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	<title>There is no truth</title>
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		<title>Remove the APPS section on your Facebook start page</title>
		<link>http://twanvanelk.com/2013/02/14/remove-the-apps-section-on-your-facebook-start-page/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Twan van Elk</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[apps]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was looking for a way to get rid of the APPS section on the left column of the Facebook start page. And I am happy to say I found a solution. This can be done if you use the Adblock Plus add-on for Firefox or for Google Chrome. Just add a manual filter with [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was looking for a way to get rid of the APPS section on the left column of the Facebook start page. And I am happy to say I found a solution. This can be done if you use the Adblock Plus add-on <a title="Adblock Plus" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/" target="_blank">for Firefox</a> or <a title="Adblock Plus" href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adblock-plus/cfhdojbkjhnklbpkdaibdccddilifddb" target="_blank">for Google Chrome</a>.</p>
<p>Just add a manual filter with this content:</p>
<pre>facebook.com###appsNav</pre>
<p>Oh, maybe you want to get rid of the PAGES section as well? Just add this filter:</p>
<pre>facebook.com###pagesNav</pre>
<p>And remember, the Facebook team has a habit of changing stuff, so no guarantees this will keep working. It did for me, for now. Maybe you like this solution.</p>
<p>Do you have some tips of your own on how to change the way you interact with Facebook? I would love to read about it in the comments below!</p>
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		<title>The Right Prepositions for Geographical Designations</title>
		<link>http://twanvanelk.com/2013/02/08/the-right-prepositions-for-geographical-designations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Twan van Elk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Right Prepositions for Geographical Designations In, on, beneath, below or along. What’s it going to be?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.dailywritingtips.com/the-right-prepositions-for-geographical-designations/">The Right Prepositions for Geographical Designations</a></p>
<p>In, on, beneath, below or along. What’s it going to be?</p>
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		<title>Ria van Elk&#8217;s Forsythia in Hunt Institute&#8217;s International Exhibition</title>
		<link>http://twanvanelk.com/2013/01/27/ria-van-elks-forsythia-in-hunt-institutes-international-exhibition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Twan van Elk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation has invited my mother, Ria van Elk, to take part in their upcoming international exhibition. The Forsythia will be part of the 14th International Exhibition of Botanical Art and Illustration, Fall 2013. The Hunt Institute is a research division of Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). The exhibition will be [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The <a title="Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation" href="http://huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu/" target="_blank">Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation</a> has invited my mother, <a title="Ria van Elk-van Altena" href="http://riavanelk.nl" target="_blank">Ria van Elk</a>, to take part in their upcoming international exhibition. <a title="Forsythia" href="http://www.riavanelk.nl/blog/wp-content/gallery/portfolio/ria-van-elk-forsythia.png" target="_blank">The Forsythia</a> will be part of the 14th International Exhibition of Botanical Art and Illustration, Fall 2013. The Hunt Institute is a research division of Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania).</p>
<p>The exhibition will be held from September 26 until December 19, 2013. After that it will turn into a touring exhibition, which will be traveling throughout the United States. At the end of the exhibition Ria van Elk&#8217;s painting will become part of the collection of the Hunt Institute. It will then be available for students of the Institute to be used for presentations, research and as reference material for watercoloring techniques and composition.</p>
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		<title>Yann Martel – Life of Pi</title>
		<link>http://twanvanelk.com/2013/01/26/yann-martel-life-of-pi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 10:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Twan van Elk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a story about stories. It is a story about our belief in stories. It is a story about the choices we make because of stories. And it is a story about our choices for stories. Love and beauty and nature are forces we can try to control, but in reality (ha!) never will. [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a story about stories. It is a story about our belief in stories. It is a story about the choices we make because of stories. And it is a story about our choices for stories. Love and beauty and nature are forces we can try to control, but in reality (ha!) never will. What do you believe in?</p>
<p><a title="Life of Pi by Yann Martel " href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4214.Life_of_Pi" target="_blank">Yann Martel – Life of Pi</a></p>
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		<title>Plural But Singular in Construction</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Twan van Elk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plural But Singular in Construction Even though some nouns are plural, using them at times takes a singular verb, while at other times you’d have to use a plural one.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.dailywritingtips.com/plural-but-singular-in-construction/">Plural But Singular in Construction</a></p>
<p>Even though some nouns are plural, using them at times takes a singular verb, while at other times you’d have to use a plural one.</p>
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		<title>The Information Age</title>
		<link>http://twanvanelk.com/2013/01/21/the-information-age/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Twan van Elk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past there were times when I thought that I knew everything I needed to know. And if I accidentally bumped into something that I thought I needed to know everything about and didn&#8217;t, or missed some detailed information on, I went out of my way to find the missing pieces. Or I just [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the past there were times when I thought that I knew everything I needed to know. And if I accidentally bumped into something that I thought I needed to know everything about and <em>didn&#8217;t,</em> or missed some detailed information on, I went out of my way to find the missing pieces. Or I just convinced myself that after some inquiries I knew everything there was to know about it. <strong>Problem solved.</strong> Because it really was a problem. Not knowing, not having all the information, that just equaled to not being in control. And being in control was <em>everything.</em></p>
<p>Now, I realize, the older I get the less I know–and the less I <em>want</em> to know. Not knowing and not wanting to know is <strong>a relief.</strong> I don&#8217;t need to have an explanation for every situation, for everything that happens, for everything that people say or do. It just <em>is. </em>That doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean I am not in control. I just care less about it. Control is optional, not a prerequisite.</p>
<p>And since that is my starting point, I get to learn so much more. All the stuff I thought was real, was the truth, was set in stone, is now open to debate. Or rather, it doesn&#8217;t need to <em>be</em> debated. The thing is, if I debate it, collect information on it, <strong>form an opinion about it,</strong> I run the risk of thinking that that what I am looking at that particular moment in time is <strong>the only truth. </strong>And when that is my starting point, I will only want to defend and hold my position on the subject. After all, I <em>did</em> all the work. So, I know, right?</p>
<p>No, I don&#8217;t.</p>
<p>Over the (last couple of) years, I have come to realize that I should consider the possibility of the (co)existence of <strong>multiple truths.</strong> I don&#8217;t have to discard the things I know, I don&#8217;t have to abandon the stuff <em>I</em> hold true, I just have to make room for other truths, for the things that matter to <em>others.</em> Regardless of the fact that that other truth may clash with mine.</p>
<p>Now, am I done with this? In reaching this point, <strong>this insight,</strong> is this it? Hah&#8230; Not by a long shot. I need to study this further and I have to keep on confronting myself with &#8216;inconvenient truths&#8217;. And who knows, maybe I&#8217;ll even write a little more about it, right here.</p>
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		<title>Milk Moon &#8211; A Poem</title>
		<link>http://twanvanelk.com/2013/01/19/milk-moon-a-poem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 23:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Twan van Elk</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href='http://gretchenleary.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/piano-fingers-a-poem-2/'>Milk Moon &#8211; A Poem</a></p>
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		<title>Vladimir Nabokov on Literature and Life: A Rare 1969 BBC Interview</title>
		<link>http://twanvanelk.com/2013/01/18/vladimir-nabokov-on-literature-and-life-a-rare-1969/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Twan van Elk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vladimir Nabokov on Literature and Life: A Rare 1969 BBC Interview &#8220;Freudians, keep out, please!&#8221; – Maria Popova of Brain Pickings found another gem: Vladimir Nabokov is getting interviewed for BBC radio about his writing.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href='http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/01/18/vladimir-nabokov-james-mossman-interview/'>Vladimir Nabokov on Literature and Life: A Rare 1969 BBC Interview</a>
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<p>&#8220;Freudians, keep out, please!&#8221; – Maria Popova of Brain Pickings found another gem: Vladimir Nabokov is getting interviewed for BBC radio about his writing.</p>
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		<title>How 19-year-old activist Zack Kopplin is making life hell for Louisiana&#8217;s creationists</title>
		<link>http://twanvanelk.com/2013/01/16/how-19-year-old-activist-zack-kopplin-is-making-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Twan van Elk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How 19-year-old activist Zack Kopplin is making life hell for Louisiana&#8217;s creationists A rebel with a cause. Oh, and if you want to have a good laugh, do take a look at those vids of that Creationist Senator in Louisiana, mr. Walsworth. Turning E. coli into humans… LOL]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href='http://io9.com/5976112/how-19 year old-activist-zack-kopplin-is-making-life-hell-for-louisianas-creationists?utm_source=lifehacker.com&amp;utm_medium=recirculation&amp;utm_campaign=recirculation'>How 19-year-old activist Zack Kopplin is making life hell for Louisiana&#8217;s creationists</a>
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<p>A rebel with a cause. Oh, and if you want to have a good laugh, do take a look at those vids of that Creationist Senator in Louisiana, mr. Walsworth. Turning E. coli into humans… LOL</p>
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		<title>We Were All Female</title>
		<link>http://twanvanelk.com/2013/01/13/we-were-all-female-by-asapscience-so-what-went/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 10:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Twan van Elk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We Were All Female So what went wrong?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="We Are All Female" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1Kdoja3hlk" target="_blank">We Were All Female</a></p>
<p>So what went wrong?</p>
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