Smitha Amith Hegde

Life Gardener

Health – Food – Living – Design

Sharing ancient wisdom, daily learning and sometimes plain good old common-sense!

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#AdivasiYoungPeople

#MentalHealthSystems frequently assume that EmotionalSuffering will present itself in ClinicallyRecognisableForms

In many #AdivasiCommunities, it may be communicated through stories, metaphors, behaviour, or withdrawal from SocialLife
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#IndianStudents #VivaanChhawchharia, #ArianaAgarwal, & #AvyanaMehta win #EarthPrize2026

Named #PlasStick — it uses #TamarindSeedPowder to bind & remove #microplastics from #water

It traps it without #HarmfulChemicals & transforms #waste into useful items
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#Halma is a traditional form of CollectiveLabour of #BhilTribalCommunity—people work together without wages, based on mutual #support & #community responsibility

This shows how #TribalKnowledge & #CommunityAction can support #LocalDevelopment

#HalmaSongs
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#LittleTreatCulture is becoming #GenZ's most expensive daily habit

#TinyLuxuries, #AestheticSpending & #MidnightShoppingSprees—have become a lifestyle—part #SelfCareRitual, part #CopingMechanism & part #AestheticFlex for #SocialMedia

#YouDeserveItCulture
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How lovingly curated #IndependentBookstores (IB) are helping #ReadingCulture grow in #India

Threat of financial instability is never far, so cultivating t romance of t IB is not only useful but necessary: it is a mark by which #bookstores find their users
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#JioHotstar turns #streaming into a #ConversationalAIcommerceEngine partnering with #OpenAI's #ChatGPT for t feature—it moves users away from #TraditionalKeywordSearches—Monetising thrugh #ContextualCommerce, #sponsoredAIexperiences, & #TargetedAdvertising
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The #JudgmentOfParis — 1976

A #BlindTasteCompetition launched the #AmericanWineIndustry

Within days, the #GlobalWineIndustry would be changed forever

“The artificial hierarchy which had been created by #France was no longer viable worldwide”, Wisniarski
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1,785 tiny protein-like molecules from overlooked regions of #HumanGenome identified

Researchers call them #peptideins. Most remain mysterious, but a few r linked to #CancerCellSurvival, #ImmuneRecognition, & other #DiseaseRelatedProcesses

#DarkProteome
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#MALbloodgroup system centers on the AnWj antigen

Using #WholeExomeSequencing—it was discovered that inherited #AnWj-negative individuals carry deletions in both copies of #MALgene

There r 47 BloodGroupSystems containing more than 360 known BloodAntigens
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#UK #museum returns 2,000 manuscripts (spans 15th to 19th centuries) to #Jain community in landmark #restitution

They r being transferred to the #DharmanathNetwork in #JainStudies at the #UniversityOfBirmingham & will be owned by the #InstituteOfJainology
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11th-Century #NagakundaStepwell in #Sudi, #Gadag, #Karnataka with rare #NagaCarvings & #temple-like detailing has been revived

#ChalukyanStepwells united #SculpturalDetail, #HydraulicFunction, & #LocalReligiousTraditions

#WaterArchitecture #Jodakalasa
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Scientists at #CeNS, #Bengaluru, #India have developed a material— #MolybdenumTungstenOxide that changes from blue (fully charged) to transparent (discharged)—enabling #RealTimeVisualFeedback of #EnergyState, eliminating need for SeparateDisplayComponents
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Reducing #AirPollution has triggered something worse

#CleanerAir is making #MarineClouds dimmer, reducing the number of #CloudCondensationNuclei, and #oceans warmer, revealing a #climate trade-off called the #CleanAirParadox

#TwomeyEffect #AlbrechtEffect
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Amateur solves 60yr-old #MathProblem—by asking #AI

A #ChatGPT AI has proved a #conjecture with a method no human had thought of

Experts believe it may hv further uses

“We hv discovered a new way to think about LargeNumbers & their anatomy”
#VibeMathing
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#US returns 657 stolen #antiquities worth $14million to India—including a $7.5million #Buddha, #Avalokiteshvara, & a #GaneshaStatue—recovered from InternationalSmugglingRings

A major victory for #CulturalPreservation
Items span centuries of #IndianHistory
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We’re all #talking to each other less (28% fewer #words daily) than a decade ago (2005 to 2019)—age & #tech’s not all to blame

We’ve lost 120,000 words each year in #RealLifeInteractions—could come with costs to social & #MentalHealth

#LonelinessEpidemic
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The Queen

#WritingCommunity #writing #poetry #POEMS #poetrycommunity #amwriting #poet #writerslife #iamwriting #Writers #reading #writerscommunity #poetrywriter #WritingLife #poem #possibilities #Strength #read #emotions #Life #poetrypeople #TheQueen #strength #pain

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The tech is everywhere
The laws are not

#Artificialintelligence is now making HiringDecisions, OptimizingPowerGrids, & TargetingWeaponsSystems

Rules governing any of that r, almost everywhere—either nonexistent, stalled in committee, or UnderActiveAttack
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#Sanatan, Not Just #Sustainability

#DrRajendraSingh speaks about how #IndigenousPractices—#johads, #shramdaan, #VillageCouncils & #CulturalRituals—can be scaled to meet t #ClimateCrisis

He emphasised on #CulturalValues as the engine of #EcologicalRevival
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Why #EmotionalResilience should b at t heart of #ClimateChangeEducation— as only focusing on dangers of #GlobalWarming & not PotentialSolutions—youth can feel helpless

TransformationalSocietalChanges takes place by considering emotions, thoughts & beliefs
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