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My stories: https://oppad.substack.com
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December 4, 2025 at 3:26 AM
moments 🐕🐎
December 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
"The Out of Eden Walk is a 24,000-mile journalistic endeavor to create a global record of human life at the start of a new millennium as told by villagers, nomads, traders, farmers, soldiers, and artists who rarely make the news"

gis.harvard.edu/out-eden-walk
Out of Eden Walk | Center for Geographic Analysis
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December 3, 2025 at 7:29 AM
“Do not let hatred make a home in your heart,” she would say. “Let the light do its work.”

The Battlefield Within: An Elder’s Journey from Struggle to Stillness - Jay Naido

KUDU Journal, issue 3, pg 10
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KUDU Issue N. 3 December 2025 Free download (PDF) HERE Contributors Jay Naidoo Hamilton Wende Wandile Sihlobo Donvé Lee Cornelia Fick Martha Landman Warren Jeremy Rourke Mike Boyd Skyla Buchanan Fa…
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December 3, 2025 at 6:55 AM
sun's up!
Bowie's a bit grumpy this morning, hy wou nog 'n bietjie lê 🐕
December 3, 2025 at 5:18 AM
"An ear of pre-colonization era Glass Gem Corn grown by a Cherokee farmer in Oklahoma.

This particular corn is a mix of ancient Pawnee, Osage and Cherokee varieties."

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Bad Spit (@badspit)
An ear of pre-colonization era Glass Gem Corn grown by a Cherokee farmer in Oklahoma. This particular corn is a mix of ancient Pawnee, Osage and Cherokee varieties.
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December 3, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Oruna wants to join us on our sunrise walk

good morning 🐕 🐎
December 3, 2025 at 3:44 AM
A rare kuier these days: Boeta 🐕🐕
December 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
"One functionality that was thought to have evaded eukaryotic cells was the ability to suck up nitrogen gas, N2, from the air and convert it into essential amino acids... the discovery of the first nitrogen-fixing organelle (nitroplast)."

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Beyond Endosymbiosis: Discovering the First Nitroplast | ASM.org
Microbes engulfing other microbes can lead to interesting evolutionary outcomes, such as a unicellular alga that can fix atmospheric nitrogen thanks to an organelle of bacterial origin.
asm.org
December 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM
"Seed onion production is proving a valuable drought risk mitigation strategy for several farmers in the Karoo Highlands of the Northern Cape, around Williston, Fraserburg, and Calvinia"

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Karoo seed onions perform well on the global market
Seed onion production is proving a valuable drought risk mitigation strategy for several farmers in the Karoo Highlands of the Northern Cape, around Williston, Fraserburg, and Calvinia. Hannes Esterhu...
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December 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"The results indicate that modern cats did not actually arrive in Europe until around 2000 years ago, meaning that they were not brought over by Neolithic farmers, as previously thought"

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Domestic cats came from North Africa to Europe only 2,000 years ago, DNA evidence suggests
Despite the ubiquity of cats in modern homes, we still don't know many details about the timing and routes of early cat domestication and dispersal into Europe and beyond, aside from the common associ...
phys.org
December 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
An interesting and thought-provoking read. I daresay that the same ideas, discussion, debate could be applied to the biological sciences (my background)

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Johan Fourie (@johanfourie)
Should we be worried about the concentration of economics research in the Ivy League? A (contrarian) developing country perspective…
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December 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
A Word about the ongoing worries about the Expropriation Act in South Africa - Wandile Sihlobo

KUDU Journal issue 3, pg 48

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KUDU Issue N. 3 December 2025 Free download (PDF) HERE Contributors Jay Naidoo Hamilton Wende Wandile Sihlobo Donvé Lee Cornelia Fick Martha Landman Warren Jeremy Rourke Mike Boyd Skyla Buchanan Fa…
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December 2, 2025 at 12:27 PM
watching the sunrise

good morning 🐕
December 2, 2025 at 5:16 AM
KUDU - A Journal of South African Writing

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KUDU Issue 3
KUDU Issue 3 Dec 2025Download
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December 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Oxford Word of the Year 2025

(n.) Online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage..., typically posted in order to increase traffic to or engagement with a particular web page or social media account.

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December 1, 2025 at 12:03 PM
"Men Explain Things to Me" - Rebecca Solnit

"Once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you can't unsee it, you can start to change it."

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December 1, 2025 at 9:10 AM
“My unfinished novel and I are currently in a complicated relationship. This week, a message from a friend and an unexpected bit of wisdom helped me understand why.”

Have a read, it made me smile

open.substack.com/pub/maritabe...
I Need the Whole Sky to Fly In
My unfinished novel and I are currently in a complicated relationship.
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December 1, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Fingerlek lekker! 🐕
December 1, 2025 at 5:48 AM
The Story of Kamieskroon

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November 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The Gantouw Pass is one of the oldest documented routes out of Cape Town. Wagon traffic peaked at about 4 500 wagons per annum by 1821, with a 20% rate of attrition. The new pass, Sir Lowry´s Pass, was completed in 1830

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November 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Our Story: Losing the Crown Jewels (though not at the Louvre)

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Losing the Crown Jewels (though not at the Louvre)
We woke up to a surprise on Sunday morning, as it was wet and misty.
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November 30, 2025 at 8:16 AM
I've gotta run some errands 🐕

Cartoons by Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell
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Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell (@cartoonsbyhilary)
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November 30, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Bowie
Namaqualand
November 30, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Sophia is trés elegant.
Deux odalisques by Matisse inspired Suki 😽
November 30, 2025 at 6:20 AM