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A sad story from the planet blue!

5/16/2015

It took me the greatest pain to write this article, hope you will read till the end

3.9 billion years ago, first life sprang in form of Cells resembling prokaryotes. These first organisms are chemoautotrophs: they use carbon dioxide as a carbon source and oxidize inorganic materials to extract energy. Ever since then, the battle for “Survival of the fittest” begun.

But only 0.2 million years ago did our true first ancestor ever came to existence. Within a span of 0.2 million, we surpassed every single life form to have ever existed in last 3.9 billion years. The world is at our feet-right?

The birth of humans must be the moment of euphoria for us but to every single other life forms and to earth herself- it was the prologue for a sad story from planet blue. Let’s take a look at their story.

China, North Korea, Laos, Vietnam and Myanmar practice a thing called bile farming. Wonder what it is? They take out bile (fluid) from the gallbladder of bears. The bears are kept in cages where they can barely stand up and their gallbladder is punctured daily to extract their bile just to sell for U.S $24,000 a kilogram. Anything for money right?

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Does all geniuses gets the deserved recognition?

5/6/2015

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This is our first article as Scrivial and no matter who you are, a mathematician or a serial killer-you always have a greater respect for geniuses! Okay maybe not serial killers but you get me. Some time or the other, you must have for sure, wanted to be a genius.

So who is the absolute genius for you? Most of you will think of this guy-