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	<description>Suburbia! Where we cut down the trees and name the streets after them</description>
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		<title>HFCS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A study in Environmental Health found mercury contamination in high fructose corn syrup from at least 2 processors (who weren&#8217;t what we&#8217;d call cooperative in this study):
The samples were found to contain levels of mercury ranging from below a detection limit of 0.005 to 0.570 micrograms mercury per gram of high fructose corn syrup. Average [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=voxhortus.wordpress.com&blog=922338&post=318&subd=voxhortus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What I do during the not-field season</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ On the one hand, I want field season to start up again, like today.  On the other, I still have so many specimens to process, so much data to analyze, so many journal articles to read, I could actually skip spring and summer this year and be busy for the next 12 months.
In the field [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=voxhortus.wordpress.com&blog=922338&post=313&subd=voxhortus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://voxhortus.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/what-i-do-during-the-not-field-season/</link>
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		<title>Dung beetles and the scarcity of scat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a good review of an article in Neotropical Entomology (Jacobs, 2008 ) about phoresy and poo-diving strategies in dung beetles: How to Find a Turd in the Woods.
&#8220;Elsewhere, we hear of a research assistant who &#8220;reported that a fecal pellet from a bald-faced saki monkey, with dung beetles attached, fell directly into his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=voxhortus.wordpress.com&blog=922338&post=308&subd=voxhortus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://voxhortus.wordpress.com/2009/01/26/dung-beetles-and-the-scarcity-of-scat/</link>
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		<title>Mac Love, part deux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Mac continues to knock my socks off with its intuitive ease and quiet efficiency.  I found a citation management program for Mac called Bookends and it is, in two words, the shit: basic database, fast as lightning, logical organization.  You can try it for free and store up to 50 citations before you decide [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=voxhortus.wordpress.com&blog=922338&post=301&subd=voxhortus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://voxhortus.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/mac-love-part-deux/</link>
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		<title>Trick Chair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I arrived at my desk in my home office, turned on the computer and sat down.  The left back leg of my chair broke off just then, delivering me loudly to the floor, in somewhat slow motion.   I didn&#8217;t fight it, and when I arrived at my destination, I lied there a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=voxhortus.wordpress.com&blog=922338&post=299&subd=voxhortus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://voxhortus.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/trick-chair-2/</link>
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		<title>Barack Obama</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Makes me want to be a better person.
Favs from the speech:
&#8220;What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them &#8212; that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply.&#8221;
&#8220;&#8230;we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.&#8221;
The benediction, with the &#8220;brown [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=voxhortus.wordpress.com&blog=922338&post=294&subd=voxhortus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://voxhortus.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/barack-obama/</link>
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		<title>Defection: PC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in the midst of migrating all of my files from one laptop to the new one; already I am smitten with the intuitive simplicity of the Mac platform.  I thought about the move for a long time, but then the MacBook Pros went on sale for less than half of full retail; meanwhile PCs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=voxhortus.wordpress.com&blog=922338&post=292&subd=voxhortus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://voxhortus.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/defection-pc/</link>
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		<title>That&#8217;s what they said</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow this blog becomes that of a graduate student.  I love grad student blogs, but many of the ones I read are nearing terminal as people move on into post-docs, academia and beyond.  If you know of any good, in progress, grad student blogs, link me!
I want to say a few things about graduate school, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=voxhortus.wordpress.com&blog=922338&post=285&subd=voxhortus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://voxhortus.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/thats-what-they-said/</link>
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		<title>Salvia leucantha &amp; Pittosporum tenuifolium</title>
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Mexican Bush Sage (Salvia leucantha) is a California staple: colorful and shrubby, it attracts bees and hummingbirds.  This specimen is a bit wild looking, and it&#8217;s probably 6-8 plants grouped together.  You can keep it tighter and tidier looking by shearing it back (almost to the ground if you like) right before it starts actively [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=voxhortus.wordpress.com&blog=922338&post=276&subd=voxhortus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://voxhortus.wordpress.com/2009/01/03/salvia-leucantha/</link>
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		<title>Stash</title>
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Dicentra Designs sock yarn in the delightful shade of Paprika.
I have four projects on the needles right now, and I&#8217;m none too taken with any of them.  The first is the alligator scarf from Morehouse Merino.  The increases and bind offs demand your undivided attention, something I just don&#8217;t have right now.
The second is another [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=voxhortus.wordpress.com&blog=922338&post=272&subd=voxhortus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://voxhortus.wordpress.com/2009/01/02/stash/</link>
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