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        <title><![CDATA[And the bottom falls out of the Science Blogging Universe]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Urban Science Adventures! © I love soda.&nbsp; That she be such a big surprise if you saw my previous post where I admitted to loving junk food.&nbsp; I love science.&nbsp; And you know I loves Science Blogging.&nbsp; But if I had known my little affair of junk food and science and social media would end up in the mess now regarded as #PepsiGate/#SbFail, I would have shunned the tasty but not-so-healthy beverage long ago.&nbsp; You see, Cola has shattered my science blogging world.

July 7th, news began to spread that Scienceblogs (operated by SEED Media Group) was now hosting Advertising blogs - Blogs that paid to be in the Sb Community to blog about a particular subject.&nbsp; At first the idea of Advertising blogs didn't raise any alarms until I read the critique of the whole matter at the much respected Knight Science Journalism Tracker: ScienceBlogs trashes credibility: Leaked response from editor. I then I understood why many of my fave Sb bloggers were in an uproar.&nbsp;

I was grateful that not everyone]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Blog Book Review: Jack in the Box presents Science Kids Mini-books]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Urban Science Adventures! © I love junk food.&nbsp; I just do. And one of my guilty pleasures are kids meals.&nbsp; The other evening I was picking up a hamburger meal at Jack in the Box.&nbsp; BTW, I love Jack.&nbsp; I'm from the south, so&nbsp;this fast food chain was so novel to me when I moved to the Midwest.&nbsp; They serve all kinds of tasty and savory treats.&nbsp; But I digress.
I gobbled my right size burger with the right amount of ketchup and mustard and right size fries and soda.&nbsp; I then automatically grabbed the toy and prepared to just toss it on the back seat.&nbsp; But this was no ordinary kiddie meal toy.&nbsp; It wasn't a toy at all, it was book, a science book, just for kids.

This is the book I have.

Title: Animal Homes
Author: Angela Wilkes
Publisher: Kingfisher

It's&nbsp;a book that explains&nbsp;a very important concept in ecology - habitats.&nbsp; I love how the author&nbsp;explains why animals need homes, how different animals build and use homes, and the different places animals]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Wordless Wednesday: Wild Morning Glories]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Urban Science Adventures! © I was stopped at the westbound I-70 exit of Kingshighway (in St. Louis, Mo) and I noticed these wild morning glories growing from the crack of the sidewalk. These wild flowers, sometimes called hedge bindweed,&nbsp;tend to be white or white and pink (like these).&nbsp;The flower is near the ground and doesn't grow tall but it is viney so it spreads across lawns easily. &nbsp;Here in the city, I often find them&nbsp;growing&nbsp;out of concrete or asphalt and near buildings.
This patch of wild morning glories was thriving in the urban area.This is a close up of the flower. This one was growing on the lawn of Forest Park.

Have you ever noticed this flower before in your neighborhood?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Travelogue: Blogging While Brown - recap #2 - the People and Sessions]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Urban Science Adventures! © I met some amazing people at the Blogging While Brown Conference and I would be remiss if I did not tell you all about them or at least link to their blogs.&nbsp; But first, a highlight video of the Blogging While Brown.



Ananda Leeke – just a sweet spirit and person, started the conference off on the right note – with yoga.&nbsp; Yes.&nbsp; She led all of us early birds on a Yoga and Stress Relief for Social Media Users session.&nbsp; I had to sit behind the table for the hip-opening exercise because I was wearing a skirt, but it was a great set – learning to live in the moment of right now.&nbsp; Breathing in and out.

The Technology Review Session with Media 2.0 Leaders and Innovators Cheryl Contee of Jack &amp; Jill Politics, Angela Benton of Black Web 2.0 and Politic 365, and Adam Conner, Facebook – yes, FB itself was a great session. I halted live tweeted and took physical notes.
A few things I learned: (AC) 300 million of the 400 million Facebook users are non-English]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[An Open Letter to...Nerd Girls]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Urban Science Adventures! © Do I Have What it Takes to be a Nerd Girl? Probably not.

I am a Nerd and I a Girl.&nbsp; I love Science and believe in STEM outreach to under-served audiences by Many Means Necessary.&nbsp; I came across a blog post by USA Science &amp; Engineering Festival that asked the question: “Do You Have What it Takes to be a Nerd Girl?”, and my initial reaction was I sure do.Nerd Girls is an engineering outreach program for girls and young women.&nbsp; Pretty sweet, huh?&nbsp; There’s a television show upcoming and this is the casting call for video auditions.
 
My initial reaction to the video turned my enthusiastic smile into to a frown within 30 seconds. Really? &nbsp;Young women wearing capes, over sized tortoise shell eyeglasses, and very high heels running down hallways reminds me of a comic book.

Who is this message for? (and bookmark this question, because I’ll be asking other STEM outreach efforts this same question in upcoming posts).

THEIR MISSIONWe want to encourage other]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Travelogue: Blogging While Brown - recap #1]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Urban Science Adventures! © The 3rd Annual Blogging While Brown Conference in Washington, DC, June 18-19, 2010 was a smashing success.&nbsp;My very first highlight was being confused with Breakthrough Blogger and Black Weblog Award Best Culture Blog Hall of Famer Afrobella.&nbsp; Seriously, two people on separate occasions thought I was her.&nbsp; Dallas South News Blogger, Shawn Williams was even congratulating me for ‘my appearance in Business magazine’ to which I responded, “What? That’s news to me.&nbsp; Oh, you must be confusing me for someone else.&nbsp;&nbsp; That someone is Afrobella – who is THE leading Beauty blogger in Black Blogosphere, if not the entire Blogosphere.&nbsp; Her fabulous blog has landed her writing and review gigs with Vogue (yes) as a contributor to Vogue Black, AOL Black Voices, and American Airlines’ Black Atlas Web site.
&nbsp;Yeah, I don’t mind at all being her Doppelganger. (But actually, I think she and my great friend Darcella Craven could be twins. Incidently, peo]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Blogging While Brown about Science]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Urban Science Adventures! © Blogging while brown about scienceView more presentations from Danielle Lee.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[I'm here in DC and I'm Blogging While Brown]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Urban Science Adventures! © Hey there! I'm here in DC and the conference is off to a great start.&nbsp; Last was opening night and Saturday the talks start.&nbsp; In fact, I just went through my presentation again.

This is just a quick post to let you know to expect more. Actually, I'll be live blogging and tweeting the whole time, so if you want a blow-by-blow of the conference then go to Twitter. (You don't have to join just to read what everyone is saying). Or you can see that I'm saying at my Facebook Fan Page.

Links are below.&nbsp; Come back!

Urban Science Adventures! © Facebook Fan Page@FeteSociety - that's me on Twitter@BWBConference - Blogging While Brown Conference Twitter#bwb - the hashtag to read what everyone is saying on Twitter at the Conference]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Barcamp 2010 Snapshots…]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The 411... ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: The 411... ]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Mums the Word]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Urban Science Adventures! © Photos of mums (a few bugs, too) I took October 2009 at the Missouri Botanical Garden.
I love these warm colors, oranges and yellows.&nbsp; Makes me want to just make a hair bow out of them.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Preparing for summer camp]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Urban Science Adventures! © Oh, I love summer! I love it, love it, love it.
And I'm very happy to annouce I have secured a fantastic summer position as the supervisor of a local Urban Nature Summer camp program. (Yes, the same one I did last year).

I'm working behind the scenes: interviewing hopeful Outdoor Instructors, calling facilities, making arrangements for the program.&nbsp; I'm also assembling the handbook of activities.&nbsp; We have a notebook full of classic raccoon circle activities that are always a hit and I've come across some new gems related to the same ideas.&nbsp; I just had to share these with you.&nbsp; I want everyone to appreciate how much the outdoors can be (and how much fun learning about ecology is, too.)

Thinks of these links as activity guides for any children you may have this summer (camp counselor, family reunions, scouting trips, babysitting, anything)
101 Nature Activities from Sanborn Western Camps
Environmental Education Activities &amp; Games&nbsp;
100 + Things You Can Do Ou]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Carpal Tunnel Syndrome…]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The 411... AUTHOR&#8217;S NOTE: For everyone who works daily on a computer&#8230; The daily mistakes in keyboard and mouse usage will result in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome! Use the keyboard and mouse correctly! View below for the RIGHT TECHNIQUES&#8230; HAND EXERCISES FOR CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME:]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: The 411... AUTHOR&#8217;S NOTE: For everyone who works daily on a computer&#8230; The daily mistakes in keyboard and mouse usage will result in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome! Use the keyboard and mouse correctly! View below for the RIGHT TECHNIQUES&#8230; HAND EXERCISES FOR CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME:]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[A World Without Engineers…]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: The 411... ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: The 411... ]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Vole upstages President Obama's Rose Garden Press Conference]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Urban Science Adventures! © The headlines read: "Rodent Scurries Past Obama in the Rose Garden".



The vole has been described as a gate crasher and upstager, because the critter has definitely caught our collective attention.&nbsp; That may be true, but in actuality, maybe it was President Obama and the Press Corps that was disturbing the rodent.&nbsp; It was scurrying back and forth making its way from one safe area (the cover of bushes) to the other past the podium and eyes of hundreds of upright potential predators (the press).

Everyone has debated the species identity of the critter as a rat, mouse, or mole.&nbsp; It was in fact a vole.&nbsp; I dare say it was a meadow vole, Microtus pennsylvanicus.&nbsp;&nbsp;I say that because of it size, length, of tail, geographic location, and general appearance (assuming I’m seeing a good quality picture).&nbsp; I wonder what my other Microtus researcher friends would conclude?
Unlike rats, voles are much smaller in size.&nbsp; Unlike mice (and rats), voles have ve]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Vole upstages President Obama's Rose Garden Press Conference]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Urban Science Adventures! © threeup_js('Politics', '584358', '2');
   

The headlines read: "Rodent Scurries Past Obama in the Rose Garden". 



The vole has been described as a gate crasher and upstager, because the critter has definitely caught our collective attention. That may be true, but in actuality, maybe it was President Obama and the Press Corps that was disturbing the rodent. It was scurrying back and forth making its way from one safe area (the cover of bushes) to the other past the podium and eyes of hundreds of upright potential predators (the press).

Everyone has debated the species identity of the critter as a rat, mouse, or mole. It was in fact a vole. I dare say it was a meadow vole, Microtus pennsylvanicus. I say that because of it size, length, of tail, geographic location,&nbsp;plus general appearance and grayish color&nbsp;(assuming I’m seeing a good quality picture). I wonder what my other Microtus researcher friends would conclude?

Unlike rats, voles are much smaller in size. Unli]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Blogging While Brown Conference Twittercast]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Urban Science Adventures! © Join The Blogging While Brown Conference organizers, attendees, and presenter tonight, Wednesday, May 19, 2010 for a Twittercast.  

It will be a chance for fellow conference attendees to  discuss objectives, answer questions and connect.&nbsp; It's also a sneak peak into to the dialogue and people who will be at this amazing conference. 

 Twitter address is http://www.twitter.com/bwbconference (@BWBConference)
 
The hash tag for tonight's twittercast is #bwb You can follow the discussion be either following us on twitter are  going a twitter search for #bwb.

The Twittercast will go from 8:00PM to 9:00PM EDT. That's 7:00PM-8:00  CDT. 

 I'll be there: @FeteSociety (www.twitter.com/FeteSociety).  Ask me questions about the panel Beyond  Gossip, Hip Hop, Hair, and Politics:Bloggers as Change Agents and  Educators&nbsp;I want you to participate, too.Now, until the conference (June 19-20, 2010) there will be weekly Twittercasts at&nbsp; 8:00 pm EST/7:00 CST.&nbsp;You can also attend the]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Honesty is always the best policy…]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The 411... ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: The 411... ]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[My Final Commencement Ceremony]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Urban Science Adventures! © I graduate next week. I’ve been in school a LONG, LONG time – almost non-stop since I was 4 years old. My PhD has taken a wee bit longer than the average to complete (7 years is the average). But hey, I’m not complaining. I enjoyed what I studied. I learned a lot – about science, my research project turned out to be brilliant, and about the politics of academia including battling the forces of frustration known as IACUC. To be honest, although it took me a while to finish, it didn’t feel like it. 

Yes, I had the normal hiccups – getting animals, keeping them alive, crying when they died, got some more animals, teaching too many classes, socializing too much, got occasionally lazy or depressed or frustrated, waiting on papers, writing grants, got a job, fighting with statistics, and personal life crises. Then I bounced back – quit the job, returned to the school routine, got a lot of work done, presented research, wrote it up, and defended. In my head I’m just an extend]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Urban Science Adventures! © I have been selected as a panelist/presenter at the 3rd Annual Blogging While Brown Conference. I attended this same conference last year and was initially unsure of what I might gain from the conference, I was pleasantly surprised and was very glad I had attended.&nbsp; I learned some new things about the technology and direction of social media among communities of color.&nbsp; But more importantly, I met some amazing people, some amazingly supportive people.&nbsp;&nbsp;I was feeling as if the Black Blog-o-sphere seemed dominated by pop culture and political commentary, and that blogs about science/nature/education&nbsp;written by people of color seemed&nbsp;overlooked.

Social media (and the real life interactions that come about from it) are just one of many ways to engage people in ideas and actions.&nbsp; The people in that room helped me realize that we could work together, leveraging our strengths (and blog audiences) and&nbsp;helped me achieve some very important goals related]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Diversity in Science Carnival # 9: All Shades of Green is up]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: Urban Science Adventures! © Yes, it's a party!&nbsp; Celebrating the people of Science and Engineering!
With April being the month we celebrate Earth Day, Arbor Day, and Environmental Education what better way to celebrate these Green activities than to celebrate the people who make Green happen. 
Diversity in Science Carnival #9 - All Shades of Green.

Dianne Glave of Rooted in the Earth - a blog about Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage, hosted her very first carnival.&nbsp; And I love her take on the theme - A 'Scratch-n-Sniff' Blog Carnival: "What does April (spring) smell like to you?"&nbsp; Each submitter shares his/her story and blog post.

It's great.&nbsp; Check it out and please leave a comment at each author's page.

Plus, be sure to join us for Diversity in Science Carnival&nbsp;#10: Shattering Stereotypes in STEM, hosted&nbsp;at Quiche Moraine.&nbsp;We are inviting all posts that challege pre-conceptions and mis-conceptions of who scientists/engineers are, what they look like, how]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Urban Science Adventures! © When I was in San Francisco I did the tourist-y things.&nbsp; I took the double-decker bus to Fisherman's Wharf, China Town, and the Golden Gate Bridge. I love the Bay.&nbsp; I can see why people bit the bullet and pay the huge costs of living to call The Bay home.&nbsp; I certainly would.

The Bay - the sea and land areas near it is a multi-use area.&nbsp; Once a very important&nbsp;naval base for defense, The City's Naval history is still noticeable.&nbsp; But people also enjoy tour excursions out on the water, visits to&nbsp;Alcatraz, plus recreational water sports.&nbsp; It's an amazing place full of beauty and wildlife.&nbsp; 
Then I wonder, how does all of this human activity - this city and its water use and disposal of waste water, these vessels for transportation all coexist with the natural world. No doubt nature takes a hit, but who are the people and agencies responsible for being responsible?
As I was walking along the boardwalk, I came across this interpretive display.

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        <description><![CDATA[From: Urban Science Adventures! © Happy Earth Day!Today marks the 40th annual celebration of the Earth.&nbsp; Let's celebrate it and let's appreciate it.&nbsp; We've only got one home (planet), let's take care of it.&nbsp; Hope you get to enjoy the Earth Day activities in your area.&nbsp; Get outdoors,pick up litter, recycle, bicylce, hike, walk, bird watch, and find something great to enjoy!

I'm headed to Murray State University (in Kentucky).&nbsp; I've giving my first ever seminar talk.&nbsp; College science departments often have weekly or monthly speakers come and talk about their research.&nbsp; As a grad student, it's a regular thing to see and hear professors from all over the region or nation come and talk about the papers we may be reading.&nbsp; Undergraduates sometimes attend.&nbsp; But as a newly minted PhD this is a big deal to meal.&nbsp; It's like a debutante ball!&nbsp; I'll be giving a talk about my dissertation research - a reacap of my&nbsp;defense talk I gave a little more than a month ago.&nbsp;]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Urban Science Adventures! © Happy International Beaver Day! photo credit: Gainesville State College Tumbling Creek Woods Beaver Pond web page Today, Tuesday, April 7th is International Beaver Day! The Beavers, Wetlands and Wildlife Organization is trying to show people how important beavers really are, and the group has produced an educational DVD and sent 1,000 copies to teachers all over the state of New York.One member says the beaver is one of the most important wild animals for a number of reasons. First, because they build dams and prevent flooding. And second, because beavers protect us from greenhouse gas emissions."Beaver wetlands, like all wetlands, are the best ecosystem for storing carbon," said Sharon Brown, of Beavers, Wetlands, and Wildlife. "And if they are destroyed, carbon dioxide goes into the air and that's a dangerous greenhouse gas."April 7 was chosen as International Beaver Day because it is the birthday of the late Dorothy Richards of Little Falls, who studied beavers for 50 years. Beavers]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Urban Science Adventures! © I visited the Bay area (San Francisco and Berkeley, California) for the first time year.  I LOVED the Bay.  I could so live there. Spring time blooms in Union Square, San FranciscoThe color of San Francisco is violet.  These blue-violet colored flowers seemed to be everywhere. This picture was taken at Golden Gate Park.This plant reminds me of the water pickerels in Missouri.  Are they related? I'm asking my botany friends. A very pretty in pink cultivar.  Notice the bee?Berekely Daisy-type flowers, you know Asteriidae were my favorite flowers. Isn't the purple color just lovely.  The bright California sunshine really made the color pop!Berekely I just loved this flower when I saw it.  Warm tones like dark oranges, yellows and reds are my favorite colors.Berekely Staring down the center I seemed to be carried away.  I loved low the uniformly yellow-orange flower had a deeper hue in the middle near the anthers and filament.  The anthers and petals are the exact same hue. Lovely.My frien]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Urban Science Adventures! © When I have the great fortune to travel from place to place, I take my camera with me and document the local scences and wildlife. My photojournalism usually starts right out the gate with take off. It's fascinating to me to see a city, my own or a new one, from a few hundred feet above. The structures and natural landscapes are still discernable and the vantage is always breathtaking. It really puts an area in perspective. Usually, I notice how most cities are more green than we can really appreciate. Usually there are patches of woods or prairies or water systems connected together by pencil then traces separately by roads. Mainly because airports are pesky places to live, these areas are usually very nice urban wildlife refuges.My most recent trip - a visit to San Francisco for a Coalition for the Public Understanding of Science Focus group, I flew into Minneapolis and noticed the rising water levels that have been making the news. Minneapolis, Minnesota near the airport. Saturday,]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Urban Science Adventures! © yes, I took this picture.Spotted on Sunday: Me and my family at one of our National Parks - the Gateway Arch &amp; Jefferson Nation Expansion Memorial. We visted the Gateway Arch when they were in town (St. Lousi) for my defense.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Urban Science Adventures! © Wow! It's April already. The last couple of weeks have been like a whirlwind. I was completely preoccupied with defending my dissertation, but things didn't slow down after that. It picked up speed. Let me recap the last couple of weeks.I defended March 10. That's my celebration cake featuring, yes, buttercream prairie voles - a whole family, including mama vole with attacked pinky pups.Visited San Francisco for the first time in my life. It was grand. I love it. Saw all of the sights. Took one of those double-decker tour buses and saw all of the sights.Really, really great science museum. It's a Planetarium, Aquarium, Natural History Museum, and Terrarium all in one. Plus, it has a living roof. I checked out the Sharks &amp; Rays swimming.ChinatownI serendipitously discovered that the American Chemical Society was in San Francisco a the same time for the Spring 2010 National Meeting &amp; Exposition. This scientific society is so large they host spring and summer meetings. Insane. I t]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Urban Science Adventures! © Outdoor Afro has initiated a new Sunday Meme - Spotted on Sunday (SOS)! These posts are a fun way to help make visible people of color outdoors enjoying all types of recreational activities.Anyone can submit a photo to Outdoor Afro via email, if you first obtain:consent to take and share the picturename(s) of the individuals — last names not requiredlocation and brief description of the activityI’ll select one SOS photo to post each weekend, but all submissions are entered into a monthly drawing to win an Outdoor Afro ceramic travel mug, through July 30, 2010. Winners will be notified via email.So…join the SOS effort to help make people of color be visible in America’s natural spaces and get a chance to win some cool OA swag!These are pictures of my niece, enjoying herself at the the Missouri Botanical Garden.  She's a burgeoning naturalist, just like her Aunt. (Smile)]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Urban Science Adventures! © I met Dr. Rubye Torrey (yes, with an e) as an undergraduate student at Tennessee Technological University. I had seen in the University Center, walking along the Quad, in the Administration building and at football games. She was the Assistant Vice-President of Research at the University, but that meant nothing to me, although I was studying science and doing research with live animals. At the time I had absolutely no appreciation of research administration, research protocols, policies, animal care (IACUC), review boards ( IRB), or the role of administrators like Dr. Torrey – that would eventually occupy my days and nights as a graduate student. No, I officially met her for the first time on a blustery winter’s evening in 1994. I was attending an interest tea and she was the sorority advisor. She struck me as a very formal woman. She had a sweet face, but I immediately sensed she was no nonsense. I was quite right.My three years under her tutelage and supervision in Xi Alpha Chap]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: Urban Science Adventures! © Whenever a news source or blog community claims to be a go-to source of information for African-American audiences, I take a quick look at the tabs or regular feature titles and I always find one major subject area lacking: Science.  To be fair, science coverage across all media outlets has been severely cut back. However, long before the threat of extinction of print media, Black Newspapers and Magazines didn't have much to offer in the area of science coverage. And when online media became more popular, the trend didn't change. Where's the science? Other than the occasional Black health update and the annual Black History Month profile articles, Black periodicals do not feature science news. The lone exception is if the article has a Black angle, in other words, if the article can be tied directly to issues that identify with the African-American community, such as disparity statistics or African-American firsts.Acknowledging some past confrontations with research communities, there]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Who Works More?]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Social Outcast…]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The 411... ]]></description>
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        <pubDate> <![CDATA[Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 -0700]]></pubDate>

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        <title><![CDATA[Social Outcast…]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The 411... ]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Google Calculator fails…]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The 411... ]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Google Calculator fails…]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The 411... ]]></description>
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        <pubDate> <![CDATA[Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 -0700]]></pubDate>

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        <title><![CDATA[What’s the use?]]></title>
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        <pubDate> <![CDATA[Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 -0700]]></pubDate>

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        <title><![CDATA[What’s the use?]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The 411... ]]></description>
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        <pubDate> <![CDATA[Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 -0700]]></pubDate>

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        <title><![CDATA[The Placenta Party of Kenya…]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The 411... AUTHOR&#8217;S NOTE:
Last week, Esther Arunga &#38; Joseph Hellon held another press conference to reveal how insane they are. Their political party is called The Placenta Party of Kenya because according to Hellon, the country&#8217;s in a &#8220;gestation period&#8221; with its tagline being &#8220;Taking back Kenya, change we can count on.&#8221; Catch how Esther &#38; Hellon [...]]]></description>
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        <pubDate> <![CDATA[Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 -0700]]></pubDate>

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        <title><![CDATA[The Placenta Party of Kenya…]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: The 411... AUTHOR&#8217;S NOTE:
Last week, Esther Arunga &#38; Joseph Hellon held another press conference to reveal how insane they are. Their political party is called The Placenta Party of Kenya because according to Hellon, the country&#8217;s in a &#8220;gestation period&#8221; with its tagline being &#8220;Taking back Kenya, change we can count on.&#8221;Catch how Esther &#38; Hellon announced [...]]]></description>
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        <pubDate> <![CDATA[Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 -0700]]></pubDate>

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