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		<title>Last post</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2007 11:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends,
This blog is  closed until further notice; I’ll be in touch with you through my Yahoo blog.
Happy new year!
Kamyar
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		<title>Thank you Rahaye azizam; and Thank you Lori :)</title>
		<link>http://kamyar.wordpress.com/2007/11/26/thanks-rahaye-azizam-and-thanks-lori/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week my dear friend Raha (a great Iranian poet, and radio producer) dedicated one of her beautiful poems to me. Truly touched by her kindness, I thought it might be interesting to translate her poem to English.  I tried to maintain fidelity to the original text as much as I could, but I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kamyar.wordpress.com&blog=264389&post=229&subd=kamyar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>a quick update!</title>
		<link>http://kamyar.wordpress.com/2007/11/19/a-quick-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. I&#8217;m still busy with my course   one month moreeeeeeeeeeeeeeee and I&#8217;m done with it!
2. Meanwhile, I had a trip to San Diego for a conference and paid a quick visit to Las Vegas where I was warmly welcomed by my dearest Sina  
3. Here are some photos from Las Vegas and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kamyar.wordpress.com&blog=264389&post=222&subd=kamyar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some updates!</title>
		<link>http://kamyar.wordpress.com/2007/09/13/some-updates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally the summer is over, and I’m back to my normal coursework/research type of lifestyle! I took my first Canadian medical exam last week and I have to wait for 7 weeks to get my results (I really have no idea what in the world they want to do with that multiple choice questions type [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kamyar.wordpress.com&blog=264389&post=221&subd=kamyar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Scientific Rationality (last)</title>
		<link>http://kamyar.wordpress.com/2007/08/07/on-scientific-rationality-last/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last post I talked about my friend who prescribed the wrong medication for himself. He has enough knowledge to KNOW that antibiotics are not effective for common cold (and they can be even harmful) but he ACTS otherwise. Where does this knowledge-action discrepancy come from? Is there not enough evidence out there to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kamyar.wordpress.com&blog=264389&post=219&subd=kamyar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Scientific Rationality (2)</title>
		<link>http://kamyar.wordpress.com/2007/07/21/on-scientific-rationality-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2007 21:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
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Everyone who has worked in the primary health care filed knows that so many people BELIEVE that they NEED antibiotic for the treatment of their common cold. It’s sometimes hard to make the right decision in this regard: On one hand, science tells you that antibiotics have no effect whatsoever on the self-limited viral disease [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kamyar.wordpress.com&blog=264389&post=218&subd=kamyar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Scientific Rationality (1)</title>
		<link>http://kamyar.wordpress.com/2007/07/15/on-scientific-rationality-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 00:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
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There are several reasons why people are not rational; staying rational is sometimes tough; is not always mentally accessible, can be depressing …. Then should it be considered abnormal when we sometimes act irrationally? My answer is NO! Or would it be even better if we always acted rationally? Again my answer is NO! First [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kamyar.wordpress.com&blog=264389&post=215&subd=kamyar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A tribute to a dear friend</title>
		<link>http://kamyar.wordpress.com/2007/06/29/a-tribute-to-a-dear-friend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to dedicate this post to an old friend, Dr. Mehran Memarzadeh. Our friendship dates back to 10 years ago, when I was trying to expand my knowledge in different fields and he was literary a fountain of knowledge (so much that I called him “a portable encyclopedia”!) and also an enthusiastic teacher. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kamyar.wordpress.com&blog=264389&post=213&subd=kamyar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A lovely song!</title>
		<link>http://kamyar.wordpress.com/2007/05/24/a-lovely-song/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2007 08:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel that I have some sort of disease that makes me take so many responsibilities at the same time and then nag about how busy the life is! I&#8217;m giving a conference talk in 3 days and then another one in 3 weeks on a different study for which I don&#8217;t have the analyzed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kamyar.wordpress.com&blog=264389&post=211&subd=kamyar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The top 100 global universities</title>
		<link>http://kamyar.wordpress.com/2007/05/04/the-top-100-global-universities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 19:08:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been recently asked about top university rankings. You can see one of the most recent university rankings done by Newsweek magazine from here.  To make life easier for you, I put the ranking here as well!
The top 100 global universities:
1. Harvard University   
2. Stanford University   
3. Yale University   
4. California Institute of Technology   
5. University of California at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kamyar.wordpress.com&blog=264389&post=210&subd=kamyar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are we the smartests!?</title>
		<link>http://kamyar.wordpress.com/2007/05/02/are-we-the-smartests/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 23:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Human intelligence is determined by a variety of genetic and environmental factors such as socioeconomic status, health, education, race, nutrition &#8230; . Intelligece Quotient (IQ) is an estimate of intelligence which was originally defined as &#8220;mental age&#8221; divided by &#8220;chronological age&#8221;, multiplied by 100. So for example if a child is 10 years old [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kamyar.wordpress.com&blog=264389&post=209&subd=kamyar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rationality in practice!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.” In retrospect, it seems that this famous quote by Aristotle has been my guide in my close relationships. I’ve always been preoccupied by the truth, and more recently this truth has been restricted to what is obtained in the process of rational thought processes. Unfortunately [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kamyar.wordpress.com&blog=264389&post=208&subd=kamyar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Problem solving and scientific approach (4)</title>
		<link>http://kamyar.wordpress.com/2007/04/25/problem-solving-and-scientific-approach-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer.&#8221;
William of Occam
&#8220;We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.&#8221;
Isaac Newton
&#8220;The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kamyar.wordpress.com&blog=264389&post=207&subd=kamyar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;nostalgia (2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 05:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listen to Hotel California by Eagles from here .
On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
I had to stop for the night
There she stood in the doorway;
I heard [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kamyar.wordpress.com&blog=264389&post=206&subd=kamyar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Problem solving and scientific approach (3)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 04:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In scientific research nothing is being proved; better to say nothing even CAN be proved. All what a scientist hopes is to” reject” what is called the “null hypothesis” in order to “provide support” for an “alternative hypothesis”.  Say we hypothesized that the earth is round; now instead of trying to find evidence that the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kamyar.wordpress.com&blog=264389&post=205&subd=kamyar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;nostalgia</title>
		<link>http://kamyar.wordpress.com/2007/04/21/nostalgia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2007 00:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
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Image from http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/50/Jlennon3.jpg 
Listen to &#8220;Imagine&#8221; by John Lennon from here &#8230;
Imagine there&#8217;s no Heaven
It&#8217;s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
Imagine there&#8217;s no countries
It isn&#8217;t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say that I&#8217;m [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kamyar.wordpress.com&blog=264389&post=203&subd=kamyar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Problem solving and scientific approach (2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Puzzle: The individuals are given a simple test; there are 4 cards on the table, and each card has one letter on one side and one number on the other side of it. Obviously everyone can see only one side of the card. Two of the cards have letters and two of them have numbers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kamyar.wordpress.com&blog=264389&post=202&subd=kamyar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Problem solving and scientific approach (1)</title>
		<link>http://kamyar.wordpress.com/2007/04/17/problem-solving-and-scientific-approach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 02:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;All life is problem solving” 
Karl R. Popper

Recently, some misconduct happened in the blogs that I read, with some people writing nasty comments either anonymously or using other peoples’ names. After contacting some of the blog owners and comparing more that 40 IPs (in total) everything became clear. I really do not want to hear anything [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kamyar.wordpress.com&blog=264389&post=194&subd=kamyar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Culture Shock and Social Identity</title>
		<link>http://kamyar.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/culture-shock-and-social-identity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The short article that you are about to read is just based on my personal observations, so its factual accuracy may be questionable. Any comments or feedbacks will be appreciated.
Cultural differences have always amazed me. One good thing about living in a cosmopolitan city is that you exposed to a variety of perspectives and cultural [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kamyar.wordpress.com&blog=264389&post=193&subd=kamyar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m back!</title>
		<link>http://kamyar.wordpress.com/2007/04/05/im-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 03:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi all,
My break from blogging was a bit longer than I had expected. For a while I was really busy with my schoolwork, teaching, and research, but after that I think I was just being too lazy to write a new post. 
I received some good news during the last week: First the book chapter [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kamyar.wordpress.com&blog=264389&post=192&subd=kamyar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Belief System and Mental Disorders</title>
		<link>http://kamyar.wordpress.com/2007/02/11/belief-system-and-mental-disorders-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 08:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lori wrote:
So Kamyar have you found what you were looking for with your answers here?
I will send you an email. ok i will write it here.
Well, I know someone who has no ‘beliefs’ who appears to bend easily to the will of others…while all along has a heart like ice. nothing penetrates its surface.
What is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kamyar.wordpress.com&blog=264389&post=185&subd=kamyar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism</title>
		<link>http://kamyar.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/ethnocentricism-and-cultural-relativism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 03:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are two interesting and important concepts in anthropology, namely ethnocentrism and cultural relativism. Ethnocentrism or ethnocentricity, as its name suggests, simply means thinking of ones own ethnicity, culture, or any type or group that the person belongs to as the center of everything. Most people by far are ethnocentrist which makes sense; most of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kamyar.wordpress.com&blog=264389&post=180&subd=kamyar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why?</title>
		<link>http://kamyar.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/why/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What makes our beliefs? Why do most people stick so hard to their dogmas? Why do people can change all of objective aspects of their lives such as their partners, their nationalities, their careers much more easily than they change subjective issues such as their beliefs? Why do some people with high intelligence, and excellent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kamyar.wordpress.com&blog=264389&post=179&subd=kamyar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Schizophrenia and &#8220;antipsychiatric movement&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://kamyar.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/schizophrenia-and-antipsychiatric-movement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;No further evidence is needed to show that &#8216;mental illness&#8217; is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious!&#8221; Thomas Szasz
&#8220;If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kamyar.wordpress.com&blog=264389&post=178&subd=kamyar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Child abuse in Iran</title>
		<link>http://kamyar.wordpress.com/2007/02/03/child-abuse-in-iran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2007 01:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
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Listen to The Unforgiven from here.
Metallica Unforgiven Lyrics
New blood joins this earth
And quickly he&#8217;s subdued
Through constant pained disgrace
The young boy learns their rules
With time the child draws in
This whipping boy done wrong
Deprived of all his thoughts
The young man strugggles on and on he&#8217;s known
A vow unto his own
That never from this day
His will they&#8217;ll take [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kamyar.wordpress.com&blog=264389&post=177&subd=kamyar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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