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	<title>Indy Telecom &#38; Industrial Media</title>
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	<description>Would you like fries with that?</description>
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		<title>Behavioral Economics &amp; Human Rights</title>
		<link>http://www.metlin.org/2010/08/25/behavioral-economics-human-rights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Behavioral Economic Framework for Fighting Poverty and Promoting Freedom &#038; Development &#8212; published on the World Poverty &#38; Human Rights Online website as part of a WPHR class I&#8217;d taken this past Spring.
The published HTML version can be found on the site.
(Cross posted from my International Relations blog.)
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		<title>Adventures in Flying</title>
		<link>http://www.metlin.org/2010/07/03/adventures-in-flying/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 22:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adventure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cessna]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m hoping to get started towards getting my Private Pilot&#8217;s License soon. 
Today, we went from Norwood, MA and followed Mass Pike to gander at downtown Boston, flew over Fenway and Cambridge. Boston ATC wouldn&#8217;t let us approach any closer to Boston given the holiday traffic, and we had to stay below 1500 feet when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brand Perception in the Age of Social Networking</title>
		<link>http://www.metlin.org/2010/05/15/brand-perception-in-the-age-of-social-networking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.metlin.org/2010/05/15/brand-perception-in-the-age-of-social-networking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 03:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Behavioral Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brand Image]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brand Perception]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brand Strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Channels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cultural]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Digital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Digital Divide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Engagement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Individual]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interactions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Print Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sociability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Television]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Usability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Utility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[These days, Social Networking is a buzz-phrase that companies try to milk leverage for all it&#8217;s worth.  However, what does social networking really mean for your company&#8217;s brand?
While this is not a question that is easily answered, the following visualization is an attempt at conveying the convergence of people and technology through (and across) the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Markets, Freedom, and Development</title>
		<link>http://www.metlin.org/2010/04/07/free-markets-freedom-and-development/</link>
		<comments>http://www.metlin.org/2010/04/07/free-markets-freedom-and-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 03:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Capitalist’s Apology: Free Markets, Freedom, and Development &#8212; published on the World Poverty &#38; Human Rights Online website as part of my WPHR class this Spring.
The published HTML version can be found on the site and a PDF version is also available for those interested.
(Cross posted from my International Relations blog.)
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		<title>Noam Chomsky on the Obama Administration &amp; The U.S. Foreign Policy</title>
		<link>http://www.metlin.org/2010/03/06/noam-chomsky-on-the-obama-administration-the-u-s-foreign-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.metlin.org/2010/03/06/noam-chomsky-on-the-obama-administration-the-u-s-foreign-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noam Chomsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I attended a rather excellent talk by Noam Chomsky and Amy Goodman on the Obama Administration &#38; The U.S. Foreign Policy hosted by the HEIRC. The event was recorded by PBS, and the video is supposed to be made available to the public. As Chomsky&#8217;s talks go, it was dry but good &#8212; albeit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microfinance and the Human Condition</title>
		<link>http://www.metlin.org/2010/03/06/microfinance-and-the-human-condition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.metlin.org/2010/03/06/microfinance-and-the-human-condition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:37:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Microfinance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microfinance and the Human Condition: A Bottom-Up Approach towards Promoting Freedom and Development &#8212; A paper of mine published on the World Poverty &#38; Human Rights Online website as part of my WPHR class this Spring.
The published HTML version can be found on the site and a PDF version is also available for those interested.
(Cross [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Development as Freedom</title>
		<link>http://www.metlin.org/2010/01/22/development-as-freedom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.metlin.org/2010/01/22/development-as-freedom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amartya Sen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian Values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Developing Countries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Famines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom as Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lee Hypothesis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Singapore]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I rarely recommend textbooks as good reads. Not that they aren&#8217;t, of course, but they often tend to be academic in nature and therefore of little interest to anyone other than academics (and unfortunate students).
However, I&#8217;m taking a class by Professor Stephen P. Marks on World Poverty &#38; Human Rights this Spring, and one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IPE Research Paper: Asian Financial Crisis &amp; Exchange Rate Regimes</title>
		<link>http://www.metlin.org/2010/01/14/ipe-research-paper-asian-financial-crisis-exchange-rate-regimes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.metlin.org/2010/01/14/ipe-research-paper-asian-financial-crisis-exchange-rate-regimes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Political Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1997]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1998]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian Financial Crisis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Emerging Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exchange Rate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tiger Economies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The topic and abstract for my IPE term paper that I had originally planned turned out to be a little too broad in its scope. As a result, my final paper had a much tighter focus.
Fluctuation &#38; Flexibility: A Case Study of Exchange Rate Regimes from the 1997-1998 East Asian Crisis
The choice between fixed and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plücker’s Conoid</title>
		<link>http://www.metlin.org/2010/01/12/pluckers-conoid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.metlin.org/2010/01/12/pluckers-conoid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mathematics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plücker’s Conoid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Surfaces]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On the same note as the previous post, here are some Scilab renderings of the slightly more interesting Plücker’s conoid.




And of course, here&#8217;s the code. Substitute N with the number of folds in the surface, where (quite obviously) the period of oscillation around the Z axis is given by 2π/n.
//Plücker’s conoid
stacksize (10000000);
num_points = 50;
u = [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pseudo Cross Cap</title>
		<link>http://www.metlin.org/2010/01/12/pseudo-cross-cap/</link>
		<comments>http://www.metlin.org/2010/01/12/pseudo-cross-cap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karthik Narayanaswami</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mathematics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pseudo Cross Cap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Surfaces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Topology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since I did something interesting with math on my blog, so I figured I&#8217;d go back to some old favorites. I&#8217;ve done the Cross Cap before, so here&#8217;s a variation &#8212; the Pseudo Cross Cap.

And of course, as always, here&#8217;s the code code to render them in Scilab. The code has [...]]]></description>
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