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On March 27, my girlfriend and I were on our way to pick up sushi when a random man approached our parked car and raised his middle finger at us. As we crossed the street toward the restaurant, I heard, “F k China! F k Japan!” I turned around to see that same middle finger pointed at me, my ethnicity, my race, and my heritage. Blatant racism is nothing new to me I first experienced racism at the age of six, before I could even speak English, days after my arrival to the U.S. from Wuhan, China. At that moment, I did not know that only an hour later, the same man would be filmed harassing and threatening Rebecca Ng, an Asian woman riding the Metro. ....
'Nothing Is Accidental In Nature.' Why Scientists Are Racing To Save Sea Urchins usf.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from usf.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
/ The Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science began depositing sea urchins on a reef off Key Biscayne to see if they can help coral. Florida researchers hoping to save coral reefs have begun depositing groups of sea urchins at a Key Biscayne restoration site to see if they can help cure ailing reefs. In the annals of biology, long-spined sea urchins rank high among the least loved. With spines that allow them to grow to the size of a volleyball, all loaded with painful toxins, Florida and Caribbean sea urchins have been the bane of divers. “They’re pesky little devils,” said Lad Akins, the curator of marine conservation at the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science who’s been diving in Florida for four decades. “Or they used to be.” ....
The Atlantic Samuel Velasco / Quanta Magazine If you had braved the jungles of China’s Fujian province in the early 20th century, various accounts say, you might have witnessed a stunningly unexpected animal: a blue tiger. These tigers were described as “marvelously beautiful” with bodies “a deep shade of Maltese, changing into almost deep blue on the under parts.” As late as the 1950s, hunters reported spotting their blue hairs on trails alongside the traditional orange fur of other South China tigers. Then the blue tigers disappeared. The last reported sighting was in 1953, and blue tigers were soon the stuff of legends, with not so much as a preserved hide to prove they ever existed. ....