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		<title>A world worth saving</title>
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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>
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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>
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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>What to study??</title>
		<link>http://matthew-d-smith.com/2011/12/08/what-to-study/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Soon after trying to uncover the magic formula that colleges use to make admission decisions, students are faced with another vexing question: What subjects and what majors should they choose to ensure their long-term success? Read the full article here Filed under: Uncategorized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthew-d-smith.com&#038;blog=26679094&#038;post=489&#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>
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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>
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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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		<title>Singing Mice</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you think of animals that sing, birds will certainly come to mind. Whales might, too. But mice? Or fish?  It turns out mice and fish do sing, although &#8220;vocalizations&#8221; might be a more technically correct way of describing the sounds they make.  Bret Pasch, a graduate student at the University of Florida, says there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthew-d-smith.com&#038;blog=26679094&#038;post=438&#038;subd=matthewdsmithdotcom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Girl Fight</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 01:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month&#8217;s issue of Behavioral Ecology has a special section on intrasexual selection in females.  Female-female competition is indeed a hot topic, and a fascinating one!  But we might ask why it took so long, given that we&#8217;ve been studying male-male competition for so long.  Is it scientifically shocking that females compete for the best [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matthew-d-smith.com&#038;blog=26679094&#038;post=428&#038;subd=matthewdsmithdotcom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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