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		<title>Lab-Reared Virgin Females: Why Science Is Awesome</title>
		<link>http://www.scienceandsupermodels.com/2011/07/25/lab-reared-virgin-females-why-science-is-awesome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 01:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pieris rapae is a chromatic white butterfly &#8211; to us, anyway. In the UV spectrum they have a number of bright colors on their upper wings but we can&#8217;t see them. Pterins, pigments on their wing scales, vary a lot among them and can be impacted by diet. The brighter the male colors, the more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Your Penis Has No Spine</title>
		<link>http://www.scienceandsupermodels.com/2011/03/09/why-your-penis-has-no-spine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hank</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regulatory DNA changes have made a huge impact on the evolution of human-specific traits. &#160;A study in the latest issue of Nature covers not just the usual stuff, like what has been added in evolution to make us distinctly 'human', but rather what ...]]></description>
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		<title>Self-injecting Squid Sperm</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danna Staaf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[José Marian, the author of this paper about sperm injection, very kindly and promptly provided me with a copy. I began reading with an enthusiasm which only increased as I proceeded through the article. It's short, clear, and tantalizing.
read more]]></description>
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		<title>Sperm Injections, Anyone?</title>
		<link>http://www.scienceandsupermodels.com/2011/03/05/sperm-injections-anyone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 05:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danna Staaf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecology and Zoology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Squid sex is both discreet and discrete.
Discreet, because usually the sexual organs remain hidden. The only visible activity looks more like a handshake than like intercourse, as the male uses one arm to pass sperm to the female.
Discrete, because the...]]></description>
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		<title>Henry VIII And Miscarriages; Was It The Kell Antigen?</title>
		<link>http://www.scienceandsupermodels.com/2011/03/03/henry-viii-and-miscarriages-was-it-the-kell-antigen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 23:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Account</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immunology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Henry VIII, King of England and founder of the Anglican Church, was basically the Brad Pitt of his day when he was younger. &#160; Charming, attractive and even kind, for a member of the Royal family. Yet he is most remembered for being gluttonous, imp...]]></description>
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		<title>How&#8217;d You Like To Spawn One And A Half Times Your Body Weight?</title>
		<link>http://www.scienceandsupermodels.com/2011/03/03/howd-you-like-to-spawn-one-and-a-half-times-your-body-weight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danna Staaf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecology and Zoology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My husband has an enormous head. Sometimes this concerns me, when I consider the degree to which skull size may have a genetic basis and the fact that we'll probably reproduce at some point. That has to fit through there? OW.
But maybe I should be grat...]]></description>
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		<title>Chitin is Pretty Cool</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danna Staaf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecology and Zoology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Eek, sorry, I kinda disappeared for a few days. There was really good powder, what can I say?
I can at least draw a tenuous connection between driving up to the mountains and today's blog topic! If you've ever tried to change altitude with a cold, you ...]]></description>
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		<title>Group Selfishness In Our Genes Is Original Sin &#8211; Nobel Laureate Christian De Duve</title>
		<link>http://www.scienceandsupermodels.com/2011/02/28/group-selfishness-in-our-genes-is-original-sin-nobel-laureate-christian-de-duve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hank</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Evolution has no moral compass. &#160;We all know that. &#160;And it has no guiding hand. &#160;For that reason, says&#160;Christian de Duve, professor emeritus at the Catholic University of Louvain and Nobel laureate (Medicine or Physiology 1974), we ...]]></description>
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		<title>Cloning Plant Seeds</title>
		<link>http://www.scienceandsupermodels.com/2011/02/25/cloning-plant-seeds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Account</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among environmental activists and their supporters, the use of genetic modification is a bad thing. &#160; Obviously, tomatoes would be the size of our thumbs if our ancestors did not genetically modify plants so research continues. &#160; A group of r...]]></description>
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		<title>Mass Squid Death in Tasmania</title>
		<link>http://www.scienceandsupermodels.com/2011/02/25/mass-squid-death-in-tasmania/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danna Staaf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecology and Zoology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A curious tale! Not least because the writer has no compunctions about referring to squid as fish. While the group "fish" is by no means taxonomically rigorous, and comprises creatures as diverse as hagfish, sharks, and coealacanths, the one thing all ...]]></description>
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