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From Peter Dearden, an evolutionary biologist, working on insects from New Zealand. Does science to support the conservation of Kākāpō, giant land snails and penguins. Director of Genomics Aotearoa and Deputy Director of Bioprotection Aotearoa.
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on evidence in medicine (opens the original)
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There is a line in Tim Minchin’s excellent beat poem ‘Storm’1,1 in which he asks and answers an important question.Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published"By definition," I begin "Alternative Medicine," I continue "Has either not been proved to work Or been proved not to work Do you know what they call alternative medicine That's been proved to work? Medicine."What Tim is
on Sandflies (opens the original)
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New Zealand is a spectacular country. The west coast of the South Island, in particular, combines huge snowy mountains and glaciers with ancient forests, beaches and swamps. While you gaze at this incredible broken landscape, the native fauna is likely to be extracting your blood.New Zealand’s spectacular landscapes are haunted by something we call sandflies1. These little biting flies come, at every opportunity, to suck your blood. The female flies use the protein in blood to make eggs, and so
on Dogs (opens the original)
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My dog has eyebrows. He used to have just eyebrow lumps, but as he has aged, they have turned into white, expressive eyebrows. This has led to an increased ability to suggest that he has never been fed at any time in his life, merely by standing by his bowl and raising them, as if to say “will no one take pity on this poor neglected dog”?<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2jWF!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-
on the ‘duck incident’ (opens the original)
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Friendship is born from adversity. Some of the best friends you will make come from occasions in your life when hardship threatens. Two of our best friends were formed the frozen wastes of deepest England, a friendship catalysed by a duck.It was last century, when Petra and I found ourselves living in Cambridge, in the U.K. We had a tiny flat in a terrace in east Cambridge, and a very, very tiny car, which we could afford to drive for a few days after payday. I was building my expertise in the d
on ships (opens the original)
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Early this year I had the immense privilege of visiting a museum in Portsmouth in the U.K. My son is very keen on historical ships, and so we went to the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard1 to see HMS Victory and others. The thing I wanted to see, however, was out the back, behind the big ships, in a purpose-built museum. It is a ship that famously sank with all hands just off the coast of Portsmouth: the Mary Rose2.<a cla
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