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	<title>Comments on: Lyndel Meinhardt is searching for heartier chocolate in the rainforest</title>
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		<title>By: Chocolate boosts brain, visual powers &#124; Chocolate-Covered-Treats.com</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chocolate boosts brain, visual powers &#124; Chocolate-Covered-Treats.com</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 18:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Lyndel Meinhardt is searching for heartier chocolate in the rainforest [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Deborah Byrd</title>
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		<dc:creator>Deborah Byrd</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Steve, thanks for asking.   We&#039;re funded via grants and contracts from federal agencies like NASA, NOAA and the National Science Foundations and from science institutes, corporations and foundations ... That&#039;s how pretty much as all science outreach is funded - by science companies or organizations.  

I understand your question about seeds.  Consider this, though.   There&#039;s no more &#039;nature&#039; on Earth as nature existed hundreds of years ago.  What exists now is an ecosystem containing both nature and humanity.  Humans have come to dominate Earth.  Will the plant be stronger with human intervention?  Not sure what stronger means exactly, but the goal, for us humans, is to create seeds that can survive the coming century of rapid environmental change.  We caused that change of course - things like climate change, and alien species introduced to new areas by human travel - just by the fact of our existence and our population numbers.  Now many scientists are working to help humanity survive and remain (or become) prosperous and comfortable in this century.  It&#039;s a very human endeavor.  So it&#039;s not a perfect endeavor.

Thanks for visiting!  Please return and comment again.

Deborah</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Steve, thanks for asking.   We&#8217;re funded via grants and contracts from federal agencies like NASA, NOAA and the National Science Foundations and from science institutes, corporations and foundations &#8230; That&#8217;s how pretty much as all science outreach is funded &#8211; by science companies or organizations.  </p>
<p>I understand your question about seeds.  Consider this, though.   There&#8217;s no more &#8216;nature&#8217; on Earth as nature existed hundreds of years ago.  What exists now is an ecosystem containing both nature and humanity.  Humans have come to dominate Earth.  Will the plant be stronger with human intervention?  Not sure what stronger means exactly, but the goal, for us humans, is to create seeds that can survive the coming century of rapid environmental change.  We caused that change of course &#8211; things like climate change, and alien species introduced to new areas by human travel &#8211; just by the fact of our existence and our population numbers.  Now many scientists are working to help humanity survive and remain (or become) prosperous and comfortable in this century.  It&#8217;s a very human endeavor.  So it&#8217;s not a perfect endeavor.</p>
<p>Thanks for visiting!  Please return and comment again.</p>
<p>Deborah</p>
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		<title>By: steve</title>
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		<dc:creator>steve</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>how are you funded?  if a plant we use for food has existed in nature without man&#039;s cultivation, will it be stronger than what scientists are creating for seed now?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>how are you funded?  if a plant we use for food has existed in nature without man&#8217;s cultivation, will it be stronger than what scientists are creating for seed now?</p>
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