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		<title>Rise of the Machines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this opinion piece for the New York Times in the fall of 2008. Since then I&#8217;ve become addicted to financial crisis entertainment and parables of the second gilded age: books, movies, documentaries, Matt Taibi in The Rolling Stone, and the incomparable Gretchen Morgenson in the New York Times business section. The gateway drugs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richarddooling.com/index.php/2011/09/28/rise-of-the-machines/</link>
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		<title>Congress Shall Make No Law . . .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Law students spend the better part of three years beetling their brows over the study of constitutional law&#8212;a mercurial, opaque, highly theoretical system of textual exegesis, which nobody but the tenured and long-winded professor pretends to understand. And the capsheaf of con-law contwistification is First Amendment law. The First Amendment protects &#8220;the freedom of speech&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richarddooling.com/index.php/2011/04/19/congress-shall-make-no-law/</link>
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		<title>The Onion: Why We Haven&#8217;t Finished Our Novel</title>
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		<link>http://www.richarddooling.com/index.php/2011/03/04/the-onion-why-we-havent-finished-our-novel/</link>
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		<title>National Institute For Civil Discourse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My latest New York Times Op-Ed contribution is on the new National Institute For Civil Discourse. Others I have done over the years, may be found here and here.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richarddooling.com/index.php/2011/03/01/national-institute-for-civil-discourse/</link>
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		<title>Lego Antikythera Mechanism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Antikythera Mechanism is the oldest known scientific computer, built in Greece at around 100 BCE. Lost for 2000 years, it was recovered from a shipwreck in 1901. But not until a century later was its purpose understood: an astronomical clock that determines the positions of celestial bodies with extraordinary precision. In 2010, a fully-functional [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richarddooling.com/index.php/2011/01/29/lego-antikythera-mechanism/</link>
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		<title>Why Books Aren&#8217;t Dead Yet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent my undergrad years painting dorm rooms to pay my tuition and graduated from college in 1976. I then decided it was high time to get an education,1 so I set about reading all of the books that I never had time to read while I was a working student. I lined the walls [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richarddooling.com/index.php/2010/07/11/why-books-arent-dead-yet/</link>
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		<title>The Edge: Annual Question &#8211; 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How is the Internet changing the way you think? You mean, other than turning us into mental hummingbirds, crazy for empty-calorie tweets and sugary serial blog links? Dave Barry probably said it best: The Internet is a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean, &#8216;people without lives.&#8217; We don&#8217;t care. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richarddooling.com/index.php/2010/01/08/the-edge-annual-question-2010/</link>
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		<title>Net Neutrality &amp; The First Amendment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Telecom and cyberlaw professor Marvin Ammori has a great post at Balkinization on Net Neutrality and the First Amendment. Next Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission is holding a “workshop” on the issue, as part of the important FCC rulemaking to codify “network neutrality.” The workshop’s title is, “Speech, Democratic Engagement, and the Open Internet.” Net [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richarddooling.com/index.php/2009/12/11/net-neutrality-the-first-amendment/</link>
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		<title>Rapture Updates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[News items of possible interest to fans of Rapture For The Geeks: IBM Blue Brain&#8217;s Henry Markram at TED on Building An Artificial Brain (video); Artificial Brain &#8217;10 years Away&#8217; &#8211; A detailed, functional artificial human brain can be built within the next 10 years, so says Henry Markram, director of the Blue Brain Project, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richarddooling.com/index.php/2009/10/06/rapture-updates/</link>
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		<title>NYTimes: Hillary The Movie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The case, which arises from a minor political documentary called &#8220;Hillary: The Movie,&#8221; seemed an oddity when it was first argued in March. Just six months later, it has turned into a juggernaut with the potential to shatter a century-long understanding about the government&#8217;s ability to bar corporations from spending money to support political candidates. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richarddooling.com/index.php/2009/09/15/hillary-the-movie/</link>
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