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		<title>Catching a Tiger by its Turds.</title>
		<link>http://www.interestingthings.org/catching-a-tiger-by-its-turds/2009/06/22/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arkenor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know I post too many faeces related stories. I can&#8217;t help it. We British are culturally hardwired to find poo hilarious, and thus interesting: The whiskers, eyes, organs, and even genitals of tigers, and other big cats, are highly sought after for many medical and religious practices. These practices, along with widespread habitat destruction, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Superoxygenated Superbeings!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arkenor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This discovery is a couple of years old, but I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot recently about how humanity can improve itself (or as some folks call it &#8220;transhumanism&#8221;). Scientists from the University of Sheffield are developing an artificial &#8216;plastic blood&#8217;, which could act as a substitute for real blood in emergency situations. The &#8216;plastic blood&#8217;, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Researchers create new forms of BSE-related disease</title>
		<link>http://www.interestingthings.org/researchers-create-new-forms-of-bse-related-disease/2008/09/08/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arkenor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From a Cell press release: Researchers have shown that they can create entirely new strains of infectious proteins known as prions in the laboratory by simply mixing infectious prions from one species with the normal prion proteins of another species. The findings are reported in the September 5th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paper money helps to transmit disease.</title>
		<link>http://www.interestingthings.org/paper-money-helps-to-transmit-disease/2008/01/19/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arkenor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GENEVA (AFP) &#8211; Forget retail therapy for some relief from that winter cold &#8212; a study by Swiss scientists revealed on Wednesday that the flu virus can nestle and survive on banknotes for more than two weeks. Scientists from Geneva&#8217;s University Hospital were asked by a Swiss bank to carry out the study amid worries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coral reefs in danger from ocean acidification</title>
		<link>http://www.interestingthings.org/coral-reefs-in-danger-from-ocean-acidification/2007/12/16/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arkenor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a couple of quickies today: Stanford, CA — Carbon emissions from human activities are not just heating up the globe, they are changing the ocean’s chemistry. This could soon be fatal to coral reefs, which are havens for marine biodiversity and underpin the economies of many coastal communities. Scientists from the Carnegie Institution’s Department [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is preventing homosexuality through drugs ethical?</title>
		<link>http://www.interestingthings.org/preventing-homosexuality-through-drugs/2007/12/10/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arkenor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the biological basis for homosexuality remains a mystery, a team of neurobiologists reports they may have closed in on an answer &#8212; by a nose. The team led by University of Illinois at Chicago researcher David Featherstone has discovered that sexual orientation in fruit flies is controlled by a previously unknown regulator of synapse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gas-guzzling bacteria could help fight global warming</title>
		<link>http://www.interestingthings.org/gas-guzzling-bacteria-could-help-fight-global-warming/2007/12/08/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 10:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arkenor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new species of bacteria discovered living in one of the most extreme environments on Earth could yield a tool in the fight against global warming. In a paper published today in the prestigious science journal Nature, U of C biology professor Peter Dunfield and colleagues describe the methane-eating microorganism they found in the geothermal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friendly bacteria. A bit too friendly.</title>
		<link>http://www.interestingthings.org/friendly-bacteria-a-bit-too-friendly/2007/11/27/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arkenor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting, if a bit grim! From the Telegraph It must be one of the most stomach-churning medical treatments ever devised. A grandmother who contracted a potentially fatal superbug in Scotland has been saved after a hospital fed her daughter’s faeces to her. Ethel McEwan, an 83-year-old from Guardbridge, Fife, was near death after contracting Clostridium [...]]]></description>
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