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Nathaniel Rich, Ryan Phelan, Ben Novak: Second Nature: Green Rabbits, Passenger Pigeons, Cloned Ferrets, and the Birth of a New Ecology

Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking

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Save the Horseshoe Crab

One of the oldesta species on the planet that has prevailed is almost identical to what it was as a fossil millions of years ago. horseshoe crabs were actually bled by companies to use this protein in their blood that is a natural endo toxin detector. So it helps secure, and has secure the safety of vaccines for literally om 30 years. But there's a vested interest into continuing to bleed these crabs that cost basically nothing because they're just a wild animal extract.

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