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[Link] Paleontology ‘a hotbed of unethical practices rooted in colonialism’, say scientists
Read: 3/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
The public image of palaeontologists as dusty, but rather affable academics, could be due an update.
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[Link] How the 'Craigslist of Guns' Helps Arm Cartels in Mexico
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
Investigators traced guns found in the border city of Reynosa back to Americans who used the website Armslist.
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[Link] Medical Marijuana Is Legal in Thailand, but People Are Sticking With the Black Market
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
Five years ago, long before medical cannabis became legal in Thailand, Ladda was desperate to ease her son's seizures. The longer the epilepsy episode, the more it damaged Dino’s brain and slowed his mental and physical development, she explained. Ladda gave her son a one-drop dose.
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[Link] The Coltan in Your Smartphone is Financing Colombian Guerrilla Armies
Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com
MEDELLIN, Colombia–Authorities in southern Colombia pulled over a cargo truck looking for drugs in early August. But instead of finding a pile of cocaine bricks, the truck was loaded with a sandy, blue-ish black rock called coltan.
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[Link] We Talked to a Dealer Selling Ivermectin Through Shady Facebook Ads
Read: 25/8/2021 www.vice.com
Facebook makes money by allowing people to buy ads on its platform depicting ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug commonly used in veterinary medicine, as a treatment for or preventative measure against COVID-19, even though there's no scientific evidence it's effective when used this way.
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[Link] How a now-defunct site on the dark web led police to the biggest cryptocurrency seizure in Australia
Read: 24/8/2021 www.theage.com.au
They were “quite unremarkable in every way”, police said, living normal lives in the community having never before come to the attention of authorities.
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