Antony Smith

I play lots of instruments in a band. producer and mixer and own

[Antony Smith @ASmith97]

More nice words about the lives sessions we did.
EP: Berries – ‘Live From Big Smith Studios’ – Get In Her Ears #bigsmithstudios ⁦@bigsmithstudios⁩ #berriesbamd ⁦@BERRIESBANDUK⁩ https://t.co/YIdUOLBUlc

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

When India accidentally wiped out its vultures, half a million people died in five years.

The bird doing zoomies in this video runs the most extreme digestive system in the animal kingdom. Vulture stomach acid sits near pH 1, strong enough to destroy anthrax, rabies, and botulism in the carcasses they eat. A flock strips a cow to bone in about 45 minutes.

India had 50 million of them. Free sanitation at national scale, in a country where religious custom means most cattle die natural deaths and every dead cow becomes a carcass someone has to deal with.

Then the patent on diclofenac expired in 1994. Farmers started using the cheap painkiller on livestock. Trace amounts left in a carcass cause kidney failure in vultures. Within a decade, 50 million birds fell to a few thousand. The fastest collapse of any bird species since the passenger pigeon.

The carcasses didn't disappear. Feral dogs took the vultures' place and brought rabies with them. Rotting remains leached into waterways. In districts where vultures once thrived, human death rates rose more than 4 percent. Economists at Chicago and Warwick put the toll at 100,000 extra deaths a year and $69 billion in annual damages.

So yes, the goofy bird sprinting down the walkway is adorable. It's also a disease firewall that evolution spent millions of years building and one generic painkiller nearly erased in ten.

[Antony Smith @ASmith97]

@YouSceneThis I actually watched this the other day apart from laughing out loud I was sad that we will never make these type of films again.

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@PaulMcG1992 Massive talent

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@Councillorsuzie You’d have been a great mayor.

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@TheEXECUTlONER_ Pushy dad might just have put his kids write of his favourite hobby.

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@MatthewStadlen How, please elaborate.

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@nadalprop_ Easily,

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@Thewearyadvent1 Han Cafe Solo.

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@StarWarsDaily_ Yes

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@DavidLammy I live in Harringay and these are Very very choice words, you can’t be that stupid.

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@HeidiBachram I’m not a Farage supporter by any stretch but this is really bad, now makes me believe him when he says about the 5m donation was for security.

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@HJB_News__ To be fair there’s plenty of places where she can go that can accommodate that wish.

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@OliLondonTV Not sure of the connection yet, but I think this is great.

[Antony Smith @ASmith97]

@MattCowlin @JeremyClarkson @David__Osland Stuff needs to cheaper less tax, less vat less rates etc then the wage would go further, people spend more money, people employ more people, businesses make more money and then pay more tax. And the circle of growth continues.

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@bestofstarwar

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@ILoveToTalkFilm I like it,

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@Rainmaker1973 Who the f is filming her.

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@wearetherace Finally

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@TENPerformances Such an intense arena.