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"A coral colony consists of complex, interconnected colonies of several individual organisms and keeping all of them alive after breaking the colony is a near impossible task."
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NO, you CANNOT walk 10,000 steps daily, get 8 hours of sleep, cook every night, clean every day, take care of a family, make time for your own hobbies, and still be productive at work every day. This is not just propaganda, it is rubbısh. Free yourself from it.
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Happy Bloomsday! If you’re planning to read Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’, I’d written, some years ago, on a few ways to approach it.
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Human beings are not "meat machines"; we're more like "the murmurations of starlings", as the neuroscientist Luiz Pessoa has put it.
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The continuing relevance of Jorge Luis Borges, 40 years after his death.
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Saw these tweets just after listening to the Book Club podcast on The Code of the Woosters. I think the universe is telling me to re-read Wodehouse. (With pleasure.)
And Wodehouse Road in Bombay is named after *this* Wodehouse and not the great writer.
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The protests are for Palestine. That seems to have escaped the notice of the man whose bio says “believer in the power of ideas”.
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Started this on a whim and quite liked it. Taut, London-based, way-we-live-now account of a "situationship" between a struggling copywriter and an aspiring-poet barista, delivered in a deadpan, detached style.
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"Should students be barred from entering the National Museum, where the original figurine is housed, not to speak of many semi-nude or nude statues of goddesses, apsaras, etc.?"
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Betore Rome, there was Carthage. Before Carthage, there was Tyre.
Europe, Princess of Tyre, gave her name to the continent of Europe, to those who, today, let Israel destroy her city, Tyre—a city more than 5,000 years old—by European weapons without saying a word.
What you see in this image are not merely ordinary columns; they are the historical columns of Tyre in southern Lebanon are iconic Roman architectural remains. They are part of an ancient Phoenician city-state that is now a UNESCO World Heritage site.
I could not identify any military targets that would justify striking a UNESCO World Heritage protected site. We are watching history beirg erased in real time by Israel.
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Bandra Fort less than two years after "restoration". It was shut to the public two years before that. Total cost: ₹18 Cr for fort and garden.
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15% of Mumbai's new 130-acre Coastal Road seafront will have ticketed attractions. Why should a corporation profit from public space created with public money? indianexpress.com/article/ci…
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Nobody wants a city on Mars. Nobody wants AI in every app. Nobody wants a robot butler. Nobody wants data centers everywhere. Nobody wants flying cars or humanoid robots. We want clean water, we want bees to survive, and we want a habitable planet.
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The kids are all right: a survey of children in the UK recorded a rise in reading for pleasure across every age group from eight to 18.
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Those who think this will make a difference to India’s standing in the world should spell Evian backwards.
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