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Why are Australian black swans so quick to die from bird flu? A new genome study comparing them to their bird brethren helps to unravel the mystery.
A black swan event must meet three criteria: it must be an outlier, must have a major impact and must be declared predictable in hindsight.
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The danger of treating COVID-19 as an astronomically rare and improbable event is that we will treat it as such and fail to prepare for the next pandemic. And there will be another pandemic.
China in lockdown.
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How China appears to have learned from its response to the SARS crisis of 2003.
The skeleton of the extinct poūwa.
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New research reveals that New Zealand once had its own species of black swan, the Poūwa.