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“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.” ― Jhumpa Lahiri

[Ben Davison @Ben_Davison1]

With 9,400 Americans dead from gun violence so far this year the current daily death rate is over 38
Making the streets of America more than 3 TIMES deadlier than the Vietnam war and 100 TIMES deadlier than the war in Afghanistan
#America #auspol #FailedStatesOfAmerica #BanGuns

[Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg]

When haters go after your looks and differences, it means they have nowhere left to go. And then you know you’re winning!
I have Aspergers and that means I’m sometimes a bit different from the norm. And - given the right circumstances- being different is a superpower.
#aspiepower

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

The government of Denmark will buy the country's last four circus elephants in order to retire them, a minister said, as more countries move to shield wild animals from the practice https://t.co/F4AmClbYPt

[Climate Guardians @ClimateGuardia]

Great Barrier Reef outlook very poor, Australia says

(In many ways it’s an analogue for our earth. We can see her decline, we know how to save her, but vested interests and their political enablers prioritise their profits over life itself #auspol #COP26) https://t.co/3mEObblZGs

[TRT World @trtworld]

This is what happened in an epic battle between a beekeeper and honey-stealing bears in Turkey’s Trabzon province

[Jamil Smith جميل كريم @JamilSmith]

If we destroy the Amazon, @yayitsrob notes, humanity can’t get it back. Even if we could replant all the trees, the diversity of creatures there couldn’t be replenished for roughly 10 million years. And that is 33 times longer than our species has existed. https://t.co/TEkZUd1qYt

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

New #Everest rules mulled.

Climbers wanting to take on the world's highest peak will first have to tackle another Nepal mountain of at least 6,500 metres (21,325 feet) under new proposals to improve safety
https://t.co/bZTbrW476m

@AFPgraphics

[SBS News @SBSNews]

Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani has been awarded the 2019 National Biography Award worth $25,000 for his book No Friend But the Mountains - and he's accepted it from Manus Island via Whatsapp. https://t.co/dgNIxudPpw

[Dubrow @chrisdubrow]

Welcome to #katoomba - Darug and Gandangara country. #bluemountains #snow

[Ticia Verveer @ticiaverveer]

FBI New York Art Crime Team Returns Vases Stolen During Nazi Rule in Germany
https://t.co/imhZxUtWSK

[Alphonso Van Marsh @AlphonsoVM]

Physicist gets his hands on strains of 4,500-year-old yeast from ancient #Egyptian pottery – makes a dough, then bakes an “incredible” loaf of sourdough bread. 🍞
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As one does with ingredients from antiquity. #Thread👇🏽

[CBC News @CBCNews]

Microbes, viruses found in environment similar to those on Mars and moons of Jupiter and Saturn. https://t.co/fqfw20KcRA

[🌺Ness @v_palun]

A Perfect Winter’s Day

[The Age @theage]

Every Wednesday for over a year, a doctor, a nurse and a social worker have provided free medical services out of an outreach bus to homeless patients. Now, the City of Melbourne will invest $200,000 for the service to operate every Monday in the CBD https://t.co/PKLjpccAXb

[CNN @CNN]

Greenland's ice sheet just lost 11 billion tons of ice — equivalent to 4.4 million Olympic swimming pools — in one day https://t.co/h5kRrtLhMU

[Laurie Garrett @Laurie_Garrett]

This is a roaring glacial melt, under the bridge to Kangerlussiauq, Greenland where it's 22C today and Danish officials say 12 billions tons of ice melted in 24 hours, yesterday.

[Anne Summers @SummersAnne]

'...a loophole in the Wildlife Act meaning the animals are not protected in 193 districts of Victoria'. Thousands of wombats slaughtered every year. Wombat safari highlights legal loophole, as data reveals kills double in Victoria | The New Daily https://t.co/883awTqp85