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	<description>Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made</description>
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		<title>By: ashok</title>
		<link>http://crookedtimber.org/2008/01/30/born-under-a-full-moon/comment-page-1/#comment-226643</link>
		<dc:creator>ashok</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 10:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Congrats.

My own thought is that special phenomena accompany special people. If the moon was full when he was born, it had everything to do with the moon recognizing his significance, not the other way around.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>Congrats.</p>

	<p>My own thought is that special phenomena accompany special people. If the moon was full when he was born, it had everything to do with the moon recognizing his significance, not the other way around.</p>
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		<title>By: abb1</title>
		<link>http://crookedtimber.org/2008/01/30/born-under-a-full-moon/comment-page-1/#comment-226462</link>
		<dc:creator>abb1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>When I saw the name I assumed it was a variant of Jascha (a form of &#039;Jakob&#039;), like Jascha Heifetz.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>When I saw the name I assumed it was a variant of Jascha (a form of &#8216;Jakob&#8217;), like Jascha Heifetz.</p>
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		<title>By: bad Jim</title>
		<link>http://crookedtimber.org/2008/01/30/born-under-a-full-moon/comment-page-1/#comment-226460</link>
		<dc:creator>bad Jim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There is a plague of babies upon us. My middle-aged brother has one (Sam, and how sweet he is!), my eldest nephew has one (Jonathan), and his little sister has one in the oven (Oliver?). Everywhere I go I see little tykes and swollen bellies - as though this was somehow a good thing.

Love and congratulations to all.

I couldn&#039;t find any sort of moon phase correlation for my parents, my siblings or their progeny. Certain events seemed to be significant: my sister was born nine months after my parents&#039; wedding, confounding my mother&#039;s career plans.

(&quot;Inconceivable!&quot; &quot;I do not think that word means what you think it means.&quot;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>There is a plague of babies upon us. My middle-aged brother has one (Sam, and how sweet he is!), my eldest nephew has one (Jonathan), and his little sister has one in the oven (Oliver?). Everywhere I go I see little tykes and swollen bellies &#8211; as though this was somehow a good thing.</p>

	<p>Love and congratulations to all.</p>

	<p>I couldn&#8217;t find any sort of moon phase correlation for my parents, my siblings or their progeny. Certain events seemed to be significant: my sister was born nine months after my parents&#8217; wedding, confounding my mother&#8217;s career plans.</p>

	<p>(&#8220;Inconceivable!&#8221; &#8220;I do not think that word means what you think it means.&#8221;)</p>
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		<title>By: Ingrid Robeyns</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ingrid Robeyns</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>freight train: congratulations to you too! In fact, I know of at least three other CT readers/commenters who had babies in the last two months, congratulations!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>freight train: congratulations to you too! In fact, I know of at least three other CT readers/commenters who had babies in the last two months, congratulations!</p>
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		<title>By: Ingrid Robeyns</title>
		<link>http://crookedtimber.org/2008/01/30/born-under-a-full-moon/comment-page-1/#comment-226452</link>
		<dc:creator>Ingrid Robeyns</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Via (#11): Ischa is derived from Isaac; yet I suppose it&#039;s a Dutch derivation. It&#039;s certainly not a very common name - I &#039;know&#039; only two Ischa&#039;s -- the 11 year old son of a Belgian friend, the other the (locally) famous Dutch writer/public figure Ischa Meier, though he died before I came to the Netherlands, so I don&#039;t know what kind of person he was. In any case, we chose this name on esthetic grounds, and also because we prefer less common names over very common names.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>Via (#11): Ischa is derived from Isaac; yet I suppose it&#8217;s a Dutch derivation. It&#8217;s certainly not a very common name &#8211; I &#8216;know&#8217; only two Ischa&#8217;s&#8212;the 11 year old son of a Belgian friend, the other the (locally) famous Dutch writer/public figure Ischa Meier, though he died before I came to the Netherlands, so I don&#8217;t know what kind of person he was. In any case, we chose this name on esthetic grounds, and also because we prefer less common names over very common names.</p>
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		<title>By: krhasan</title>
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		<dc:creator>krhasan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In Sri Lanka every full moon day is a public holiday. It would be interesting to see whether births are more or less on these days compared to others. The effect of doctors inducing births before the holiday vs an increase if any caused by the moon itself.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>In Sri Lanka every full moon day is a public holiday. It would be interesting to see whether births are more or less on these days compared to others. The effect of doctors inducing births before the holiday vs an increase if any caused by the moon itself.</p>
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		<title>By: bemused</title>
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		<dc:creator>bemused</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Perhaps this may be relevant, from Wikipedia [[Menstrual cycle]]:

A 1975 book by Louise Lacey documented the experience of herself and 27 of her friends, who found that when they removed all artificial nightlighting their menstrual cycles began to occur in rhythm with the lunar cycle. She dubbed the technique Lunaception.[22] Later studies in both humans[23] and animals[24] have found that artificial light at night does influence the menstrual cycle in humans and the estrus cycle in mice (cycles are more regular in the absence of artificial light at night), though none have duplicated the synchronization of women&#039;s menstrual cycles with the lunar cycle.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>Perhaps this may be relevant, from Wikipedia [[Menstrual cycle]]:</p>

	<p><span class="caps">A 1975</span> book by Louise Lacey documented the experience of herself and 27 of her friends, who found that when they removed all artificial nightlighting their menstrual cycles began to occur in rhythm with the lunar cycle. She dubbed the technique Lunaception.[22] Later studies in both humans[23] and animals[24] have found that artificial light at night does influence the menstrual cycle in humans and the estrus cycle in mice (cycles are more regular in the absence of artificial light at night), though none have duplicated the synchronization of women&#8217;s menstrual cycles with the lunar cycle.</p>
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		<title>By: vivian</title>
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		<dc:creator>vivian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>(Maria, you forgot Harry&#039;s latest.) Congrats to the happy families, new and old members alike. Maybe CT could start a periodic brag-thread, every quarter or so? Or maybe run a symposium on the latest Sandra Boynton book?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>(Maria, you forgot Harry&#8217;s latest.) Congrats to the happy families, new and old members alike. Maybe CT could start a periodic brag-thread, every quarter or so? Or maybe run a symposium on the latest Sandra Boynton book?</p>
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		<title>By: laura</title>
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		<dc:creator>laura</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Congratulations!</description>
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		<title>By: John Quiggin</title>
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		<dc:creator>John Quiggin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Congratulations, Ingrid and, of course, Ischa!</description>
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		<title>By: astrongmaybe</title>
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		<dc:creator>astrongmaybe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That&#039;s a wonderful opening sentence too, sounds straight out of a 1930s short story.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>That&#8217;s a wonderful opening sentence too, sounds straight out of a 1930s short story.</p>
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		<title>By: astrongmaybe</title>
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		<dc:creator>astrongmaybe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Fantastico! Congratulations Ingrid.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>Fantastico! Congratulations Ingrid.</p>
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		<title>By: freight train</title>
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		<dc:creator>freight train</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey, my baby was just born on that same full moon, at about 39 weeks 2 days! I choose to go with Ben Clark&#039;s theory above.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>Hey, my baby was just born on that same full moon, at about 39 weeks 2 days! I choose to go with Ben Clark&#8217;s theory above.</p>
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		<title>By: Ben Clark</title>
		<link>http://crookedtimber.org/2008/01/30/born-under-a-full-moon/comment-page-1/#comment-226406</link>
		<dc:creator>Ben Clark</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My uneducated preposterous guess why we there may be more babies with full moons: Increased gravitational pull on the full moon is more likely to pull the baby out of the momma.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>My uneducated preposterous guess why we there may be more babies with full moons: Increased gravitational pull on the full moon is more likely to pull the baby out of the momma.</p>
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		<title>By: via</title>
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		<dc:creator>via</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What a beautiful and unusual name.  Ischa.  What is its background?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>What a beautiful and unusual name.  Ischa.  What is its background?</p>
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