Almonds. The clean snack. The wellness milk. The little beige hero of the health-food shelf.
One almond takes about 12 litres of water, most of it grown in drought-hit California.
Every spring most of America's honeybees are trucked in to pollinate them, and come back fewer by the billion.
Over a million kilos of glyphosate a year go under those trees.
The nut itself is one of the highest-oxalate foods going, the stuff kidney stones are made of.
And it's one gene from its wild cousin, the bitter almond, which is basically a cyanide pill.
You are eating a drought and a dead bee, a fistful of oxalate sitting one mutation short of cyanide, and calling it the healthy choice.
Doctor: "Your blood pressure's a touch high. We'll call it hypertension."
Patient: "It was fine last year."
Doctor: "The threshold changed."
Patient: "My blood pressure changed?"
Doctor: "No. The number we call high changed. Used to be one-forty. Now it's one-thirty."
Patient: "So the same reading that was healthy in 2016 is a disease now."
Doctor: "That's the current guidance."
Patient: "Who moved the line?"
Doctor: "A panel."
Patient: "And what happens the day I cross it?"
Doctor: "We'd start you on something."
Patient: "Forever?"
Doctor: "Typically, yes."
Patient: "So a committee lowered a number, and now I'm a customer for life."
Doctor: "I wouldn't put it like that."
Patient: "How would you put it?"
Australia, America, Canada & New Zealand are Nations founded, created & built by our people as a homeland for our people.
Now our corrupt traitorous Governments are just giving everything our ancestors sacrificed, fought & died for away to hostile foreign invaders & unelected globalists.
These governments have facilitated the mass invasion & occupation of our Nations & we have every right to fight for our safety, security, our sovereignty & the preservation of our people & homelands.
I don't care what any armchair skeptic says.
If you have never been into this room at Karnak Temple, Egypt, and looked at this statue, you don't know.
It is energetic. It is haunted.
I have never felt the way I did in this room, looking at this statue.
Great job California Dems with your $20 minimum wage.
The restaurants that could afford it replaced workers with AI and the ones that couldn’t closed down entirely.
The human brain, a marvel of biological engineering, boasts an extraordinary storage capacity estimated at around 2.5 petabytes—equivalent to 2.5 million gigabytes or roughly 300 years of nonstop high-definition television playback.
This immense capability arises from its roughly 86 billion neurons, which interconnect to form more than 100 trillion synapses. Each synapse acts as a microscopic information-storage site, enabling the brain to encode, process, and retrieve vast amounts of data with exceptional efficiency and minimal energy use compared to digital systems. Neuroscientists and computer scientists increasingly draw inspiration from this neural architecture to design more energy-efficient neuromorphic computers and advanced AI models that replicate the brain's parallel, adaptive processing.
Yet the brain's storage feats pale in comparison to the potential of DNA as a data medium. A single gram of synthetic DNA can theoretically hold up to 215 petabytes of information—enough to archive enormous datasets in an extraordinarily compact form. Researchers have already demonstrated this by successfully encoding digital files (including books, images, and even operating systems) into DNA's four nucleotide bases (A, C, G, T), then retrieving them accurately via sequencing. This approach promises a revolutionary shift in archival storage: the entirety of humanity's accumulated digital data could one day fit into a space the size of a small room, offering far greater density, longevity (potentially millennia), and lower energy demands than today's sprawling, power-intensive data centers.
While challenges remain—such as synthesis and readout costs, error correction, and scalability—the convergence of biological principles from the brain and DNA highlights exciting frontiers where nature's solutions could transform how we preserve and access the world's ever-growing information trove.
[Erlich, Y., & Zielinski, D. (2017). DNA Fountain enables a robust and efficient storage architecture. Science, 355(6328), 950–954. DOI: 10.1126/science.aaj2038]
Katherine Boyle on Elon Musk:
“I think that Elon’s most important contribution to this country is training two generations of engineers over twenty years on how to work with their hands again. We had lost that capability in the US. The pendulum had moved so far to software that we didn’t have someone thinking from first principles of how to build as quickly as possible and build in new ways and capabilities that didn’t exist before. You don’t learn it at university, and you don’t learn it at existing primes, where they’re given a list of requirements and told, ‘Build it exactly as we say.’
Elon’s way of thinking is how do you engineer something for production and build for manufacturing. You don’t separate those capabilities. You want to make it as simply and cheaply and as quickly as possible so that you can mass-produce something.
We’ve watched the diaspora out of SpaceX, with SpaceX talent taking that knowledge and building new capabilities. They’re taking everything they’ve learned from that methodical approach and bringing it to new capabilities that SpaceX isn’t working on.
That is what you’re seeing with the diasporas out of companies like SpaceX and Anduril, they all know something they’ve learned from the previous generation of companies.”
What a thought , no thanks I will just take the time I am given.
Are you sure the ‘elites’ are not on a depopulation drive?
Being pushed by the Daily Mail. Not Daily Male. https://t.co/zk3E2TYmAZ
🧠 YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS MAY BE WEIRDER THAN WE THOUGHT
Scientists are exploring a shocking idea: human consciousness might be connected to quantum physics.
Researchers discovered tiny brain structures called microtubules can trap light and release it after a strange delay. Even more mysterious? Anesthetic drugs — which switch off consciousness — greatly reduce this effect.
Could awareness come from something deeper than ordinary biology?
The mystery isn’t solved yet… but science may be closer than ever to uncovering one of humanity’s biggest secrets.
Source Hameroff, S., & Penrose, R. Physics of Life Reviews.