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West Virginia University to Build Animal Research Lab

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million dollar research lab. It will house rodents for use in experiments. Why would this West Virginia University project be the recipient of federal stimulus money? And research for drug development, which means more MONEY and JOBS! From West Virginia Metro News. From West Virginia Metro News.

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“It’s a good life”: Donald Kroodsma’s Birdsong

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Over and again, Kroodsma admits to things to which neither he, nor any other researchers, yet have answers – including areas where diligent amateurs can, he says, make discoveries. To humans, birdsong is akin to Joycean language, isn’t it? ” __. Illustrations in this review are taken from Birdsong for the Curious Naturalist.

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

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Both were led by strong, intelligent women who needed to develop new ways of making their points with the public and the government; both movements were lynchpins in developing today’s values of human rights and environmental conservation. As a librarian and women’s studies scholar, I greatly appreciate the research.

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Faithful Loons and Human Lunacy

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Non-bird watchers without binoculars and experience are notoriously bad sources of information. The new offspring of that year hang back and leave later, finding their way to their wintering grounds using something other than experience, and something other than being taught by their parents. But now there is some research on that.

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Bird Sex Voyeurs

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Amy Evrard has a PhD in social anthropology from Harvard University and loves to write about human relationships with nature. As a clumsy person, she enjoys the experience of literally stumbling through nature, learning as she goes, experiencing the magic of finding something interesting. But that makes her sound awfully stuffy.

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The One Animal Product You Should Feed Your Children

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Researchers have also learned that the cancer-causing chemicals that form in beef as it cooks also tend to form in chicken. That animal product is human breast milk. Human breast milk is a near perfect food for human newborns and infants. 105-6) Dr. Spock is not alone in his endorsement of breast-feeding human infants.

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