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James A Wong

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Botanist | Science writer and broadcaster | Lives with 500 houseplants | ‘Weird plant dude’, apparently

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Joined September 2010

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James A Wong

1 year

This is an airport (L) and a hotel (R) in Singapore: A city where planning laws mandate 80% of new buildings will be covered in planting, creating more green space than the plot of land they sit on. My new 8-part series of ‘mini docs’ starts next week on Instagram reels

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James A Wong

7 years

I ❤️ ponds, but live in a tiny London flat. So I made a ‘nano pond’ using just an @ikeauk lamp & fruit bowl. Complete with mini waterlily.

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James A Wong

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The smell of the air after a storm is caused by Geosmin: A chemical released by dead soil bacteria. Humans are hyper sensitive to it, capable of detecting at a concentration of 5 parts per trillion. It's theorised in our evolutionary past this helped us seek out water.☔️⛈️

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James A Wong

10 months

I have just boarded a cable car in Singapore. The family I have joined have said very loudly to their kids in Mandarin that ‘this old, white guy is very heavy. Better come to our side to balance it out.’ Sometimes I wish I had forgotten all my Mandarin.

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James A Wong

2 years

I’ve been in Ireland 24 hours & struggling to cope with the culture shock of people being so nice.

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James A Wong

5 years

Reading that Gwyneth Paltrow’s ‘clean beauty’ regime means she starts every day with a refreshing glass of alkaline water + a spritz of lemon. (Which makes the alkaline water no longer alkaline & highlights the magnificent level of BS that people will swallow from celebrities)

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James A Wong

7 years

There are 50,000 edible plant species on Earth. Yet most of humanity lives off only 100. 0.2% of the potential! These are just the kiwis:

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James A Wong

4 years

When mature trees get in the way of construction projects in Singapore, they just move them. If you really value green infrastructure, there is another way.

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James A Wong

2 years

Just over a month.

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James A Wong

5 years

In a cab in Yorkshire. My (v nice but v alpha male) taxi driver has ‘蛋炒饭’ tattooed on his forearm. For non Mandarin speakers, this translates to ‘Egg fried rice’. Either a big fan or someone, somewhere is using a takeaway menu in their tatt parlour. Am too scared to ask.

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James A Wong

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I’ve been going jogging pretty much every night at 11ish, as that’s when the streets are quietest. I always find the dark, empty city kind of relaxing. It hasn’t ever even occurred to me how privileged I am to be able to think that.

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James A Wong

2 years

So a suicide bomber carried out an attack on British soil, but police aren’t treating it as terrorism. These days I find myself having to listen to news reports twice to make sure I have heard them correctly.

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James A Wong

1 year

Folks, if you want to justify your transphobia as a personal belief, that’s your right. But using botany to do it, when plants can be either sex, both sexes and even swap between them at will, is a really poor example to pick. Yours, A botanist

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James A Wong

2 years

I still can’t quite believe our Home Secretary publically stated that her Christmas wish - essentially - is to see refugees rounded up and put in offshore internment camps. How on earth did we get here?

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James A Wong

2 years

As a British Asian, I’d feel much more like agreeing with people celebrating an Asian PM if his first moves weren’t to: 1) Imply subservience by saying how grateful he is to Britain for being allowed to be here. 2) Appoint a Home Secretary commited to insuring others aren’t.

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James A Wong

2 years

Honestly, wouldn’t it be better if politicians in this race acted like climate change was the greatest threat to face humanity, not trans people?

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James A Wong

5 years

When people* call agricultural workers ‘unskilled’.... I grew pineapples as a kid. Covered in vicious spines on the end of lance-like leaves, each took me 20 mins to pick.

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James A Wong

2 years

I grew up believing us Brits were a nation that liberated people from internment camps, not put people in them.

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James A Wong

5 years

Hi @Twitter , As a botanist I can tell you this tweet with 1000s of shares could result in the deaths of women. It needs taking down, fast.

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James A Wong

10 months

And to all the people saying I should have replied… I’m British. I don’t like face to face conflict. I smiled sweetly, while trashing them publicly on twitter.

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James A Wong

1 year

Just to say, I have resigned from my column at The Observer. Thanks everyone for reading over the years. 🌱

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James A Wong

6 years

Maize is an artificial species created entirely thanks to human ingenuity (right). Its closest wild relative is a grass with tiny, barely edible, rock hard, seeds called Teosinthe (left). It took thousands of years of tireless breeding work by Native Americans to get us maize.

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James A Wong

3 years

Andrew Bridgen talking about ‘the indigenous population’ of the U.K. not tolerating immigration on the news tonight. Seems we have abandoned euphemisms and have just opted for straight-up, out and out racism from politicians at this point.

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James A Wong

6 years

I recently received racist tweets from an account listing their uni employer. I could have ignored it. Instead I screenshot them & wrote to the uni’s press team. Today the account is gone. Do not ignore racism, kids. Things only get better when we challenge it, not ignore it

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James A Wong

5 years

Just tried to order something online from Denmark. Apparently they no longer sell to the UK, as orders accepted now may arrive after March 29 & might not be able to be fulfilled. I can't even get work supplies delivered in the time frame our gov has to sort their mess out.

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James A Wong

5 years

Ladies & Gents. This is a multi-storey carpark in Singapore. A little reminder of what our cities could look like if we valued horticulture just a little bit more.

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James A Wong

7 months

So much love for this iconic tree today. What is strange to me as a botanist though, is it was only so iconic because of the thousands felled to create the totally denuded landscape that made it stand out. Wouldn’t a mass replanting be a nice silver lining?

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We are shocked and desperately saddened to learn that the famous Sycamore Gap tree at Hadrian's Wall has been felled overnight, in what appears to be an act of vandalism. We know just how much this iconic tree is loved locally, nationally and by everyone who has visited. We are…

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James A Wong

1 year

Just found a pic from the day at Chelsea when at least half a dozen people asked where I was really from. A colleague in horticulture said it must be due to ‘full, in-your-face, ethnic costume’. The suit is from @REISS

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James A Wong

6 years

Seen this meme? It uses a 'per calorie' measure, not 'per serving'. And broccoli is *very* low in calories. So let's convert the stats to servings.... To get as much protein as a very small steak (180g), you'd have to eat 1.6kg of broccoli in one sitting. 😉

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James A Wong

6 years

THE BIOLOGY OF BABY GROOT. ⬇️ Baby groot is created from a cutting of Groot, an ambulant alien plant who dies at the end of the 1st Guardians of the Galaxy movie. Geeks are hotly debating whether he is a ‘son’ of Groot or just Groot living on. Botanist to the rescue...

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James A Wong

2 years

This article says the BBC is ‘woke’ because the T. rex in this doc reflects scientific reality as opposed to nostalgic fantasy. What’s happening to us?

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James A Wong

5 years

As a botanist, let me be clear... There is zero truth to this claim. In fact, given the relatively tiny amount of time humans have existed to breed plants, this achievement is biologically (& thermodynamically) impossible. #TrustScienceNotScaremongers

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Modern fruit has been bred to contain 100x more sugar than ancient varieties. Modern fruit is NOT a healthy snack.

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James A Wong

3 months

On a British train for a 3 hour journey. There isn’t even room on board to stand safely for the trip. It cost me just under 1/4 the price of a return plane ticket to Singapore. Why are we putting up with this?

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James A Wong

4 years

So, predictably, people are cross I pointed out potatoes did not originate in Britain. To clarify, pretty much all world crops originate from roughly 8 spots on the planet where farming was independently invented. None in Britain.

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James A Wong

2 years

“Socialite” is just what rich people call “unemployed”, right?

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James A Wong

1 year

I wonder if people who weren’t born 30 years ago read stuff like this and believe it was true?

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James A Wong

1 year

I once had to interview Elon’s brother as a ‘thought leader’ in agriculture. He argued the US would soon stop growing corn entirely as kale was more nutrious. Can we stop treating people as smart because they are rich?

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James A Wong

5 years

For the avoidance of doubt, Britain has not been self sufficient in food for centuries. It’s a mathematical impossibility. Those that claim we were are either totally ignorant of history, or lying, or both.

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John Redwood

5 years

One of the big wins from Brexit is a new agrarian revolution. We should develop policies to rebuild our self-sufficiency in temperate food as we enjoyed before joining the CAP. We shd also look at other ways of increasing the use we make of our farmland to increase farm incomes.

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James A Wong

1 year

The history of eugenics is fascinating for so many reasons… None more so than when we consider which people think of themselves as genetically superior.

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Meet the ‘elite’ couples breeding to save mankind

With global birth rates in free fall, Silicon Valley’s ‘pronatalists’ are aiming to halt the decline – by having as many babies as possible

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James A Wong

5 years

When I was a kid, the Singapore river verged on being an open sewer. And otters were thought extinct on the island. Here’s what effective green policies can do! #Inspirational #conservation #otters #urbangreening

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James A Wong

4 years

People are *furious* today that I tweeted that I felt it would be unsafe to go to my local park today as an ethnic minority. Apparently it’s ‘nonsense’, ‘stirring’ and ‘attention seeking’. My local park today: ⬇️

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James A Wong

1 year

Gosh, my mum sent me this… Daffodils are the single most common cause of plant-based poisoning as people mistake their bulbs (even cut flower buds) for crops in the onion family. @marksandspencer I don’t want to get any staff in trouble. But you need better training asap.

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James A Wong

4 years

Loving how terrified a bunch of middle-aged bullies are about a teenage girl walking in Bristol today. And all the mental gymnastics they are doing to try and find ways to legitimise what is frankly just a desire to pick on a child. #GoGreta

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James A Wong

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I’ve wanted to make a doc on the wonders of Singapore’s ‘Garden City’ plan for *years*. But have always been told UK audiences don’t want to see modern or international gardens. So I went out and made it myself on instagram. Ep 1: The Airport, out now!

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James A Wong

7 years

We didn't. 50% of kids died before their 5th birthday pre 1800. You are alive to be antiscience thanks to science

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James A Wong

6 years

Studying the genes of sweet potatoes shows Pacific Islanders visited The Americas at least 500 years before Columbus. What is even cooler? You can also show this voyage across the Pacific just by plotting local names of the crop on a map.

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James A Wong

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The genes of sweet potatoes reveal that there was contact between Australasia & The Americas at least 500 years before Columbus. What is even cooler? You can also show this voyage across the Pacific just by plotting local names of the crop on a map.

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James A Wong

6 months

*Botanist enters the chat* Modern fruit don’t really contain more sugar than their wild ancestors. Although breeding has been done to make them taste sweeter, this is almost always achieved by reducing sour or bitter tasting compounds. This claim is, I’m afraid, fruitloopery.

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James A Wong

3 months

It’s always surprising to me to see the pictures of people who regard themselves as racially superior.

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James A Wong

10 months

I should add; in strong Beijing accents. Maybe ‘old, white guy’ is a term of endearment on mainland Chinese slang? Thats’s possible, right?

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James A Wong

3 months

Why is no one commenting on the size of the audience when the camera eventually zooms out? 😱 I have done talks on vegetable facts in suburban garden centres, in between the hose reels and orthopaedic shoes, with bigger audiences

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Everything about this video is perfect. The awkward anticlimactic ending. The cringe music. The completely bewildered look as she doesn’t know where to go or whether to keep saying thank you. And then, the camera zooming out to emptiness.

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James A Wong

6 years

TWITTER: Vaccines contain toxic formaldehyde! TRUTH: A single pear has 50x more formaldehyde than is found in any vaccine. 🍐🍐🍐🍐

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James A Wong

3 years

An update of my miniature lily pond housed in an old book case…

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James A Wong

3 years

No criticism of the poster, as this happens all the time in the media, but... It’s not ‘progress’ when acceptance of minorities is contingent on their utility.

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James A Wong

6 years

12 years ago I started my Masters. A lecturer asked our whole department of zoology, botany & conservation students: What made you choose to study this? Not a single one of us didn’t mention Attenborough. Looks like it’ll be the same in the next 12 years. #BluePlanet2

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James A Wong

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Wrapping broccoli in a material that slows down its respiratory rate doubles it shelf life. Going for the unwrapped version not only potentially doubles food waste (probably the greatest environmental threat to humanity), it can cause a nutrient decline of up to 90%.

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James A Wong

1 year

I was born in London, mate. 😘

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@Botanygeek @REISS If you were born in Sinagapore, the correct answer is Singapore

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James A Wong

3 years

It’s curious how often my colleagues in the media appear to have more of an issue with my surname than the content of my tweets.

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In science there’s a term called ‘survivor bias’. It’s when people who have survived a risky situation come to believe that it never was a risk to begin with.

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1 year

Apparently this tweet breached my requirement to “abide by social media guidelines” and “This is a serious matter.”

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1 year

@PriyamvadaGopal As a columnist at the Observer, I have written to them to express my shock. This is completely unacceptable.

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James A Wong

2 years

As an ethnobotanist, I find how differently people interpret the same landscapes fascinating. When I made a show on Malaysian gardens the producers were *really* insistent we spend ages talking about terrible local deforestation was. Yet here we venerate it as our heritage.

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James A Wong

7 years

I love this hacked meme.

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James A Wong

5 years

Ocean plastic sources: 🥤Plastic straws = 0.03% 🐟Fishing gear = 46% Eating less fish would tackle a source of ocean plastic x1500 that of straws. When it comes to headlines & Facebook memes it’s funny how there aren’t x1500 the stories on eating less fish.

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James A Wong

4 years

Well intentioned tweet, but... Growing food is not cheap & it certainly is not easy. We have been conditioned into believing so, based on the assumption farmers are unskilled. It’s essentially impossible to meet one’s own caloric needs growing our own, let alone sharing it.

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If you're concerned about food supplies in the next while, growing food is cheap, and easy to share in communities.

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6 years

3 years ago a TV company pitched me an idea for a show that explored a future scenario in which U.K. food imports were compromised & we had to struggle to become self sufficient. I told them this was just too far-fetched.

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James A Wong

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Baby Groot is the result of a form of asexual reproduction known as vegetative propagation. Plants, unlike most animals, retain their stem cells through their lives. So cloning them is super easy. Baby Groot is therefore a perfect genetic clone of Big Groot.

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James A Wong

2 years

When you find yourself using ‘only’ in the context of dead kids, it’s perhaps time to pause and reassess your life.

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🔴 Only six healthy children with no underlying health conditions died as a direct result of catching the coronavirus during a 12-month window, NHS analysis has revealed

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James A Wong

3 years

It’s pretty common practice for politicians & media commentators to call farm workers ‘unskilled’. All that shows is they have never done any farm work.

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United Farm Workers

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Charlie is paid piece rates— 75 cents per bucket. He’s by far the fastest in his crew. (just a Friday reminder of what we mean when we say #WeFeedYou )

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James A Wong

2 months

John Craven is probably the nicest, kindest and most supportive colleague I’ve ever had working in telly. And sticking his neck out for other people like this, at risk of the tiresomely predictable backlash, is classic him.

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The Times and The Sunday Times

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Non-white people are made to feel unwelcome in the British countryside, the BBC broadcaster John Craven has claimed ⬇️

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James A Wong

1 year

Cracking down on beggars, after writing off billions in fraud. It is so important to not simply dismiss those with different political views to you as just bad people. But, at this stage, it’s hard for it not to be an inescapable conclusion.

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James A Wong

1 year

‘Visibly not fully British’ Am curious. What is it to be ‘visibly’ British? All eight of my great grandparents were born British (and probably even earlier than that) thanks to the Empire. It’s almost like you are looking for a word other than ‘British’.

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James A Wong

4 years

Just a quick note to those RTing petitions to ban ‘Asian wet markets’. Before doing so, have a read of what ‘wet market’ actually means in Asia: A fresh food market. As opposed to ‘dry’ markets, that sell clothes, electronics, etc. It’s like a petition to ban farmers markets.

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James A Wong

1 year

Ironing your wrapping paper, one might argue, makes rather less of a difference than voting against limits to sewage discharge in rivers or for new coal mines.

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Rebecca Pow

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My top Christmas #recycling tips Ironing old wrapping paper means you can re-use last year’s 🎁 More tips at #GreenChristmas @DefraGovUK

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James A Wong

4 years

The number of people furious a organisation dedicated to history is ‘erasing history’ by teaching history is pretty meta, even for 2020.

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National Trust

4 years

Many of the places we care for have direct or indirect links to slavery, including objects made from materials obtained by forced labour. Today, as we mark the @UNESCO Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, we take a closer look at these materials.

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James A Wong

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Lots of tweets today saying ‘Well, crowds in Soho look bad, but we didn’t have a rise in infections after those packed beaches.’ That’s not how risk works. You can cross a motorway blindfolded and be fine. But the more times you do it, the less chance you have of escaping.

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James A Wong

4 years

Getting calls from TV bods asking for an expert to explain why food is less nutritious today, why traditional diets are healthier, etc. They inevitably don’t like it when I tell them they are wrong. If only TV crafted its narrative around experts, not the other way round.

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James A Wong

6 years

What I ♥️ about the Brits most is our sense of humour in the face of tragedy. As our government assures us we’ll have #adequatefood post Brexit, here’s a reminder... Our islands haven’t produced enough food to feed us for well over a century. Nope, not even in WW2.

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James A Wong

4 years

We would die from starvation. It’s that simple.

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Philip Lymbery

4 years

BBC News - What if we only ate food from local farms?

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James A Wong

4 years

Overheard on tube yesterday: “Organic wine doesn’t give you a hangover. It’s a chemical that does that.” My exasperated internal monologue: “Yes, it’s called alcohol.”

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James A Wong

5 years

Some good news for you on Sunday: There is no such thing as an unhealthy food, just unhealthy diets. The value of food is not just about the chemicals it is made up of, but the pleasure it brings. So eat food, enjoy it and don’t let fearmongers get you.

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James A Wong

4 years

Had a few tweets today from people genuinely arguing that going fishing or scrumping apples is a simple solution for ‘lazy’ people affected by poverty. When hunter gathering is pitched as a serious future for human civilisation, you know we are screwed.

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James A Wong

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In school I was told: “Flowers are for girls.” Thank God I never listened. #InternationalMensDay

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James A Wong

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Wait till they find out who invented tea...

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James A Wong

2 years

The problem with this supremacist narrative is that you can live in a country where literally every river fails quality tests for pollution, 1/3 or all birds and 1/4 of all mammals are threatened with extinction, and still believe it is a ‘world leader’.

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James A Wong

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Gosh. I went on breakfast telly yesterday to discuss the mental health benefits of spending time in green space and how some cuddly llamas (temporarily) escaped a farm. Have like 100 furious messages on here. People need more flowers in their life.

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James A Wong

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When I first moved to the U.K. I found it so totally bizarre there was an entire aisle in big supermarkets dedicated exclusively to crisps. Then I was like…. “Ahhhhh. They are the instant noodles of the West.”

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James A Wong

5 years

You know that smell of fresh cut grass? It’s created as a chemical distress call to alert neighbouring plants to prepare for imminent herbivore attack. It’s the smell of plant fear...

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James A Wong

2 years

Just read an article that says gardening ‘is one of our country’s greatest gifts to the world.’ Specifically our love of tulips, camellias and magnolias as what sets us apart. Every one of these was created, including the very concept of a garden, 100s of years before in Asia.

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James A Wong

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And if you are cross about this thread proposing a speculative hypothesis about fictional, alien exobiology.... Congrats! You are even more of a geek than me. 🌿🌴🔬

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James A Wong

1 year

Amazingly, plants aren’t people. And I am frequently incredibly grateful about that.

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James A Wong

3 years

Lots of tweets today on how people who eat at McDonald’s deserve to get ill & are even a burden on society. Two facts: Big Mac = 563 Cal Homemade kale & quinoa pattie = 564 Cal Your reminder that judging people’s morality by their lunch choice is wrong, and not just factually

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James A Wong

1 year

A month after I wrote a formal complaint the only reply I got was to this tweet. 🚮

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James A Wong

5 years

Some good news for your Sunday: Since I was a kid, Costa Rica has more than doubled its land area covered by tropical rainforest. Making it the 1st tropical country to stop and reverse deforestation. *Seriously contemplates move* 📷:

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James A Wong

3 years

Would have been nice if you cooperated when I received racist death threats though, twitter.

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James A Wong

4 years

Just came back from the supermarket after 45 mins of queuing. Felt weirdly emotional seeing shelves filled with so much choice, especially of fresh fruit and veg. I know I am always banging on about how we take the modern food supply for granted. But it really is a miracle.

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James A Wong

5 years

20% of the oxygen in your lungs right now was produced by the Amazon rainforest. It’s been on fire for 3 weeks.

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James A Wong

11 months

Guess it’s time to crack this old photo of some carrots I grew…. #PrideMonth

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James A Wong

5 years

Just to clarify, as this sentiment is all over my feed: A) Britain hasn't been self sufficient in food for centuries. B) The last time we tried, we had to use land grabs & child labour. C) We ate tinned whale & powdered eggs. D) We still didn't manage.

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paul rose

5 years

@GMB @toryboypierce Plus like in the second world war we ort to be digging for Britain and growing our own food we can grow more things now days than the climate allowed for in the 40s

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James A Wong

2 months

Fewer things have given me more joy today than knowing the answer to this question and not sharing it.

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Chris Ship

2 months

Any good horticulturalists out there who can answer the leaf🍃 question on the Kate photo. What is the plant in question? And should it be this leafy in March/early Spring??

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James A Wong

6 years

47 years ago today, Norman Borlaug received the Nobel Peace Prize for his research in hybridizing wheat to increase crop yields. Borlaug, the father of modern agriculture, is credited with saving over a billion people from starvation. #PlantGeeksSaveTheWorld

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