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	<title>Stewed Thoughts &#187; Science Stuff</title>
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		<title>Back from extinction</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/09/back-from-extinction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stewart Macdonald]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The armoured mist frog (Litoria lorica) was last seen in 1991 and was thought to have be wiped out by the fungal disease chytridiomycosis. But Professor Ross Alford from James Cook University has told reporters that the frog has been &#8230; <a href="http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/09/back-from-extinction/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A real macropod</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/08/a-real-macropod/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stewart Macdonald]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bigfoot found &#8211; for real? If this is true, it&#8217;s earth-shattering stuff. Bigfoot in a freezer? FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 12, 2008 BIGFOOT BODY FOUND DNA evidence and photo evidence to be presented at a PRESS CONFERENCE to be held &#8230; <a href="http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/08/a-real-macropod/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Recent environmental news</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/08/recent-environmental-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stewart Macdonald]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brown tree snakes destroying more than just Guam&#8217;s birds A brown tree snake In the last 60 years, brown tree snakes have become the embodiment of the bad things that can happen when invasive species are introduced in places where &#8230; <a href="http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/08/recent-environmental-news/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>An interesting take on climate change</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/08/an-interesting-take-on-climate-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stewart Macdonald]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some people are apparently welcoming climate change. Grape growers in Austria (note: that&#8217;s a little country in Europe, not a huge mass of land keeping the Indian and Pacific oceans separate) have found the warmer conditions to be quite beneficial.]]></description>
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		<title>Picture of a modern-day thylacine?</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2008/08/picture-of-a-modern-day-thylacine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stewart Macdonald]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A striped mammal has been photographed by a camera trap set in a remote forest. Is this the sole surviving thylacine? Unfortunately not, as this Edge of Existence blog post shows.]]></description>
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		<title>Stirring research</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2006/01/stirring-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2006 07:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stewart Macdonald]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A study published in the British Medical Journal has sought to answer the age-old question of &#8220;where have all the bloody teaspoons gone?&#8221;.]]></description>
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		<title>Improbable research</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2006/01/improbable-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2006 02:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stewart Macdonald]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just has a quick look at the RSS feed for Improbable Research. Here are the highlights for me: Individually marked ants Silver loining Sweet dreams are made of cheese Bugs in the system]]></description>
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		<title>World&#8217;s biggest Gambusia?</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2006/01/worlds-biggest-gambusia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2006 01:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stewart Macdonald]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought I&#8217;d found the world&#8217;s biggest mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) in my turtle pond, but she&#8217;s only 42.2mm in length. She looks much bigger than that. I figured that there&#8217;s a fair amount of selection pressure acting on the fish &#8230; <a href="http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2006/01/worlds-biggest-gambusia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Wikipedia vs Britannica</title>
		<link>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2005/12/wikipedia-vs-britannica/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stewartmacdonald.com.au/blog/2005/12/wikipedia-vs-britannica/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2005 11:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stewart Macdonald]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[News@Nature has an interesting article about the accuracy of Wikipedia versus Britannica. Turns out that science articles on the &#8220;open source&#8221; Wikipedia are only slightly less correct than their commercial Britannic counterparts .]]></description>
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