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James Wong
Botanygeek
If you hate dandelions, consider this:A thread from Singaporean gardening Facebook of people desperate to get hold of the exotic dandelion plants they know from foreign holidays... With beautiful,
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Maybe a surprise coming from me, but I am unsure of the value of a focus on diversity in workplaces.Here’s why...(Please read to the end)https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1306463302978019328 Diversity is all about ensuring
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There’s common joke about people who think Yorkshire tea is grown there.But it could be. It’s a camellia plant from N Asia & can handle at least -10C.We only *think*
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Field research embarrassment story: The Canary Islands was a stop-off for Spanish ships returning from the Americas.So it is still home to some ancient Incan(?), and v weird-looking, potato varieties.Being
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This image is doing the rounds on twitter. The claim is loose carrots with tops are far more sustainable than packaged. But then why do supermarkets bother ?Because it dramatically
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Every day I read how this crisis must make us radically rethink globalisation & eat *only* local food, as the terrible modern food system has clearly failed us.Guys, amid a
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TITLE: Giant Asian Hornets can kill with one sting heading to the U.K.!TRUTH: They aren’t bigger than our hornets. So not exactly ‘giant’.Their venom is no more deadly than a
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Steady stream of Westerners telling me what ‘Wet market’ means in China.Funnily enough, ‘Wet market’ doesn’t exist in Chinese. It’s an English term.One coined in ex British colonies like Singapore,
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Just a quick note to those RTing petitions to ban ‘Asian wet markets’.Before doing so, have a read of what ‘wet market’ actually means in Asia: A fresh food market.As
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Every day I read tweets about how terrible the modern food supply is.Yet before its advent, right now was a time of the year called the ‘hungry gap’, where winter
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Countries that have followed the WHO’s advice have the lowest curves.The one her husband helps run is on a steeper trajectory than Italy.#HadEnoughOfExperts https://twitter.com/westminsterwag/status/1246067039602536456 This kind of ‘journalism’ can c
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