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	<title>The Horizon of Reason</title>
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	<description>Exploring the boundaries of logic and perception</description>
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		<title>Are you sure &#8230; ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Response to one of Alvo Stockman's ideas on the psychology of magic.]]></description>
		<link>http://prevos.net/wp/2010/03/07/sure/</link>
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		<title>Proud to be a Neanderthal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been suggested that I look like a Neanderthal. Some people might see this as an insult. Recent research has, however, shown that Neanderthal was not the brutish ape, but a sophisticated human species. I am thus proud to be Neanderthal!]]></description>
		<link>http://prevos.net/wp/2010/03/04/neanderthal/</link>
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		<title>God exists!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kurt Gödel's mathematical proof of God]]></description>
		<link>http://prevos.net/wp/2010/02/28/god/</link>
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		<title>The Praise of Folly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some deliberations about the place of carnival in contemporary society.]]></description>
		<link>http://prevos.net/wp/2010/02/17/carnival/</link>
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		<title>Nothing more practical than a good theory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why is there so much humbug in management literature?]]></description>
		<link>http://prevos.net/wp/2010/01/29/theory/</link>
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		<title>Magic Blueprinting: Using MML for scripting routines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Using Alvo Stockman's Magic Modelling Language to analyse the dynamics of magic routines.]]></description>
		<link>http://prevos.net/wp/2010/01/04/blueprinting/</link>
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		<title>The Magic of Special Effects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just got back from watching Avatar and was blown away by the special effects. Watching it in 3D really transports you into another world; unfortunately the storyline was only one dimensional. Some aspects of the movie are truly magical in the sense that disbelief is totally suspended. Cinematographic technology has developed rapidly the past decades [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://prevos.net/wp/2010/01/03/special-effects/</link>
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		<title>Adelaide Magic Convention</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I got home from Adelaide after attending a magic convention. Here are some impressions of this weekend of thaumaturgy.
The two and a half day gathering of magicians and magic enthusiasts started with a Close-Up show. It quickly became clear that this would be a weekend of card tricks, more card tricks and even some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://prevos.net/wp/2009/10/19/adelaide-magic-convention/</link>
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		<title>Zombie Strippers</title>
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“Great tits huh? Yes, but what does it mean?”
Last year I watched Zombie Strippers with a few friends and was amused by its extravagant combination of nudity, gore and philosophy. Some might consider this a pretentious B-movie, but that assumes that the philosophical content of this flick are mere sound bites and not a coherent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://prevos.net/wp/2009/09/27/zombie-strippers/</link>
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		<title>Strategic Management and Serendipity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Life is unpredictable and much of human culture is in essence a means to deal with the unpredictable. We can not know whether the next harvest will fail, whether we still have a job next year or when we will die. Ancient systems, such as astrology and other forms of divination were developed to reduce [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://prevos.net/wp/2009/08/30/strategic-management-and-serendipity-2/</link>
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		<title>Environmental Responsibility for Managers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ethical analysis of the environmental responsibility of managers.]]></description>
		<link>http://prevos.net/wp/2009/07/22/responsibility/</link>
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		<title>The rat race</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After several months of essay writing I finally have some time to reflect. I do enjoy studying the MBA, but sometimes it does makes me wonder why I do this. When I studied philosophy I decided to put my career on hold. Now that I am finishing this MBA I feel like I need to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://prevos.net/wp/2009/06/16/the-rat-race/</link>
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		<title>Sometimes mystery is more important than knowledge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have recently been introduced to ted.com, a great website that features &#8220;riveting talks by remarkable people&#8221;. One of the talks that I found very interesting is by J.J. Abrams, one of the creators of the TV series Lost. One of the most thought provoking things he says is:

Sometimes mystery is more important than knowledge.


A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://prevos.net/wp/2009/05/21/mystery/</link>
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		<title>Getting the employees you deserve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Management gets the employees it deserves”, Carl snarlingly uttered as he returned to his desk. Natasha, with whom he had shared a cubicle for longer than they cared to remember, turned around. “What makes you say that? What happened?” Carl was obviously still upset as he threw his hands in the air. “This new guy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://prevos.net/wp/2009/04/30/getting-the-employees-you-deserve/</link>
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		<title>Vietnamese selfishness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Asian cultures are usually characterised as being collective in nature. This basically means that people prioritise the objectives of a group over their own individual objectives Sitting on a fifth floor café in Hanoi, sipping a Bia Ha Noi and watching the traffic, I would almost contradict that age old wisdom about collective cultures. As [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://prevos.net/wp/2009/04/21/vietnamese-selfishness/</link>
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		<title>Is Management a science?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the train from Hanoi to Sapa I shared a cabin with two English women. One was completing her PhD studies in corporate social responsibility and lamented the amount of work it takes to promote.
One professor of the Graduate School of Management of La Trobe university once tried to convice some students to continue with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://prevos.net/wp/2009/04/19/science/</link>
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		<title>A night out with the Vietnamese students</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The expedition is now in full swing and we have spoken to several organisations and met some very interesting people in different organisations around Hanoi.
Yesterday we visited our fellow MBA students at Hanoi University who were attending a lecture about Frederick Taylor.
Taylor is the founder of management as a science. I sometimes lovingly refer to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://prevos.net/wp/2009/04/15/vietnamese-students/</link>
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		<title>The Vietnamese Way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our researc topic for our expedition to Vietnam is Human Resource Management. As we are narrowing the topic down we found that local managers and academics are very interested in human resource management theories that are based in Western thinking.
They indicated that there is no Vietnamese human resource management theory and that they translate foreign [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://prevos.net/wp/2009/04/13/the-vietnamese-way/</link>
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		<title>The Rings of Hanoi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Strolling along the beautiful Hoan Kiem lake in Hanoi we met a group of Vietnamese students who were interviewing foreigners to practice their English as part of a university assignment. They asked us about our experiences with being in a different culture. After the interview I performed some magic for them.

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		<link>http://prevos.net/wp/2009/04/12/the-rings-of-hanoi/</link>
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		<title>Networking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night the Graduate School hosted a dinner for all students on the expedition and we met some staff from Hanoi university and some businesses in Hanoi that are participating in the research projects.
We met somebody from a large company in Vietnam who is doint research on human resource management. Somehow the conversation moved to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://prevos.net/wp/2009/04/12/networking/</link>
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