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	<title>The Science Creative Quarterly</title>
	<link>http://www.scq.ubc.ca</link>
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		<title>STILL LIFE WITH A MODEL ORGANISM</title>
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Last Thanksgiving, I needed to bring my flies home for the holidays in anticipation of the eclosion of important potential recombinant male progeny.  My goal was to use my freezer, a tray of ice, a dissection pad, a paintbrush, and some hoisted fly food vials from my lab to separate the males [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scq.ubc.ca/still-life-with-a-model-organism/</link>
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		<title>LAW AND ORDER: PARASITIC INTENT.  EPISODE 238 &#8211; THINGS AREN&#8217;T ALWAYS AS THEY NOSEMA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This program contains graphic scenes of violence and adult themes.  Viewer discretion is advised.
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THE SCENE
Light is pouring into the courtroom.  A tense background of hushed conversation fills the room.  The defendant, Nosema enters the room.  He is a microsporidian parasite.  He’s roughly oval shaped and dressed in an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scq.ubc.ca/law-and-order-parasitic-intent-episode-238-things-arent-always-as-they-nosema/</link>
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		<title>HOW MANY SPECIES ARE THERE ON EARTH? A FINAL, DEFINITIVE, AND PRECISE ANSWER</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ABSTRACT
There are 42, exactly.
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Key acronyms: JAL, EO, UW, CSU, MSU, ATBI, INBio, OUTBio, NTFC, and BINGO!
INTRODUCTION
For what seems to be an interminable period of time biologists have been whining that all of the other sciences know more about their basic inventories than we do.  Chemists have filled out the periodic table (except [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scq.ubc.ca/how-many-species-are-there-on-earth-a-final-definitive-and-precide-answer/</link>
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		<title>INTRODUCING THE PHYLOMON PROJECT! KEYWORDS POKEMON AND BIODIVERSITY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(From http://phylomon.org)
(Facebook group: link)
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“When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.”
~ E. O. Wilson.

Well 2010 is here, a.k.a. the International Year of Biodiversity, and to us at the SCQ, it means that we&#8217;re finally ready to go ahead with our long awaited phylomon project. Please [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scq.ubc.ca/introducing-the-phylomon-project-keywords-pokemon-and-biodiversity/</link>
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		<title>UNTITLED</title>
		<description><![CDATA[whole green leaves
eaten away
across an expansive
canopy of undergrowth.
soft wet soil
pulled slowly toward the sea
as bits of rocky structure
show through
and red-brown, mossy trunks
cling low &#038; climb high
to chase the water and the light.
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		<link>http://www.scq.ubc.ca/untitled-4/</link>
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		<title>INTERESTING AND SOMEWHAT RANDOM ASSORTMENT OF ORGANISMS OR INAPPROPRIATE ANIMAL NAME FOR BROWNIE GIRL GUIDE LEADERS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Barricuda
Fox
Tit
Minx
Cougar
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Greetings everyone! Please join us in ushering the International Year of Biodiversity!  For those with science and badge affections, this includes a special New Year&#8217;s resolution whereby an amendment to the Science Scout drinking game rules is hereby now effective.  For the year 2010, any mention of the word &#8220;biodiversity&#8221; during [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scq.ubc.ca/interesting-and-somewhat-random-assortment-of-organisms-or-inappropriate-animal-name-for-brownie-girl-guide-leaders/</link>
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		<title>HOW THE PINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(There are more science Christmas plays by
Vince LiCata here, here and here).
Cast:
Generic Faculty Member
Pinch
Narrator
The Dean
The Chair
Cindy Lou Who
Darth Vader
Santa
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NARRATOR:  Every Who
Down in  U-ville
Liked  their research a lot…
FACULTY:  (pipeting):  I sure like research a lot.
I love running gels,
I get bored when I’m not.
NARRATOR:  But the Pinch
Who lived just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scq.ubc.ca/how-the-pinch-stole-christmas/</link>
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		<title>HELIUM PILLS FOR REINDEER AND OTHER TRICKS OF THE CHRISTMAS TRADE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Other kids may be convinced that Santa Claus uses some kind of Christmas magic to get the job done. Not my offspring.
They have told me that obviously, Santa is putting his trust in science. (And also technology. But the holidays are no time for ugly spats about disciplinary boundaries.)
From the younger offspring:

Santa needed to do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scq.ubc.ca/helium-pills-for-reindeer-and-other-tricks-of-the-christmas-trade/</link>
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		<title>WHAT IS TWITTER GOOD FOR?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s been about three weeks since I signed up for a personal account on twitter (you can follow me here if you&#8217;re interested &#8211; my handle is @dnghub), and threw out my first &#8220;tweet.&#8221;



Since then, I&#8217;ve found myself fully immersed in the web tool, and feel like I can say a few intelligent things [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scq.ubc.ca/what-is-twitter-good-for/</link>
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		<title>EVOLUTIONARY DEAD ENDS: PLANT SPECIES</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an earlier essay, some of the now extinct species of animals were presented.  Their characteristics were described as best as the evolutionary biologists can presently determine, and various theories were put forth as to the reasons they became extinct.
It is now time to examine some of the plants on which those biologists have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scq.ubc.ca/evolutionary-dead-ends-plant-species/</link>
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