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		<title>Let slip the dogs of (urban) war</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2025/01/let-slip-the-dogs-of-urban-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2025 14:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Spencer shares some lessons from Oketz, the Israel Defense Forces’ Specialized Canine Unit: The IDF’s military dog program was heavily shaped by the guiding influence of Professor Rudolphina Menzel, a pioneer in canine psychology. By the 1980s, the program became formally institutionalized as Oketz (“sting,” in Hebrew). Since then, the unit has played pivotal [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Darwin and Wallace were not just Victorian naturalists who traveled the tropics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jan 2025 15:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Midway through his 900 page history of biology, The Growth of Biological Thought, zoologist Ernst Mayr notes that Alfred Wallace independently developed a theory of speciation by means of natural selection after Darwin had been sitting on his evolutionary theory for two decades: Reading Wallace’s 1858 paper “On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties” [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lancet operates in a hunter-killer team</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2025 19:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in November, David Hambling noted that Russian Lancet strikes had fallen off: The Lancet is a long-range killer, striking at distances of over 25 miles and with a shaped-charge warhead capable of knocking out tanks. It has been notably effective in damaging Ukrainian artillery, as the drone can pursue moving targets. But the number [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Everyone liked her except the man Napoleon selected to marry her</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2025/01/everyone-liked-her-except-the-man-napoleon-selected-to-marry-her/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2025 14:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 9 p.m. on Monday, January 4, 1802, Andrew Roberts explains (in Napoleon: A Life), Napoleon’s brother Louis was married to Josephine’s daughter Hortense by the mayor of Paris’ 1st arrondissement: It was only one of a large number of marriages arranged by Napoleon, whose involvement in the nuptial lives of others was almost uniformly [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Today the prediction is at 20%</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2025/01/today-the-prediction-is-at-20/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 20:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alex Tabarrok remains stunned at how poorly we are responding to the threat from H5N1: Our poor response to COVID was regrettable but perhaps understandable given the US hadn’t faced a major pandemic in decades. Having been through COVID, however, you would think that we would be primed. But no. Instead of acting aggressively to stop [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>What really happened in Wuhan</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2024/12/what-really-happened-in-wuhan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 04:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matt Ridley looks back at what really happened in Wuhan five years ago: At one minute to midnight, US East Coast time, on the last day of 2019, there was a brief ‘request for information’ on ProMED-mail, an online newsletter that monitors unofficial sources to gather intelligence about new disease outbreaks affecting people and animals. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>If there was a correlation with HR and improved outcomes it would be rational for leaders to invest more</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2024/12/if-there-was-a-correlation-with-hr-and-improved-outcomes-it-would-be-rational-for-leaders-to-invest-more/</link>
		<comments>https://www.isegoria.net/2024/12/if-there-was-a-correlation-with-hr-and-improved-outcomes-it-would-be-rational-for-leaders-to-invest-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2024 15:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pamela Dow explains how human resources captured the nation of Great Britain: Until I started working in the Cabinet Office in 2020 I hadn’t paid much attention to human resources (HR). I had rolled my eyes at more time wasted circumventing another rigid recruitment policy, which, although introduced to make things better, was in fact [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>An Act of Kindness</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2024/12/an-act-of-kindness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2024 17:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday Night Live brings us An Act of Kindness:]]></description>
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		<title>Taiwan’s presidential office runs first ‘tabletop’ simulation of Chinese military escalation</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2024/12/taiwans-presidential-office-runs-first-tabletop-simulation-of-chinese-military-escalation/</link>
		<comments>https://www.isegoria.net/2024/12/taiwans-presidential-office-runs-first-tabletop-simulation-of-chinese-military-escalation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Dec 2024 21:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isegoria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taiwan’s presidential office Recently ran a war game, or tabletop simulation, of Chinese military escalation: Unlike traditional war games by the military, the tabletop exercise was aimed at testing how different government agencies could “ensure the normal functioning of society” in times of crisis, according to Taiwan’s presidential office. It simulated two scenarios: one where [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. higher education is going to muddle through</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2024/12/u-s-higher-education-is-going-to-muddle-through/</link>
		<comments>https://www.isegoria.net/2024/12/u-s-higher-education-is-going-to-muddle-through/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Dec 2024 19:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With apologies to Peter Thiel, Tyler Cowan believes U.S. higher education is going to muddle through: Adjusting for grants, rather than taking sticker prices at face value, the inflation-adjusted tuition cost for an in-state freshman at a four-year public university is $2,480 for this school year. That is a 40% decline from a decade ago… [&#8230;]]]></description>
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