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		<title>Running Out of Fish</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have posted before about the overfishing problems: Fishless Future - SelFISHing - Chinook Salmon Vanish Without a Trace. Here is an emotional article on the problem - How the world&#8217;s oceans are running out of fish
Ninety years of industrial-scale exploitation of fish has, he and most scientists agree, led to &#8216;ecological meltdown&#8217;. Whole biological [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://engineering.curiouscatblog.net/2008/05/11/running-out-of-fish/</link>
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		<title>Engineering Graduates Again in Great Shape</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once again engineering and computer science graduates are receiving the highest starting salaries.  Previous posts: Lucrative college degrees (2006) - starting salaries for engineers (2005) - High Pay for Engineering Graduates 2007.
According to a survey, these are the top-paying majors for 2007-08 bachelor degree graduates:
  $63,616 &#8212; Chemical engineering (up 6.5%)
  $59,962 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://engineering.curiouscatblog.net/2008/05/09/engineering-graduates-again-in-great-shape/</link>
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		<title>Curious Platypus Genome is No Surprise</title>
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Platypus Genome Found Fittingly Strange by Rick Weiss
a team of scientists has determined the platypus&#8217;s entire genetic code. And right down to its DNA, it turns out, the animal continues to strain credulity, bearing genetic modules that are in turn mammalian, reptilian and avian.
There are genes for egg laying &#8212; evidence of its reptilian roots. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://engineering.curiouscatblog.net/2008/05/08/curious-platypus-genome-is-no-surprise/</link>
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		<title>Elephants Classify Human Ethnic Groups that Hunt Them by Odor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wash Your Clothes: Elephants Can Smell You a Mile Away
&#8230;in Amboseli National Park in Kenya. Elephants in the region encounter different ethnic groups, including the Maasai, whose young men spear elephants, and the Kamba, agricultural villagers who pose no threat at all.
The researchers observed elephants exposed to the scent from identical cloth garments, some worn [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://engineering.curiouscatblog.net/2008/05/07/elephants-classify-human-ethnic-groups-that-hunt-them-by-odor/</link>
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		<title>Clifton Gorge State Nature Preserve Photos</title>
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The Clifton Gorge State Nature Preserve in Ohio is quite a nice short hike.  Photos by John Hunter.  If anyone knows what the green beetle is, please add a comment.
I visited the preserve last year.  Other sites from the trip include: Rocky Gap State Park, Maryland and Coopers Rock State Forest, West [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://engineering.curiouscatblog.net/2008/05/07/clifton-gorge-state-nature-preserve-photos/</link>
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		<title>Pioneers of the Pacific</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pioneers of the Pacific
how could a Neolithic people with simple canoes and no navigation gear manage to find, let alone colonize, hundreds of far-flung island specks scattered across an ocean that spans nearly a third of the globe?
Answers have been slow in coming. But now a startling archaeological find on the island of Éfaté, in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://engineering.curiouscatblog.net/2008/05/06/pioneers-of-the-pacific/</link>
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		<title>Breastfeeding Linked to More Intelligent Kids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[McGill study links breastfeeding to increased intelligence
The largest randomized study of breastfeeding ever (14,000 children for 6.5 years) conducted reports that breastfeeding raises children’s IQs and improves their academic performance, a McGill researcher and his team have found.
&#8220;Our study provides the strongest evidence to date that prolonged and exclusive breastfeeding makes kids smarter,&#8221; said Kramer, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://engineering.curiouscatblog.net/2008/05/06/breastfeeding-linked-to-more-intelligent-kids/</link>
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		<title>Molecular Action May Help Keep Birds on Course</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Molecular Action May Help Keep Birds on Course
Four decades after scientists showed that migratory birds use Earth&#8217;s magnetic field to orient themselves during their seasonal journeys, researchers have at last found a molecular mechanism that may explain how they do it.
If the hypothesis is true, the planet&#8217;s magnetic field lines &#8212; which arch around Earth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://engineering.curiouscatblog.net/2008/05/05/molecular-action-may-help-keep-birds-on-course/</link>
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		<title>Fat Cell Count Set in Childhood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fat cell number is set in childhood and stays constant in adulthood
As fat people have an abundance of fat tissue, the natural assumption is that fat people have more fat cells, or &#8216;adipocytes&#8217;. That&#8217;s only part of the story - it turns out that overweight and obese people not only have a surplus of fat [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://engineering.curiouscatblog.net/2008/05/05/fat-cell-count-set-in-childhood/</link>
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		<title>Backyard Wildlife: Birds</title>
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The last few days a bird like this one has been chasing a crow in my yard (unfortunately I have not been able to get an action picture of that).  If you know what type of bird this is please add a comment.
When I see robins pecking away in the grass sometimes I see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://engineering.curiouscatblog.net/2008/05/04/backyard-wildlife-birds/</link>
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