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Just watched Signal One on my flight...
Better UFO movie than Disclosure Day.
I recommend it 👌
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For the first time, we're watching plants breathe in real time.
Plants "breathe" through minuscule openings on their leaves known as stomata—a term derived from the Greek word for "mouths." These tiny pores perform a critical balancing act: they open to allow carbon dioxide (CO₂) to enter for photosynthesis, while simultaneously permitting water vapor to escape into the atmosphere through transpiration. This ongoing compromise influences a plant's growth rate, water requirements, and overall resilience, especially in challenging environments.
Historically, scientists faced significant limitations in studying this dynamic process directly. They could either observe stomatal movements under a microscope (often in artificial or uncontrolled settings) or measure overall leaf gas exchange (which reflects aggregate behavior but obscures microscopic details). A recent breakthrough from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign overcomes this divide with an innovative system called Stomata In-Sight.
This integrated tool combines three key technologies in real time:
- A live confocal microscope (specifically laser scanning) that captures high-resolution, three-dimensional images and videos of living stomatal cells and pores without damaging the tissue.
- Precise gas exchange sensors that quantify CO₂ uptake and water loss (stomatal conductance, photosynthesis, and transpiration) from the same leaf section.
- A controlled environmental chamber that maintains specific levels of light, humidity, temperature, and CO₂ to simulate real-world conditions.
By linking microscopic stomatal aperture changes (tracked via machine-learning image analysis for dozens of pores simultaneously) with whole-leaf physiological responses, researchers can now observe how individual stomata behave and contribute to the plant's overall performance under varying scenarios.
The implications are profound, particularly for agriculture. Water scarcity remains the primary constraint on crop yields worldwide. By identifying the genes and mechanisms that govern stomatal efficiency—such as opening/closing speed, density, or aperture size—scientists can develop breeding strategies for crops that conserve water more effectively while maintaining or boosting photosynthesis. This could lead to varieties better equipped to withstand drought, heat, and other effects of climate change, ultimately supporting higher food production with fewer resources.
Stomata In-Sight represents a major advance in plant science, transforming our ability to study—and ultimately engineer—plants that not only endure environmental stress but actively help humanity adapt to a changing climate.
[Crawford, J. D., Mayfield-Jones, D., Fried, G. A., Hernandez, N., & Leakey, A. D. B. (2025). Stomata in-sight: Integrating live confocal microscopy with leaf gas exchange and environmental control. Plant Physiology, 199(4), kiaf600. DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiaf600]
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Sophie Cunningham was one of the best bench players in the WNBA last year. Only 5 players who played 22 mins or less scored more than her and none were close to doing it on her efficiency...
You can dislike her, but pretending that she's not an on-court asset is ridiculous
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No. This is not the same as the existing U.S.–Denmark arrangement that predates Trump’s presidency.
The longstanding baseline is the 1951 Defense of Greenland Agreement (which replaced a 1941 wartime pact). It is still in force and was updated in 2004 so Greenland’s government is consulted. Under that treaty the United States can establish and operate agreed defense areas in Greenland as part of NATO defense of the island and the North Atlantic. In practice that has meant a large Cold War footprint that later shrank to Pituffik Space Base (formerly Thule) and a few hundred U.S. personnel. It does not give the United States ownership, exclusive “permanent control” of all security on the island, a blanket veto over foreign investment, or an open-ended right to build whatever it wants wherever it wants without further agreement.
What the White House posted today is framed as a new deal with Denmark and Greenland. Trump’s text (quoted in the graphic) claims:
•The United States gets permanent (“FOREVER,” “Infinite Life”) control over security and “all other needs” in Greenland
•The U.S. can do whatever is necessary to secure Greenland and the United States
•No cost to the United States
•No U.S. adversary may have a military presence or make “sensitive investments” in Greenland without express written U.S. approval
•The U.S. will immediately start building a large military presence
That package is broader than the 1951/2004 framework: it adds an explicit forever clause, an adversary-exclusion / investment-veto mechanism, and language about unrestricted U.S. action rather than agreed defense areas under a NATO-tied treaty. It also does not transfer sovereignty; Denmark and Greenland remain the sovereign authorities in the announcement.
Reporting before the post described talks that would expand U.S. access (including for missile-defense / “Golden Dome” related sites) and limit Chinese influence, while stopping short of a U.S. takeover. Independent confirmation from Copenhagen and Nuuk of the exact terms Trump described is not yet in the public record as of this announcement.
Short version: the old deal already let the U.S. operate bases in Greenland. The new announcement claims a much stronger, open-ended U.S. security lock plus a veto over rival military and investment activity—without the United States paying for the island or taking legal title.
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This is how plants breathe.
A close-up view of a single stoma on the leaf of a boat lily, seen through a microscope.
📽: Douglas Clark
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What if God isn’t separate from the universe—but is the universe?
This idea is called pantheism. In the 1600s, philosopher Baruch Spinoza said that God and nature are the same. He called it “Deus sive Natura” — meaning “God or Nature.” Everything you see, from atoms to galaxies, is part of one infinite reality.
Even Albert Einstein supported this idea, saying he believed in a God revealed through the harmony of the universe—not a separate being.
Today quantum physicists and consciousness researchers are revisiting this idea with new urgency. 🔬 Research published in arxiv by physicist Rodolfo Gambini of the Universidad de la República in Uruguay proposes that quantum mechanics points toward a consciousness-centered universe where the fundamental nature of reality is phenomenal not mechanical.
If every particle carries the seed of awareness and the universe operates as one unified system then the line between matter and the divine begins to disappear. You are not just in the universe. You are made of it. ✨
Source: Gambini R., Quantum Panprotopsychism and a Consciousness-Centered Universe, arXiv, 2025. Universidad de la República, Uruguay.
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Robert Monroe: “Between lifetimes you could be in that non physical state for thousands of years”
In this rare recording he describes what happens after we leave the physical body. He says many of us will enter a place of pure contemplation, a non-physical state where we decide the role we will play in our final lifetime. That decision is not made now. It is made there.
Some, he notes, have remained in that contemplative state for what we would call thousands of years. Time does not operate the same way. From that vantage point the options become far larger than most people imagine. Our recorded history is only a small fraction of the full span of human experience. The possibilities of when, where, and how to return are far greater than we realize, and they are not limited to the future we currently picture.
Monroe’s observation remains one of the clearest accounts of the interval between lives and the deliberate choice that can precede a final return.
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This is an amazing thread, well worth your time. It will change how you view who you are and the miracle that surrounds all of us. HT The wonderful @mirandadevine
Researchers at Fred Hutchinson examined the brains of 59 women after death. In 63 percent of them they found male DNA, almost certainly left behind by a son. The oldest of those women was 94, and the cells were still sitting there.
Around week four or five of pregnancy, before most women have told anyone, a handful of the baby's cells cross into the mother's bloodstream. Some of them never leave. Scientists call it microchimerism, meaning you are carrying a few of another person's cells inside you. Doctors at Leiden University in the Netherlands checked organs from women who had recently been pregnant and found the baby's cells in every single one. Liver, lungs, thyroid, kidneys, bone marrow, skin, heart.
They do not sit idle. When researchers in Ireland biopsied cesarean scars from 70 women, they found the baby's cells living in the skin as ordinary skin cells, making collagen and repair proteins right at the cut. The child helped close the wound its own birth made.
At Mount Sinai, scientists tagged fetal cells with a glowing marker in pregnant mice, then damaged the mothers' hearts. The fetal cells went to the injury. They became heart muscle and the lining of blood vessels. Nobody has proven the human version yet, but doctors have noticed for years that women who develop heart failure around childbirth recover better than almost any other kind of heart failure patient.
In a study of 177 women, fetal cells appeared in the blood of 85 percent of the healthy participants and only 64 percent of the women who had a very early, non-invasive breast cancer. Nobody has worked out yet whether the cells are doing the protecting. The same cells also turn up in Hashimoto's, an immune condition that attacks the thyroid, so this is a gift with complications.
A French team looked at umbilical cord blood in 2021 and found cells belonging to the baby's grandmother in 5 of 28 samples. Cells that crossed one placenta decades earlier had crossed a second one. Three generations of women, alive in a single bloodstream.
Which means the pull a mother feels toward her child has a physical form. It sits in her liver, her heart, and often her brain, and it stays there for the rest of her life.
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Sophie Cunningham isn’t afraid to speak her mind. Staying true to yourself takes courage, especially when you have a platform to make your voice heard. ❤️🔥
#SophieCunningham #IndianaFever #WNBA
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CNN: The environment is getting better for Republicans
2026 Senate Odds Per @Kalshi
🔴 Repablicans: 59% (+8)
🔵 Democrats: 41% (-8)
(+/- vs May 1)
🤝 Paid partnership
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Creatine, long celebrated for supporting muscle growth and athletic performance, is gaining recognition in neuroscience as a powerful aid for brain energy management—especially under demanding conditions like mental stress, intense cognitive effort, or sleep deprivation.
As the brain's primary energy currency, adenosine triphosphate (ATP) gets rapidly depleted during high-demand tasks. Creatine helps by facilitating the quick recycling of ATP through the phosphocreatine system, providing neurons with a more reliable energy buffer to sustain performance when demands spike.
Recent systematic reviews and meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials have quantified these effects. A 2024 meta-analysis (Xu et al., Frontiers in Nutrition) found that creatine monohydrate supplementation significantly improved memory performance, with a standardized mean difference (SMD) of 0.31 (95% CI: 0.17–0.44; equivalent to Hedges' g ≈ 0.30), alongside benefits in information processing speed and attention time in some measures. An earlier 2023 meta-analysis (Prokopidis et al., Nutrition Reviews) reported an overall SMD of 0.29 for memory enhancement in healthy individuals, with particularly strong effects in older adults (SMD = 0.88 in those aged 66–76 years).
While this 0.31 SMD reflects a modest-to-moderate standardized effect size (not a literal 31% raw improvement in every person or task), it indicates meaningful gains in memory, mental clarity, and processing efficiency—especially when the brain is challenged.
Benefits tend to be most evident in specific groups: older adults (who may have lower baseline brain creatine), vegetarians/vegans (with naturally reduced dietary intake), females, and those experiencing sleep deprivation or high mental fatigue. Emerging research is also exploring creatine's therapeutic potential for neurological conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, traumatic brain injury, depression, and mild cognitive impairment, though evidence remains preliminary and strongest for memory support.
Creatine isn't a miracle cure or standalone fix—it's best viewed as a supportive nutrient that bolsters brain resilience. Experts stress the need for more large-scale, long-term studies to clarify optimal dosing, duration, and broader impacts on neurological health.
[Xu C, et al. (2024). The effects of creatine supplementation on cognitive function in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Frontiers in Nutrition, 11:1424972. doi:10.3389/fnut.2024.1424972]
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First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli REVEALED that California is BLOCKING a federal audit of its voter rolls — while allowing first-time voters to register using forms of ID like: gym membership card, employer ID card, credit or debit card, prescription drug label, and insurance card.
Bill Essayli “This is permitted when a voter fails to provide a Social Security number or driver’s license at registration. Our office believes this policy deserves a closer look.
We also have serious concerns about how California maintains its voter rolls. There are open questions about whether the state is promptly removing deceased voters, people who have moved, and individuals convicted of disqualifying felonies.
On top of that, California allows third parties to collect and turn in ballots on voters’ behalf (a practice known as ballot harvesting) with few restrictions. This makes it difficult to track who actually received, completed, and submitted each ballot.”
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🚨 FOX News aired one of the most important UAP discussions to date, Bret Baier’s interview with Karl Nell.
"Somewhere in this country there are craft that have landed here or crashed here, and there are biologics, non-human bodies"? - "That's Correct"
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The Islamic Regime Is Losing Control nitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1nxnRYwVl…
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The UAP documents should have been released a long time ago. Thank you to every witness who came forward to testify before our committee, as well as the countless researchers who worked alongside us to push for transparency.
A special thank you to @RepTimBurchett, @RepMoskowitz, and @RepEricBurlison for helping lead the charge on this issue. And none of this would have started without @mattgaetz bringing us to Eglin to hear directly from UAP whistleblowers.
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BREAKING: Rep. Tim Burchett says the UFO files released today are just a drop in the bucket, and that the "holy crap" part is still on the way.
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🚨 DISTURBING TUCKER CARLSON AUDIO 🚨
Between 2006 and 2011, Tucker Carlson called weekly into Bubba the Love Sponge’s shock jock radio show. In vulgar conversations, he downplayed Warren Jeffs (then on the FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted for child marriages):
“This guy may be a child rapist… arranging a marriage between a 16yo and 27yo isn’t the same as pulling a stranger off the street and raping her.”
When the hosts described 14-year-old girls at his daughter’s school experimenting sexually, he said:
“If it weren’t my daughter, I would love that scenario.”
He joked that Bill Clinton should take “plural marriage with a bunch of teenagers.”
Throughout the audio, the trio repeatedly called women whores and used other vulgar slurs.
I’m genuinely creeped out right now. I don’t even know what to say.