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	<title>Engineering Education</title>
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	<description>Building better options for students with a passion for mathematics, informatics, science, and technology.</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The New Old Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mathew Crawford</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For a long time I&#8217;ve thought that traditional media was heading toward collapse &#8212; at least as a business model, as in free enterprise.  I&#8217;m far from the first person to point this out, but the ways in which traditional media have made money are going by the wayside.
Take the newspapers for example.  They used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Property Rights and Incentives</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mathew Crawford</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Incentive structures represent great opportunities for mathematical problem solvers.  But first, one must convince oneself of the value of these opportunities.
There is a great post at Reason on the importance of property rights in protecting natural resources and therefore public health as well.
While property rights are a legal construct, they are often a positive one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mathematics and Evolution</title>
		<link>http://www.mistacademy.com/blog/?p=359</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mathew Crawford</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Mathematics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I always enjoy watching David Attenborough videos and thinking about why and how evolution happens (he is fantastic at giving the story behind the process).  Mathematics often helps us understand better.  Take the Gomboc for instance.  It&#8217;s a patented shape/thing based on stable and unstable points of equilibria.  If money were no object, I would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proximity</title>
		<link>http://www.mistacademy.com/blog/?p=357</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mathew Crawford</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Huntsville]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had some notes from Huntsville parents telling me that the students there miss me.  That&#8217;s always nice to hear.  More than a half-dozen Huntsville and Cullman students made the trip all the way to Birmingham to take classes here again this year.  It will be frustrating not to work as much with some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technology and Freedom</title>
		<link>http://www.mistacademy.com/blog/?p=356</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 06:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mathew Crawford</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For the most part, technology leads to greater freedom.  In fact, some technologies are aimed at creating greater freedom.  It will be interesting to see what greater freedoms do to China&#8217;s culture.  And its government.
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		<title>Charter Schools in New Orleans</title>
		<link>http://www.mistacademy.com/blog/?p=355</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 23:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mathew Crawford</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite places to go online is reason.com.  It&#8217;s one of the few media sources that consistently posts stories that I&#8217;m interested in most.  One example is this little piece about charter schools in New Orleans.
The first and perhaps biggest success of charter schools will be in poor neighborhoods.  If this success spreads [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flawed Public Schools</title>
		<link>http://www.mistacademy.com/blog/?p=354</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 00:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mathew Crawford</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of flaws in education.  But it&#8217;s tough to talk about many of them.  Why?  Because there are a lot of good teachers out there who take it personally.  Then again, most of the good teachers I know don&#8217;t take it personally, and talk openly themselves about the flaws in education.  Though [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AEA Priorities &#8212; Inspired to Vote Again</title>
		<link>http://www.mistacademy.com/blog/?p=353</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 03:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mathew Crawford</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Alabama]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been years since I&#8217;ve voted in a state election.  Not because I don&#8217;t value my community.  It&#8217;s because I haven&#8217;t seen a relatively close race in a long time in which my vote would make a difference and my time working is worth a lot within my community.  Voting isn&#8217;t necessarily the only way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yet Another Reason Why Nerdy is Great</title>
		<link>http://www.mistacademy.com/blog/?p=352</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mathew Crawford</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Programmable origami.
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		<title>Circular Reasoning</title>
		<link>http://www.mistacademy.com/blog/?p=351</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mathew Crawford</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[ARML]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mathematics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Students interesting in seeing just how deep geometry can get, and seeing just how much math surrounds the concepts involved in this year&#8217;s ARML Power Question, should take a look at this article by Naoki Sato, a former coworker of mine.
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