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		<title>The failures of modern day atheism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been meaning to post something for awhile and this is a topic that I felt was worth discussing. Some of the things I&#8217;m about to say I suspect many will disagree with, and by posting this I&#8217;m opening myself to attack; however I feel that brutal honestly allows us to address the problems in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Furor Erupts Over Atheist Display At State Capitol</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A conservative activist and Illinois comptroller candidate was escorted from the Illinois State Capitol building Wednesday when he tried to remove a sign put up by an atheist group. William J. Kelly announced Tuesday that he planned to take down the sign put up by the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and on Wednesday, he tried [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eatheists.com/2009/12/furor-erupts-over-atheist-display-at-state-capitol/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Anonymous&#8217; hacker pleads guilty to 2008 attack on Scientology sites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;According to a news release from the Justice Department&#8217;s Los Angeles office, Dmitriy Guzner of Verona, N.J., pleaded guilty to computer hacking charges related to the 2008 distributed denial of service attack (DDOS) on Scientology websites. That&#8217;s where hackers get so many zombie computers to visit a site that the server overload becomes crippling and the site crashes. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eatheists.com/2009/05/anonymous-hacker-pleads-guilty-to-2008-attack-on-scientology-sites/</link>
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		<title>UN Human Rights Council Attacks Free Speech involving religion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Freedom House condemns the UN Human Rights Council for undermining the universal right to freedom of expression by once again passing a resolution that urges members to adopt laws outlawing criticism of religions. The &#8220;defamation of religions&#8221; resolution, introduced by Pakistan on behalf of the Organization for the Islamic Conference (OIC), passed today by a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eatheists.com/2009/03/un-human-rights-council-attacks-free-speech-involving-religion/</link>
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		<title>Anonymous relaunches fight against Scientology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Anonymous group is calling for disillusioned former members to return to the fold ahead of a new phase in its battle against the Church of Scientology. A video posted on YouTube on Friday said it was time for the original founders of the protest movement to return in time for a &#8220;shift to more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eatheists.com/2008/08/anonymous-relaunches-fight-against-scientology/</link>
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		<title>World first biological brain robot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Meet Gordon, probably the world&#8217;s first robot controlled exclusively by living brain tissue.Stitched together from cultured rat neurons, Gordon&#8217;s primitive grey matter was designed at the University of Reading by scientists who unveiled the neuron-powered machine on Wednesday. Their groundbreaking experiments explore the vanishing boundary between natural and artificial intelligence, and could shed light on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eatheists.com/2008/08/world-first-biological-brain-robot/</link>
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		<title>San Jose Professor Fired for Answering Question about Genetics and Homosexuality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A former San Jose City College biology professor is suing the college after she was fired for answering a student&#8217;s question on the relationship between homosexuality and heredity. On June 21, 2007, June Sheldon, an adjunct professor teaching a human heredity course, answered a question about how heredity affects homosexual behavior by citing the class [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eatheists.com/2008/07/san-jose-professor-fired-for-answering-question-about-genetics-and-homosexuality/</link>
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		<title>What duplicating or backing up your mind really means: Mind snapshots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shortly after writing the The challenge of mind duplication/transfer post I went seeking others to chat with about this topic. I hoped on irc and had an interesting conversation in a neuroscience channel. It was a great conversation that lead to some very interesting possibilities being discussed. People typically think that duplicating the mind means [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eatheists.com/2008/07/mind-duplication-snapshots/</link>
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		<title>New map IDs the core of the human brain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;An international team of researchers has created the first complete high-resolution map of how millions of neural fibers in the human cerebral cortex &#8212; the outer layer of the brain responsible for higher level thinking &#8212; connect and communicate. Their groundbreaking work identified a single network core, or hub, that may be key to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eatheists.com/2008/07/new-map-ids-the-core-of-the-human-brain/</link>
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		<title>Modeling Conciousness: what do we do with AI?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve heard that AI will be the future and change our lives. We&#8217;ve seen movies where robots have human personalities and can interact with us as interact with each other. In order to achieve these &#8220;AI use cases&#8221; you must first understand what it means to be human and more specifically what mimicking our behavior [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.eatheists.com/2008/06/the-scope-of-artificial-intelligence/</link>
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