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Objectives SyllabusChapter 25 xtra credit Nanodiamond Find Supports Comet Extinction Theory National Geographic News 1/5/09
Chapter 26 xtra credit Redrafting the Tree of Life Science Now 9/8/04
Chapter 30 xtra credit CAN THIS FRUIT BE SAVED? Popular Science 06/19/05
Chapter 10 xtra credit A Prayerbook's Secret: Archimedes Lies Beneath NPR 7/27/06
Chapter 32 xtra credit Strange Creatures - A Burgess Shale Fossil Sampler National Museum of Natural History
Chapter 33 xtra credit The humble leech's medical magic BBC News Online 7/2/04
Chapter 34 xtra credit Is it true turtles breathe through their butts? The Straight Dope 11/16/01
Chapter 34 xtra credit Sea Lamprey: The Battle Continues Minnesota Sea Grant 3/6/09
Chapter 35 xtra credit Maple sap flow SUNY Plant Physiology
Chapter 35 xtra credit Grass Growth and Response to Grazing Colorado State University Extension 1/06
Chapter 36 xtra credit Dutch Elm Disease Colorado State U. 8/24/04
Chapter 37 xtra credit Brazil Is Satisfying Its Fuel Needs From Sugar Cane New York Times 4/10/06
Chapter 39 xtra credit Digitalis Molecule of the Month Sep 96
Chapter 40 xtra credit Osteoporosis: Calcium matters--but how? Nutrition Health Review 1996
Chapter 41 xtra credit Beyond Botox Time 5/19/03
Chapter 41 xtra credit Why is, um, fecal matter brown? The Straight Dope 2/27/87
Chapter 41 xtra credit the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine 10/3/05
Chapter 43 xtra credit Women Can Smell Genetic Differences ABC News 1/22/09
Chapter 43 xtra credit Women attracted to men who smell like dad New Scientist 1/21/02
Chapter 45 xtra credit FDA Approves New Drug Therapy For Osteoporosis FDA 8/18/1995
Chapter 45 xtra credit Oxytocin increases trust in humans Nature 6/2/05
Chapter 45 xtra credit Spy Moth Cyborg On/Off Switch Perfected Technovelgy 12/10/2008
Chapter 46 xtra credit Pregnancy test NLM/NIH Medical Encyclopedia 11/30/04
Chapter 49 xtra credit Controversial Psychosurgery Resulted in a Nobel Prize Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine 10/29/98
Chapter 49 xtra credit The Truth About Lie Detectors (aka Polygraph Tests) Psychology Matters
Chapter 50 xtra credit Superloud moth jams bat sonar Science News 1/31/09
Chapter 51 xtra credit Red Knot Migration and Horseshoe Crab Conservation in the Delaware Bay Wildlife Conservation Society
Chapter 51 xtra credit Pheromones, in context APA Online Oct 02
Chapter 51 xtra credit Fat Birds Great Moments in Science 11/25/03
Chapter 51 xtra credit Pavlovian salmon The Independent 1/10/2004
Chapter 52 xtra credit Wildland Fire in Yellowstone Yellowstone National Park 12/22/04
Chapter 54 xtra credit Parasitoid Turns Its Host Into A Bodyguard ScienceDaily 6/9/08
Chapter 55 xtra credit The U.S. Ban on DDT Environmental Defense 4/4/05
Chapter 56 xtra credit Atlantic Bluefin Tuna - Severity of Decline and its Causes BigMarineFish.com 2004
Chapter 56 xtra credit Empty Nets: Fisheries may be crippling themselves by targeting the big ones Science News 6/4/05
Chapter 56 xtra credit Vanishing Before Our Eyes Time 4/26/00
