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Animals and Pets, Nature & Garden

Critical Habitats

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The Trump administration recently revised a couple key components of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). One of which has to do with how a critical habitat is handled in the case of new construction. In this case, critical habit pertains to wildlife, and not humans. The Department of the Interior states the following change:

Critical habitat exclusions (Section 4(b)(2)): Revises the “critical habitat” designation process to follow the law and consider the economic, national security and other relevant impacts following the designation of any particular area as “critical habitat.” The revision also allows an area to be excluded from a “critical habitat” designation if that exclusion will not cause the extinction of the species. 

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Animals and Pets

Neurodiversity in Other Animals

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There is a lot of discussion around neurodiversity in humans these days – half my social media feed is now on late diagnosed women entering perimenopause – but is neurodiversity only a feature of the human brain? Can other animals have autism or ADHD? If they were dyslexic, how would we know or even test for it?

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Food and Nutrition

Revisiting ADHD and Nutrition Part 1

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In an effort to overcome my current and continuous struggles of ennui with my life and writing, edging towards apathy and hopelessness, I’ve decided to revisit something that once left me excited to write, even if a bit frustrated at the end where one tends to drift into that typical grad-student “over-it-ness” and you can’t look at your writing even one more time: my dissertation on nutrition and ADHD.

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