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Yesterday | Corsicana Daily Sun

Arts Council announces fall school programs

By Leah Dill Blackard Special to the Daily Sun With school starting in just a few months the Navarro Council of the Arts is gearing up for another year of presenting an exciting season of the arts to all the schools in Navarro County.

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Related Topix: Navarro, TX, Navarro County, TX, Science

Mon Jun 29, 2009

Physics Blog

Toxic chemicals affect steroid hormones differently in humans and invertebrates

In a study with important consequences for studies on the effects of chemicals on steroid responses in humans, a team of French and American scientists, including Michael E. Baker, PhD, professor in UC San Diego's Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology-Hypertension, have found that - contrary to earlier assumptions - enzymes used for the ...

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Related Topix: UC San Diego, Entomology, Science, California

Sat Jun 27, 2009

This Is Bristol

Monkey business

Bristol-based zoologist and TV presenter Dr Charlotte Uhlenbroek tells Andy Welch why she'd rather be in the jungle with chimps than at home listening to the traffic F or many people, living in a Tanzanian jungle for four years with no creature comforts would be an absolute nightmare.

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Related Topix: Science

Wed Jun 24, 2009

Magic City Morning Star

Psychic/Paranormal Faire Returns to Fort Knox

The annual Psychic/Paranormal Faire returns to Fort Knox, Saturday and Sunday, July 4th and 5th, 10 AM until 4 PM.

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Related Topix: Supernatural, UFO and Alien, Science, Bangor Metro, Bangor, ME

Farmington Daily Times

Shake your tail with the singing zoologist

People who attend singing zoologist Lucas Miller's performances Thursday and Friday practically are asking to get a song stuck in their heads.

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Related Topix: Science, Libraries, Shiprock, NM, Farmington, NM, Family, Kids

Mon Jun 22, 2009

Ricklibrarian

The Remarkable Life of William Beebe: Explorer and Naturalist by Carol Grant Gould

Due to his station as director of the society's Department of Tropical studies and the wide popularity of his travel memoirs, he knew every important conservationist from Teddy Roosevelt to Rachael Carson.

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Related Topix: Science

Wed Jun 17, 2009

CBC

N.B. scientists scour Jacquet River Gorge for species in protected area

Scientists are scouring the Jacquet River Gorge in northern New Brunswick to catalogue as many species as they can in the protected area.

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Related Topix: Plant Biology, Biology, Science

Fri Jun 12, 2009

Der Spiegel

Rhino with a Mercedes: Vienna Zoo Combines Wild With Waste

The Schonbrunn Zoo in Vienna has launched an art installation that puts its animals side-by-side with symbols of humanity's trashing of the environment -- including abandoned cars, rusty bathtubs and toxic waste.

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Related Topix: Science

Thu Jun 04, 2009

RedOrbit

Prehistoric Whale Bones Discovered In Sweden

Researchers have discovered the skeleton of a whale that died around 10,000 years ago in connection with the extension of the E6 motorway in Stromstad, The University of Gothenburg reported.

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Related Topix: Science

Mon Jun 01, 2009

Physics Blog

Elevated water temperature and acidity boost growth of key sea star species

New research by zoologists at the University of British Columbia indicates that elevated water temperatures and heightened concentrations of carbon dioxide can dramatically increase the growth rate of a keystone species of sea star.

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Related Topix: Science

The Local - Sweden's News in English

Ancient whale skeleton uncovered under Swedish motorway

A whale skeleton, thought to be around 10,000 years-old, has been uncovered during construction of the E6 motorway near Stromstad in western Sweden.

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Related Topix: Science

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Charles Benedict Davenport

18, 1944, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. Main American zoologist who contributed substantially to the study of eugenics and heredity and who pioneered the use of statistical techniques in biological research.

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Related Topix: Cold Spring Harbor, NY, Science, Harvard University, University of Chicago

Tue May 26, 2009

UPI

Study finds rooks as clever as chimpanzees

Rooks are as clever at making and using simple tools with their beaks as chimpanzees are with their hands, British zoologists said.

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Related Topix: Science

Mon May 11, 2009

Bangor Daily News

Rockport farm animals inspire awe in children

Brothers River and West Williams of Camden had the chance to hang out Saturday morning at Aldermere Farm with some new friends - several silky-soft cashmere goat kids that were born just three weeks ago.

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Related Topix: Rockport, ME, Camden, ME, Family, Kids, Science, Agriculture, Life, Beef, Food, Meat

Sat May 09, 2009

Cognitive Daily

What was the animal in the 'Jaws' photo?

Profile With six years of phd work on theropod dinosaurs behind him, Darren Naish mostly spends long hours in the library, hunched over his laptop.

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Related Topix: Dinosaur, Science, Paleontology

Mon May 04, 2009

Physics Blog

First jaguar photo taken at Smithsonian Research Station in Panama

The first photo taken of a jaguar, Panthera onca , on the Barro Colorado Island, in Panama.

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Related Topix: Montclair State University, Biology, Science

Newkerala.com

Aquatic lives in the form of fossils found in Meghalaya

Shillong, May 4 : Researchers have discovered aquatic lives in the form of fossils in Meghalaya's Janiaw village under East Khasi Hills district.

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Related Topix: India, World News, Science

Sat May 02, 2009

Financial Times

A lesson for bankers from the birds and the bees

This spring, Mervyn King, the doughty governor of the Bank of England, has good reason to think about the birds and bees - " alongside other matters linked to zoology, epidemiology or ecology.

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Related Topix: Science, Apiculture, Ecology, Greater London County, England, United Kingdom, Computer Science

Fri Apr 10, 2009

The Toronto Star

Parrot has something to crow about

In my quest for positive data, I came across a report from Codfish Island, a tiny island south of New Zealand.

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Related Topix: Science

Prague Daily Monitor

MfD: Prague has unique locality with rare plants, animals

The fears of the former communist regime in then Czechoslovakia have paradoxically protected a unique territory in Prague that is home to many endangered zoological and botanical species, daily Mlada fronta Dnes wrote in its Prague supplement Thursday.

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Related Topix: Entomology, Czech Republic, Europe, World News

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