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		<title>Free Family Science Talk: The Secret Life of Nesting Birds on Alcatraz &#8211; Oct. 29!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of my great USGS ecology researchers will be giving a free public lecture this Saturday, October 29, 1:30 p.m. PDT in San Francisco as part of the Bay Area Science Festival. Titled &#8220;Life and Death on Alcatraz Island: The Secret Life of Nesting Birds on &#8216;The Rock&#8217;&#8221; and hosted at 201 Fort Mason by the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=younglandis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9508237&amp;post=1816&amp;subd=younglandis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Science Gets a Black Eye (Pea) for Good</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m late to the news, but looks like will.i.am is leading entertainers and artists like Snoop Dogg and Justin Timberlake in a new program/effort to boost science, technology, engineering and math education: &#160; Folks on the Left Coast will still be able to catch the program tonight at 7 p.m. Pacific on ABC. Curious to see how this unfolds! [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=younglandis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9508237&amp;post=1810&amp;subd=younglandis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Biologists Draw Blood in Forks, Wash.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 22:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marine biologists are setting up camp in Forks, Washington, this week to capture some fanged predators. They are definitely cute and they have great hair, but their seafood-breath should cut short any romantic fantasies. We&#8217;re talking about sea otters, of course. Researchers from the USGS Pacific Nearshore Project will spend the next three weeks studying [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=younglandis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9508237&amp;post=1796&amp;subd=younglandis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Common Parasite Potentially Increases Risk of Brain Cancers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A common parasite may be worth investigating as a risk factor for brain cancers, according to a new geographic analysis by researchers from a French infectious disease institute and the U.S. Geological Survey. Led by disease ecologist Frédéric Thomas of the French infectious disease research institute MIVEGEC and parasite ecologist Kevin Lafferty of USGS, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=younglandis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9508237&amp;post=1791&amp;subd=younglandis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tiny Parasites Help Revise Major Ecological Theory</title>
		<link>http://younglandis.wordpress.com/2011/07/21/tiny-parasites-help-revise-major-ecological-theory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An old theory in ecology is that in any ecosystem, a small-sized animal species will be more populous than a large species. All you need is a summer picnic to prove the point: your barbecue might end up attracting thousands of tiny ants — but only a few rotund squirrels. Equations based on ecological theories [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=younglandis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9508237&amp;post=1783&amp;subd=younglandis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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