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• Sorry, but that’s not an albino pheasant | Brief letters

  31-05-2020 19:49 via theguardian.com
  
  NHS statue | FFS | Albino doubt | Pheasants in tights | Codeword clueI understand that a statue to honour NHS staff who have died in the pandemic is in prospect. If so, I trust that, in the interests of historical accuracy, the sculptor will be paid the minimum wage, will be cheered when denied a pay rise in the process, and will be unable to get an apron and goggles while chipping away.Keith Mitchell Continue reading...
  
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• Finally there is real movement on Australia's climate policy but time isn’t on our side | Anna Skarbek

  31-05-2020 19:30 via theguardian.com
  
  If speed weren’t a factor, we could rely on the market to incentivise green technology at its own pace – but the clock is ticking“It doesn’t matter whether a cat is black or white so long as it catches mice.”The maxim attributed to Deng Xiaoping comes to mind in relation to the federal government’s technology investment roadmap discussion paper and its response to the King review. Continue reading...
  
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• SpaceX Nasa Mission: Astronauts on historic mission enter space station

  31-05-2020 19:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Nasa's Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken complete their 19-hour flight to the orbiting laboratory.
  
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• What is the Crew Dragon?

  31-05-2020 19:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A guide to SpaceX's Crew Dragon vehicle, which carried astronauts to the space station.
  
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• Nasa SpaceX launch: What is the Crew Dragon?

  31-05-2020 19:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A guide to SpaceX's Crew Dragon vehicle, which carried astronauts to the space station.
  
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• Being black while in nature: 'You’re an endangered species'

  31-05-2020 15:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Many black nature-lovers have to employ defense mechanisms – lest a situation turn sticky and they have to answer questions from a suspecting police officerIt was 2011 when Rue Mapp was followed by a white woman in an Oakland, California, park, while out on a national campaign to get local families connected with nature. The woman had spotted the group en route to the park and decided to follow them. When they got off the bus, she followed them all the way through the park, and when they b
  
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• Tunisia's sea turtles are beating the odds as they inch towards survival

  31-05-2020 09:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Despite the threats posed by fishing gear, warmer seas and plastic, loggerheads on Kuriat Island are making a comebackYears of marine conservation efforts throughout the Mediterranean are beginning to pay dividends in Tunisia, with activists expecting a further increase in the number of sea turtles visiting the country’s beaches to build their nests this year.It’s an unlikely, albeit fragile, victory. Many of the factors that pushed sea turtles on to the world’s endangered list
  
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• Red Hugh: Spanish dig for the bones of 'Fighting Prince of Donegal'

  31-05-2020 08:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Irish chieftain was buried in the same Spanish chapel as Christopher Columbus.
  
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• Horseshoe crab blood to remain big pharma's standard as industry group rejects substitute

  31-05-2020 04:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Animal rights groups have been pushing a synthetic alternative to horseshoe crab blood in drug safety testingHorseshoe crabs’ icy-blue blood will remain the drug industry’s standard for safety tests after a powerful US group ditched a plan to give equal status to a synthetic substitute pushed by Swiss biotech Lonza and animal welfare groups.The creatures’ copper-rich blood clots in the presence of bacterial endotoxins and has long been used in tests to detect contamination in s
  
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• Crab blood to remain big pharma's standard as industry group rejects substitute

  31-05-2020 04:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Animal rights groups have been pushing a synthetic alternative to horseshoe crab blood in drug safety testingHorseshoe crabs’ icy-blue blood will remain the drug industry’s standard for safety tests after a powerful US group ditched a plan to give equal status to a synthetic substitute pushed by Swiss biotech Lonza and animal welfare groups.The crabs’ copper-rich blood clots in the presence of bacterial endotoxins and has long been used in tests to detect contamination in shots
  
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• Coalition to consider life-of-project enterprise agreements in IR discussions

  31-05-2020 03:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Agreements for term of mining project regardless of changing economic conditions to be on agenda, Christian Porter saysEnterprise agreements that last for the life of a mining project, regardless of changing economic conditions, are one of the options under consideration as part of the Coalition’s industrial relations changes, Christian Porter has confirmed. .The attorney general has been tasked with bringing business and union leaders in to discuss changes to Australia’s “clun
  
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• Climate change: How a green new deal really could go global

  31-05-2020 01:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chief Environment correspondent Justin Rowlatt considers the prospects for a big economic makeover.
  
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• Coronavirus: The mystery of asymptomatic 'silent spreaders'

  31-05-2020 01:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists have discovered more evidence about a strange and worrying feature of the coronavirus
  
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