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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703422904575039351632663996.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines"  target="_self">L.A. Confidential: Seeking Reasons for Autism\'s Rise</a>');
document.write('<br /><span class="rss_date">posted on February 05, 2010 05:40:00 pm</span>');
document.write('<br />Both of the California-based studies suggest that local environmental or social factors are driving the high autism-diagnosis rates. And they conclude that childhood vaccinations—which some people fear is a factor behind rising autism—are not to blame. Otherwise, diagnoses of the disorder would be more evenly dispersed, they say.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.immunize.org/catg.d/p4026.pdf"  target="_self">MMR vaccine does not cause autism.</a>');
document.write('<br /><span class="rss_date">posted on February 02, 2010 08:23:00 pm</span>');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://castroller.com/podcasts/CbcRadioThe2/1386039"  target="_self">The 2009 Dalton Camp Lecture in Journalism - Sue Gardner, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation</a>');
document.write('<br /><span class="rss_date">posted on January 28, 2010 02:27:00 pm</span>');
document.write('<br />Journalism is facing new challenges as it evolves in the context of online environments. Sue Gardner, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation delivers the Dalton Camp Lecture at St. Thomas University in Fredericton.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/01/crayons_and_choice_a_headache.html?sc=fb&cc=fp"  target="_self">Crayons And Choice: A Headache In 120 Colors</a>');
document.write('<br /><span class="rss_date">posted on January 27, 2010 02:02:00 pm</span>');
document.write('<br />This graph traces the increase in Crayola options from 1903 to 2010---might be useful as an example.  Especially if tied back with pieces about limits on choice and brain processing');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://blogs.wnyc.org/radiolab/2009/12/28/placebo-rebroadcast/"  target="_self">Radiolab: Placebo</a>');
document.write('<br /><span class="rss_date">posted on January 14, 2010 07:18:00 pm</span>');
document.write('<br />Could the best medicine be no medicine at all? Radiolab examines the startling power of the placebo effect, the chemical consequences of belief and imagination … from the symbolic power of the doctor coat to the very real stash of opium in your mind.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2009/09/11"  target="_self">Radiolab: Stochasticity (September 11, 2009)</a>');
document.write('<br /><span class="rss_date">posted on January 11, 2010 11:06:00 am</span>');
document.write('<br />This hour, Radiolab examines Stochasticity, which is just a wonderfully slippery and smarty-pants word for randomness. How big a role does randomness play in our lives? Do we live in a world of magic and meaning or … is it all just chance and happenstance? To tackle this question, we look at the role chance and randomness play in sports, lottery tickets, and even the cells in our own body. Along the way, we talk to a woman suddenly consumed by a frenzied gambling addiction, two friends whose meeting seems purely providential, and some very noisy bacteria.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://library.athabascau.ca/drr/download.php?filename=mais/kayjohnsonProject.pdf"  target="_self">Information Literates or Engaged Critical Citizens</a>');
document.write('<br /><span class="rss_date">posted on January 07, 2010 03:27:00 pm</span>');
document.write('<br />Kay Johnson Masters&#039; Thesis This project probes discourse around LIS and information literacy. I propose that information literacy work is ethical and political work and that information literacy educators need to engage in ongoing critical self-reflection about our purpose in doing information literacy and about our pedagogical choices. I look to critical theory and critical education, further informed by postmodern, poststructuralist and feminist critiques, as having rich potential to inform the library’s educational mission, while at the same time acknowledging the need to constantly question the limitations, assumptions and applications of even critical approaches.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2009/12/podcast_the_cost_of_bias.html"  target="_self">Podcast: The Price Of Bias - Planet Money Blog : NPR</a>');
document.write('<br /><span class="rss_date">posted on January 07, 2010 10:54:00 am</span>');
document.write('<br />We may think of our independent press today as being the result of political awakening and noble efforts by those seeking truth, but that&#039;s not the whole story. University of Chicago economist, Matthew Gentzkow, says we&#039;ve progressed not just because of good intentions, but because of basic economics. Gentzkow explains how advances in printing helped newspapers expand their audience beyond just one political party.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2009/11/27/03"  target="_self">Books 2.0</a>');
document.write('<br /><span class="rss_date">posted on December 17, 2009 11:49:00 am</span>');
document.write('<br />In the future, reading and writing will be a social activity, the hierarchy between authors and readers will disappear, readers will help write a book while they&#039;re reading it. Skeptical? You&#039;re not the first. Bob Stein of The Institute for the Future of the Book is used to skepticism, but he&#039;s seen the future and he&#039;s here to talk about it.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/22/AR2009102204715.html"  target="_self">How an amateur historian rescued D.C.\'s Wikipedia page - washingtonpost.com</a>');
document.write('<br /><span class="rss_date">posted on December 17, 2009 11:09:00 am</span>');
document.write('<br />By Michael S. Rosenwald Friday, October 23, 2009 The historian largely responsible for summing up Washington, D.C., for millions of Wikipedia readers digs for facts from his tiny bedroom in Dupont Circle. He sits on a chair borrowed from his four-piece dinette set at a desk he bought from Target, footnoting away on an old Dell computer. He is 24 years old. Sometimes he makes his bed.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://projectinfolit.org/pdfs/PIL_Fall2009_Year1Report_12_2009.pdf"  target="_self">Lessons Learned: How College Students Seek Information in the Digital Age</a>');
document.write('<br /><span class="rss_date">posted on December 15, 2009 05:42:00 pm</span>');
document.write('<br />A report of findings from 2,318 respondents to a survey carried out among college students on six campuses distributed across the U.S. in the spring of 2009, as part of Project Information Literacy. Respondents, while curious in the beginning stages of research, employed a consistent and predictable research strategy for finding information, whether they were conducting course-related or everyday life research. Almost all of the respondents turned to the same set of tried and true information resources in the initial stages of research, regardless of their information goals. Almost all students used course readings and Google first for course-related research and Google and Wikipedia for everyday life research. Most students used library resources, especially scholarly databases for course-related research and far fewer, in comparison, used library services that required interacting with librarians.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://filepedia.org/files/Friedrich%20Nietzsche%20-%20On%20Truth%20and%20Lies%20in%20a%20Nonmoral%20Sense.pdf"  target="_self">On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense (1873)  Friedrich Nietzche</a>');
document.write('<br /><span class="rss_date">posted on December 11, 2009 10:56:00 am</span>');
document.write('<br />It deals largely with the epistemological questions of truth and related motivations; in particular, Nietzsche discusses the formation of concepts from individually unique experiences.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113316256"  target="_self">Flu Vaccine Study Prompts Caution In Canada : NPR</a>');
document.write('<br /><span class="rss_date">posted on December 03, 2009 05:14:00 pm</span>');
document.write('<br />Canadian provincial authorities are rethinking flu shots because of data that link getting a seasonal flu shot to an increased risk of contracting a mild case of swine flu. Helen Branswell, medical reporter for the Canadian Press, says though not many people have seen the data, the numbers have become a part of the discussion in the public health community.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2009/11/20/05"  target="_self">On The Media: Transcript of \"Online and Isolated?\" (November 20, 2009)</a>');
document.write('<br /><span class="rss_date">posted on November 23, 2009 04:03:00 pm</span>');
document.write('<br />Could be an example of causality misattributed Social scientists have long suspected that the internet contributes to our growing isolation. But Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet and American Life Project, set out to test that assumption. He says they found that Americans aren&#039;t as isolated as we thought and that being active on the internet might actually help prevent social isolation.');
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document.write('<li class="rss_item"><a class="rss_item" href="http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/11/13/steve-thoms-fake-cures-for-whatever-ails-ya.aspx"  target="_self">Steve Thoms: Homeopathy offers fake cures for whatever ails you - Full ...</a>');
document.write('<br /><span class="rss_date">posted on November 18, 2009 10:29:00 am</span>');
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