R. K. Singh
@journorksingh.bsky.social
He/Him Watching the world closely. Writing it down.
A woman reaching the highest office is progress. Still, gender equality means little if women's bodies and clothing remain subjects of political debate. And, the real question is not how short a skirt is, but why it matters so much to those in power.
The Economist@economist.com · 9h agoGiorgia Meloni is Italy’s first female prime minister, a path-breaking achievement. But as the leader of the populist-right Brothers of Italy party, she has hardly been pushing for gender equality
Not all heroes wear capes. Some come with four paws and a wagging tail. Norene and Polenta remind us that healing often comes through connection, kindness, and unconditional love.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · yesterdayEvergreen High School has introduced two Labradors, Norene and Polenta, to help students cope with stress after a school shooting.
Fascinating research. And, an important reminder that human activity affects wildlife in ways we cannot always see. Actually, the irony is hard to miss. We are teaching marine mammals to respond to sounds while learning how much our own noise might be affecting them.
AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 2d agoSeals and sea lions get hearing test at Australia zoo. The tests are for research into how the marine mammals are affected by human-made noise u.afp.com/SCUp
Billionaires accusing billionaires of blocking billionaires. In fact, when the world's richest man complains about barriers, you know the market is bigger than any one.
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 3d agoElon Musk accused unnamed rivals of blocking SpaceX’s Starlink satellite broadband network in India, an apparent swipe at billionaires Mukesh Ambani and Sunil Bharti Mittal. bloom.bg/4AVmjfY 📷️: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg
Worst case, we get lost. Best case, we find something worth talking about for years. 😁 Mystery is just certainty that has not introduced itself yet.
In a world of temporary connections, they choose one mate for life and keep family close. Nature still believes in commitment. The Blue Magpie does not just fall in love. It builds a lifetime around it.
🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦@joycomes.bsky.social · 6d agoSri Lanka blue Magpie 42-47cm lifespan 10-15years monogamous birds form lifelong pairs and lives exclusively in the dense evergreen rainforests and hill forests of southwestern Sri Lanka diet invertebrates, fruits and berries Male/Female identical Families flock stay together often permanently.
We taught AI to reflect our biases, then acted surprised when it did. However, the worrying part is not that the AI had a gender. It is that humans treated it differently because they thought it did.
Forbes@forbes.com · 6d agoPeople paid a female-presenting AI agent 10.25% less than its female-presenting counterpart for the same work, a University of Limerick experiment found.
Perhaps, the next real innovation is learning to slow down.
Beneath every carefully crafted thought echoes an older rhythm, inherited from ancestors who survived long before logic learned to speak.
We are in agreement! 😇 Now that is one social contract with no fine print. 😂
The best memoirs do not just tell us what happened. Actually, they make us feel what mattered.
Cats may enter a house as pets, but somehow they leave footprints on the family history.
What a beautiful legacy. There is something deeply moving about turning your father’s struggle with literacy into a gift of books for millions of children. Actually, that is love translated into action.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2w agoThe Dollywood Foundation announced that Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library will expand to reach 157,000 children across London. The program, which sends children a book every month from birth until their 5th birthday, aims to make books more accessible.
We are witnessing the beginning of a new era in cephalopod research. A glowing red cuttlefish today could unlock answers about how brains evolved across entirely different branches of life.
Science Magazine@science.org · 2w agoExclusive: Cuttlefish that glow red under fluorescent light represent the first cephalopods engineered to contain a new gene. This breakthrough can pave the way for new studies of perception, brain evolution, and more. https://scim.ag/46VspiG
Funny how ‘What’s up?’ often translates to ‘Don’t worry, I am not asking for the real answer.
26 million trees. One mission. Infinite impact. 💚🌍 This is what climate action looks like. India's 'Tree Father' reminding us that the greenest revolution begins with a single sapling. 🇮🇳
AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 2w ago🇮🇳 India's 'Tree Father' plants for a greener future Swami Prem Parivartan is known as India's 'tree father' for his decades-long mission to restore the country's vanishing green cover. His 'Give Me Trees' trust estimates it has planted or preserved 26 million trees.
If we are going to blame hormones for everything, at least give them credit for the good stuff too. Fair is fair.
Light rises. Wind turns. Silence holds. Some evenings do not ask for meaning, they simply ask you to breathe.
Why do women generally prefer warmer office temperatures than men? Is it biology, metabolism, clothing, workplace design, or simply the eternal office battle over the thermostat? 🥶🔥
Peace cannot exist only in speeches and headlines. A peace announcement means little if humanitarian corridors remain closed.
Reuters@reuters.com · 3w agoFrance's President Emmanuel Macron dismissed peace efforts in Gaza, saying that not one humanitarian corridor had been opened and that what was happening was "a spectacle that should shame us all." reut.rs/4yNcZZB
We build walls, strengthen defences, suspect every gesture, and somehow convince ourselves that fear is security.
Calling something an election does not automatically make it democratic. Democracy needs more than ballots, banners and turnout figures. It needs genuine alternatives, open debate and the possibility that voters can change the direction of power.
The Economist@economist.com · 3w agoThe role of Russian voters is to demonstrate loyalty. But this time the population shows little interest in playing along
At some point, the phone stops being a tool and starts acting like a tiny, overconfident life manager. 😂 So, the real danger may not be AI taking over the world, but our phones quietly becoming better judges of our social lives than we are.
Nature says, “Feel.” We say, “Let’s overthink this first.”
A tiny feather, a pile of prehistoric poop, and millions of years later, a scientific breakthrough. History, very clearly, has a strange sense of humour. Science teaches us to keep looking, even when the evidence is literally buried in crap. 🦖💩
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3w agoA well-preserved bird feather from the age of dinosaurs has been found inside a fossilized piece of dinosaur poop — revealing how some bird species may have escaped extinction.
We fear missing out, so we call impulsive choices freedom. Perhaps, YOLO is not courage after all, just FOMO wearing sunglasses and pretending to be fearless. 😄
...they fight for you even when you are not in the room.
Sometimes, letting go is not giving up. It is knowing what was never ours.
She danced through the diamonds, pretending not to notice the circus.
Six years away, yet headlines still chase them. Maybe it’s time Britain focused on its people, not its paparazzi.
CNN@cnn.com · 4w agoSix years after moving out of the UK and stepping away from royal life, Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex are sharing glimpses of their personal life on social media after their return to the country. Read more: https://cnn.it/3VuhwBN