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		<title>Hello, Darkness: Discovering Our Values by Confronting Our Fears</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Steven Hayes Originally published by Psychotherapy Networker, Inc. Sep/Oct 2007 I keep a supply of Chinese finger traps in my office to show to patients. When you push your fingers into each end of these straw tubes and then try to remove them, the tube diameter shrinks and grabs the digits firmly. The more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science Can Answer Moral Questions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the February 2010 Technology, Entertainment, and Design (TED) Conference, Sam Harris questioned why good and evil, right and wrong are commonly thought unanswerable by science. Sam Harris argues that science can &#8212; and should &#8212; be an authority on moral issues, shaping human values and setting out what constitutes a good life. I agree [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.thesmartbuddhist.com/science-can-answer-moral-questions/</link>
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		<title>The Status Quo Bias</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The more difficult the decision we face, the more likely we are not to act, according to new research by UCL scientists that examines the neural pathways involved in &#8216;status quo bias&#8217; in the human brain. The study, published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), looked at the decision-making of participants [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.thesmartbuddhist.com/the-status-quo-bias/</link>
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		<title>US expert says positive thinking is the smart way to recover from alcoholism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Denis Campbell Originally published by The Guardian, March 10th,  2010 Joe Gerstein, founder of the SMART Recovery treatment program that is spreading from the US as an alternative to AA, explains why he rejects the myth that alcoholism is a &#8216;disease&#8217; to be endured rather than cured Alcoholism is a disease that leaves victims powerless [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.thesmartbuddhist.com/us-expert-says-positive-thinking-is-the-smart-way-to-recover-from-alcoholism/</link>
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		<title>Tobacco Use Associated with Dulled Thinking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kara Gavin Originally published by UMHS Public Relations October 17, 2005 Smokers often say that smoking a cigarette helps them concentrate and feel more alert, but years of tobacco use may have the opposite effect, dimming the speed and accuracy of a person&#8217;s thinking ability and bringing down his IQ, according to a study [...]]]></description>
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