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		<title>Self-medication In Animals Much More Widespread Than Believed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 01:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's been known for decades that animals such as chimpanzees seek out medicinal herbs to treat their diseases. But in recent years, the list of animal pharmacists has grown much longer, and it now appears that the practice of animal self-medication is a lot more widespread than previously thought, according to a University of Michigan ecologist and his colleagues.]]></description>
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		<title>Can Plants Actually Talk and Hear?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 21:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sound is so fundamental to life that some scientists now think there's a kernel of truth to folklore that holds humans can commune with plants. And plants may use sound to communicate with one another...]]></description>
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		<title>Could Cell Phones Be Killing the Honey Bee?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 01:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Honeybees exposed to cell phone radiation are likely to be confused and even to leave the hive, never to return again.]]></description>
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		<title>Bees Can Sense—and Learn From—the Electric Fields Of Flowers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 01:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alcyone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can zero in on flowers with specific electrical field shapes.
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		<title>Discovery Channel Team Captures First Ever Footage of Elusive Giant Squid in Pacific Depths, Japan Scientists Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 06:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alcyone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists and broadcasters said Monday they have captured footage of an elusive giant squid roaming the depths of the Pacific Ocean, showing it in its natural habitat for the first time ever.
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		<title>3-Minute Earth &amp; Space Weather News 12/7/2012: Japan 7.3 Quake, 2012 Record Heat, Deadly Typhoon Bopha [video]</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Concise report of Earth and Space weather news for December 7, 2012, including:     2012 is the hottest year on record, 7.3 Earthquake off the coast of Japan, Typhoon Bopha Update: 475 dead, many homeless in Philippines]]></description>
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		<title>7.4 Earthquake Strikes Off Guatemala Coast, Tsunami Warning Issued</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 05:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heartmind</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At least 48 people have been killed and hundreds remain missing after a powerful earthquake struck off the Pacific coast of Guatemala, where a tsunami warning has now been issued.]]></description>
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		<title>Gulf Stream Diverted More Than 100 Miles North in 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 07:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heartmind</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(OurAmazingPLanet) Last fall, fishermen in the Northeast United States noticed stronger currents and higher water temperatures than usual, so they tapped scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts to help them find out what was going on. A study by the scientists, published recently in the journal Scientific Reports, suggests the cause was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Which Came First: Music or Language?</title>
		<link>http://consciouslifenews.com/evolution-came-first-music-language/1137817/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2012 07:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alcyone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Using music to learn, heal, and live by Kimberly Sena Moore (Psychology Today) Which came first: language or music? Traditionally, music has been considered an evolutionary by-product of language. Language, after all, is one of the few skills we have that makes us uniquely human. Thus it has the more important evolutionary role. Music is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study: Plants &#8216;Cry For Help&#8217; Through Scent When Expecting Attack</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 07:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alcyone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Credit: Nina Fatouros (Phys.org) Eggs of insect pests deposited on plants trigger the production of scents by plants that affect different plant community members probably helping the plant to get rid of the pest before it becomes harmful. These results are reported the journal PLOS ONE by researchers, of the Laboratory of Entomology of Wageningen University [...]]]></description>
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