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• ‘Less desirable’: behind the lunar new year cultural belief of the year of the snake

  29-01-2025 13:00
  
  Some say it’s not the time to make life decisions, but others are countering the bad luck – or leaving those beliefs behindAt Asiastar Fantasy Inc, a San Francisco gift shop that specializes in Chinese cultural trinkets and décor, customers can choose from a wide variety of red envelopes or pluck a miniature lion dance costume replica from shelves bursting with curios to celebrate the lunar new year. Most animals from the Chinese zodiac are well represented in the gift shop ex
  
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• ‘Less desirable’: behind lunar new year superstitions of a year of the snake

  29-01-2025 13:00
  Some say it’s not the time to make life decisions, but others are countering the bad luck – or leaving those beliefs behindAt Asiastar Fantasy Inc, a San Francisco gift shop that specializes in Chinese cultural trinkets and décor, customers can choose from a wide variety of red envelopes or pluck a miniature lion dance costume replica from shelves bursting with curios to celebrate the lunar new year. Most animals from the Chinese zodiac are well represented in the gift shop ex
  
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• Vets urged to cut back on flea treatments amid UK biodiversity fears

  29-01-2025 10:00
  
  University of Sussex scientist calls promotion of preventative practice when pets are flea free ‘profiteering’Vets need to stop “profiteering” by giving dogs and cats preventive flea treatments that are wiping out insects and songbirds, according to a well-known scientist.The standard practice in the UK at present is to advise that customers take a preventative approach, treating their pets every couple of months even if they don’t have fleas. Continue reading...
  
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• Country diary: Nobody loses in the robin game | Josie George

  29-01-2025 06:30
  
  Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: We go out to see how long it takes until a robin comes close – really close. Thanks to their genetic memory, we don’t wait longIf I could get away with sleeping through January, I would. I envy the hedgehogs tucked up in their hibernacula; the bats in their secret winter places; the dormice in their cleverly woven, sealed nests; the ladybirds nestled in window frames. Hibernation seems like a very good idea. It doesn’t help that it’s that co
  
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