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	<title>Cathexis &#187; Play</title>
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		<title>Playfulness Is a Spiritual Practice &#124; Psychology Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2015 18:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Words of wisdom. Play is without purpose. It is how we engage with our bodies, minds, each other, the world — for the fun in it, the joy of it. Even if we were playing with money, truly playing, it is not &#8230; <a href="http://christovaughan.com/wordpress/?p=730">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mice Run for Fun, Not Just Work, Research Shows</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2014 21:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exercise is naturally fun and playful. That&#8217;s the result of this interesting study. Build a running wheel in the wild and mice will come to play. Mice Run for Fun, Not Just Work, Research Shows &#8211; NYTimes.com.]]></description>
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		<title>Malcolm Gladwell: Do Genetic Advantages Make Sports Unfair? : The New Yorker</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Sep 2013 15:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the New Yorker, Malcom Gladwell asks a strange question: Do Genetic Advantages Make Sports Unfair? Anyone who was ever picked last for baseball laughs at this question. Anyone who is a &#8220;hard gainer&#8221; in the weight room shakes his head. &#8230; <a href="http://christovaughan.com/wordpress/?p=665">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How the Hum of a Coffee Shop Can Boost Creativity &#8211; NYTimes.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2013 01:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is something I&#8217;ve always found true&#8211;the hubbub of a coffee shop gives just the right level of background noise&#8211;like white noise&#8211;so that you can tune it all out and concentrate. If things are too quiet, any little sound grabs &#8230; <a href="http://christovaughan.com/wordpress/?p=656">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Photos that mimic human attention</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This guy has an interesting photo technique: creating photos that are generally still photos, but have one person who is in motion. The funny thing is that it doesn&#8217;t seem that odd to look at. And the reason is that &#8230; <a href="http://christovaughan.com/wordpress/?p=636">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The link between imagination, sickle cell anemia and human success</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a beach run this morning I was listening to the Fresh Air interview with Jonah Lehrer, author of the book Imagine, which discusses how we get creative insights. Lehrer&#8217;s ideas about the nature of the creative process made me &#8230; <a href="http://christovaughan.com/wordpress/?p=351">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>More evidence exercise rewires the brain</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 06:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this item from NYTimes Well blog, they discuss research showing that vigorous exercise can diminish the symptoms of Parkinson&#8217;s disease in ways that drugs can&#8217;t. Yet more evidence that exercise is powerful medicine for many systems in the body, &#8230; <a href="http://christovaughan.com/wordpress/?p=223">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Musings on the physics of baseball</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 05:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was just reading that Jose Bautista, the current MBL home run leader has popped 31 home runs, well behind the 50 or so that Mark McGuire was hitting by this time of year during the height of the Steroid &#8230; <a href="http://christovaughan.com/wordpress/?p=203">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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