplant!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/04/24/oh-congratulations-on-your-stem-cell-transplant/</link>
		<comments>http://www.apoica.com/2010/04/24/oh-congratulations-on-your-stem-cell-transplant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 05:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have had cancer for many years (officially diagnosed two months shy of four years ago, but I had it for years before it was finally diagnosed).  So, I know that many people—most people—have no idea what to say to you when they find out or when they see you after you&#8217;ve been ill, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shelley</title>
		<link>http://www.apoica.com/2010/04/20/shelley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kpickett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frankenstein is by far my favorite novel. When I&#8217;m not in the bathroom applying ointments containing sodium hydroxide to various parts of my groin to kill the fungus that won&#8217;t stop growing, or taking pills to satiate the nausea that pops up from time to time, or trying to get some work done, or sleeping [...]]]></description>
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