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Kashmir’s saffron growers experiment with indoor farming as climate pressures mount About 90% of India’s saffron is produced in Kashmir, of which a majority is grown in Pampore, but the small town is under threat of rapid urbanisation.

Tucked in a valley beneath the snow-capped Himalayas of the Indian #Kashmir region is the town of Pampore, famed for its farms that grow the world’s most expensive spice - the red-hued saffron.
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Play it again: Vinyl is making a comeback in Nigeria Most people may stream music now, but the recent Egwù Vinyl Festival shows old-school is still cool.

Lagos was buzzing with the energy of Detty December. Booming Afrobeats clubs and house and techno music raves dominated the city’s soundscape. But tucked in the frenzy was a different kind of musical celebration: the Egwù Vinyl Festival, a rare ode to analogue sound and Nigerian music history.

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💔😢🙏🏾

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People are about to learn just how many programs, departments, events, roles, etc for Black and brown folks were federally funded (and in some cases federally protected). All the Black ppl who always ask "what have the dems even done for us" are about to get the most dramatic answer possible.

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Mass shootings durably increase the sale of alcohol in American communities Abstract. Mass shootings are devastating events. Communities can cope with the ensuing trauma in a number of ways, including changing their behavioral patt

boy is that a bleak idea for a study academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

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Didn't work for Hitler, doesn't work for Trump.

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A hand holding a silver pill pack is pictured. Headline reads: "Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers’ Posts." Photo credit: Maddie McGarvey for The New York Times.

A hand holding a silver pill pack is pictured. Headline reads: "Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers’ Posts." Photo credit: Maddie McGarvey for The New York Times.

Instagram and Facebook have recently blurred, blocked or removed posts from two abortion pill providers. Instagram also suspended the accounts of several abortion pill providers and hid the providers from appearing in search and recommendations. nyti.ms/4h3PF1x

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UK businesses cut jobs at ‘fastest pace since 2009’ bar the pandemic Survey results add to gloom about economy as employment levels fall

UK businesses cut jobs at ‘fastest pace since 2009’ bar the pandemic

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Wonderful story. Deservedly on the front page.

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Costco successfully defends its diversity policies as other US companies scale theirs back Costco has claimed victory in pushing back on a shareholder proposal that urges the wholesale club operator to conduct an evaluation of any business risks posed by its diversity, equity and inclusion ...

Costco shareholders have overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal as other U.S. companies retreat from their diversity policies

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Modern neo-Nazis thrive on the insincere explanations, tounge in cheek denials. Just so 4Chan

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This “it was a Roman salute” is the same as “Swastika is a Hindu/buddhist symbol”

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Watching the press cobble together to deny what we saw?

Liberals are about to
sacrifice us up so they can stay on their zooms.

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Besoz owns it now — we are surrounded

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The next four years is just going to be a long series of people confidently telling you that you didn't just see what you just saw

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Rest when you can. There is so much work ahead. #booksky

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Nelson Mandela could have seized all the property stolen by the White Apartheid regime when he took power as many wanted him to do.

If he had Elon Musk would have really started with nothing, and we wouldn't have to put up with him today.

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Meta really has gone full fascist

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if we are all going to be forced to relive 2016, they should at the very least let us see mad max fury road in theaters again

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Diana Mosley née Mitford was lead book reviewer in the Evening Standard up to 1996, despite being unrepentant at being a nazi. So much for nazis facing ostracism back in the day

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Social media should play a major role in how we communicate weather warnings and other catastrophe-related info to the public. But the overreliance on using a handful of privately owned apps to effectively spread official and time-sensitive information should be viewed as a major concern.

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The IDF fired tear gas on those waiting for their relatives to be released

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As my grandad said: you can only live on one house and drive one car at a time. In middle age these men who have everything except adoration are still not content, sad!

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Scott rubbished India’s whole return — KAZ stand up before Greedy Grace arrives (I think they’ll get on thou)

#LoveIslandAllStars

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