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		<title>Deadly Yogurt From Costco</title>
		<link>http://www.rough-equivalents.com/2008/08/deadly-yogurt-from-costco/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Bulmash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you're a "generation X" member, you probably remember the 1970s Dannon Yogurt commercial about the people in Soviet Georgia who ate lots of yogurt and lived into their hundreds.  For decades, we've been told that yogurt is healthy and good for you.  Unfortunately, not all yogurts are created equal.
This morning, I got [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Billions and Billions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Bulmash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I recently got the idea of "billions and billions" in my head, thanks to memories of Carl Sagan, and wondered how many "billions and billions" is, particularly in respect to the Milky Way galaxy.
According to the Physics Factbook, the consensus among modern theorists seems to be that the number of stars in our galaxy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Million Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Bulmash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you were a kid (some of you may still be), how many times do you recall your parents or some authority figure prefacing an admonition with "if I told you once, I told you a million times"?  Well, how long would it take them to tell you something a million times?


There are two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Is A Gigabyte Not A Gigabyte?</title>
		<link>http://www.rough-equivalents.com/2008/07/when-is-a-gigabyte-not-a-gigabyte/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Bulmash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bits & Bytes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We've all run into it.  You get your computer with the 300 gigabyte drive and when you look at the space free, it says that the drive's capacity is actually 279 gigabytes.  You think you were a victim of false advertising until you read the fine print.  The manufacturer measures a gigabyte as 1 billion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eight Glasses of Water</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Bulmash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite findings that it's a silly recommendation there are still people who suggest that you drink eight 8-ounce glasses of water a day for weight loss or colon health or proper hydration.

One of the trains of thought I read on this is that people lose 10 cups of water a day, get 4 cups from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>23 Years of Smoking</title>
		<link>http://www.rough-equivalents.com/2008/07/23-years-of-smoking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Bulmash</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.rough-equivalents.com/?p=92</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I know it's been a little while since my last post and it may seem odd for me to do a second post in a row about smoking, but last month I marked 1 year since I'd last had a cigarette or any sort of tobacco use, and it got me thinking about all the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Letter About Bidis</title>
		<link>http://www.rough-equivalents.com/2008/06/a-letter-about-bidis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Bulmash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I know I said no posts this week to save my eyes, but this is going to be a short one.
Reader Joel dropped me a note asking my opinion about his math on a Metafilter post about bidis.  In it, he points out a page that makes some incredible claims about the worldwide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eye Migraines Suck</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Bulmash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I'm not normally afflicted with migraines.  That's why when I got one at work earlier this week, accompanied by strobing glare encroaching from the periphery of my vision, I thought it was eye strain.  I'd been sitting in an office with overhead fluorescents on a dimmer switch that had been turned down, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>These Are NOT Equivalent</title>
		<link>http://www.rough-equivalents.com/2008/06/these-are-not-equivalent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Bulmash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc.]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.rough-equivalents.com/?p=39</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that I'm into my third calendar month of publishing this, I thought I'd shake things up a little bit and explore some things that are not equivalent.  And if you're wondering why former Vice President of the United States Dan Quayle is headlining today's installment, read on.
The odd thing is that this photo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alas, Poor Yorick...</title>
		<link>http://www.rough-equivalents.com/2008/06/alas-poor-yorick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Bulmash</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.rough-equivalents.com/?p=83</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Friday's column, where we figured out the weight of the air inside an airhead, made me think on the topic of the volume of a skull and what else could fit in there besides 17 featherweights of air.  Fourteen-hundred cubic centimeters of volume in a human skull, 1.4 liters, 47.34 fuid ounces, 15.89% of [...]]]></description>
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