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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Conversations about the natural world with Dr. Curt Stager and Martha Foley, from member-supported North Country Public Radio]]></itunes:summary>
    <itunes:subtitle>Conversations about the natural world with Dr. Curt Stager and Martha Foley, from member-supported North Country Public Radio</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>Natural Selections: Flowers, bees... and caffeine</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Plants have many strategies for manipulating animals to do their bidding. Some flowers focus the attention of their pollinators with a familiar pick-me-up?caffeine. Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager discuss the natural world.]]></description>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Plants have many strategies for manipulating animals to do their bidding. Some flowers focus the attention of their pollinators with a familiar pick-me-up?caffeine. Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager discuss the natural world.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Natural Selections: Continental Drift</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The theory of continental drift?the idea that the continents are islands of rock adrift on the earth&apos;s molten core?first gained acceptance in the 1960s. Dr. Curt Stager and Martha Foley talk about the consequences of their extreme slow motion collisions?earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 04:13:19 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Natural Selections: Spider Webs</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Spiders from big to tiny use their webs to snag and trap prey in fascinating ways. One spider even then reels in tiny gnats that come to &#34;roost&#34; on the web. The silky constructions are wonders of engineering and construction. They&apos;re also highly specialized, spider to spider, as Martha Foley hears from Dr. Curt Stager in this week&apos;s edition of Natural Selections.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 02:02:48 -0400</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Spiders from big to tiny use their webs to snag and trap prey in fascinating ways. One spider even then reels in tiny gnats that come to &#34;roost&#34; on the web. The silky constructions are wonders of engineering and construction. They&apos;re also highly specialized, spider to spider, as Martha Foley hears from Dr. Curt Stager in this week&apos;s edition of Natural Selections.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Natural Selections: Porcupines</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Dr. Curt Stager tells co-host Martha Foley why and how porcupines climb trees?and why it can be a dangerous job. Plus, what to do when one lives under (and gnaws on) your porch. Get up close, but not too close, to porcupines.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 12:03:34 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Natural Selections: Passenger Pigeons</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Once so numerous they darkened the sky for days while migrating, passenger pigeons arrived in this region in early May each year. Dr. Curt Stager and Martha Foley remember this once ubiquitous species wiped out by human hunting in the nineteenth century.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:43:18 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Natural Selections: Pollen</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Is a bad year for pollen allergy sufferers a good year for plants? Why does some pollen cause stronger reactions? Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager look at the birds and bees, as practiced by the flowers and trees.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 07:43:25 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Natural Selections: Leaf Cutter Ants</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Why do Leaf Cutter Ants cut leaves? Nesting material, food? As Martha Foley and Curt Stager explain, these ants are composting. What they actually eat grows on the rotting leaves.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 05:43:17 -0400</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Why do Leaf Cutter Ants cut leaves? Nesting material, food? As Martha Foley and Curt Stager explain, these ants are composting. What they actually eat grows on the rotting leaves.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Natural Selections: Whirligig Beetles</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Watching whirligig water beetles, found in circling clumps on the surface of calm fresh water, is a favorite childhood activity of many, including one-time child Martha Foley. Dr. Curt Stager explains the method behind their madcap collective behavior. (Note: Dr. William Romey teaches at SUNY Potsdam.)]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 03:33:33 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Natural Selections: Exploding Flowers</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Some flowers open quickly, and some are even spring-loaded?like the venus fly trap?but the floral deployment speed record belongs to the lowly dogwood relative, the bunchberry, which when triggered opens its tiny four-petal bloom in less than a millisecond. Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager discuss flower power.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 01:33:26 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Natural Selections: Dandelions</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Martha Foley mows her lawn just before the dandelions go to seed, hoping to keep their numbers down, but there&apos;s another whole crop right behind?why? Dr. Curt Stager dug into the story and found the answer in the sex life?or lack thereof?of dandelions.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:54:27 -0400</pubDate>
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