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The co-founder of the Toronto chapter of the Black Lives Matter protest movement has come under scrutiny in recent days for an old Facebook post that declared white people were genetically inferior to their black peers.

Whiteness is not humxness, wroteYusra Khogali,in a now-deleted post (using gender-neutral alternative spelling). In fact, white skin is sub-humxn. All phenotypes exist within the black family and white [people] are a genetic defect of blackness.

Khogali proceeded to go on an extended pseudoscientific rant about the benefits of dark skin, according to The Toronto Sun. Melanin enables black skin to capture light and hold it in its memory mode which reveals that blackness converts light into knowledge, she claims at one point. Melanin directly communicates with cosmic energy.

White [people] are recessive genetic defects. This is factual, she claimed, nonfactually.

Khogali made the Facebook post months ago, but her comments resurfaced after she declared Canadian Prime MinisterJustin Trudeaua white supremacist terrorist, earning her criticism from liberal allies.

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To celebrate its 40th anniversary, the EQT Pittsburgh Three Rivers Regatta will partner with Red Bull to bring a human-powered flying craft competition to the lineup of water, land and air events on the weekend of Aug. 4-6.

The contest on Aug. 5 Red Bull Flugtag (which means flying day in German) involves teams of five pairing together to create homemade flying machines. The teams then send them off a 22-foot-high flight deck to see which craft sails farthest before hitting the water.

In Boston last year, winning team Flite-Riot flew its craft 69 feet. The current record stands at 258 feet, set by a team calledChicken Whisperers from Long Beach, Calif.

Prospective pilots must submit their designs to http://www.RedBullFlugTag.comby May 1.Judges will review applications and select 40 teams to compete in a follow-up announcement on May 8.Participants must be 18 years of age or older.

Courtney Linder: clinder@post-gazette.comor 412-263-1707. Twitter @LinderPG.

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Chlorine gas attacks paved the way for Syrian forces as they advanced into rebel-held portions of east Aleppo during the final months of the battle for the city, a new studyfrom Human Rights Watch said Monday.

While forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have usedchlorine gas on opposition fighters sporadically since 2014, the frequency of chemical attacks between Nov. 17 and Dec. 13 point to a military strategy to use the banned weapon to force both fighters and civilians fromAleppo, according to the report.

The pattern of the chlorine attacks shows that they were coordinated with the overall military strategy for retaking Aleppo, not the work of a few rogue elements, Ole Solvang, deputy emergencies director at Human Rights Watch, said in the report.

[Syrian military says it has retaken control of key city of Aleppo]

Human Rights Watch documented at least eight separate chlorine gas attacks before a cease-fire was signed Dec 13. The attacks resulted in the deaths of nine civilians, including four children, and wounded roughly 200. If confirmed, the attacks would be a significant breach of the 1993Chemical Weapons Convention that Syria signed in 2013. Although chlorine is not considered a chemical weaponby the convention because of its industrial uses, the document explicitly statesthat weaponizing the chemical properties of a substanceis prohibited.

When inhaled in large enough quantities, chlorine can be fatally toxic.

The Syrian government has routinely denied using internationally condemnedweapons such as chemical, cluster andincendiary munitions. In 2013, Syrian government forces were accused of using sarin gas in an attack that killed hundreds, bringingthe United States to the brinkof military action against Assad. In a last-minute deal coordinated by Russia,the Syrian presidentpledged to give up his chemical weaponstockpiles, and inOctober of that year signed the Chemical Weapons Convention. The Islamic State has also used chemical weapons, including variants of sulfur mustard powder.

Following the deal, however, Assad continued to use chlorine as a weapon. Last year, a United Nations investigative teamdeterminedthat Syrian government forces had been responsible for three separate gas attacks inApril 2014 and March 2015.

Although the report doesnt directly implicate Russia, it does say that Russian forces benefited from the strategic effects of the gas attacks. Russian forces had been providing close air support for Syrian government forces since September 2015 and flew hundreds, if not thousands, of sorties during the battle to retake Aleppo. Russian Special Operations forces also likely participated in the campaign, fighting and advisingalongside Syrian troops as they pushed into the city.

The report relied oninterviews with witnesses, videos, photographs and social media postings to verify the eight attacks. Some of theposts included pictures of thespent gas canisters dropped from Syrian helicoptersand footage of the trademark yellow-greenchlorine clouds billowing fromresidential areas.

The Human Rights Watch study was one of two reports released Monday that covered the battle of Aleppo. The Atlantic Council, a Washington-based think tank, published a report titled Breaking Aleppo that also accused the Syrian government of using chlorine bombs and the joint Syrian-Russian air campaign ofdropping cluster and incendiarymunitions on civilian areas.

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Lawyer Tamara Thermitus has been named head of the Quebec Human Rights Commission. Handout / Montreal Gazette

Its been a long time coming, but a change has finally come. The seemingly impossible became possible, right smack bang during Black History Month, almost like a long-awaited gift to Quebec blacks. Tamara Thermitus, an anti-discrimination lawyer of Haitian origin, was named head of the Quebec Human Rights Commission last week,with the unanimous support of the National Assembly.

Her appointmentwas not a slam dunk, however it may now appear; it was originally challenged by opposition politicianswho claimed that she was too multiculturalist and much too close for comfort to Dominique Anglade, a Liberal cabinet ministerwho also shares the same roots.

The Human Rights Commission is specifically mandated to ensure that Quebecs laws, bylaws, standards and institutional practices, both public and private, comply with the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, which prohibits discrimination based on race, colour, ethnic or national origin and religion.

Hitherto, the commission lacked both anglophone and minority representation, and since its creation in 1976, Thermitus willbe the second woman and the first black to oversee the organization a situation that testifiesto the underrepresentation of black Quebecers in decision-making bodies.

Despite the fact that the appointment of Thermitus as head of Quebec Human Rights Commission is truly symbolic for the blacks and the Haitian community in Quebec, blacks should not be lulled into a false sense of complacency. We have made strides and advances, giving the impression that everything is resolved, but this is not the case. We must press on for diversity with the appointment of the other four remaining human rights commissioners. There is an urgent and ongoing need for public education to ensure that there is better awareness regarding the value of diversity to society as a whole.

According to Premier Philippe Couillard, the appointment of Thermitus sends a very strong signal about the place that people from diverse backgroundsmust occupy in our society. Strong words well spoken would be better if adhered to. Parti Qubcois then-leadership candidate Jean-Franois Lise in September 2016 pointed out the presence of systemic racism in Quebec, and called on the government to spring into action rather than hold public consultations. In response, Couillards government said it would soon announce a plan to look into the issue. Since the creation of the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal in 1990, the Human Rights Commission has never brought a case of systemic racism before the tribunal.The first court decision on systemic racism in Quebec was issued only in 2013 by the Superior Court. That case involved Olthene Tanisma, a Haitian-born urban planner who successfully sued the City of Montreal, after his case was stalled at the Human Rights Commission.

In order to cultivate an arena of legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, Couillard was repeatedly called upon when filling existing vacancies to give thoughtful and deliberate consideration to racial and linguistic diversity. At that time there was an unprecedented absence of black or anglophone commissioners in the current composition, which only served to further impair the decision-making process.

It stands to basic logic that in a world where perception can be as important as reality, it is critically important that visible minorities believe that the deck is evenly stacked, and that they have as much of a chance of being judged by someone who looks like them, as someone else.

The current appointment of Tamara Thermitus as head of the Quebec Human Rights Commission will go a long way toward allaying any fear and improving chances of a satisfactory resolution. But with her appointment,have black Quebecers seen the last of the past, and does this herald a new cast? Or willthis, as welcome as it is, be seen as a mere sop, an isolated gesture?

Yvonne Sam is a retired Montreal nurse and teacher.

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For your own self-designation, begin with the broadest most relevant category and call yourself a Humanist.

This classification encompasses all others. After the word Humanist you may add your preferred subset label: Humanist Muslim, Humanist Christian, Humanist Buddhist, Humanist Atheist, Humanist Agnostic. It is important that these subset terms do not precede the word Humanist. We are Humanists first, and what we are after that is secondary or tertiary or even further down the line.

We are Humanists first because we are human infants first, insusceptible of further branding at that time. No infant is Muslim or Christian or Atheist or Conservative or Liberal or even American or Dutch or Egyptian or any of the like. An infant is simply human, inducted by dint of that condition into a decades-long participation in 'basic human goods,' chief of which are friendship, play, learning, skillful performance, and the rearing of children.

We are Humanists first because Humanism is easiest to believe. There are no fabulist doctrines to embrace. No winged ponies. No uncertain nativities. No staggering saintly pedigrees. No post-possessed recuperations. No impracticable moral embargoes No otherworldly opinions on textiles that drape the body. No deistic dietary whims. No lurching angel trumpeting doom. No underworld chamber brutalizing dissent. Humanism says simply that human ingenuity is the source of goodness and therefore a source of delight. Easy assent.

We are Humanists first because, apart from the rough generosity nature bestows, humans mold a malleable nature on behalf of human flourishing, creating innumerable gracious alterations to the natural world, from a road to a bridge to a house to a knife to a plate to a toy to a pipe to a balm to a bed to a flute to a lute to a wending bedtime story in florid prose, and a near infinity more.

We are Humanists first because with human tools we attempt an anatomy of human destructiveness to better ourselves and shed our vices. With human tools we devise the ethics of urgency to rapidly contain a rapacity that harms the elements and the animals.

We are Humanists first because we cannot be reduced to anything smaller than the human, and we cannot be elevated to anything larger. Even the posthuman and the transhuman are but species of the human--from which, for now, all the metrics of morality emerge and extend to bonobo and cyborg.

For what you call yourself, begin with the broadest most relevant term. When someone asks 'What are you?" say 'I am a Humanist.' Search and see what the word has meant. And as you understand it, receive it first and foremost, after which, if you must, you can array yourself with any of the other supplementary hues on offer. But start with Humanism.

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When Meryl Streep delivered a blistering critique of then-President-elect Donald Trump at the Golden Globes in January, the actress did so without mentioning his name.

On Saturday night, Streep again denounced Trump in similar fashion, this time at a Manhattangala for the Human Rights Campaign, a nonprofit that advocates for LGBT equality.

And just as in January, there was no questionto whom she was referring in herspeech, which was at times self-deprecating, poignant and politically provocative.

The actress's fiery speech directed at President-elect Donald Trump wasn't a completely new act. (Nicki DeMarco/The Washington Post)

If we live through this precarious moment, if his catastrophic instinct to retaliate doesnt lead us to nuclear winter, we will have much to thank our current leader for, Streep said, according to the Hollywood Reporter. He will have woken us up to how fragile freedom is. The whip of the executive, through a Twitter feed, can lash and intimidate, punish and humiliate, delegitimize the press and imagined enemies with spasmodic regularity and easily provoked predictability.

It was the first time the acclaimed actress had spoken so publicly about Trump since the Golden Globes. Her remarks last month triggered angry tweets the following morning from Trump, who called Streep one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood and a Hillary flunky who lost big.

On Saturday night, Streep addressed Trumps critical tweets about her.

Yes, I am the most overrated, overdecorated and, currently, I am the most over-berated actress of my generation, she told the gala audience to laughter, according to the Associated Press.

Streep added that she had become a target of attacks since her Golden Globes speech,including from brownshirts, a reference to the Nazi militia. Her publicist did not immediately respond to the AP to elaborate on the attacks Streep cited.

Its terrifying to put the target on your forehead, Streep said. And it sets you up for all sorts of attacks and armies of brownshirts and bots and worse, and the only way you can do it is if you feel you have to. You have to! You dont have an option. You have to.

She said that her usual instinct was to stay at home and read, garden and load the dishwasher but that the weight of all these honors drove her to continue to speak out.

[The dramatic rise in state efforts to limit LGBT rights]

In her nearly four-decade-long career, Streep has been nominated for 30 Golden Globe awards and 20 Academy Awards,more than any other actor for either honor. She has won both awards multiple times, along with numerousEmmys and Screen Actors Guild awards.

When Streep was named as a Kennedy Center Honors recipient, the performing arts center noted that the sheer breadth and joy of her artistry counts as one of the most exhilarating cultural spectacles of our time.

The American Film Institute presented her with its Life Achievement Award in 2004, citing her unparalleled talent and integrity. A decade later, Streep receivedthe Presidential Medal of Freedom, with the White House calling her one of our nations greatest actors.

On Saturday night, Streep received the Human Rights Campaigns National Ally for Equality Award.She dedicated the honor to her gay and transgender teachers, colleagues and friends. In particular, Streep remembered two teachers from her childhood in New Jersey: a middle-school music teacher who became one of the first transgender women in the country, and her piano teacher, who lived with his partner for more than 50 years.

I am not going to introduce you to all my gay teachers, just some of the most influential personalities in my past, the memorable people who made me an artist and who lived, unnecessarily, under duress, Streep said.

She then spoke about the progress that had been made in recent decades on human rights and equality.

[Trump administration signals change in policy for transgender students]

Amazingly, and, in terms of human history, blazingly fast, culture seemed to have shifted; the old hierarchies and entitlements seemed to have been upended, Streep said. Which brings us to now. We should not be surprised that fundamentalists, of every stripe, are exercised and fuming. We should not be surprised that these profound changes come at a steeper cost than we originally thought. We should not be surprised that not everyone is actually cool with it.

Streep ended with a call to live our lives with God or without Her, according to the AP.

All of us have the human right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, she said. If you think people were mad when they thought the government was coming after their guns, wait until you see when they try to take away our happiness.

Read a transcript of Meryl Streeps speech via the Hollywood Reporter.

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The single most important line in Meryl Streeps Golden Globe speech

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Meryl Streep slams Donald Trump in another emotional speech - Washington Post

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL calls it the human slaughterhouse: a Syrian military prison where thousands of civilians have been killed after being repeatedly tortured and systematically deprived of food, water, medicine and medical care. Allegations of atrocities against civilians are nothing new for the regime of Bashar al-Assad, which has subjected entire towns to starvation sieges, dropped barrel bombs full of nails or chlorine on hospitals, supermarkets and schools and pulverized a U.N. aid convoy during the recent siege of Aleppo. But the story of the Saydnaya military prison deserves attention, if only because it shows the regimes calculated sadism and cold determination to exterminate all who oppose it.

Amnestys report, based on a year of research and 84 interviews with former Saydnaya prisoners, guards, judges, doctors and others, estimates that between 5,000 and 13,000 civilians were extrajudicially executed at the facility outside of Damascus between September 2011 and December 2015 and there is no reason to believe the killings have stopped since then. These were not rebel fighters, but civilians perceived to oppose the government in some way: participants in demonstrations, dissidents, human rights advocates, journalists.

The victims were mostly abducted by security forces, tortured into confessions and rushed through trials that often lasted only two or three minutes, according to Amnesty. They were secretly executed in groups of 20 to 50: First blindfolded and then badly beaten, they were told only at the last moment that they were to be hanged, when a noose was slipped around their necks. Many died before execution from the horrific conditions in the prison, including starvation and rape. Amnesty said it had concluded that the detainees had been subjected to a policy of extermination, defined in international law as measures calculated to bring about the destruction of part of a population. Their bodies were dumped in mass graves.

Amnesty said it collected information on officials who sat on the execution panels and others involved in the executions, which it described as crimes against humanity. That gives reason for hope that some will eventually be brought to justice; in other parts of the world such atrocities have been successfully prosecuted decades after they occurred. In the meantime, the Saydnaya report should be considered by all those who believe that the Syrian civil war with its endless carnage, breeding of terrorism and waves of refugees can be brought to an end while the Assad regime remains in power.

The horrific abuses inflicted by the regime on tens of thousands of Syrians ensure that it will never be tolerated by the vast majority of the population. Its barbaric practices render it unable to compromise with people it has attempted to murder en masse. A decision by the Trump administration to tolerate or even support the butchers of Damascus will only result in more warfare, more recruits for the Islamic State and al-Qaeda, and more unconscionable murders at Saydnaya prison.

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"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" Statue of Liberty (Emma Lazarus, 1883)

This inscription has long served as a welcoming call to the refugee seeking shelter. Many authors and artists have used these words to serve as a comforting ballad which illustrates the care extended to the poorest of the poor and the weakest of the weak -- the last, the least, the lost. We expect our artistic community -- poets, film directors, painters, singers -- to make such statements.

But making statements such as these is not reserved to the artistry of the stage or the canvas. Athletes, too, have an important voice, an essential perspective and critical understanding of solidarity, friendship and love. And athletes need not be expected to ask permission to support, to be loud, to share and to engage.

Through the experience of participating in sports, athletes develop the skills to advocate for human rights, peace and inclusion. The lessons learned and the values essential for success in sports are also applicable when speaking up as advocates and allies for social justice.

Athletes cannot, need not, stay silent. They can choose to be leaders in the social justice movement. The voices and the platforms of athletes at the professional, Olympic, collegiate and scholastic sport levels are essential and necessary for addressing racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, islamaphobia and all forms of discrimination and prejudice.

"Leaders have to give clear and decisive leadership towards a world of tolerance and respect for difference, and an uncompromising commitment to peaceful solutions of conflicts and disputes." ~ Nelson Mandela (1999)

The time is now for athletes to wear the uniforms of global citizens. Athletes can now act as inclusion ambassadors. Athletes can now speak truth to power. Athletes can now advocate for freedom of speech. Athletes can now become allies. Athletes can now support human rights.

People need not suffer the pain of exclusion, stigmas and labels. Excluding others and creating borders are unconscionable affronts to human dignity. We do not want this as athletes, we do not want this in sport. We do not want this in our world.

We need waves of athletes advocating for human rights, peace, justice and inclusion to circle our locker-rooms, our stadiums, and our local and global communities. Athletes need to have active and ongoing places at the table to address human rights in and through sport. Athletes also need the support of sport administrators, fans, and sponsors to uplift them and their message of inclusion.

Athletes around the world have been called off the bench, off the sidelines and into the starting line-ups as advocates for inclusivity, justice and humanity. Athletes can become living examples of the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, who said we must remain vigilant "until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream."

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By Drs. David Niesel and Norbert Herzog, Medical Discovery News

H.G. Wells was a writer of fantastic science fiction during the 1890s. He is considered one of the fathers of science fiction and wrote novels whose stories remain popular today. He wrote about time travel in "The Time Machine", about interplanetary conflict originally made popular by the Orson Wells' "The War of the Worlds" and in "The Island of Dr. Moreau" he described beings that were part human and part animal. Two of the three remain pure science fiction but one is on the verge of becoming a reality. Do you know which one?

In August, 2016, the National Institutes of Health announced that it was lifting its ban on research that introduces stem cells from humans into animal embryos. Stem cells have the ability to evolve into any human cell and can grow into any human tissue. The goal of this type of research is to grow human tissues and eventually human replacement organs in animals. What an innovative way to improve upon transplantation medicine! But to realize this potential, we would create an organism that is part animal and part human! These hybrids are the stuff of ancient mythology. These mixtures of different animals are called chimeras after the mythical ancient Greek creature that was part lion, snake and goat. One goal of today's research is to produce tissues and organs for experimentation that will improve our understanding of human disease. An alternative and longer term goal would be to produce organs directly for human transplantation. Imagine an infinite source of human organs - one wears out and you produce a new one as a replacement.

While this all sounds great, when you really think about it there are some potentially problematic issues to consider. Stem cells have the ability to form any tissue. So an animal embryo injected with human stem cells could produce an animal with a human kidney or lung. They could then be sacrificed for the human organs that they harbor. At the least, that would be disturbing. However, that would be incredibly useful for medicine and improve the human condition. But what about animals where the human stem cells become part of the brain? Could we produce some animals that are capable of human thought? The potential for this now seems possible - wow! But, as arguably the most important human organ and the one we know the least about, these hybrids may also represent a fantastic new frontier for brain research. Maybe some aspects of what was described on the Island of Dr. Moreau are not as fantastic as everyone thought. Some of this can be controlled by timing the introduction of the human stems cells into the developing animal embryo. Knowing the timing of organ development during embryo growth in animals allows scientists some control of what human organs develop. We have a lot to learn about this new horizon in biomedical research. Scientists will need guidance from ethicists and the public as this research begins to develop. It is not yet time to turn your backyard into a hybrid livestock ranch for human organs!

Medical Discovery News is hosted by professors Norbert Herzog at Quinnipiac University, and David Niesel of the University of Texas Medical Branch. Learn more at http://www.medicaldiscoverynews.com.

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Search for long-term, reversible, non-surgical birth control for men to avoid side-effects that women suffer from birth control pills, coming soon.

HEALTH, MEDICINE & BIRTH CONTROL

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A new medical technology that prevents pregnancy long-term and is used by the man, not the woman, will likely be available soon.

A gel squirted into the sperm ducts of male monkeys has been effective at preventing pregnancy.

Male humans may be squirting it into their sperm ducts soon, if their girlfriend or wife insists.

THE SEARCH FOR MALE BIRTH CONTROL

While several birth control options exist for women, the race is on for a non- surgical, long-term and reversible male contraceptive without the negative side effects of hormonal changes that women who use birth control pills often suffer from.

The only short-term solutions available today are condoms, which many people complain interfere with sex, and withdrawal before ejaculation, which comes with a high risk of pregnancy.

VASECTOMY CURRENTLY ONLY LONG-TERM OPTION

Longer term, the sole option is a vasectomy, which involves tying or cutting the sperm conducting tubes called the vas deferens.

This prevents sperm from mixing with seminal fluid ejaculated during sex.

Vasectomies can be reversed in some cases, but the procedure is technically challenging and leads to low rates of fertility.

The YouTube video below describes and explains the medical procedure of the vasectomy:

MONKEYS ANATOMICALLY SIMILAR TO HUMANS: SO MAY WORK IN HUMANS TOO

Researchers in the US are developing a possible alternative to the vasectomy, dubbed Vasalgel, which has proven effective in rabbits and now also in rhesus monkeys -- more closely related and anatomically similar to humans.

Vasalgel is a polymer gel injected directly into the vas deferens, creating a blockage in the tube that transports sperm from the testes out through the penis.

(Source: Parsemus Foundation)

NO BABIES AFTER THE MONKEYS WERE INJECTED

In an experiment at the California National Primate Research Center, 16 adult male monkeys were treated.

They were housed with females, and monitored for up to two years -- covering at least one breeding season per animal.

"Treated males have had no conceptions since Vasalgel injections," the research team wrote in the journal Basic and Clinical Andrology (see here).

PREGNANCY RATE TYPICALLY 80%

Normally, the expected pregnancy rate among females housed with males would have been about 80 percent.

MINIMAL COMPLICATIONS

"The presence of Vasalgel appears to be well tolerated and placement resulted in minimal complications," the researchers wrote.

One monkey of the 16 had symptoms of sperm granuloma, a buildup in the vas deferens which is a common complication in about 60 percent of human vasectomies, they added.

Not yet tested in monkeys, the reversibility of the method was tested in earlier experiments in rabbits, when the gel was successfully flushed out with solution of sodium bicarbonate.

CLINICAL TRIAL IN HUMANS COMING SOON

Preparations are underway for a clinical trial with Vasalgel in humans, said the Parsemus Foundation, a non-profit organisation funding the product's development.

The research has benefits for the monkeys as well, researchers added.

It is ideal to house captive rhesus monkeys in groups for their social welfare, but populations can quickly explode due to high fertility.

And vasectomy in monkeys is more complex than in humans, with many complications.

PROCEDURE WORKED IN EVERY SINGLE MONKEY, WITHOUT EXCEPTION

"We were impressed that this alternative worked in every single monkey, even though this was our first time trying it," said Angela Colagross-Schouten, the project's lead veterinarian.

Basic reproductive health and family planning information:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsemus_Foundation

https://www.parsemusfoundation.org/projects/vasalgel/

https://www.facebook.com/Vasalgel

http://time.com/4661209/male-birth-control-gel/

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/feb/07/successful-male-contraceptive-gel-trial-brings-new-form-of-birth-control-closer-vasalgel

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Birth control for men: Works in monkeys, humans next - Bangkok Post