Its eponymous flowers are deep red-orange and the foliage is composed of whorls of needle-like, silvery-blue leaves.
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Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
7 June 2025
In 2024, the Ig Nobel Prize in anatomy went to an international team of scientists for their discovery that scalp hair whorls are more likely to spiral in a counter-clockwise direction in the Southern Hemisphere compared with the Northern Hemisphere.
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Scott Lafee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 June 2025
The iconic spire of the Sustainability & Innovation Centre at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park in Dubai rises in the background, subtly piercing the mist.
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Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
The scaffolding is slated to rise to the very top of the building, whose pinnacle is graced by a cupola and a needle-like spire.
But recently TikTok is discovering the face-framing magic that comes from turning your curls inward.
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Grace McCarty,
Glamour,
5 Feb. 2026
These handles are usually coloured red or yellow, to identify each team’s stones, and the players control which way the stone curls by rotating the handle in one direction or the other.
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