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	<title>Agricola &#187; Academia</title>
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	<description>Perspective From A Jaundiced Eye</description>
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		<title>The Light at the End of the Tunnel</title>
		<link>http://thusagricola.com/2010/08/22/the-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agricola</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[College of Charleston]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; The end is near, at least for this stage of the journey. Standing between me and the end of my college experience, part deux, are three classes and a semester-long internship. The internship is the most important item on the schedule in that it may point the way to a career and the return [...]]]></description>
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The end is near, at least for this stage of the journey. Standing between me and the end of my college experience, part deux, are three classes and a semester-long internship. The internship is the most important item on the schedule in that it may point the way to a career and the return of [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Synthetic Biology</title>
		<link>http://thusagricola.com/2010/05/20/synthetic-biology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 01:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agricola</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Math/Computer Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Craig Venter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DNA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Genome]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Synthetic Biology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[These are either the scariest words ever written or the announcement of our impending immortality&#8230; &#34;We make a genome from four bottles of chemicals; we put that synthetic genome into a cell; that synthetic genome takes over the cell,&#34; said Dr. Gibson. &#34;The cell is entirely controlled by that new genome.&#34; The scientists didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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These are either the scariest words ever written or the announcement of our impending immortality&#8230;

&quot;We make a genome from four bottles of chemicals; we put that  synthetic genome into a cell; that synthetic genome takes over the  cell,&quot; said Dr. Gibson. &quot;The cell is entirely controlled by that new  genome.&quot;
The scientists didn&#8217;t [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Watch Cash Flow</title>
		<link>http://thusagricola.com/2009/09/02/watch-cash-flow/</link>
		<comments>http://thusagricola.com/2009/09/02/watch-cash-flow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agricola</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Academia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finance & Accounting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cash flow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fundamental analysis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I understand the fundamental meaning of cash flow. Being a middle-aged college student means, simply, that there ain&#8217;t no cash coming in, and there is a lot of cash flowing out. What I have not really understood until recently is the financial concept of cash flow. Not to worry, though; Dr. Evans is making damn [...]]]></description>
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I understand the fundamental meaning of cash flow. Being a middle-aged college student means, simply, that there ain&#8217;t no cash coming in, and there is a lot of cash flowing out. What I have not really understood until recently is the financial concept of cash flow. Not to worry, though; Dr. Evans is making damn [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Globalization &#8211; An Illustration</title>
		<link>http://thusagricola.com/2009/08/25/globalization-an-illustration/</link>
		<comments>http://thusagricola.com/2009/08/25/globalization-an-illustration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agricola</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Academia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finance & Accounting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Business World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[College Textbooks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EBay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Globalization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Half.com]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thusagricola.com/?p=928</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A new semester means another opportunity to rant about textbook prices &#8211; but we&#8217;ve been over this before, so I won&#8217;t waster our readership&#8217;s time. Instead, a tale of global business, intrigue, and, hopefully, happiness. Some background. That great engine of entrepeneurial opportunism, E-Bay, also operates as another company called Half.com. Half.com specializes in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A new semester means another opportunity to rant about textbook prices &#8211; but we&#8217;ve been over this before, so I won&#8217;t waster our readership&#8217;s time. Instead, a tale of global business, intrigue, and, hopefully, happiness.
Some background. That great engine of entrepeneurial opportunism,  E-Bay,  also operates as another company called Half.com. Half.com specializes in [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>TaxMan</title>
		<link>http://thusagricola.com/2009/08/25/taxman/</link>
		<comments>http://thusagricola.com/2009/08/25/taxman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agricola</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Academia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finance & Accounting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Business World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accountancy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accountant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The first day of classes for the fall semester. A heavy load of business oriented classes, mostly as a requirement for my minor. The most daunting is Taxation, an upper level accounting course. The professor is a seasoned veteran of the public accounting wars who returned to the (relative) safety of academe to earn her [...]]]></description>
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The first day of classes for the fall semester. A heavy load of business oriented classes, mostly as a requirement for my minor. The most daunting is Taxation, an upper level accounting course. The professor is a seasoned veteran of the public accounting wars who returned to the (relative) safety of academe to earn her [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Hanging On!</title>
		<link>http://thusagricola.com/2009/05/05/hanging-on/</link>
		<comments>http://thusagricola.com/2009/05/05/hanging-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 02:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agricola</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Academia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Final Exams]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Last exam tomorrow, then 6 glorious days of rest before staring again.]]></description>
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Last exam tomorrow, then 6 glorious days of rest before staring again.
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		<title>A Fish Out of Water</title>
		<link>http://thusagricola.com/2009/05/04/a-fish-out-of-water/</link>
		<comments>http://thusagricola.com/2009/05/04/a-fish-out-of-water/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 22:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agricola</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mathematics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Calculus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Osprey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Predator-Prey]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thusagricola.com/?p=797</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The picture below captures perfectly the essence of my being. The Osprey, a magnificent raptor, is the symbol for Calculus and Computer Science. The fish, an insignificant link in the food chain, is the symbol for I, the hapless student. Observe the grasp of the Osprey, with it razor sharp talons embedded in the brain [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The picture below captures perfectly the essence of my being. The Osprey, a magnificent raptor, is the symbol for Calculus and Computer Science. The fish, an insignificant link in the food chain, is the symbol for I, the hapless student. 
Observe the grasp of the Osprey, with it razor sharp talons embedded in the brain [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Fork in the Road</title>
		<link>http://thusagricola.com/2009/04/17/the-fork-in-the-road/</link>
		<comments>http://thusagricola.com/2009/04/17/the-fork-in-the-road/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agricola</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Academia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Math/Computer Science]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thusagricola.com/?p=754</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#34;Life is all about choices&#34; &#8211; Wise Old Man &#34;When you get to a fork in the road, take it&#34; &#8211; Wise Old Baseball Manager &#160; Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I [...]]]></description>
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&quot;Life is all about choices&quot; &#8211; Wise Old Man
&quot;When you get to a fork in the road, take it&quot; &#8211; Wise Old Baseball Manager

&nbsp;
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood 
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Sodium and Potassium</title>
		<link>http://thusagricola.com/2009/04/07/sodium-and-potassium/</link>
		<comments>http://thusagricola.com/2009/04/07/sodium-and-potassium/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agricola</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electro-chemical gradient]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fractals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Membranes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phophid Bi-Layer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Santiago Ramon]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thusagricola.com/?p=710</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sensation is an abstraction, not a replication of reality &#8211; Santiago Ramon y Cajal &#34;Every thought, every feeling, every sensation ever experienced by any animal on this planet is the result of sodium entering a cell and potassium leaving the cell&#8230;&#34; paraphrased from my notes as spoken by our Biology professor. Above (Na+/K+-ATPase &#8211; aka [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Sensation is an abstraction, not a replication of reality &#8211; Santiago Ramon y Cajal
&quot;Every thought, every feeling, every sensation ever experienced by any animal on this planet is the result of sodium entering a cell and potassium leaving the cell&#8230;&quot; paraphrased from my notes as spoken by our Biology professor.

Above (Na+/K+-ATPase &#8211; aka the Sodium-Potassium [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Spring</title>
		<link>http://thusagricola.com/2009/03/27/spring/</link>
		<comments>http://thusagricola.com/2009/03/27/spring/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agricola</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Academia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing I learned early on is that gauging weather patterns on a college campus is impossible if you are using male attire as the metric. I&#8217;d forgotten, I&#8217;m sorry to say, that we fellas don&#8217;t need much clothing, even in the dead of darkest winter. Shorts, flip-flops, wrinkled t-shirts? It must be December. Jack [...]]]></description>
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One thing I learned early on is that gauging weather patterns on a college campus is impossible if you are using male attire as the metric. I&#8217;d forgotten, I&#8217;m sorry to say, that we fellas don&#8217;t need much clothing, even in the dead of darkest winter. Shorts, flip-flops, wrinkled t-shirts? It must be December. Jack [...]]]></content:encoded>
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