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“Will the pool make us cleaner or dirtier?” I asked my husband, lying in the shade and clocking how grimy he and the kids and I all were after two days of no power or running water. It was the summer of 2020, and after being cooped up in the city for the first few months of COVID we were living with his parents in the rural Berkshires.
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Kristin Aquilino of the University of California, Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory, is the lead scientist for the White Abalone Captive Breeding Program. White abalone cannot come back without our assistance, she says.
The animals, which were once abundant in Southern California and Mexico s coastal waters, have been on the US federal endangered species list since 2001. Overfishing, poor reproduction rates, and disease have both harmed the population.
Aquilino s team increased their numbers after about ten years, during which no white abalone was made, by creating a special mixture.
Love Potion
The scientists soak the snails in a chemical love potion for hours during the day-long procedure. A potion is a substance or substance with a unique or enigmatic influence on something.
Published May 3, 2021 at 10:30 AM PDT
What we now call barbecue had a part in how we developed as a species.
It s true, cooking our food over fires made it possible for us to take in nutrition more easily. It probably helped our brains grow.
It turns out a lot of things made our brains grow into the organ now capable of great feats of thinking. Bret Stetka, non-practicing physician and science journalist, gives us the long view, in