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		<title>First day of school</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The things we did: Spent half the day in advisory and at an assembly. Advisory was less-than-fun, because it was (1) with ninth graders who already did the activities in eighth grade with the exact same group of people and (2) consisted of 40 people because they paired off groups. Oh well. Saw each of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wait, what?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a question in my textbook: The weight of a person&#8217;s skin is related to body weight by the equation s = 0.0625w, where s is skin weight and w is body weight. If a person calculates skin weight as 9.75 pounds, what is the person&#8217;s body weight? Um. Really? That&#8217;s the direction you want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That bell boy problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jason at The Number Warrior recently posted about the nefarious bell boy who causes hotel guests to lose a dollar: Three people check into a hotel. They pay $30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager finds out that the room rate is $25 and gives $5 to the bellboy to return. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.partiallyderivative.com/2010/08/that-bell-boy-problem/</link>
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		<title>How much do bad blackjack strategies affect good players?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The set-up I don&#8217;t play blackjack very often, because it&#8217;s not a very inviting game. Mostly, this has to do with the people playing the game, of course. But for some reason, every table I&#8217;ve ever sat at was filled with cranky &#8220;experts&#8221; interested mostly in telling me how I was ruining their game. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Volumes of Cubic Unit Cells</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In chemistry, the unit cell of a crystalline solid is the basic building block of that crystal. A crystal lattice is formed by stacking these unit cells three-dimensionally. Perhaps the most basic unit cell is the cubic unit cell—so named because it is, in fact, shaped like a cube. The cubic unit cell comes in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.partiallyderivative.com/2009/11/finding-volumes-of-cubic-unit-cells/</link>
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		<title>Potatoes au Gratin au Chicken — oh my</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Prep time: 30 minutes. Cook time: 1 hour. 3 red potatoes 1 chicken breast 1 clove garlic 2 cups milk 2 cups cheese (we use Colby Jack use a sharp Cheddar) 3 tablespoons butter 3 tablespoons flour Some olive oil (probably no more than a teaspoon or two) Salt and pepper Peel the potatoes and slice [...]]]></description>
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