IWT News
Independent World Television is a new campaign to start a globally-broadcasted news channel without funding from governments or corporations. While it currently comes across as rather bias, I'm very much in support of the idea. Although I am concerned if they don't take a professional stance, because then they will just look like a bunch of amateurish activists.
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In government-funded news, a group of scientist from Cornell what to introduce African animals to the American plains. They claim that since megafauna like lions and elephants once roamed America, that the ecosystem can support them. This would also help in the conservation of these animals by moving them to a nation where poaching laws can be stigently enforced and habitat protected. They also claim it would be a boost to tourism. Imagine going on a safari in Nebraska. I doubt this idea will ever gain wide support, but it's rather fun.
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A fossil of a creature that lived in the Cambrian Period baffles scientists as it doesn't have any characteristics that place it into a clear phylum. This is one of the issues with classifying fossils, without DNA, it's hard to prove relation. Imagine one million years from now, when archeologists dig up the remains of Old New York, they will probably classify St. Bernards and Chihuahuas as two different species when they are in fact the same.
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