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		<title>He was the reformer Ken Alibek‘s generation had been waiting for</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gorbachev came into office in March 1986, Ken Alibek explains (in Biohazard), determined to break up the corrupt bureaucratic fiefdoms of the Brezhnev era and to create a stronger, more cohesive government: He was the reformer my generation had been waiting for. Nearly everyone under forty at Biopreparat considered him our best hope. […] The [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Ken Alibek lost all sense of smell and had the broadest range of allergies of anyone he knew</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ken Alibek explains (in Biohazard) that he has lost all sense of smell and had the broadest range of allergies of anyone he knows: I can’t eat butter, cheese, eggs, mayonnaise, sausages, chocolate, or candy. I swallow two or three pills of anti-allergy medicine a day—more on bad days, when my sinuses start to drain. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>A tight deadline can either enhance or destroy our thinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone is familiar with one way to coax the best from our big mind, David Epstein explains (in Inside the Box), deadlines: But a tight deadline can either enhance or destroy our thinking, according to research on time pressure. It depends how we use it, and specifically whether we respond by rushing to multitask, or [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>When the star returned from injury, the team’s strategy went only partly back to normal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A pair of researchers analyzed nearly thirty thousand NBA games, David Epstein explains (in Inside the Box), in an attempt to discern the impact on a team when a star player is temporarily absent: Pre-injury, when a star was present, he acted as a hub, receiving the ball much more often than other players. When [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>It really depends on how skillful the pilot is</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2025/11/it-really-depends-on-how-skillful-the-pilot-is/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 21:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A member of Ukraine’s “Typhoon” drone unit discusses training and effectiveness: In general, it takes at least three months to train the pilots from scratch to the beginner level. When we talk about pilots, it’s worth mentioning that they also need to be a bit like engineers — if we talk about FPV drones. When [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Get in the spirit!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 19:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written about Halloween and horror quite a bit over the years. I thought I’d share these links going into October this year: We know that fungi can infect humans It’s a book whose metatextual enigmas attracted credulous postmodernists in hordes The history of horror is a history of what we aren’t all that frightened of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Please enjoy these posts of Christmas Past</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Dec 2024 05:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please enjoy these posts of Christmas Past: John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together The legacy employees at Twitter didn’t know how to handle him A North Pole Mission the Night Before Christmas Egg trees are a dismal failure when compared to Christmas trees There is nobody more generous than the miser Americans do [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>I don&#8217;t discuss Turkey Day nearly as much as Halloween</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Nov 2024 05:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t discuss Turkey Day nearly as much as Halloween: Musk prowled the office each day Americans do indeed spend more when Thanksgiving falls early This was no country for a modern, mechanized army It’d be hard to imagine a more powerful asset for criminals It was so much darker than we imagine Jerry Miculek [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>More linkanthropy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2024 04:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written about Halloween and horror quite a bit over the years: We know that fungi can infect humans It’s a book whose metatextual enigmas attracted credulous postmodernists in hordes The history of horror is a history of what we aren’t all that frightened of anymore Halloween used to be kid stuff The flowers acquired associations [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>One modern laser-guided bomb was as effective against a point target as thirty Vietnam-era F-4 Phantoms dropping their entire load of bombs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2024 14:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the Vietnam War, David Hambling explains (in Swarm Troopers), the average distance by which a bomb missed its aim point, known as “circular error probable,” was about four hundred feet for bombing from medium altitude: Four hundred feet may sound haphazard, but computing bombsights had improved greatly since WWII, when the average miss distance [&#8230;]]]></description>
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