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Wikipedia says the ketogenic diet can help reduce seizures in some children with epillepsy, but it says the benefits don't always go away after discontinuing the diet (I'm paraphrasing). I hadn't heard that before: "Around half of children and young people with epilepsy who have tried so...read more

https://www.argusobserver.com/users/login/?referer_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.argusobserver.com%2Fvalley_life%2Fchukars-adapt-to-new-learning-environments%2Farticle_6ad12934-8cb6-11ea-b477-77cc837acee1.html%3Fsave_asset%3D6ad12934-8cb6-11ea-b477-77cc837acee1 Yeah, I thought this was about birds, b...read more

List of parasites for this host: * Anagrus erythroneurae

http://www.sci-news.com/medicine/baking-soda-inflammation-autoimmune-diseases-05954.html rat_ autoimmune_ inflamation_ baking_soda

Here's an interesting article about Tourette Syndrome comorbidities, anxiety, and mood disorders: https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2015/03/123666/mood-anxiety-disorders-common-tourette-patients For those who don't know (since I would have appreciated a definition some years ago), a comorbidity is wh...read more

https://thepreppingguide.com/quail-farming/ Here's the cached page: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CRrtUM3WYNsJ:https://thepreppingguide.com/quail-farming/+&cd=19&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=ubuntu The above linked article talks about the viability...read more

Here's an article about a family who runs a donkey dairy. It talks about how the family believes it cures and/or treats PANDAS: https://okcfox.com/news/local/donkey-milk My guess is that the milk is raw, and that it contains live cells from the donkey, which help to train the immune system...read more

Check out this article on attempting to bring back extinct animal species: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-have-reconstructed-the-genome-of-a-bird-extinct-for-700-years/

I got this book for a college class. It talks about flying foxes a lot. So, if you're into flying foxes, I would recommend it. It's a personal narrative (which in this case is a lot like a novel, but true). I don't have the book anymore, but I enjoyed it. It's about a scientist whose mother h...read more

Here's an article about the progress of farming bluefin tuna: https://norwegianscitechnews.com/2017/01/putting-bluefin-tuna-back-menu-farming/

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200128114638.htm regeneration_ axolotl_

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See this article entitled, 'Elephants Help Zebras Coexist with Cattle', July 29, 2008: https://www.conservationmagazine.org/2008/07/elephants-help-zebras-coexist-with-cattle/ It's pretty interesting. elephant_ zebra_ dung_

Here's an article about risks associated with consuming reptile products: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19679367

Here's an article about the viability of farming snakes for meat: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/oryx/article/asian-snake-farms-conservation-curse-or-sustainable-enterprise/55920297BFED7418BDB7D82C89936112/core-reader

See this article: https://thecounter.org/case-against-octopus-farming-cephalopod-aquaculture/ In essence, farming carnivores, such as octopi, may cause depletion of the fish they eat (which in some cases may be entirely wild-caught). Also see this similar article about farming European eel...read more

Eel meat is getting progressively more popular in the USA. So, I thought I'd let you all know something. Freshwater eels, must lay their eggs in the ocean, in the wild (and they must also hatch and develop there). Even farmed eels come from young, wild-caught eels. They do not breed these eel...read more

I laughed a surprising amount at some of these: https://www.rd.com/jokes/thankgiving-jokes/turkey-jokes/ Sorry for the obstructive ads there.

I finally discovered what the dark-headed sparrow-like birds that come on our property probably are: Dark-eyed Juncos (the Oregon-type)! Also, the yellow-eyed blackbirds we have are possibly Brewer's Blackbirds. We have yellow-headed blackbirds, too. Here's a list of some more, in no parti...read more

So, I was curious what kind of worms we have in our blackberries when they get extra ripe. I found this article. I'm not sure if they're the same worms, but I wouldn't be surprised. I found one of the blackberry worms (or so it appeared) in a wonderberry, too. https://www.kuow.org/stories/the...read more

I posted the following on our old forum on 18 Jun 2019: This year, I've been seeing a lot of what I think are painted lady butterflies. When I was a child, I used to see what appeared to be common leopard butterflies fairly often, but I don't recall seeing any in recent years. I saw mo...read more

We had plenty of wasps earlier in the season, this year, but I haven't seen many since! Usually they're all over the place for basically the whole growing season.

So, on 26 Aug 2019, we had some millet with carrots and hamburger seasoned with Maggi season (as well as pepper, I think). It was really good! I loved the hamburger with Maggi seasoning. I'll have to remember that. The millet was cooked like rice. cooking_ Maggi_ millet_ carrot_