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	<description>by Kourosh Dini, MD</description>
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		<title>Man, Music, and Technology</title>
		<link>http://kouroshdini.com/2007/12/12/man-music-and-technology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kourosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(… somewhere in my mind is a quote whose origins I can’t quite seem to find … something about music reflecting the state of its society … if only I had written it down … but, …) Is technology empowering or destroying music? Have we lost something on the ride into this electronic world? Or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Reluctance Towards Focus: A Question of Music and Chocolate</title>
		<link>http://kouroshdini.com/2007/07/19/a-reluctance-towards-focus-a-question-of-music-and-chocolate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kourosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Music communicates only because there is a listener who is able perceive the language. That language is learned when the listener takes an active part in living and experiencing it. As with all things, &#8220;you get what you give.&#8221; I ran into this nice quote while reading an article titled Why Music Gives Us the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Compression in Music and the Artist&#8217;s Message</title>
		<link>http://kouroshdini.com/2007/06/18/compression-and-the-artists-message/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kourosh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On Music]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The technique of compression is frequently used in editing music. Basically, one takes the quiet sounds of a piece of music and makes them louder, while essentially leaving the loud parts the same. Compression can be useful when using a wide range of dynamics over a certain course of time. A listener can sit back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Naming Pieces of Music</title>
		<link>http://kouroshdini.com/2007/04/15/naming-pieces-of-music/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kourosh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[association]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please enjoy the new piece of music I have added to the side bar. I have titled it &#8220;border&#8221; by the method I seem to use for naming pieces. Specifically, I use the first words that come to mind when I am ready to give the piece a title. It may seem an arbitrary method [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Communication, Autism, and the Internet</title>
		<link>http://kouroshdini.com/2007/01/28/communication-autism-and-the-internet/</link>
		<comments>http://kouroshdini.com/2007/01/28/communication-autism-and-the-internet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kourosh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On Mind]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is clear and obvious that communication requires two parties. But, effective communication requires two parties that are each willing to say that his or her respective world is not the only world. An essence of learning requires a person to be humble enough to recognize there can be something about how he thinks that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Plight of Autistic Adolescents</title>
		<link>http://kouroshdini.com/2006/10/23/a-plight-of-autistic-adolescents/</link>
		<comments>http://kouroshdini.com/2006/10/23/a-plight-of-autistic-adolescents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kourosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve mentioned autism before here and here. It is a diagnosis that has been around for a several decades now. It is increasing in incidence or at least in being diagnosed. The latest I heard was 1 in 166 births &#8211; no small number. In terms of defining the disorder, the latest edition of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Use of Language and Interface</title>
		<link>http://kouroshdini.com/2006/05/17/how-we-use-the-effects-of-language-and-interface/</link>
		<comments>http://kouroshdini.com/2006/05/17/how-we-use-the-effects-of-language-and-interface/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2006 20:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kourosh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is it about the online world that can so dramatically change a person&#8217;s experience of herself and the people around her? Is it the very language people use to communicate that carry these substantial effects on experience? In multi-lingual families, members will often find themselves switching back and forth between languages in order to [...]]]></description>
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