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AdultsAnimalsEducationNatureGiant panda cubs are adorable fluff balls that squeak and squeal. This endangered species is also incredibly tricky to breed and raise in captivity. In the 1960s, only 30 percent of infant pandas born at breeding centers survived. Today 90 percent survive. So, what changed?
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Certain cognitive biases cause humans to make unsafe decisions in a pandemic, making a terrible disease even worse.
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AdultsEducationEnvironmentNature...The amount of metal some special plants are able to take up from the soil would be toxic enough to an average plant to kill it several times over.