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In some aspects we could say that, given the high number of USSR tanks, ships and weapons that are being destroyed by the Ukrainian army just right now. USSR was a necessary collaborator in this invasion.
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It helps to round up the yearly number of doctorates at the end of the Academy calendar. Maybe the thesis production was getting a little slow for them this year.
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> Where is the monument to the Beef Cow? With or without monument, It always will have a very special place on my stomach.
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Probably. And then giving the mice the superpowers of wolverine. Everybody loves this when it happens to a human in a film, no matter how much radioactive spiders will be crushed. If this makes you feel better while watching your plaster dr
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Being blind to most of your surroundings is very sad. Can I suggest you to start with the interesting genus Ramonda?
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> How many wrightii or thurberii's do we need As much as the authors would want to honor people that were important for them. Is their privilege as discoverers to choose a name. Carl Thunberg 1743-1828 was a Swedois called the fathe
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by pvaldes 2y ago
Scientific language is not like Portuguese or English. Is a language in the same way as math or music are languages. Is a method universal to name things unequivocally with a fixed set of rules --and-- to honor the people that sweated blood
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Changing the name of a species means that the species is not traceable anymore on the bibliography. Not unless you memorize every single change first. This is not a trivial task and the trend of AI to invent facts could made it an impossibl
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Species names change all the time for --Scientific-- reasons. That reflects that our knowledge about the species has improved. This move is totally unrelated with science, is bipartisan (not all scientists agree that the local toponym caffr
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> no one has ever agreed on everything Every biologist since 1700 agreed to use the Taxonomic rules (or tried, and failed, to improve the system). This collective project is one of our main success as species. Or maybe we should say &quo
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We could also rename Harry Potter to Harry Clerk, to avoid the nasty racism of the producers of China Pottery. Without asking J.K. what thinks about it of course. The opinion of the scientists that choose Erythrina caffra instead the much m
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South Park nailed it. Once you open this door all is an endless road of somebody, somewhere, feeling outraged by something, and demanding to be changed. In the end the goal seems to destroy one of the few things that we still agreed to do c
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This is politicizing science, that is unfortunately a fashion trend currently, and a big problem in itself. "Science is good if it coincides with my ideology or is only focused in cherry-picking facts that I like" is a very danger
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If not animal cruelty, is definitely animal stupidity (and by animal I mean human animal) We talk about eating a big animal that died from some unknown cause (maybe plastics?, or poisons?, diseases?), and then resurfaced after a while by th
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A male of a rare species of Mesoplodon, a relatively big (5m), pelagic toothed whale. Very interesting discovery that will allow to look at their DNA and find its position in the family. This group of animals are the least studied big mamma
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> it’s one of the lamest, most peaceful, bungled insurrections on the books Some people died that day But the real problem is to miss the multilayered nature of this operations.
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A different kind of problem. Sometimes there are just five people working on a particular theme. Avoiding entirely to cite your previous work because some people could frown is stupid. Hides a fifth of the extant knowledge to the readers fo
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Kids are more naive, are learning monkeys, so they will test the limits and commit mistakes. Is part of being a kid. But giving your kid a magic device so criminals from each coin of the planet have a door that leads directly to your childr
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And schools are routinely spying kids and selling their info to <bigcompany>. Your move.
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Is a fact that marine cages boost biodiversity or, being more precise, alter biodiversity. There are clear visible benefits on the fish schools and damages on the bottom invertebrate communities. I had seen tuna cages at the sea ant there a
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Of course. All animals need to eat. And don't make me talk about how many tons of wild fish consume the domestic cats in the planet each day.
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> Claiming that tourism is just a negative is just plainly wrong Would be a logical step if your real goal is to attack the economy of the country. Foreign agents are getting short of ideas in the book it seems Or surely I'm paranoi
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Is unclear. On one side they send deliberately many jailbirds to a certain death, but also lots of young and naive Russians that weren't criminals. On the other side, every Russian soldier that will survive the war has became a hardene
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Or even better do it an isolated area to filter as much noise as possible
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A great example. Definitely useful
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Even better, as we are writing a wish list: 4. Reinforce control of the chemical polluters Push to assure that as much people as possible are supplied with food and water that are clean of cancer triggering chemicals. Educate people about s
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Very interesting how they divest the focus into the gardeners and not into the creators of the tomato. The common title would be sort of: "Scientists make a genetically modified purple tomato made with snapdragon DNA", but that co
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So a donut sandwich is 4th dimensional sushi.
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Mastiff dogs are the real culprits in more cases that people would expect. Had been videotaped doing exactly this. A wolf pack will kill the prey, two mastiffs just bite, sit and wait watching the cow die. They can't kill the cow effic
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Thanks for that link. I'm happy with my Lincoln electric but had missed this videos.

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