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Advocate Vikas Pal
@palvikas527
Passionate For Law, Literature, and Plants
नई दिल्ली, भारत Katılım Ağustos 2012
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Adult friendships rarely end loudly; they fade quietly between missed calls, changing priorities, and unspoken emotional distances. The article beautifully captures how growing older often means grieving people who are still alive, still reachable, yet no longer truly present in our everyday lives, leaving behind nostalgia, silence, and an ache difficult to explain.
An excerpt from a recent article published in The Times of India by Pranav Jain.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/civil-ir…
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A thought-provoking article brilliantly highlighting pregnancy’s overlooked challenges within India’s inadequate urban infrastructure and healthcare systems.
@ekta2993

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When I was in school, I used to watch NDTV a lot. The way Nidhi Kulpati and many other journalists from NDTV set a precedent for simple, dignified, and truthful journalism was truly admirable. Kadambini Sharma, Nidhi Razdan, and another journalist whose name I can’t quite recall—perhaps Naaz—were also remarkable.
Thank you, Nidhi ma’am—we’re happy you’re back.
Nidhi Kulpati@NidhiKulpati5
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#Breaking
Delhi court orders FIR against Abhijit Iyer-Mitra for objectionable posts about Newslaundry’ Manisha Pande and other journalists.
@Iyervval @MnshaP @newslaundry

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A 15-pound honey badger can survive a cobra bite that would kill a full-grown man in under two hours. Then it finishes eating the snake. A biology grad student at the University of Minnesota wanted to know how. She needed badger blood to find out, and the only samples she could get were from two American zoos in San Diego and Indiana.
What she found in the DNA was one tiny change. There's a small socket on your muscle cells that your nerves plug into to tell your muscles to move. Cobra venom kills you by jamming that socket shut, so your lungs stop working. The honey badger's socket has a swapped-out amino acid that gives it a positive electrical charge. Cobra venom is also positively charged. Like magnets pointing the wrong way, the venom gets pushed off before it can lock in, and the muscles keep firing.
The same workaround showed up separately in hedgehogs and pigs. Mongooses got there too, with a slightly different molecular trick. Four different animals with no shared ancestor all arrived at the same solution because venomous snakes kept biting them for millions of years.
That only covers snakes like cobras and mambas. Puff adders work differently, destroying tissue instead of paralyzing muscle, and the DNA trick doesn't help there. So when a puff adder lands a solid bite, the badger collapses into a kind of coma for two or three hours. Then it wakes up groggy and eats the snake anyway.
The skin is maybe the unfairest part of all this. It's about a quarter inch thick, rubbery, and so loose it fits like a wetsuit two sizes too big. A lion can clamp its jaws on a honey badger and the badger will twist halfway around inside its own skin and start clawing the lion's face while still in its mouth. Bee stingers barely get through. Porcupine quills don't either.
Which brings us back to the bees in that photo. They're annoying. A few sneak through to the face, and enough stings have killed honey badgers in the wild. Honey badgers still die. But they're running three different defense systems at the same time, and one of them is a genetic lottery ticket evolution has pulled four times.
Science girl@sciencegirl
The honey badger doesn’t care
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I don’t love reading because it makes me smarter, but because it helps me eliminate noise and often the silly opinions of others. It allows me to reflect on great stories, ideas, and questions. Everyone knows that. But when you don’t read such deep and meaningful things, your mind keeps jumping between your desire to become great and trivial thoughts like, “Why did he or she say that to me?” This is simply a waste of mental energy. I understand that we are all human, and when someone says something, it affects us, either positively or negatively. But it is your responsibility to shift your focus to ideas, to your life, to your work, to your journey as a creator, to anything that truly matters to you.
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