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What I Learned Chewing the Stimulant Khat Across Three Countries
Thrillist Food & Drink· 7 days agoThe region I’m in, though — the Old City of Sana’a — is an epicenter of chewing culture. The Old...
My teenage son was murdered—I found solace in an unexpected place
Newsweek· 1 day agoTwenty years ago, my son, Terrell, who was only 18 at the time, was shot while attending a party...
Rare corpse flower that stinks of rotting flesh blooms at Kew Gardens
New Scientist· 6 days agoThis stunning but stinky bloom of a corpse flower unfurled on 18 June at the Royal Botanic Gardens,...
Study suggests hepatitis E may be a sexually transmitted infection
Medical Xpress· 7 days agoResearchers have discovered that the hepatitis E virus is associated with sperm in pigs, which...
The Iberian lynx is back from the brink of extinction, thanks to conservation efforts
San Francisco Chronicle· 5 days agoSuccessful conservation efforts mean that the animal, native to Spain and Portugal, is now barely a...
What climate change means for Europe’s ‘pest demographics’ haunting the Paris Olympics
Fortune· 3 days agoThe culprit was a stowaway Brazilian Wandering Spider, an 11cm black and red arachnid with a bite that causes convulsions, hypothermia, death and—if you’re of the male persuasion—a particularly ...
How “Sea Cocaine” Brought a Tiny Porpoise to the Brink of Extinction
Vice· 5 days agoThe vaquita is a small, round-headed species of porpoise with distinctive, panda-like markings...
Iraqi Kurds mourn loved ones lost on Mediterranean migrant route
AFP via Yahoo News· 4 days agoWaiting at home in Iraqi Kurdistan, Khadija Hussein holds faint hope of hearing word of further...
Indianapolis put the Team USA swimming trials in an NFL venue for the first time — and there may be...
Sports Business Journal· 1 day agoMeridian Street became Michael Phelps Place and Illinois Street was now Missy Franklin Way. Just as it did 100 years ago, USA Swimming looked to the city to select its team for the Paris Olympics ...
How the mission for next generation of electric aircraft is evolving
FlightGlobal· 6 days agoHaving spent more than a century producing ever-larger aircraft, peaking with the giant Airbus A380,...