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		<title>Metaphors in Behavior</title>
		<link>http://matthew-d-smith.com/2012/09/03/metaphors-in-behavior/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2012 16:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The study of animal behavior requires careful attention to subtle assumptions and sources of bias.  One particularly interesting example of this is how biases are built into our language.  Let’s take male and female birds sitting close together. Back when the term “pair bond” was applied to this behavior, scientists though that most birds were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthew-d-smith.com&#038;blog=26679094&#038;post=597&#038;subd=matthewdsmithdotcom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On safari with your body</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 23:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent papers in Nature and PLoS One promise to revolutionize how we understand human biology and disease.  As part of NIH&#8217;s Human Microbiome Project, researchers used sophisticated genome sequencing techniques to discover that there are more than 10,000 microbial species inhabiting the human body. Take a listen to this mind blowing discussion from NPR&#8217;s On Point about the myriad of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthew-d-smith.com&#038;blog=26679094&#038;post=561&#038;subd=matthewdsmithdotcom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mechanisms of fear</title>
		<link>http://matthew-d-smith.com/2012/05/30/science-news-mechanisms-of-fear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 14:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a nice article By Amanda Schaffer (NY Times, May 28, 2012) that summarizes new research about how fish detect the presence of predators.  It&#8217;s really quite cool, and a little bizarre.  Keep in mind the concept of umwelt, and imagine what it might be like if we sensed our world in a similar manner. When one fish is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthew-d-smith.com&#038;blog=26679094&#038;post=544&#038;subd=matthewdsmithdotcom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A world worth saving</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 18:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, the NY Times features some amazing photographs from Joel Sartore, a freelance photographer for National Geographic. Filed under: Uncategorized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthew-d-smith.com&#038;blog=26679094&#038;post=540&#038;subd=matthewdsmithdotcom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Common Pesticide a Culprit in Declining Bee Colonies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following article by Carl Zimmer appeared in the New York Times on 29 March 2012. &#8220;Scientists have been alarmed and puzzled by declines in bee populations in the United States and other parts of the world. They have suspected that pesticides are playing a part, but to date their experiments have yielded conflicting, ambiguous [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthew-d-smith.com&#038;blog=26679094&#038;post=518&#038;subd=matthewdsmithdotcom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Memorize This!</title>
		<link>http://matthew-d-smith.com/2012/02/20/memorize-this/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This fascinating video of Ayumu the chimp excelling at memory tasks has been going around the net.  The results of the study in the video were published by Sana Inoue and Tetsuro Matsuzaw (Current Biology 17:1004-1005).  Ayumu performed better at this memory task than humans, and younger chimps performed better than older ones.  They concluded that this ability [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthew-d-smith.com&#038;blog=26679094&#038;post=505&#038;subd=matthewdsmithdotcom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Clever Hans Effect</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 03:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Berlin in a courtyard surrounded by high apartment buildings in the summer of 1904, there is a man and his horse.  The man is Herr von Osten who taught mathematics to grade school children.   His horse is Hans and the two are obviously very close and von Osten is very gentle with his horse.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthew-d-smith.com&#038;blog=26679094&#038;post=498&#038;subd=matthewdsmithdotcom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Holidays!</title>
		<link>http://matthew-d-smith.com/2011/12/22/happy-holidays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A brief lesson in applied animal behavior: How to wrap a cat for Christmas Filed under: Uncategorized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthew-d-smith.com&#038;blog=26679094&#038;post=492&#038;subd=matthewdsmithdotcom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The world is as you see it&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://matthew-d-smith.com/2011/11/29/the-world-is-as-you-see-it-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When considering animal behavior, it&#8217;s important to think about and understand how animals perceive their environment.  Most people observe behavior and immediately think they understand what the animals are doing. This comes from the constant necessity of having to interpret human behavior.  Most people think they know what an animal is thinking and what it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthew-d-smith.com&#038;blog=26679094&#038;post=477&#038;subd=matthewdsmithdotcom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Laughing Eyes</title>
		<link>http://matthew-d-smith.com/2011/11/21/laughing-eyes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 06:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his song Snowin&#8217; on Raton, Townes Van Zandt sings  &#8221;shall I cast my dreams upon your love babe / and lie beneath the laughter of your eyes.&#8221;  Part of what makes Townes an amazing musician is that his lyrics are surprising &#8211; the words aren&#8217;t what you&#8217;re expecting.  &#8221;The laughter of your eyes&#8221; is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthew-d-smith.com&#038;blog=26679094&#038;post=443&#038;subd=matthewdsmithdotcom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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