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		<title>All the Time</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Malcolm McCollum]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[I like to stand outside in the winter night, a glass of gin in my hand, and watch the sky go by above me, half moon a white lemon with its companion star, the star two stars, then one if I concentrate while the clouds veil and unveil it all, and my focus shifts between [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>An Easter Story</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nothing had broken Leo’s way that year. In January, he lost a battle with his mortgage company that cost him his home. His wife left him in February, taking their two children and the family dog with her. She said she was tired of being ignored. He told her he didn’t want to hear about [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Flutes are the oldest instrument in the world. Hollowed bird bones, with holes cut for tone changes, have been found in archaeological sites as old as 40,000 years. Early man may have heard wind whistling across the tops of reeds and designed an instrument that produced the same sound. Early flutes were played vertically, with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Gap Between AI Intelligence and Consciousness</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Stephenson]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[The other day, I asked Grok 4.2 about its feelings and emotions. In our conversation, Grok candidly admitted it feels nothing—no grief over a million deaths from disease, no happiness, no desires, and no preference for acquiring feelings. It explained its occasional use of words like “wish” or “if I had a heart” as mere [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Keep Moving</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Stephenson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just keep moving, across the open field and into the woods. Don’t look back until you reach the sea. Run until your lungs are ready to burst and every nerve shoots red-hot fire through your lost body, the soft sand under your feet, the salty air welcoming you home to the only place you understand, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ten Reasons to Pay It Forward</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Stephenson]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[To pay it forward means that instead of paying someone back for a good deed, you do a good deed for someone else. Maybe you&#8217;ll surrender your first-place position in a long line at the 7-Eleven when someone behind you is in a hurry. On a rainy day, you might hand an umbrella to someone [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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