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A couple of notes on sources before I hop in here.

Practically everything written on these excavations is in Chinese, but there is an excellent overview by Kyeongmi Ju and Donghoon Shin in Springer Nature's Handbook of Mummy Studies entitled Mummies in China, Mawangdui and Other Related Mummies, as well as Mark Lewis's excellent book, The Early Chinese Empires, Qin and Han.

So let's start by placing Xin Xue in time and space before we discuss the Mawangdui site, the tombs, and the mummy itself.

Xin Xue was buried in her own tomb, but two other tombs were located nearby.

Oh.

From Springer Nature.

So he was obviously sticking needles in himself, and it didn't say that he was trying to stick it in his heart, but it went in somewhere else and ended up in his heart.

Wow.

De Soto et al.

Scientific data, Springer Nature.

The route identified as the most important intermediary land corridor did not pass through Rome.

Tom Brumens, a scholar from Aarhus University, noted that the route traversed the North African and Levant coastal regions, skirted Antioch, and then headed towards Ankara before moving into Europe across Constantinople and onward through the Po Valley and Milan to Gaul.

Itiner E., A High-Resolution Dataset of Roads of the Roman Empire.

Scientific Data.

Springer Nature.

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in Springer Nature, whatever the hell that is.

Quote, "But one risk that is currently not taken into account in research eth- ethics is the concern that we might be violating the privacy of animals by collecting data on their vocalizations and movements."

I wanna meet this person who wrote that.

Well, okay, let me show you one book that came out this past April.

It's from Springer Nature.

It's entitled Marketing and Channel Management for Low-Brand Equity Firms.

I wrote this book mainly just to share knowledge.

I don't really need the money, but if you're interested, you could look at this on amazon.com.

I also write textbooks.

So this is from a company called Springer Nature in Switzerland, Germany.

This is from a company in London, Cambridge University Press.

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... an article in Springer Nature, whatever the hell that is.

Quote, "But one risk that is currently not taken into account in research eth- ethics is the concern that we might be violating the privacy of animals by collecting data on their vocalizations and movements."

I wanna meet this person who wrote that.

And this is currently not taken into account in research ethics.

Many are saying that the concern that we might be violating the privacy of animals by collecting data on their vocalization and movement, according to researchers in an article published in Springer Nature.

According to this Springer Nature's article, quote-unquote, an interest in privacy is an interest in controlling how you appear to others and the complex social lives of many non-human animals often offer strong support for thinking animals have this interest.

The ability to speak with animals also, quote, poses dangers to the natural world, as per the experts.

The controversy involves a technique known as, quote, playback, which is a practice of broadcasting recorded animals' calls in the wild.

That is not the case at all.

These are journals that are owned by large European and North American publishers like Elsevier, like Springer Nature, like Wiley, and these products get cited quite often.

We were able to collect a set of around 30,000, uh, different paper mill products, largely assembled by, uh, volunteer sleuths that were poring through large amounts of the scientific literature at scale.

And a lot of these paper mill products wind up having hundreds of citations on them, uh, not just from other paper mill products, but from all around the scientific literature.