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spiders’ prey and pitcher plants

May 14, 2019 | Alison | animal behaviour, animal diversity, ecology, new science stories

I’ve learned quite a bit about spiders over the years. (And I have never been able to understand the “burn it with fire!” some folks take towards these 8-legged creatures.) For example, it turns out that some spiders actively hunt fish, while others are vegetarian! Then, late last year, I came across a couple of […]

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the package insert: misunderstood & misrepresented

May 9, 2019 | Alison | critical thinking, nature of science
the package insert: misunderstood & misrepresented

UNICEF estimates that in the period 2010-2017, 169 million children missed their first dose of the measles vaccine – that’s around 21 million children each year. Sadly, this has simply set the conditions for the measles outbreaks we’re seeing around the world, in high- and low-income countries alike. In the first three months of 2019, […]

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