<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[A Blog Around The Clock]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://blog.coturnix.org]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Bora Zivkovic]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://blog.coturnix.org/author/coturnix/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[My picks from&nbsp;ScienceDaily]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080324111509.htm" target="_blank" title="">Americans Sleeping More, Not Less, Says New Study</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Contrary to conventional wisdom, Americans average as much sleep as they did 40 years ago, and possibly more, according to University of Maryland sociologists.</p></blockquote>
<p>Yes, when you suddenly start including the unemployed in the study.<br />
<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080320120732.htm" target="_blank" title="">Mantis Shrimp Vision Reveals New Way That Animals Can See</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Mantis shrimp can see the world in a way that had never been observed in any animal before, researchers report in the March 20th Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. The discovery&#8211;which marks the fourth type of visual system&#8211;suggests that the ability to perceive circular polarized light may lend mantis shrimp a secret mode of communication.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080324173459.htm" target="_blank" title="">Ants Are Experienced Fungus Farmers</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>It turns out ants, like humans, are true farmers. The difference is that ants are farming fungus.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080324091101.htm" target="_blank" title="">Delicate Partnership Between Coral And Algae Threatened By Global Warming</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Over two hundred million humans depend for their subsistence on the fact that coral has an addiction to &#8216;junk food&#8217; &#8211; and orders its partners, the symbiotic algae, to make it.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080324173612.htm" target="_blank" title="">Insects Take A Bigger Bite Out Of Plants In A Higher Carbon Dioxide World</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are rising at an alarming rate, and new research indicates that soybean plant defenses go down as CO2 goes up. Elevated CO2 impairs a key component of the plant&#8217;s defenses against leaf-eating insects, according to the report.</p></blockquote>
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