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		<title>The Erie Canal: Linking New York Then &amp; Now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Erie Canal, a waterway in New York State, is one of humankind’s most extensive and influential undertakings in water transportation. Its technological achievements are many. For one, the Erie Canal was undertaken at a time when the next-longest man-made waterway in the US was just 27 miles long. Eventually, however, the original vision of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theintellectualdevotional.com/blog/2011/02/25/the-erie-canal-linking-new-york-then-now/</link>
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		<title>Rubber Cement: The Real Gateway Drug</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rubber cement is a versatile adhesive made from latex polymers mixed in acetone or other solvents. Paul Van Cleef invented the adhesive for use in the Van Cleef Brothers factory in Chicago, Illinois in the early 1900s. It is part of the class of drying adhesives: as the solvents quickly evaporate, the &#8220;rubber&#8221; portion remains [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theintellectualdevotional.com/blog/2011/02/18/rubber-cement-the-real-gateway-drug/</link>
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		<title>Vanity is A Woman&#8217;s Vice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) which regulates cosmetics in the United States defines cosmetics as: &#8220;intended to be applied to the human body for cleansing, beautifying, promoting attractiveness, or altering the appearance without affecting the body&#8217;s structure or functions.&#8221; Interestingly, the definition of cosmetics really hasn’t changed much since its first usage in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theintellectualdevotional.com/blog/2011/02/16/2021/</link>
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		<title>The Best of Both Worlds: Chinese Indian Food</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About 85 years ago, the Indian culinary world was affected by a new cuisine. The first Indo Chinese restaurant Eau Chew opened in Kolkata. New restaurants mushroomed all over Kolkata, and legends like Fat Mama and Kim Fa were born, offering newer dishes with fancier combinations and names like August Moon Rolls and Fiery Dragon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theintellectualdevotional.com/blog/2011/02/15/the-best-of-both-worlds-chinese-indian-food/</link>
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		<title>Cheers to Switzerland&#8217;s Belated Crisis of Conscience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fondue. Watches. Chocolate. Army Knives. Ricola. Neutrality. Chocolate. Banking. Chocolate. This is pretty impressive for a tiny, landlocked country that is dwarfed by its larger and more densely populated neighbors. Despite these relative disadvantages, Switzerland has managed to become one of the world&#8217;s wealthiest countries, largely through its banking industry. This can partially be attributed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theintellectualdevotional.com/blog/2011/02/11/cheers-to-switzerlands-belated-crisis-of-conscience/</link>
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		<title>Laughter: Part of the Universal Human Vocabulary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.” ~Woody Allen Why do we laugh when we think something is funny? And what exactly is laughter anyway? Despite it’s universality, laughter is actually really hard to define. Even the people at Merriam-Webster seem to have thrown in the towel, lamely defining [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theintellectualdevotional.com/blog/2011/02/10/laughter-part-of-the-universal-human-vocabulary/</link>
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		<title>The End is Nigh! Uber Zoonotic Diseases on the Rise&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A zoonosis is any infectious disease that can be transmitted from non-human animals (both wild and domestic) to humans, or from humans to non-human animals (the latter is sometimes called reverse zoonosis or anthroponosis). Zoonotic diseases are anything but rare: of the 1415 pathogens known to affect humans, 61% are zoonotic, and have been with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theintellectualdevotional.com/blog/2011/02/09/the-end-is-nigh-uber-zoonotic-diseases-on-the-rise/</link>
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