1. Today,we continue our series on ecology and conservation with a look at a particularly endangered member of the black bear family. One intern black bears is actually born with a white coat which is result of a special gene that surfaces in a few.
2. Local people have named it the spirit bear,and according to the legends of these communities,its snowy fur brings with a special power.
3. Because of this,it has always been highly regarded by them so much that they do not speak of seeing it to anyone else,it’s their way of protecting it when strangers visit the area.
4. Today,the spirit bear lives off the cost of the province of British Colombia on a few islands. There is great concern for their survival,since it is estimated that less than 200 of these white bears remain.
5. The best way to protect them is to make every effort to preserve the … balance of their forest environment,in other words,their ecosystem.
6. And the study of ex-planet has been more and more exciting,hundreds of them have been discovered so far,this is quite remarkable in view the fact that the discovery of first ex-planet was confirmed only in the mid-1990s.
7. Exactly why are we interested in these exoplanets anyway? Is it to see if there's life on them? Cuz it seem to me like the only exoplanets we ever hear about are gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn that couldn't possibly support carbon-based life.
8. The concept of the individual artist,specially the concept of the artist as and artistic genius struggling alone with a vision as a suppose to see a mere artisan,well,the idea of the artist as a lone genius didn’t develop until later.
9. But artists,individual artists,did sign their work during the Renaissance,that,you could say that's part of the problem. Paintings were signed by the artist and that used to be understood to be a mark of Renaissance's individualism.
10. You see, to deal with a wide variety of commissions they received, orders basically, for specific types of art, specific projects, to handle these, master artists often employed assistants as apprentices.
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