New beech leaves, Gribskov Forest in the northern part of Sealand, Denmark. Malene Thyssen, Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link.
John Bellamy Foster is the editor of
Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Brett Clark is associate editor of
Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Utah. Hannah Holleman is a director of the Monthly Review Foundation and an associate professor of sociology at Amherst College.
“The old Greek philosophers,” Frederick Engels wrote in
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, “were all born natural dialecticians.”
1 Nowhere was this more apparent than in ancient Greek medical thought, which was distinguished by its strong materialist and ecological basis. This dialectical, materialist, and ecological approach to epidemiology (from the ancient Greek
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The signature mane, the predatory stealthy movement, the fierce roar-it appears fitting to discover that there is just one species of lion (
Panthera leo). However, there are several subspecies, which are different in appearance and other specific traits.
Almost all lions are indigenous to Sub-Saharan Africa, living here and there excluding the deserts and rainforests, apart from the Asiatic lion that inhabits one small region of India.
Below, are six types of lions that are brave, fierce, and, in need of protection, in most cases.
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The Congo lion or Northeast Congo lion (
Panthera leo azandica) is also called the Uganda lion. Unsurprisingly, they are generally seen in Uganda or Congo, though they are likely not from there. Just like other lions, Northeast Congo Lions are enormous animals; males weigh around 420 pounds while females weigh a little less than the male. Northeast Congo males also display very dark manes; some of t
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reporter: good morning, allison. they needed good news on this ebola outbreak lasting more than a year now, more than 1800 people killed. these two drugs which were part of a randomized trial, allison, that was started in november last year were put in place in treatment centers all over the northeast congo. they re showing extraordinary results compared to the existing ebola treatments that have been around for a few years. in one case, for people coming in early for treatment with a very low viral load, they showed a 90% recovery rate. that s compared to a 70% death rate for people who don t get this kind of treatment. because of those extraordinary numbers, they just halted that trial and they re going to roll out two experimental drugs, one by a new york based pharmaceutical, another by a branch of u.s. nih, and they re going to hopefully give hope to the people who have been