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@BasuAshis
Ashis Basu 🇨🇦 ashis.bluesky.social
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When you meet the Queen of Indian Cuisine, Actress, Author, Silver Bear winner, and a @beardfoundation Hall of Fame inductee, the one and only @madhurjaffrey at the @ROMtoronto and she recognizes you from your tweets, you are honoured. A moment of a lifetime! #AshMemories
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@BasuAshis
Ashis Basu 🇨🇦 ashis.bluesky.social
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Doctors are cautiously optimistic about a groundbreaking gene therapy for children affected by a devastating inherited disorder after seeing positive results in the first boy to receive the treatment. ⁦@iansample
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Oliver Chu from California first person to have the one-off treatment for Hunter syndrome
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@BasuAshis
Ashis Basu 🇨🇦 ashis.bluesky.social
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People who stop using the weight-loss jab Mounjaro not only tend to regain weight, but experience a reversal in other health improvements too, research suggests. ⁦@NicolaKSDavis
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Ceasing use of jabs brings regained weight plus loss of benefits regarding ‘bad’ cholesterol and blood pressure
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@clairlemon
Claire Lehmann
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Betty Friedan wrote The Feminine Mystique at the age of 42, after having 3 children. Margaret Thatcher had twins 26 years before becoming Prime Minister. You don't need to have your career established before having kids.
@texasrunnerDFW
Amy Nixon
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This is the order I did things in and I highly, highly recommend it to young women who really want kids There is a limited window of time for easy, healthy pregnancies You can start a new career at 50
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@BasuAshis
Ashis Basu 🇨🇦 ashis.bluesky.social
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Fertility faultlines: The unsolved puzzle of why Indian women are having fewer babies @Rukmini https://t.co/FLQ4U5o7ab via @scroll_in
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Data on five key aspects suggests that India is both an outlier and a part of the global trend of falling fertility rates.
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@AnitaAnandMP
Anita Anand
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The Canada–India relationship has progressed step by step: • commencing and continuing the bilateral security dialogue, • appointing High Commissioners, • and establishing a joint framework. With these foundations in place, we are launching negotiations for a Comprehensive
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@timecaptales
Time Capsule Tales
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Dick Van Dyke turns 100 next month & he’s going to live until he's 150. This is his world & we're all just living in it.
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What is the most iconic sports photograph ever taken?
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@PopCrave
Pop Crave
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Leaked recording reveals Campbell's exec's shocking remarks about soup's ingredients: “We have sh*t for f*cking poor people. Who buys our sh*t? I don’t buy Campbell’s products barely anymore. It’s not healthy now that I know what the f*kcs in it...bioengineered meat, I don’t
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@BasuAshis
Ashis Basu 🇨🇦 ashis.bluesky.social
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What does an Afghan girl dream of? Are her dreams the same as those of others around the world? Are they allowed to pursue their dreams? Are they free to choose their own path? @Fawziakoofi77 https://t.co/N93RZA4C5n via @scroll_in
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An excerpt from ‘Escape from Kabul: A True Story of Escape and Survival’, by Enakshi Sengupta.
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Ashis Basu 🇨🇦 ashis.bluesky.social
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For years, geoengineering—artificially lowering global temperatures through technological means—has been met with skepticism. But the progression of climate change has pushed many scientists to seriously consider the strategy, ⁦@AlexCKaufman⁩ writes:
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The idea of artificially lowering the planet’s temperature is gaining supporters and hitting political opposition.
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@moorehn
Heidi N. Moore
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Delightful thread of early cat propaganda
@JamesLucasIT
James Lucas
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One of the earliest cat photos in history (1880)
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@julian__gerson
julian gerson
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For those who would like to read Mayor-elect Mamdani's victory speech last night. https://t.co/jZKHnbzrvY
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nytimes.com
Mr. Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, addressed supporters at a venue in Brooklyn late Tuesday night.
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@JamwalNidhi
Nidhi Jamwal
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This is Mumbai, India’s financial capital, covered in a thick layer of pollution. Worli is no more visible from the sea link. We are no better than Delhi NCR as far as pollution is concerned. What is our govt doing to protect us from inhaling poison? @Dev_Fadnavis @CMOMaharashtra
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@Cmdr_Hadfield
Chris Hadfield
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It was smart to worry about harmful bugs or pathogens coming back from the Moon, and a relief to prove there were none. The Moon is a lifeless rock, and has always been that way. Mars, on the other hand, has had an atmosphere and water for over 4 billion years, same as Earth. We
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NASA History Office
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Pete Conrad, Alan Bean, Dick Gordon, and 75 lbs (34 kg) of lunar samples splashed down #OTD in 1969 to complete the second crewed mission to the Moon! Like the crew of Apollo 11, the Apollo 12 astronauts spent 3 weeks in quarantine in case they were infected by Moon pathogens.
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@BasuAshis
Ashis Basu 🇨🇦 ashis.bluesky.social
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Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of former US President John F Kennedy, moved many Americans over the weekend with her emotional essay about being diagnosed with terminal cancer shortly after giving birth to her second child.
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bbc.com
Doctors say Tatiana Schlossberg's struggle - even with the best care as a member of a prominent family - emphasises the need for more research.
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@DalrympleWill
William Dalrymple
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Sam Dalrymple on Partition, Identity, Virginia Woolf, Bengali roots & Shattered Lands https://t.co/i5vfG7YVwK
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Sam Dalrymple on Partition, identity and his debut book Shattered Lands
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@nxthompson
nxthompson
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"The scale of the deception—as revealed by the “About” feature—suggests that in his haste to turn X into a political weapon for the far right, Musk may have revealed that the platform is really just a worthless, poisoned hall of mirrors." @cwarzel
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How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
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@NedBertz
Ned Bertz
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Kinda wild that this is happening on our neighbor island. I went to visit this volcano once...it's a wild landscape, like another planet. And seeing the lava glow at night is something I'll never forget. https://t.co/I4cohMrwCG
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According to the United States Geological Survey, this is the 37th eruption episode since December 2024.
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