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• Traditional medicine is thriving in North Korea

  
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  David Guttenfelder’s photo of the ancient ginseng root referred to in the quote below An interesting Associated Press article on the prevalence of Traditional Korean Medicine (called Koryo Medicine) in North Korea: “Doctors are more interested in Koryo medicine rather than Western medicine because they can get ...
  2 weeks ago

• Scientists Identify Novel Genetic Markers For Lou Gehrig’s Disease In Han Chinese

  
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  Scientists have identified two novel genetic variants associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also referred to as Lou Gehrig’s disease, in the Han Chinese population.
  2 weeks ago

• The Chemistry of Almost Everything

  
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  This collection of videos really surprised me. Honestly, I expected it to a bit dull and only picked it because I wanted to give a video I had passed over several times a fair viewing, but it ended up as a bit of a treat. Produced by the Open University and narrated by Professor Steven Ley of Cambridge University, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rhino horn madness: over two rhinos killed a day in South Africa

  
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  Rhino poachers have killed 232 rhinos during 2013 so far in South Africa, reports Annamiticus, which averages out to 2.1 a day. The country has become a flashpoint for rhino poaching as it holds more rhinos than any other country on Earth. Rhinos are being slaughter for their horns, which are believed to be a curative ...
  3 weeks ago

• Lions for sale: big game hunting combines with lion bone trade to threaten endangered cats

  
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  Koos Hermanus would rather not give names to the lions he breeds. So here, behind a 2.4-meter high electric fence, is 1R, a three-and-a-half-year-old male, who consumes 5kg of meat a day and weighs almost 200kg. It will only leave its enclosure once it has been "booked" by a hunter, most of whom are from the United ...
  4 weeks ago

• Double bad: Chinese vessel that collided with protected coral reef holding 22,000 pounds of pangolin meat

  
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  What do you do when youre smuggling 22,000 pounds of an endangered species on your boat? Answer: crash into a protected coral reef in the Philippines. Last Monday a Chinese vessel slammed into a coral reef in the Tubbataha National Marine Park; on Saturday the Filipino coastguard discovered 400 boxes of pangolin meat ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Staggering Costs of Taiwans Psuedoscience Stupidity

  
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  Bamboo farm outside Taichung. My man Greg McCann, who works on tiger and forest preservation in SE Asia, alerted me to this piece on Mongabay about this study  on trade in Tokay geckos, accounting for millions of deaths: The study found that a spike in tokay gecko demand due to rumors that it could cure ...
  5 weeks ago

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