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		<title>Texas&#8217; Peyote Hunters Struggle to Find a Vanishing, Holy Crop</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/02/21/texas-peyote-hunters-struggle-to-find-a-vanishing-holy-crop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mauro Morales picks his way through mesquite trees and prickly pear cacti. The 65-year-old cautiously steps around a thicket of tasajillo, or rattail cactus, just down the road from his small ranch near Rio Grande City. Tasajillo thorns stick you like a fish hook, he says. Then there&#8217;s the cola seca—the rattlesnake—another job hazard. &#8220;We&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Next plague likeliest to emerge from poor tropical countries</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/02/21/next-plague-likeliest-to-emerge-from-poor-tropical-countries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scores of infectious diseases have emerged to threaten humans in the past decades as viruses leap the species barrier from wild animals and bacteria mutate into antibiotic-resistant strains, scientists reported on Wednesday. Presenting the first-ever map of &#8220;hotspots&#8221; of new infectious diseases, they predict that the next pandemic is likeliest to come out of poor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cruising the Amazon</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/02/08/cruising-the-amazon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anthropology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life is everywhere in the upper Amazon wilderness. Life that creeps, life that crawls, life that slithers, sprouts, burrows, scurries and slinks—and dies. The dank odors of alternating rot and genesis rise from the mulching forest floor. My Deet-fortified insect spray battles swarms of blood-mad mosquitoes to a draw. The air is fat with syrupy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great apes endangered by human viruses</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/01/27/great-apes-endangered-by-human-viruses/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/01/27/great-apes-endangered-by-human-viruses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study published in the journal Current Biology by researchers of the Robert Koch Institute (Berlin), the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig) and the Centre Suisse des Recherches Scientifiques (Ivory Coast) confirms the disease threat, finding the first direct evidence of virus transmission from humans to wild apes. The study also showed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fuel Cell That Uses Bacteria To Generate Electricity</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/01/07/fuel-cell-that-uses-bacteria-to-generate-electricity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at the Biodesign Institute are using the tiniest organisms on the planet &#8216;bacteria&#8217; as a viable option to make electricity. In a new study featured in the journal Biotechnology and Bioengineering, lead author Andrew Kato Marcus and colleagues Cesar Torres and Bruce Rittmann have gained critical insights that may lead to commercialization of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists find cultural differences among chimpanzee colonies</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/01/07/scientists-find-cultural-differences-among-chimpanzee-colonies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/01/07/scientists-find-cultural-differences-among-chimpanzee-colonies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Socially-learned cultural behaviour thought to be unique to humans is also found among chimpanzees colonies, scientists at the University of Liverpool have found. Historically, scientists believed that behavioural differences between colonies of chimpanzees were due to variations in genetics. A team at Liverpool, however, has now discovered that variations in behaviour are down to chimpanzees [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists Use Sunlight to Make Fuel From CO2</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/01/06/scientists-use-sunlight-to-make-fuel-from-co2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/01/06/scientists-use-sunlight-to-make-fuel-from-co2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy/Fuel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sandia researcher Rich Diver checks out the solar furnace which will be the initial source of concentrated solar heat for converting carbon dioxide to fuel. Eventually parabolic dishes will provide the thermal energy. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico have found a way of using sunlight to recycle carbon dioxide and produce fuels [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Golden Bullet&#8217; Shows Promise For Killing Common Parasite</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/01/04/golden-bullet-shows-promise-for-killing-common-parasite/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/01/04/golden-bullet-shows-promise-for-killing-common-parasite/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers in Australia report development of a new type of gold nanoparticle that destroys the parasite responsible for toxoplasmosis, a potentially serious disease acquired by handling the feces of infected cats or eating undercooked meat. Their so-called &#8220;golden bullet&#8221; could provide a safer, more effective alternative for treating the disease than conventional drug therapy, they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clever Clover Forms Communication Networks</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/09/27/clever-clover-forms-communication-networks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/09/27/clever-clover-forms-communication-networks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent research from Vidi researcher Josef Stuefer at the Radboud University Nijmegen reveals that plants have their own chat systems that they can use to warn each other. Many herbal plants such as strawberry, clover, reed and ground elder naturally form networks. Individual plants remain connected with each other for a certain period of time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smithsonian Helps Lead Effort to &#8216;Barcode&#8217; World&#8217;s Species</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/09/16/smithsonian-helps-lead-effort-to-barcode-worlds-species/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/09/16/smithsonian-helps-lead-effort-to-barcode-worlds-species/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 23:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smithsonian researchers are among the leaders in a worldwide effort to revolutionize the way scientists identify species in the laboratory and in the field with a technique called DNA barcoding. Similar to the barcode that identifies an item at the grocery store, a DNA barcode is used to identify and distinguish biological species. This month, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Northwest Passage Opens: Arctic Sea Ice Reaches New Low</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/09/16/northwest-passage-opens-arctic-sea-ice-reaches-new-low/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/09/16/northwest-passage-opens-arctic-sea-ice-reaches-new-low/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The area covered by sea ice in the Arctic has now (September 14, 2007) shrunk to its lowest level since satellite measurements began nearly 30 years ago, opening up the Northwest Passage – a long-sought short cut between Europe and Asia that has been historically impassable. Leif Toudal Pedersen from the Danish National Space Centre [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Biggest Problem: Organized Crime</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/09/13/world-biggest-problem-organized-crime/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/09/13/world-biggest-problem-organized-crime/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Organized crime may have brought in more than $2 trillion in revenue last year, about twice all the military budgets in the world combined, according to the &#8220;2007 State of the Future&#8221; report, published by the Millennium Project of the World Federation of United Nations Associations, by Jerome C. Glenn and Theodore J. Gordon. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virus Linked to Destruction of Bee Hives</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/09/09/virus-linked-to-destruction-of-bee-hives/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/09/09/virus-linked-to-destruction-of-bee-hives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 14:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists may have discovered the cause of a devastating syndrome in honeybees that has destroyed 50% to 90% of hives in the USA — posing enormous problems for crops that depend on them to reproduce. The culprit, reported in the journal Science Thursday, may be the Israeli acute paralysis (IAP) virus. Colony collapse disorder, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian-led Team Finds Oldest Evidence Of Life On Earth</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/05/29/canadian-led-team-finds-oldest-evidence-of-life-on-earth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/05/29/canadian-led-team-finds-oldest-evidence-of-life-on-earth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 16:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Canadian-led team of scientists has discovered what they say is the oldest indisputable evidence of life on Earth&#8212;the fossilized trackways of slithering microbes in a 3.35-billion-year-old rock from Australia. And the find has prompted the Canadian Space Agency to fund a project this summer among similarly ancient rocks along the Ontario-Quebec border as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rotating Skyscraper Being Built In Dubai</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/05/18/rotating-skyscraper-being-built-in-dubai/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/05/18/rotating-skyscraper-being-built-in-dubai/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2007 17:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ecogeek]]></description>
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