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		<title>Book Review: The House of Tomorrow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend Kate B. intrigued me with the storyline of The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni, and recommended that I read it. I&#8217;m glad she did, because it truly was a good read. This is a novel about a teenage boy named Sebastian who is raised in a futuristic geodesic dome by his grandmother [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kirstenuhler.com/2011/08/09/book-review-the-house-of-tomorrow/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: Incognito</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Neuroscientist David Eagleman proposes in his book Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, that most of what you do, think and believe is generated by parts of your brain to which you have no access. His writing provokes thought and understanding. The title of this book refers to its theme that we don&#8217;t really [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kirstenuhler.com/2011/08/06/book-review-incognito/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: Packing For Mars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, so I didn&#8217;t read this book thoroughly cover-to-cover. I read Roach&#8217;s first book Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, which I really enjoyed. So I figured this book would also be pretty good; and since Brent was going to the NASA Tweetup to watch the final shuttle launch, I wanted to learn more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kirstenuhler.com/2011/08/06/book-review-packing-for-mars/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: The Upside of Irrationality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dan Ariely previously wrote Predictably Irrational which I read and enjoyed. In this follow-up, Ariely reveals the beneficial outcomes and pleasant surprises that often arise from irrational behavior; he examines some of the positive effects irrationality has on our lives and offers a new look on the irrational decisions that influence our personal lives and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kirstenuhler.com/2011/08/06/book-review-the-upside-of-irrationality/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: Death&#8217;s Acre</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson take their readers inside the real Body Farm, recounting how it was created and some of Bass&#8217; more interesting forensic cases in his long career. Dr. Bass is a forensic anthropologist who founded the University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility (aka The Body Farm) where Bass and his colleagues [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kirstenuhler.com/2011/08/06/book-review-deaths-acre/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: The Grand Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In their book The Grand Design, Hawking and Mlodinow explain the way theories about quantum mechanics and relativity came together to shape our understanding of how our universe (and possibly others) formed out of nothing. Hawking is eloquent in the way he describes and explains the workings of the universe. Orbital eccentricity is a measure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kirstenuhler.com/2011/08/06/book-review-the-grand-design/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: The Social Animal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New York Times columnist David Brooks uses his book, The Social Animal, to assemble his evidence for the causes of success and failure in life, and to draw implications for social policy. Brooks shares some insight in the way we learn and communicate, which I found interesting: Automaticity is achieved through repetition, or &#8220;reach and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kirstenuhler.com/2011/08/06/book-review-the-social-animal/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: The Tipping Point</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Tipping Point is about social phenomena and change, in which Gladwell presents life as a social epidemic. He explains how ideas and behaviors spread. Gladwell makes an interesting discovery about kids viewing the show Sesame Street: After holding experiments, researchers discovered that kids were a great deal more sophisticated in the way they watched [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kirstenuhler.com/2011/08/06/book-review-the-tipping-point/</link>
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		<title>Summer Reading 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had half the summer off from school, so naturally I took this opportunity to do some leisure reading. I read some interesting books, all covering my favorite subjects: Neuroscience, psychology, forensics, economics, and science in general. For nearly every book I read, I take copious notes in Evernote so that I can refer back [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kirstenuhler.com/2011/08/06/summer-reading-2011/</link>
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		<title>Open Heart Surgery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of my med-surg clinical this semester I had the opportunity to watch a surgery in the operating room. This OR (operating room) observation day replaces my regular clinical that week. Today was my OR day. I was thrilled when I learned that I would be observing open heart surgery&#8211;more specifically, coronary artery bypass [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kirstenuhler.com/2011/03/30/open-heart-surgery/</link>
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