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How many cups of ☕️ do you think are consumed every day around the world? The answer ... 2bn. But what actually happens after you swallow that first mouthful? Swipe to learn the truth about caffeine - and tap the link in bio for writer and YouTuber Joel Snape's full explainer on how coffee really affects our bodies. #coffee #caffeine #drink #drinks #healthandwellbeing

This is what the long game of California weed looks like. Rising two stories from razor-straight rows of parsley, artichokes and strawberries, the greenhouse complex hums with solar-powered efficiency, its vast airy interiors redolent with the sticky plant that fills much of it. Cannabis. The flatlands here stretching between mountains and sea have attracted farmers for generations, just around a corner of the Pacific Coast Highway from the playgrounds of Malibu. Now this windy plain is a high-stakes table for a nine-figure bet on the future of California cannabis — that soon, within the next few years, adults across the country will be able to buy it as easily as hard seltzer or craft beer. Read more by tapping the link in our profile.

"On August 13, 2021, I received a WhatsApp message from a friend in Afghanistan detailing a “peace deal” the Afghan government had made with the Taliban. The president had effectively relinquished power and the Taliban would enter Kabul within two days. ⁠ ⁠ In May of that year Nato had begun a final withdrawal of its mission there and a Taliban offensive had been escalating, but I was still shocked. Even the British government didn’t seem to be aware of the imminent collapse and most MPs were on holiday anyway; Dominic Raab, foreign secretary at the time, would remain in Crete until after Kabul had fallen." | ✍️ Levison Wood⁠ ⁠ 🔗 Click the link in bio to read Veteran Levison Wood's full account

"Sometimes I get an unnerving feeling that somewhere out there a former partner is telling his best anecdote, and that anecdote is about me. I can see him — I never know which him it is — in my mind’s eye: beat perfect, every line honed to perfection through years of practice. Over pasta and red wine, his friends are shrieking “No! She didn’t!” in delighted horror.⁠ ⁠ They all collapse gleefully, although of course they have heard this story before. His girlfriend — who no doubt always texts him back in a timely fashion and, crucially, does not eat toast in bed — squeezes his arm affectionately, marvelling at how someone so charming could possibly have tolerated such nonsense." | ✍️ Charlotte Ivers⁠ ⁠ 🔗 Click the link in bio to read Charlotte's full perspective

Closing out CPAC, former Pres. Trump presented himself to the crowd as the ultimate leader to take on Democrats and establishment Republicans. "In 2016, I declared I am your voice. Today I add: I am your warrior. I am your justice, and for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution," Trump said. Tap link in bio for more. #news #trump #cpac

Is it a millipede? Is it a rock? ⁠ ⁠ That is the question that is troubling some scientists who believe that life may already have been found on Mars, if you just look carefully enough. ⁠ ⁠ It is a controversial topic, and one unlikely to be proven until humans set foot on the Red Planet, or Martian samples are returned to Earth. ⁠ ⁠ Yet a small cadre of academics is convinced there is already good evidence that life once existed on the planet, and may even still be thriving today. ⁠ ⁠ The scientists believe they have spotted fossilised sponges, corals, worm eggs, algae, fungi, lichen, shrimp, crabs, sea spiders, scorpions, the tell-tale green glow of living cyanobacteria, and yes, even a translucent millipede, on the surface. ⁠ ⁠ Follow the linkinbio to read the full story ⁠ ⁠ #life #mars #space ⁠ #science

HERE COMES THE SUN: Bird perches on an electricity wire as the sun rises over Kathmandu, Nepal. #sunrise #nepal #kathmandu #birds #animals #sun