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		<title>The mechanisms inhaled anesthetics</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ability to be anesthetized is clearly important from a physiological perspective. Indeed, virtually all life forms have this ability. Why? Anesthesia is not necessary in nature &#8211; bunnies do not perform surgery on one another (as far as I can tell). So why should evolution incur the cost of conserving this trait?
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		<title>Revelation</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Revelation is often thought of as manifestation of the miraculous. G-d reveals itself through some object or event (a bush, a scroll, a parting of seas, a word). But revelation is not a passive quality of being and it does not rely on external conditions. Key to revelation is the idea that the object of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ariak.wordpress.com&blog=306215&post=366&subd=ariak&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Akrowheels now featured at Crunch Gym</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Crunch gym just launched a class using the Akrowheels. I actually did take the class &#8211; my abs were sore for 3 days!
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		<title>A Bioinformatics Study &#8211; Annotation of Drosophila Erecta</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Bioinformatics Study &#38; ReportA paper I wrote for a bioinformatics class several years ago in which I annotated part of the Drosophila Erecta genome (a Fosmid, to be precise) as part of a concerted effort to annotate the entire genome. The study was spearheaded by Washington U. in Seattle. This paper was A Bioinformatics [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ariak.wordpress.com&blog=306215&post=339&subd=ariak&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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