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- Science site The Conversation
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Rapamycin, one of the most important drugs in modern medicine, was discovered in soil collected by a medical expedition in 1964 – but the indigenous people received no credit or compensation.
- Avi Blizovsky
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A new study examines how sea level rise has affected the famous statues so far and how many of them will survive an additional rise of several meters given the data on global warming.
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- Avi Blizovsky
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Recent studies disprove the long-held belief of ecological collapse on Easter Island, and show that the population has remained stable through effective resource management over a long period of time.
- Science site The Conversation
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The United Nations declared November 15th as the date when the 8 billionth person will be born.* How should we as humanity avoid the kind of crises that have wiped out civilizations that overexploited their environment only this time it's all of us?
- Scientific American Israel
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- Odyssey
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At the beginning of this month, the UNESCO agency donated 11.5 million dollars for the restoration of the giant stone statues in the Easter Islands