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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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/02/21/texas-peyote-hunters-struggle-to-find-a-vanishing-holy-crop/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></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>
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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 &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/02/08/cruising-the-amazon/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Curing Addiction with Ibogaine</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/01/22/curing-addiction-with-ibogaine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[via Cult of the Dead Cow]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon Natives Use Google Earth, GPS To Protect Rainforest Home</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/11/17/amazon-natives-use-google-earth-gps-to-protect-rainforest-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2006 17:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deep in the most remote jungles of South America, Amazon Indians (Amerindians) are using Google Earth, Global Positioning System (GPS) mapping, and other technologies to protect their fast-dwindling home. Tribes in Suriname, Brazil, and Colombia are combining their traditional knowledge &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/11/17/amazon-natives-use-google-earth-gps-to-protect-rainforest-home/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Marijuana&#8217;s Key Ingredient Might Fight Alzheimer&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/10/05/marijuanas-key-ingredient-might-fight-alzheimers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2006 20:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The active ingredient of marijuana could be considerably better at suppressing the abnormal clumping of malformed proteins that is a hallmark of Alzheimer&#8217;s than any currently approved drugs prescribed for the treatment of the disease. Scientists report the finding in &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/10/05/marijuanas-key-ingredient-might-fight-alzheimers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Chocolate generates electrical power</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/06/03/chocolate-generates-electrical-power/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2006 03:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Willy Wonka could have powered his Great Glass Elevator on hydrogen produced from his chocolate factory. Microbiologist Lynne Mackaskie and her colleagues at the University of Birmingham in the UK have powered a fuel cell by feeding sugar-loving bacteria chocolate-factory &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/06/03/chocolate-generates-electrical-power/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Beverage Creates a Buzz</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/04/14/beverage-creates-a-buzz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Apr 2006 03:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[INZA, Colombia — Call it the &#8220;Real Thing.&#8221; Indians in this remote mountain village in southern Colombia are marketing a particularly refreshing soft drink that harks back to Coca-Cola&#8217;s original formula, when &#8220;coca&#8221; was in the name for a reason. &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/04/14/beverage-creates-a-buzz/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Test for Magic Mushrooms Glows in Dark</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/02/03/test-for-magic-mushrooms-glows-in-dark/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2006 06:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Australian researcher has developed a new test for mushrooms that produces a glowing light if they contain the hallucinogenic ingredients that make them &#8216;magic&#8217;. Several species of magic mushroom grow in Australia, mainly in New South Wales, Victoria and &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/02/03/test-for-magic-mushrooms-glows-in-dark/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Study boosts homeopathy</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/11/24/study-boosts-homeopathy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2005 21:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A six-year UK study has provided support for homeopathy by demonstrating that over 70% of people with chronic diseases had positive health changes after homeopathic treatment. The study, conducted at Bristol Homeopathic Hospital shows, involved more than 6,500 patients with &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/11/24/study-boosts-homeopathy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Doors of Perception by  Aldous Huxley</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/11/20/the-doors-of-perception-by-aldous-huxley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2005 17:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was in 1886 that the German pharmacologist, Louis Lewin, published the first systematic study of the cactus, to which his own name was subsequently given. Anhalonium lewinii was new to science. To primitive religion and the Indians of Mexico &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/11/20/the-doors-of-perception-by-aldous-huxley/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Entheogenic Linkage</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/11/03/entheogenic-linkage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2005 17:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Psychedelic Salon has posted a new podcast, this one being a dialogue between Terence McKenna and Ralph Abraham. From the site: It isn&#8217;t often that we have the opportunity to see how accurate predictions about the future are, but &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/11/03/entheogenic-linkage/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Marijuana Chemical Fights Hardened Arteries</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/04/06/marijuana-chemical-fights-hardened-arteries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2005 12:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 6, 2005&#8212;The active ingredient in marijuana that produces changes in brain messages appears to fight atherosclerosis&#8212;a hardening of the arteries. But puffing pot probably won&#8217;t help. The findings, reported in the journal Nature, &#8220;should not be taken to mean &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/04/06/marijuana-chemical-fights-hardened-arteries/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>New research opens a window on the minds of plants</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/03/03/new-research-opens-a-window-on-the-minds-of-plants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2005 07:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RALEIGH, N.C. ? Hardly articulate, the tiny strangleweed, a pale parasitic plant, can sense the presence of friends, foes, and food, and make adroit decisions on how to approach them. As trowel-wielding scientists dig up a trove of new findings, &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/03/03/new-research-opens-a-window-on-the-minds-of-plants/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Beer Brewing Monkeys of Borneo</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/02/15/the-beer-brewing-monkeys-of-borneo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<title>Chomp, chomp: Carrot compound reduces cancer risk</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/02/09/chomp-chomp-carrot-compound-reduces-cancer-risk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2005 09:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists have given us another reason to eat carrots&#8212;a compound found in the popular root vegetable has been found to have an effect on the development of cancer. A team of researchers, from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/02/09/chomp-chomp-carrot-compound-reduces-cancer-risk/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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