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		<title>Book Review: The World in Six Songs by Daniel Levitin</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Billows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An ambitious title if there ever was, The World In Six Songs by Daniel Levitin, attempts to explain how music is so integral to human evolution that the entire human experience can be mostly summarized in six meta-songs. Daniel Levitin captured lots of imagination and excitement with his previous book &#8216;This Is Your Brain On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Evaluate Computer &amp; Video Games As Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 20:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Billows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to a couple of blog posts, Growing Up Games and Games vs Art, I feel compelled to respond with my own perspective about how to evaluate Computer Games as Art. Computer Games is a medium that is criticized for being immature and adolescent. Games are seen as being full of violence, escapism, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pirates And Their Sense of Entitlement</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is truly stunning. Software developers are releasing games and applications on the iPhone platform for $0.99 and despite the low price their games are still pirated. Developers are finding evidence that 90% of their games are being played without being paid for. The same thing appears to be happening in the music, movie, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Billows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea is an apt title for this book. It is a short history, but a very interesting one. And its interesting because the subject matter is treated with enthusiasm which becomes a source of entertainment. This is a book written for the non-academic, acting almost like a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel Huntington</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Billows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In many ways The Clash of Civilizations is a rebuttal against Francis Fukuyama&#8217;s The End of History. Instead of arguing that the liberal democratic values endorsed in the West are the natural pinnacle of human civilization, Huntington says that The West&#8217;s values will attacked by competing civilizations. Huntington does not believe that nation states are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Origin of Brands (and the Games Industry) by Al &amp; Laurie Ries</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Billows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Origin of Brands: Discover the Natural Laws of Product Innovation and Business Survival was written for all businesses, but I have tailored my review for game developers since this is where a bunch of my investment money is currently tied up. The Origin of Brands by Al &#38; Laurie Ries is a contrarian argument against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Components of Talent</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Billows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a discussion with a friend about musical talent. We both love music and discussed why we never ended up playing it. We arrived at different conclusions about why this happened. For me, I remember making a conscious decision when I was about 17 years old to give up on playing music. I loved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Art of Art Criticism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 00:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Billows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ecology of Art was inspired by some excellent articles that I believe summarize the Art of Art Criticism. J.P. Simmon (link lost) wrote: &#8220;Music &#8211; is not an ethical realm, but a realm of feeling. It not about ethics (right and wrong) but about how one experiences something. Even shock rock is offensive to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ecology of Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 18:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Billows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does Art have to be controversial to be real Art? When does Art slip into Performance and Entertainment? When does Criticism become irrelevant? The purpose of these questions is to tease out answers that hopefully will lead to a better understanding of Art. As long as there has been Artists there have been Critics. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Nature via Nurture by Matt Ridley</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Billows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being intrigued by the title, I picked up this book to learn finally once and for all which side was right &#8211; Are humans a product of biology of genes or social environment? Spoiler Alert: Its both. As a society we have witnessed a longstanding feud between two camps &#8211; one set of people believes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imagination is the New Human Frontier</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Billows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I stumbled on this old article Why Sci-Fi is the Last Bastillion of Philosophical Writing from Wired (yeah, I am a slow reader). It summarizes my own conviction that works of Science Fiction (and I would add Fantasy) are the forefront of philosophical thinking. After all, how best to demonstrate what are possible realities than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Small is Beautiful by E.F.Schumacher</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Billows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It remains painfully obvious that this book is written by a crank. Only a crank would tell us that we need to rethink our consumption patterns, how we manage our economy, and our relationship with our environment. Going against conventional thinking is pretty fashionable today, but to do so in 1973 and still be so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Billows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A controversial book that created a storm of derision and disbelief when it came out following the collapse of communism in 1992. Fukuyama argues how the West&#8217;s liberal capitalist democratic model of governance has become the epitome of human civilization. The West represents the final step in mankind&#8217;s political evolution. Fukuyama says that there are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Billows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Thank IQ written by Daniel Goleman helped save western psychology. It broke away from the myopic view that intelligence is information based and added a needed layer of understanding about what it means to be human. His concept of Emotional Intelligence helps define people in a new way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Billows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why does the West have a more materialistic wealth than the rest of the world? Why did the West influence every continent and people on this planet instead of the other way around? In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist&#8217;s answer: Ecology, particularly geography, fauna, animal availability, and climate. Diamond almost seems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Folly of Some Fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Billows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being an avid fan of fiction in its fantasy and futuristic forms as found in books, movies, and games, I have found lots of fiction which is generic and formulaic. Its a problem because I find myself buying products because of its imagery and presentation and not because of its quality. I have spent lots [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: In Praise of Nepotism by Adam Bellow</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Billows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adam Bellow states correctly that nepotism has been with human history since the beginning of our species. He states that biological nepotism is the basis of social cooperation and became the main tool that has allowed our species to thrive and colonize the planet. The biological drive to care for one&#8217;s relatives has evolved complex [...]]]></description>
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