EJB

Professor, father, informed voting citizen of the United States. Knowledge is Power!

[EJB @BlueKnight4803]

@LucasSa56947288 Good job no exceptions for high security.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Your 90-year-old grandmother could put on 174% more leg strength in 8 weeks of weight training. Doctors proved it in 1990 by running ten nursing home residents (ages 86 to 96) through high-intensity strength sessions. Their walking speed climbed 48% and their muscle size grew 9%.

They ran it again four years later, on 100 frail residents whose average age was 87. Strength climbed 113% in 10 weeks, and the oldest participant was 98 years old. Even at 90, the body still builds new muscle. It just needs the signal.

Without that signal, your muscle starts shrinking around age 30. You lose 3 to 5 percent every decade until 60, then twice that much per decade after. By 80, somewhere between 1 in 10 and 1 in 2 adults have lost so much muscle they struggle to open a jar or stand up from a chair. Doctors call this sarcopenia. Most of what looks like "getting old" (trouble standing, weak grip, falls, frailty) is actually this one process.

A UK study tracked 845 people past their 85th birthday for nearly ten years. One of the cleanest predictors of who'd still be alive at the end was how hard they could squeeze a grip meter. Women losing 1 kilogram (about 2.2 pounds) of grip strength a year had a 33% higher chance of dying. For people whose grip strength went UP, yes even after 85, the death rate dropped 31%.

In a US study of 216,339 older adults, any weight training cut overall death rates by 6% and heart disease deaths by 8%. A 15-year follow-up of older Americans who lifted weights twice a week (the official guideline almost no one follows) found 46% lower odds of dying.

And then the falls. If you're 65 or older and you break a hip, around 27% of you die within the year. Ten years out, only 8.5% of hip fracture patients are still alive, compared to about 40% of people who didn't break one. Strength training does two things at once. It prevents most falls in the first place. And it builds enough bone density to survive the ones that still happen.

Taiwan officially became a super-aged society this January. One in five Taiwanese is now 65 or older. They got there in 7 years, while Japan took 11 and Germany took 36. Of all the things Taiwan could be throwing at this, putting 89-year-old grandmothers in front of a barbell might be the cheapest, most evidence-backed thing on the list.

[Scott Thuman @ScottThuman]

HERE IT IS! We caught this image of the Washington Monument tonight on what it may look like to ring in the New Year and celebrate the USA's 250th birthday! 🎂🎇 @7NewsDC

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

In China, 158km highway with zero humans, only AI and Robots.

The Beijing–Hong Kong–Macao Expressway upgrade, where an unmanned paving and rolling fleet followed satellite-guided plans while engineers monitored remotely.

[Johannes Maria @luo_yuehan]

Chengdu's Swift Response: A Tale of Urban Efficiency

Andre, an Australian expat residing in Chengdu, China, encountered a wobbly manhole cover during a walk. Recognizing the potential danger, he decided to test the local 12345 government hotline, which his wife had told him about.

He dialed the number, and to his astonishment, someone picked up in just 33 seconds. An English speaker was quickly provided, to whom Andre explained the hazardous, loose manhole. The operator assured him it would be treated as an emergency and reported immediately.
Incredibly, only three hours later, Andre observed city workers at the site. They had cordoned off the area, photographed the damage, and ensured public safety. By 10:12 AM the very next day, less than 24 hours after his initial call, the old square manhole had been completely replaced with a new, sturdy, circular one.

Andre was utterly amazed by the speed and efficiency. He reflected on the stark contrast to experiences in his home country, where similar issues could take years to address. This swift action cemented his belief in China's rapid pace of progress and effective public services.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Making physics fun

[Natie🇨🇳🇷🇺🇵🇸 @Natie2Natie]

🇨🇳 This man is China's most beloved, unstoppable, and heavily-armed vigilante... armed with an excavator and a heart of gold. 🚜 When landslides hit, he doesn't call for help—he is the help. The police tried to track him down—to thank him. Locals ambush him—with care packages💝🛍️

[EJB @BlueKnight4803]

@ATFWashington @usparkpolicepio @HSI_DC @EROWashington @FBIWFO @USMarshalsHQ FBI building police? Really?

[Machiavelli @TheRISEofROD]

Fuck Israel 🇮🇱

Fuck the jews ✡️

[Ways and Means Democrats @WaysMeansCmte]

Under the GOP Tax Scam, no one is too rich for a tax handout.

@RepGwenMoore:

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

Real wages grew very fast under Mexico's President AMLO.

The real minimum wage increased by 110% during his term. (It decreased by 6% under previous President Enrique Peña Nieto.)

Average real wages also significantly increased.
https://t.co/5z7QfSXJZZ

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

The family dog ​​picks up the little girl from school with the car her father designed.
🥰

https://t.co/AksCdJxHC0

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

CHINA NOW HOME TO HALF OF WORLD'S TOP SCIENCE HUBS
A single country, China, now has half of the world's top 20 leading "superstar science cities", researchers reported yesterday.

And even China's smaller cities are beating long-established western centers of scientific excellence such as London, according to a new study by Nature, the world's top academic science journal.

The world's number one place on the science city ranking is Beijing, with more than twice the score of any equivalent place on earth. Shanghai is in second place, with New York third and Boston fourth, the latest index shows. (Ranking is based on publication article share.)

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SCIENCE MEGA-STRUCTURES
But what's really remarkable is the placing of smaller Chinese cities, says Nature writer Jacob Dreyer. Nanjing is in fifth place and Guangzhou in eighth place—ahead of Tokyo, Paris, Seoul, and London.

Furthermore, the Chinese are quietly making science mega-structures in places far away from the capital, he reports. This is an attempt to spread the wealth away from the richer parts of the country to areas that need economic growth--to avoid inequality leading to dissatisfaction.

Guizhou has a Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, the Kunming Institute of Botany in Yunnan houses Asia’s largest seed bank, and Xinjiang has 3.5-gigawatt solar panel field.

Hefei, another place most westerners have never heard of, is a fascinating example, Dreyer writes. The city, capital of Anhui province, "scores higher for natural sciences in the Nature Index Science Cities list than London, Los Angeles or Chicago, and is home to the University of Science and Technology of China, the fifth ranked institution globally in the Nature Index in 2023".

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AVOIDING POPULIST ANGER
Dreyer believes that the wide geographical spread of investment is strategic. "As China faces an unequal, two-tier economy, with coastal provinces having much higher incomes than interior provinces, it has become politically essential to balance the country’s wealth, lest they experience some Chinese version of the populism that is gripping many Western societies," he writes.

In some ways, the astonishing development of science in China is unsurprising.

Think about it: China and the US have similar-sized economies, but the first focuses strongly on education, while the second blows a trillion US dollars a year on the military – despite the fact that there are literally no countries on earth with any plan to invade it.

[Jason Smith - 上官杰文 @ShangguanJiewen]

China's President Xi Jinping just dropped tariffs to ZERO for 45 of the world's poorest nations.

This will enable them to more easily export their goods to China, igniting their economic engines.

China, under President Xi, is leading the world to a more prosperous shared future for all humanity.

#G20 #XiJinping #China

[Andy Boreham 安柏然 @AndyBxxx]

🚨TRUMP TO-DO LIST🇺🇸
[Please add your own / remove]

🔴Stop funding Ukraine / negotiate an end to hostilities

🔴End Palestinian genocide

🔴Get out of Taiwan / South China Sea

🔴Work WITH China (with mutual respect) for win-win relations

🔴Stop the war machine / spend that $$ improving America

🔴Release the Epstein list / prosecute

🔴Release the Diddy tapes / prosecute

🔴Release the JFK files

🔴Release the Jan 6. rioters

[Ines Laimins 李美思 @ineslaimins]

VP-elect JD Vance on US foreign policy 🇺🇸📷

"The Chinese have a foreign policy of building roads and bridges and feeding poor people"

[Hussain “Hoz” Shafiei @HussainShafiei]

Good morning to you all. Know it didn’t start on the 7th of October.

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

👀 Bernie Sanders on How the Democratic 'Establishment' Took Him Out of the Presidential Race

"That's what happens when you take on the establishments. What happened is we won the first three primaries, and then the establishment got very, very nervous...and they said, 'Hey, it would be a good idea if you dropped out'...So if you're asking me, are we a democracy? In one sense, we are...I use the term oligarchy. An oligarchy is a society where small numbers of very wealthy people control the economic and political life of the country. I think we are moving rapidly in that direction."

@TheoVon @BernieSanders

[EJB @BlueKnight4803]

@REVMAXXING Gun powder