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		<title>The Park Slope 100</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john</dc:creator>
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truth and rocket science has been included on this year&#8217;s &#8220;Park Slope 100,&#8221; a list compiled by Louise Crawford on her blog, &#8220;Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn.&#8221;  Anyone from the neighborhood is familiar with Louise and her work, whether in her Smart Mom column in the weekly Brooklyn Paper, or the Brooklyn Reading Works, or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=truthandrocketscience.wordpress.com&blog=6682343&post=1462&subd=truthandrocketscience&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tamba-Tajá, 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post continues the story of my trip to rural Moju in 1993.  Double-click the photos to see them in original size.  One more installment of the story is left&#8230;
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Rosângela was Nego’s aunt, and it turned out he and I knew all the same people, so I went home at 3 in the morning to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=truthandrocketscience.wordpress.com&blog=6682343&post=1390&subd=truthandrocketscience&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tamba-Tajá, 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d been introduced to the Tamba-Tajá by Marga, who was a Lutheran minister, human rights activist, and liberation theologist.  The bar’s owners were her friends, Iza and Rosângela, who were related by marriage.  Iza had been a revolutionary and women’s rights activist in Brazil for many years, including the worst years of the military dictatorship [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=truthandrocketscience.wordpress.com&blog=6682343&post=1289&subd=truthandrocketscience&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From Life on Mars to Linden, addendum</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last few weeks, the post &#8220;The truth and change, 3a:  From Life On Mars to Linden&#8221; has been getting a lot of hits.  Its spike in the data has pushed it to the most-hit post of all time for me, past the old standards of &#8220;The truth and us&#8221; and &#8220;The truth and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=truthandrocketscience.wordpress.com&blog=6682343&post=823&subd=truthandrocketscience&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>E/F – The glass of history</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We do not draw the moral lessons we might from history … In history a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind …  History consists for the greater part of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=truthandrocketscience.wordpress.com&blog=6682343&post=1245&subd=truthandrocketscience&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>E/F &#8211; the glass of youth</title>
		<link>http://truthandrocketscience.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/ef-the-glass-of-youth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[E.  Things that we never would have done had we known better, but that we must live with to the end of our days.
F.  Wonderful things and great discoveries that never would have happened had we known better.
Note:  E/F will be a recurring feature of truth and rocket science. If you have a half-glass photo [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=truthandrocketscience.wordpress.com&blog=6682343&post=1121&subd=truthandrocketscience&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The truth and Brasília, 3:  Faroeste Caboclo</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brazil is a country of inspired appropriation.  Its peoples, cultures, sounds, and visions grind against each other.  They rise up and smash together like tectonic plates.  In the collision of Brazil and Brasília, the city of candangos gave the country Renato Russo.
No “torso of steel,” no “[w]inged elbows and eyeholes,” but like Zweig and Plath [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=truthandrocketscience.wordpress.com&blog=6682343&post=1070&subd=truthandrocketscience&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The truth and Brasília, 2:  Torsos of Steel</title>
		<link>http://truthandrocketscience.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/the-truth-and-brasilia-2-torsos-of-steel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
The Dream
From 1956 to 1960, Brazilian architects, engineers and peasant laborers called candangos built a new capital, Brasília.  This was the realization of a dream first voiced in 1827, just 5 years after the country became independent, when an advisor to Emporer Pedro I suggested that he move the capital from the colonial city of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=truthandrocketscience.wordpress.com&blog=6682343&post=999&subd=truthandrocketscience&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Old</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 03:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
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Rust red water seeps from the walls.
It comes out between
dirty white tiles that
cling to the surface by only the
faintest memory of
glue or caulking.
At this point,
cleaning could do great
damage, for the whole thing is
held together by
piles of time itself.
This is no dilemma.
It’s what happens when things get old.

Notes and Credits
Photos:  I took these photos in Brazil.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=truthandrocketscience.wordpress.com&blog=6682343&post=966&subd=truthandrocketscience&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The truth and Brasília, 1:  Land of the Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 05:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>john</dc:creator>
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This series of posts springs from three sources.  First, my research for &#8220;The truth and change,&#8221; recalled the poem Brasília, by Sylvia Plath.  Second, I have lived in Brazil for long periods of time and consider Belém, the &#8220;cidade das mangueiras&#8221; at the mouth of the Amazon River, as my second home town.  Third, The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=truthandrocketscience.wordpress.com&blog=6682343&post=906&subd=truthandrocketscience&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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