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	<description>The View from Planet Joff</description>
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		<title>Comment on Sith Bathrobe by Emily</title>
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		<dc:creator>Emily</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So, when&#039;s the next blog coming out?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, when&#8217;s the next blog coming out?</p>
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		<title>Comment on Sith Bathrobe by emily</title>
		<link>http://joffrehorlor.com/Qaz.zaQ/?p=883&#038;cpage=1#comment-243</link>
		<dc:creator>emily</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 08:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow Joff, that really suits you! Do I detect a new wardrobe based around this theme coming up...:)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow Joff, that really suits you! Do I detect a new wardrobe based around this theme coming up&#8230;:)</p>
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		<title>Comment on Amazon.com Tags Abuse by SandChigger</title>
		<link>http://joffrehorlor.com/Qaz.zaQ/?p=172&#038;cpage=1#comment-229</link>
		<dc:creator>SandChigger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 06:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;It’s likely that the people who have created these tags haven’t even read the book&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Um... that would be speculation, pure and simple, and it would be WRONG.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>It’s likely that the people who have created these tags haven’t even read the book</p></blockquote>
<p>Um&#8230; that would be speculation, pure and simple, and it would be WRONG.</p>
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		<title>Comment on &#8220;Aftershock&#8221; by Emily</title>
		<link>http://joffrehorlor.com/Qaz.zaQ/?p=828&#038;cpage=1#comment-227</link>
		<dc:creator>Emily</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 07:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jeez, what can I say. Glad you were ok mate</description>
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		<title>Comment on Rebecca Watson Ruining Christmas by Isaac Freeman</title>
		<link>http://joffrehorlor.com/Qaz.zaQ/?p=820&#038;cpage=1#comment-213</link>
		<dc:creator>Isaac Freeman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 04:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks Joff – I missed practically the entire talk, coming in for the last few minutes of the Q and A.  Oddly enough, this was because I&#039;d been invited to a Hanukkah dinner for the Christchurch Interfaith Council.

With regard to differences between men and women, I rather suspect that this is part of the great nature/nurture pendulum that we&#039;ve experienced through several generations.  One generation has a loose paradigm that observed differences between genders are mostly due to biological differences between sexes.  The next receives this as if it were dogma, and amasses evidence to the contrary, intending to provide balance but inadvertently establishing a counterparadigm that gender differences are mostly cultural.  A subsequent generation in turn receives this as dogma, and amasses evidence for biological differences, and so on.

Currently, we&#039;ve had a good long run of sociobiological explanations for gender differences, and I&#039;d expect to see cultural explanations regaining influence.

In practice, of course, it&#039;s a false dichotomy.  Biology and culture both shape us in complex ways, and neither alone will ever be sufficient to explain our behaviour.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks Joff – I missed practically the entire talk, coming in for the last few minutes of the Q and A.  Oddly enough, this was because I&#8217;d been invited to a Hanukkah dinner for the Christchurch Interfaith Council.</p>
<p>With regard to differences between men and women, I rather suspect that this is part of the great nature/nurture pendulum that we&#8217;ve experienced through several generations.  One generation has a loose paradigm that observed differences between genders are mostly due to biological differences between sexes.  The next receives this as if it were dogma, and amasses evidence to the contrary, intending to provide balance but inadvertently establishing a counterparadigm that gender differences are mostly cultural.  A subsequent generation in turn receives this as dogma, and amasses evidence for biological differences, and so on.</p>
<p>Currently, we&#8217;ve had a good long run of sociobiological explanations for gender differences, and I&#8217;d expect to see cultural explanations regaining influence.</p>
<p>In practice, of course, it&#8217;s a false dichotomy.  Biology and culture both shape us in complex ways, and neither alone will ever be sufficient to explain our behaviour.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Rebecca Watson Ruining Christmas by Emily</title>
		<link>http://joffrehorlor.com/Qaz.zaQ/?p=820&#038;cpage=1#comment-212</link>
		<dc:creator>Emily</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sounds like a very interesting talk. glad you enjoyed it. Heh, I have to say I personally agree with the purely cultural effects thing :) In the meantime, I&#039;ll go drink to santa and creativity! thanks Joff</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sounds like a very interesting talk. glad you enjoyed it. Heh, I have to say I personally agree with the purely cultural effects thing <img src='http://joffrehorlor.com/Qaz.zaQ/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  In the meantime, I&#8217;ll go drink to santa and creativity! thanks Joff</p>
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		<title>Comment on NaNoWriMo 2010: The Shaking Lands by Em</title>
		<link>http://joffrehorlor.com/Qaz.zaQ/?p=814&#038;cpage=1#comment-206</link>
		<dc:creator>Em</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 07:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hope it&#039;s going well.  Off to NaNoWriMo myself - see you at the other end :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hope it&#8217;s going well.  Off to NaNoWriMo myself &#8211; see you at the other end <img src='http://joffrehorlor.com/Qaz.zaQ/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Comment on Dream by Em</title>
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		<dc:creator>Em</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 07:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Awesome interpretation. Go Joff - am right behind you dude!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Awesome interpretation. Go Joff &#8211; am right behind you dude!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Win! by Em</title>
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		<dc:creator>Em</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 07:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Congratulations Joff!!! :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Congratulations Joff!!! <img src='http://joffrehorlor.com/Qaz.zaQ/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Comment on Who Rescues the Rescuers? by Em</title>
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		<dc:creator>Em</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 07:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Gee, well guess you were never the type to do things by halves...:)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gee, well guess you were never the type to do things by halves&#8230;:)</p>
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