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  • Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit
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    Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit
  • Tech jobs aplenty in Dubai’s AI boom – depending on your passport
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    Tech jobs aplenty in Dubai’s AI boom – depending on your passport
  • A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant
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    A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant
  • Historical romance: In 1906, an Englishwoman is infatuated by the handsome Indian groom of her horse
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    Historical romance: In 1906, an Englishwoman is infatuated by the handsome Indian groom of her horse
  • Arunachal Pradesh: Threatened by dam, Siang Valley is home to staggeringly diverse number of species
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    Arunachal Pradesh: Threatened by dam, Siang Valley is home to staggeringly diverse number of species
  • Language and power: What Ambedkar and Periyar teach us about Maharashtra’s Hindi debate
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    Language and power: What Ambedkar and Periyar teach us about Maharashtra’s Hindi debate
  • Stephen Alter’s novel brings to life an older version of Rudyard Kipling’s young hero, Kim, as a spy
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    Stephen Alter’s novel brings to life an older version of Rudyard Kipling’s young hero, Kim, as a spy
  • Are our pampered pets really living their best life?
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    Are our pampered pets really living their best life?
  • For young readers: Poems about the various small, astonishing creatures we share the planet with
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    For young readers: Poems about the various small, astonishing creatures we share the planet with
  • How Zohran Mamdani is busting the fake nostalgia of ‘Iran before the Islamic revolution’ memes
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    How Zohran Mamdani is busting the fake nostalgia of ‘Iran before the Islamic revolution’ memes
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‘You still have prisons?’: Earth fails interview to join The Galactic Federation

‘Things could be worse, right? Imagine if you were still fighting over resources’: Comedian Vinny Thomas, AKA The Galactic Federation.

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Dec 15, 2020 · 09:45 am
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The Galactic Federation interviews Earth for membership pic.twitter.com/okgC7L0IuH

— Vinny Thomas (With Eggnog!) (@vinn_ayy) December 8, 2020
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