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		<title>Males Can Sniff Out A Well Fed Female</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mrs Weird Scientist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If they&#8217;re a male black widow spider, that is. Simply by taking a little saunter across the female&#8217;s web, a male black widow can sense if a female is hungry or not. Why does it matter? Because female black widow spiders have a rather freaky habit of eating the male after mating. It&#8217;s how they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=weirdscience.ca&#038;blog=1188989&#038;post=982&#038;subd=weirdscience&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Fair!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mrs Weird Scientist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the exclamation above, I&#8217;m not throwing a temper tantrum. But I do get frustrated when I read news stories about science and think &#8220;Woah, this is really complicated.&#8221; It&#8217;s one reason I started this blog. To learn about a few more reasons, you can see an interview I did for the Charlotte Observer here. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=weirdscience.ca&#038;blog=1188989&#038;post=907&#038;subd=weirdscience&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Trip Down Your Toilet</title>
		<link>http://weirdscience.ca/2010/12/10/a-trip-down-your-toilet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mrs Weird Scientist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nope, I&#8217;m not giving a lesson on plumbing. But I am going to give you the scoop on a secret that starts inside your toilet, all thanks to the crew at Thames Water who are helping people stay warm this winter. What&#8217;s this secret? Well, when a toilet takes your daily (or whatever frequency..let&#8217;s not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=weirdscience.ca&#038;blog=1188989&#038;post=809&#038;subd=weirdscience&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Get Smarter The Dirty Way</title>
		<link>http://weirdscience.ca/2010/10/05/get-smarter-the-dirty-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mrs Weird Scientist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, intelligence can happen in the dirtiest of places. A new study suggests that exposure to certain kinds of bacteria outside could help improve learning. Researchers at The Sage Colleges in New York studied Mycobacterium vaccae, which earlier studies showed might have antidepressant properties. In this new study, it seems that M. vaccae could help [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=weirdscience.ca&#038;blog=1188989&#038;post=764&#038;subd=weirdscience&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whale Poo Is Good For You</title>
		<link>http://weirdscience.ca/2010/09/12/whale-poo-is-good-for-you/</link>
		<comments>http://weirdscience.ca/2010/09/12/whale-poo-is-good-for-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 10:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mrs Weird Scientist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In fact, it&#8217;s good for all living things.  Australian researchers recently found that whale poo is battling one of the planet&#8217;s toughest battles ever – climate change.  The poor whales previously had a horrid reputation.  Since they breathe out a common greenhouse gas known as carbon dioxide (CO2), they were disliked for contributing to global [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=weirdscience.ca&#038;blog=1188989&#038;post=696&#038;subd=weirdscience&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bartholomew Says Hello</title>
		<link>http://weirdscience.ca/2010/06/22/bartholomew-says-hello/</link>
		<comments>http://weirdscience.ca/2010/06/22/bartholomew-says-hello/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mrs Weird Scientist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay well, I made up the name Bartholomew and this interesting creature can&#8217;t really speak.  But if it could, I imagine it might say something like &#8220;Please leave me alone!&#8221;  So, just what is this odd, slimy thing and why would it want us to stay away? Meet A Blobfish With the formal name of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=weirdscience.ca&#038;blog=1188989&#038;post=545&#038;subd=weirdscience&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Too Young And Too Much</title>
		<link>http://weirdscience.ca/2010/06/19/too-young-and-too-much/</link>
		<comments>http://weirdscience.ca/2010/06/19/too-young-and-too-much/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 04:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mrs Weird Scientist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One drink.  Two drinks.  Three drinks&#8230;.seven drinks.  Does this sound like you each weekend?  It isn&#8217;t news that teens can be binge drinkers.  Even the wicked hangover the next day isn&#8217;t necessarily enough to stop teens – or adults – from going wild on booze.  But a new study suggests that binge drinking has some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=weirdscience.ca&#038;blog=1188989&#038;post=635&#038;subd=weirdscience&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Humans Bite Harder Than Vampires</title>
		<link>http://weirdscience.ca/2010/04/21/humans-bite-harder-than-vampires/</link>
		<comments>http://weirdscience.ca/2010/04/21/humans-bite-harder-than-vampires/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mrs Weird Scientist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When National Geographic asked me to review their new book called Vampire Forensics, I had to ask myself if I had the guts to do it! As a self-proclaimed scaredy-cat, I wasn&#8217;t sure if learning about the origins of vampires would be something my timid self could take. Worse still was what happened when I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=weirdscience.ca&#038;blog=1188989&#038;post=579&#038;subd=weirdscience&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How To Be An Assassin</title>
		<link>http://weirdscience.ca/2010/02/21/how-to-be-an-assassin/</link>
		<comments>http://weirdscience.ca/2010/02/21/how-to-be-an-assassin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mrs Weird Scientist</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://weirdscience.ca/?p=557</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Credit: Video generously provided by Anne Wignall of Macquarie University. Imagine you&#8217;re a hungry insect. To get your next meal, you need to be a true assassin, using stealthy tactics to capture your prey. Well if you were an assassin bug, then your plan might read like this: 1. Slowly approach your prey 2. Tap [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=weirdscience.ca&#038;blog=1188989&#038;post=557&#038;subd=weirdscience&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Return Of Bed Bugs – Smarter Ones</title>
		<link>http://weirdscience.ca/2010/01/13/the-return-of-bed-bugs-%e2%80%93-smarter-ones/</link>
		<comments>http://weirdscience.ca/2010/01/13/the-return-of-bed-bugs-%e2%80%93-smarter-ones/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mrs Weird Scientist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The title reads like a horror movie but for those who have battled it out with bed bugs, it makes a lot of sense. Others might think that &#8216;don&#8217;t let the bed bugs bite&#8217; was just some bedtime line their parents used as a cute joke. In fact, let&#8217;s see now who knew that bed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=weirdscience.ca&#038;blog=1188989&#038;post=466&#038;subd=weirdscience&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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