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SOURCE: New Yorker
4/13/2020
The Pandemic Is Not a Natural Disaster
by Kate Brown
Zoonotic diseases can seem like earthquakes; they appear to be random acts of nature. In fact, they are more like hurricanes—they can occur more frequently, and become more powerful, if human beings alter the environment in the wrong ways.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
November 30, 2019
The Narwhal Tusk Has a Mystical History. A New Chapter was added on London Bridge.
by Miriam Berger
For centuries Europeans sought out the “unicorn horn” of the arctic-dwelling narwhal whale.
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SOURCE: Time
5/3/19
A Beluga Whale Is Allegedly a Russian Spy. There's a Long History of Marine Mammals in the Military
In the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, the Soviet authorities reportedly trained beluga wales, dolphins, sea lions and fur seals to search for underwater mines and other objects.
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