Amit Kumar

Humanist | Wanderer | Indophile l Entrepreneur | Investor | Tsundoku | Left arm around the wicket |

[Olga Bazova @OlgaBazova]

Why are rich and successful business people in Russia called "oligarchs", but anywhere in the West they are simply "billionaires"?

[Criterion Collection @Criterion]

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[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

No mammal has ever evolved green fur. Not one of roughly 6,400 species. Mammals make exactly two pigments, eumelanin for black and brown, pheomelanin for red and orange, and no combination of those gets you to green. The only mammal that looks green is a sloth, and that's algae growing on it.

So evolution solved the camouflage problem from the opposite end. Deer and boar are dichromats. They lack the long-wavelength cone, so orange and green land on the same channel. A tiger never needed green fur, because the animals it hunts cannot tell the two apart. John Fennell's team at Bristol ran this in simulation, and the tiger goes from garish to invisible the moment you remove one cone.

Which leaves the question Fennell flagged as still open. Why didn't deer evolve trichromatic vision? Spotting an ambush predator is the whole ballgame, and primates pulled off that upgrade tens of millions of years ago.

The answer is stranger than growing better eyes.

In Kanha and Mudumalai, chital deer spend their days directly underneath langur troops. Langurs are Old World monkeys, which means full trichromatic vision, sitting in the canopy, looking down at the forest floor. A 1989 study at Kanha found that of deer herds within 200 meters of a langur troop, 70% closed to within 25 meters. Chital reacted to langur alarm calls more often than langurs reacted to theirs.

The deer could not build the eyes. So they parked themselves under something that already had them.

The tiger's coat is tuned against the visual system of nearly every mammal in that forest. It fails against exactly one, and the deer worked out how to borrow it. The borrowing works well enough that people run the same play. When a burst of chital alarm calls goes up in an Indian reserve, every guide within earshot stops the jeep and starts looking for stripes.

[Yossi BenYakar @YossiBenYakar]

Dr. Tawfik Hamid, one of the most respected Islam specialists in the Arab world, says it without hesitation:
Palestinians are Arab Muslims who believe killing Jews is an act of worship, human sacrifice offered to Allah.
No matter what Israel does, they will not stop.
According to his research, this conflict ends only when every Jew is dead or converts to Islam.
This is not a land dispute. This is ideology.
Watch the video.

[Klara @klara_sjo]

I would pay good money to watch bodycam footage from Indian police.

America is all car chases and shootouts, I want more of this.

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

You rarely get a mic at the UNHRC, so when you do, you don't waste it on generic speeches. You make every second count.

@asuvathaman did just that by taking two vital issues to the global stage: forced religious conversions and the erosion of ancient civilizations.

He reminded the world that Hinduism is a nature-centric civilization, not just a religion. Every time an indigenous culture is converted and erased, humanity loses centuries of ecological wisdom that no modern climate policy can replace. It’s high time the world views cultural survival as environmental protection.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

"A car" did it, NYT? Was it self-driving? Autonomous?

[Wokeflix @wokeflix]

Stories are coming out now. Politicians will think a Pandora’s box has been opened, but in reality it is the opposite.

[Vishal Pandey @Vishal_aawaj]

NEET Aspirants हर्ष दुबे का एक और वीडियो 👇

हाल ही में NEET एग्जाम में आरक्षण की विसंगतियों पर इन्होंने जबरजस्त तरीके से अपनी बात रखी थी !

[News18 India @News18India]

Aar Paar : NEET-UG छात्र हर्ष दुबे ने क्या सवाल उठाया? | CJP Protest | Paper Leak | Amish Devgan
#AarPaar #AmishDevganOnNews18India | @AMISHDEVGAN

[Faad Dunga BC @naalaYUCK]

Mujhe modi ji par gussa aata h to bahut aata h. But koi dusra insan gussa kare to mujhe us insan par gussa aata h ki modi ji ke against kaise bol diya. Itna toxic relationship aaj tak apni life me nahi dekha mene!! 😭😭

[Anshul Pandey @Anshulspiritual]

Harsh a NEET aspirant just took all the spokespersons to the cleaners during the reservation debate. Everyone went silent.

It's good to see that almost every news channel is now discussing the reservation issue. The debate must continue.

[NDTV @ndtv]

#IndiaMatters with @ShivAroor | "Will Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation get me a medical seat?": NEET aspirant Harsh Dubey

He said students want meaningful policy changes that secure the future of aspirants rather than political slogans alone.

[Amit Kumar @amitkr00]

He needs to be right only once.

[कुशल मेहरा @kushal_mehra]

And he is always wrong

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

More strict actions against paper leaks to come in tomorrow’s Cabinet!

[Holy M😳ly @HolyMolythe3rd]

Who made this? 😂

[PunsterX @PunsterX]

Bihar protestors are next level 🤣🔥

[Rishi Bagree @rishibagree]

Protesters in Bihar asked the police to use tear gas & water cannons on them. Police said that tear gas wasn’t available; the protesters said they would settle for the water cannons.
After getting thoroughly soaked, they enjoyed an impromptu rain dance and left the scene.

[Mohan Sinha 🇮🇳 @Mohansinha]

When he’s not freaking out on air, he makes a lot of sense.

[Ambalagonda @i_mandhata]

I feel sorry for him.

He will be called an enemy of the state because he dared to question the whole narrative of India's affirmative action, which will render him persona non grata for the establishment.

Also, nothing will change.

"plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose."