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		<title>Rachmaninov sounds like an 80&#8242;s high school dance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[View this post on my blog if the audio clips below aren&#8217;t showing up. Just saw this old (but fun) post on the blog Mental Floss, &#8220;6 pop songs that rip off classical music.&#8221; Some aren&#8217;t so surprising&#8211;for example, the several rap songs with samples of dramatic orchestral pieces. If the combination of rap and (<a href="http://jueseph.com/2011/01/rachmaninov-sounds-like/">More...</a>)]]></description>
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		<title>A guide to defining systems biology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is systems biology? I&#8217;ve been asked this 102 times in the last few weeks, and if you are my friend or classmate you may find yourself having to answer this question as well, so here is how you respond, depending on who asked the question. To your friends: &#8220;Systems biology is the study of (<a href="http://jueseph.com/2010/09/a-guide-to-defining-systems-biology/">More...</a>)]]></description>
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		<title>The difference between undergrad and grad school</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today was my first day of grad school (orientation). What was it like? Imagine a lanky, stubbled, Englishman declaiming the following: Here&#8217;s the difference between your undergrad studies and what you are about to embark on for your PhD. Undergrad is like being in a hurdles race. It&#8217;s 4 years, you know how many hurdles (<a href="http://jueseph.com/2010/08/the-difference-between-undergrad-and-grad-school/">More...</a>)]]></description>
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		<title>Music: A Cheap Trick for Nerds? Part 2.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my previous post I showed you a piece of piano music based on a Shepard Scale&#8211;it seems to go up and up forever. Listen to it (it&#8217;s at the bottom on this link), and then ask yourself: 1. Was that interesting? 2. Was that aesthetically pleasing or beautiful? 3. Was that music? Most people (<a href="http://jueseph.com/2010/07/music-a-cheap-trick-for-nerds-part-2/">More...</a>)]]></description>
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		<title>Music is a Cheap Trick for Nerds, Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Modern classical music, a.k.a. &#8220;art music,&#8221; often gets a bad rap for being impossible to listen to. In fact, this is completely true. Since you&#8217;re probably very busy at work, allow me to take you on a stroll through Youtube and Wikipedia to see why. Part 1: The Shepard Scale First you need to understand (<a href="http://jueseph.com/2010/07/music-is-a-cheap-trick-for-nerds-part-1/">More...</a>)]]></description>
		<link>http://jueseph.com/2010/07/music-is-a-cheap-trick-for-nerds-part-1/</link>
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		<title>An American Dinner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[from Dave&#8217;s Flickr I just discovered the joy of marinating meat. This first attempt is inspired by the motherland, although the real Chinese would never cook chicken this way. Same goes for the Thai-style stir-fry, which is Thai only in style. Be assured, though, that both came out tasty. Ginger-soy baked chicken Put a few (<a href="http://jueseph.com/2010/07/an-american-dinner/">More...</a>)]]></description>
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		<title>Noodles with pork broth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another of my mom&#8217;s recipes. The noodles are quick to make, but the broth takes a while to simmer. Noodles: Mix some flour (~2 cups) and water (~0.5 cup) in a pot or mixing bowl. This isn&#8217;t exact, so start with the flour and add water in small amounts until you get a good dry (<a href="http://jueseph.com/2010/07/noodles-with-pork-broth/">More...</a>)]]></description>
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		<title>On Google Buzz now&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you actually follow this blog, just a note that I&#8217;ve pretty much consolidated my entire online presence to Google Buzz. Posts on this blog will be fed into my Buzz, and anything I tweet will also hit Buzz first. Some thoughts and links, additionally, will only live on Buzz.]]></description>
		<link>http://jueseph.com/2010/06/on-google-buzz-now/</link>
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		<title>Opticrop: Content-aware Cropping with PHP and ImageMagick</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Opticrop is a PHP script I wrote to crop a thumbnail of a specific width and height from a full-sized image. Unlike most cropping routines out there, Opticrop uses edge-detection to find the most &#8220;interesting&#8221; part of the image to crop, so you won&#8217;t get a useless thumbnail just because the top-left corner of your (<a href="http://jueseph.com/2010/06/opticrop-content-aware-cropping-with-php-and-imagemagick/">More...</a>)]]></description>
		<link>http://jueseph.com/2010/06/opticrop-content-aware-cropping-with-php-and-imagemagick/</link>
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		<title>Opticrop: Usage and Implementation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Opticrop is a PHP script I wrote to crop a thumbnail of a specific width and height from a full-sized image. Unlike most cropping routines out there, Opticrop uses edge-detection to find the most &#8220;interesting&#8221; part of the image to crop, so you won&#8217;t get a useless thumbnail just because the top-left corner of your (<a href="http://jueseph.com/2010/06/opticrop-usage-and-implementation/">More...</a>)]]></description>
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