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	<description>From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small</description>
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		<title>More headline-worthy results followed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 11:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Between 1970 and 1999, David Epstein explains (in Inside the Box), the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) funded thirty large clinical trials that tested drugs or dietary supplements for the treatment or prevention of cardiovascular disease: While more than half of the studies published before 2000 found a benefit, only two out of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>He called it the Pocket Crystal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 10:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned recently, I quite enjoyed David Epstein’s The Sports Gene and Range, so I went ahead and got Inside the Box the day it came out. He opens with the famous story of Dmitri Mendeleev seeing the periodic table in a dream and contrasts that myth with the reality that Mendeleev had a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>A textbook case of discovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 14:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I quite enjoyed David Epstein’s The Sports Gene and Range, so I went ahead and got Inside the Box the day it came out. It’s a light, Gladwellian collection of pop-sci bits exploring How Constraints Make Us Better. “It is a myth — widely believed but not less mythical for that — that people are [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Belief effects do have a ceiling</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/05/belief-effects-do-have-a-ceiling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 11:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Sabastian Sawe breaking the two-hour marathon, Steve Magness notes, we’ve got a new self-help story that will dominate public speaking for decades to come, like Bannister’s breaking the four-minute mile: After Roger Bannister broke the 4-minute mile barrier, John Landy got under the mark just 46 days later. The next year 3 more men [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>China will be the greatest scientific power the world has ever seen — or bust</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/04/china-will-be-the-greatest-scientific-power-the-world-has-ever-seen-or-bust/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[T. Greer argues that the Chinese system has a new telos: In 2026, the aim of China’s communist enterprise is to lead humanity through what they call “the next round of techno scientific revolution and industrial transformation.” The Chinese leadership believes humanity stands on the cusp of the next industrial revolution. China can only be [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists remove “zombie” cells and reverse liver damage in mice</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/04/scientists-remove-zombie-cells-and-reverse-liver-damage-in-mice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UCLA scientists have uncovered a harmful group of immune cells that quietly builds up in aging tissues and in the livers of people with fatty liver disease: When these cells were removed in mice, inflammation dropped sharply and liver damage was reversed, even though the animals continued eating an unhealthy diet. […] They found that [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sun is much hotter than a compost heap</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/04/the-sun-is-much-hotter-than-a-compost-heap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nuclear fusion is generally presented as the sci-fi energy source of the future, providing unlimited, clean energy, but, while listening to the audiobook version Atomic Adventures by James Mahaffey, I was reminded that the astronomical output of the sun comes from its astronomical mass: At the center of the Sun, fusion power is estimated by [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>It works just as well as the most expensive, high-tech catalysts</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/04/it-works-just-as-well-as-the-most-expensive-high-tech-catalysts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at Kyushu University in Japan were seeking complex, expensive methods to extract hydrogen from methanol: “In what can only be considered incredible serendipity, we found in one of our control experiments mixing methanol, iron ions, and sodium hydroxide, and then irradiating it with UV light, generated a considerable amount of hydrogen gas,” [Takahiro Matsumoto, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/04/ancient-dna-reveals-pervasive-directional-selection-across-west-eurasia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia, Nature acknowledges: Ancient DNA has transformed our understanding of population history, but its potential to reveal as much about human evolutionary biology has not been realized because of limited sample sizes and the difficulty of distinguishing sustained rises in allele frequency increasing fitness — directional selection [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Why did Rome, rather than any of its many rivals in Iron Age Italy, become the core of an empire?</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/03/why-did-rome-rather-than-any-of-its-many-rivals-in-iron-age-italy-become-the-core-of-an-empire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why did Rome, rather than any of its many rivals in Iron Age Italy, become the core of an empire? A muddy settlement on the Tiber turns into a machine that can raise armies, write laws that outlive empires, build roads that stitch a continent together, and carry water for millions through aqueducts, while running [&#8230;]]]></description>
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