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		<title>&#8220;A large city such as Königsberg&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been doing a fair bit of work on Königsberg and Kaliningrad recently. I was interested in what Kant had to say about Königsberg. Kant didn&#8217;t travel further than 75 miles from Königsberg despite lecturing on geography and anthropology more than any other subjects at the local university. He didn&#8217;t see his lack of travel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bigi.org.uk/nathan/2011/12/09/koenigsberg/</link>
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		<title>Awesome digital democracy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This graphic made me pause: What&#8217;s missing? It seems that digital democracy has finally killed off politics: there is no mention of politics or political parties. The diagram is from Delib, a company which produced software behind the UK Treasury&#8217;s Spending Challenge. They also sell their digital consultation software to lots of local authorities and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bigi.org.uk/nathan/2010/10/05/49/</link>
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		<title>London&#8217;s ears are burning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm browsing an old Rough Guide to London left on our bookshelves by someone I can't remember who passed through London and our flat. There is something pleasurable about reading guidebooks when not travelling, and reading one about your home is like surreptitiously listening in on a conversation about yourself. ]]></description>
		<link>http://bigi.org.uk/nathan/2010/04/12/londons-ears-are-burning/</link>
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		<title>Get hooked up with a Greek</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kind of like a philosophical dating agency, this system from Mark Vernon finds your perfect match in ancient Greek philosophy. I&#8217;ve been matched with Zeno of Citium who, given the stoic suspicion of the emotions and vice, I think might be a bit of a drag of a date&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://bigi.org.uk/nathan/2009/10/18/get-hooked-up-with-a-greek/</link>
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		<title>The book-free library</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm sitting in the new Shepherds Bush Library. Modern libraries don't really do books. Books are certainly knocking around the place, but you get the sense that they serve as waiting room literature rather than the core purpose of the place.]]></description>
		<link>http://bigi.org.uk/nathan/2009/09/07/the-book-free-library/</link>
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