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		<title>Remembering Doug Greene</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to all who&#8217;ve been contacting the Survey to remember Doug Greene, who passed away suddenly on Sunday on his way home from BioBlitz. There will be a service for Doug in his home town of Reading, Mass., on Friday, June 18&#8211;visiting hours from 6-8 pm, memorial service at 8 pm. This link has more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BioBlitz 2010 A Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The teams are just back in from BioBlitz 2010 and I&#8217;m sure people are working hard to unload gear, hang out sleeping bags and tents out to dry, and catch up on sleep. Thank you all for your tremendous efforts that made the event such a success. Thanks to the Block Island community for their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proof that Naturalists are Smarter?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New research reported from the 110th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in San Diego shows a positive correlation between learning and exposure to a common soil bacterium, Mycobacterium vaccae.
Here&#8217;s the link: SMARTER
So don&#8217;t be a dumby, get out there and play in the dirt. And perhaps more to the point, bring the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New salamander genus found in U.S.</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/2009/08/12/newsalamander/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ll never know so much about the world around us that there&#8217;s nothing left for naturalists to discover and just to prove that point, scientists recently announced the discovery of a new species (in fact it belongs to a whole new genus) of lungless salamander in the hills of Georgia.  Urspelerpes brucei , as it will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overheard in the Taxonomy Dept&#8230;. &#8220;Hello? Anyone here?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing that RINHS is here for is to encourage the practice of taxonomy: connect those with taxonomic expertise with those interested in learning and otherwise to facilitate by preserving systematic collections, maintaining a reference library, and organizing and publishing the results.
All this is useful (necessary, in fact) if you want to know what&#8217;s going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goats on DOT payroll?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an interesting news item from Maryland. They are experimenting with goats to mow highway verge in a wetland inhabited by bog turtles. Mowers would be tough on the little fellas, you see (the turtles, not the goats, well they&#8217;d be tough on goats too but they&#8217;re fast enough to get out of the way). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marine Life Ethnohistory</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 14:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone recently asked me why some plants are considered invasive while others, that arrived here earlier (after all they all arrived here from somewhere else because RI was once all glaciated), are considered native. You can give &#8216;em the usual cliche about how it&#8217;s invasive if it is reproducing outside its normal range to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Research Council Reports on Informal Science Education</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/2009/02/04/national-research-council-reports-on-informal-science-education/</link>
		<comments>http://www.rinhs.org/2009/02/04/national-research-council-reports-on-informal-science-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dgregg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Research Council of the National Academies recently announced the release of a report on the efficacy of non-classroom (sometimes called &#8220;informal&#8221;) science education. Although under development for some time, this release is pretty timely stuff with the new Obama administration having promised to put science back in its rightful place and Congress considering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DNA Attacks High School Science Teacher</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/2009/01/22/darwinanddna/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not even that old and what I learned in high school biology class is getting VERY out of date. The New Scientist is running a fantastic article in its 24 January issue on the changes being wrought on evolutionary theory by advances in gene sequencing. Speaking for myself, at least, I welcomed this easy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just Desserts for a Naturalist Dad</title>
		<link>http://www.rinhs.org/2009/01/16/just-desserts-for-a-naturalist-dad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dgregg</dc:creator>
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I guess it was bound to happen. What do they say? &#8220;As you sow so shall you reap&#8221;? As anyone who&#8217;s hung around with me long knows, I can be pretty tough on people who misrepresent or misappropriate species, ecosystems, or other aspects of natural history in popular media. You know, rantings and ravings every [...]]]></description>
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