James Falkner Jr

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Groundbreaking botanical research is challenging the long-held belief in human exceptionalism, suggesting that plants possess forms of spatial awareness, intentionality, and consciousness.

For centuries, humans have regarded plants as passive organisms, but pioneering studies are rewriting this view. According to plant neurobiologist Dr. Stefano Mancuso, plants display sophisticated behaviors that parallel those of conscious animals. In laboratory experiments, plants react to anesthesia in ways strikingly similar to humans and animals — for instance, the Venus flytrap becomes completely unresponsive when anesthetized.

Time-lapse studies further reveal remarkable intelligence in common bean plants, which demonstrate clear spatial awareness by precisely aiming shoots toward supports and even adjusting their growth strategy when they detect another plant has already claimed a support.

These findings indicate that consciousness may not be limited to organisms with brains, but could be a more flexible property emerging in diverse life forms. As trees migrate northward in response to climate change, mirroring animal migration, researchers argue that our understanding of “mind” must expand beyond traditional boundaries.

With over three trillion trees on Earth, acknowledging plant consciousness could transform our ethical frameworks, agricultural practices, and relationship with nature, shifting from viewing plants as mere resources to recognizing them as active, aware participants in our shared ecosystem.

[Yokawa, K., Kagenishi, T., Pavlovič, A., Gall, S., Weiland, M., Mancuso, S., & Baluška, F. (2018). Anaesthetics stop diverse plant organ movements, affect endocytic vesicle recycling and ROS homeostasis, and block action potentials in Venus flytraps. Annals of Botany, 122(5), 747–756. DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcx155]

[TheNewPhysics @CharlesMullins2]

🚨 SCIENTISTS JUST BUILT A HOLOGRAPHIC SYSTEM THAT CAN PROJECT LARGE, DETAILED 3D IMAGES AND IT SOLVES ONE OF HOLOGRAPHY’S BIGGEST PROBLEMS.

This new approach uses multiple holographic plates (or diffractive elements) in sequence. A laser passes through them, and through precise interference, it reconstructs a full 3D object in this case, a detailed airplane floating in space with impressive depth and clarity.

Traditional holography has long struggled with limited depth range, narrow viewing angles, and visual artifacts. This multi-stage system appears to overcome some of those limitations by distributing the holographic information across several planes.

Why this matters:

• It can create larger and deeper 3D holograms than single-plane systems
• The sequential plates help manage the complex light interference needed for realistic depth
• This kind of technology could eventually lead to glasses-free 3D displays, advanced AR/VR, and even holographic telepresence
• It represents real progress in computational holography and diffractive optics

The deeper implication:

Holography has always promised “real 3D images you can walk around,” but practical limitations have kept it mostly in labs or small displays.

Systems like this using multiple holographic stages are part of a broader push to make high-quality, large-scale holography feasible. If the remaining challenges (computational speed, brightness, and viewing angle) can be solved, we could finally see practical holographic displays in entertainment, design, medicine, and communication.

We’re getting closer to the sci-fi dream of interactive 3D holograms you don’t need special glasses to see.

How soon do you think we’ll have practical, room-scale holographic displays in everyday life?

Follow for more frontier optics, holography, and display technology breakthroughs.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

WOW 🚨 The budget that California Democrats forced through contains “$13 BILLION for free taxpayer-funded healthcare for illegal immigrants”

- Also another $1 billion for Gavin Newsom’s high speed rail PER YEAR through 2045
- “A bunch of their political donors are receiving no-bid contracts”
- Another gas tax increase
- And more

The money laundering NEVER stops

Not only that they’re shutting down a prison and releasing more prisoners

“This is Governor Gavin Newsom's boondoggle budget that Democrats just rubber-stamped — They're spending more than they're bringing in. They're raiding reserves, and where's the money going? Oh no, not to the basic core services for citizens. No, $13 billion for free taxpayer-funded healthcare for illegal immigrants.

— These people are insane. Sticking the bill to citizens while giving freebies out to illegal immigrants”

You can’t even vote them out because the elections are so rigged in California

[NoName @WhaleNoName]

🚨 SPACEX HAS ONLY ONE GOOD ENTRY POINT 🚨

And it's not now

Here's how I'd actually scale into this if I wanted in

1. Buy at $150
2. Buy more at $110
3. Buy even more at $80, if the unlocks push it that far

Those levels aren't random, they line up with where the float finally clears and insiders run out of shares left to sell

Once that selling pressure is gone, this becomes a completely different stock

I think $SPCX trades north of $500 within two to three years once that happens

The people buying at $200 right now aren't wrong about the company, they're just early on the timing

If you've been closely following me you knew the pattern SPCX would trade in

Many of my followers caught the initial stock rally after IPO perfectly

The next update will be THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE

Turn on notifications and you'll realize how much valuable info you've been missing by not doing it sooner

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

Fauci CALLED RFK Jr. a LIAR for telling the truth about untested vaccines — then got SUED and FORCED to ADMIT RFK was RIGHT!

Fauci smeared RFK Jr. for exposing that NOT ONE of the 72 mandated CHILDHOOD VACCINES has ever been properly safety-tested. RFK sued. After a year of dodging, Fauci’s own lawyers caved: RFK was 100% correct.

No liability. No real testing. Just a government-mandated gold rush for Big Pharma — pumping billions into schoolkids while chronic disease, autism (1 in 31 now!), ADHD, and neurological disasters exploded in our children.

This isn’t “public health.” This is criminal negligence — a profit machine disguised as medicine, with our kids as the collateral damage.

Fauci lied. Kids suffered. RFK fought back.

How many more children have to be harmed before we demand accountability?

ENOUGH.

[Hannah - Apex Fitness Advisory @hannahapexfit]

Can't get lean?

I promise it's your diet.

After 8 years training and coaching, here are 27 nutrition tips I wish I knew when I first started:

=Thread=

1. Carbs don't make you fat.

[Goku @ProjectGokuu]

Dr. Jack Kruse just said AirPods are the stupidest thing people willingly wear today.

Kruse is a neurosurgeon who says wireless earbuds deliver RF radiation directly into your ear canal, inches from your brain.

Danny Jones said he switched to wired earphones because he knew this. Kruse told him that's not much better.

"That's not good because you're still getting jump conduction into your ear."

He says the science on the dangers of this has existed since 1977.

Dr. Robert Becker, a scientist twice nominated for the Nobel Prize, went on 60 Minutes and told the world that all wireless technology has biological effects. He was cancelled for it.

"All of this has biologic effects. I don't care what it is."

Kruse says non-native EMF—wireless technology, blue light screens, RF microwaves—destroys your dopamine reward pathways and degrades your biology from the inside out.

And yet, 280 million Americans wear wireless earbuds.

Most of them have never been told what it's doing to the tissue inches from their brain.

— Dr. Jack Kruse (@DrJackKruse) on the Danny Jones (@JonesDanny) podcast

[TheNewPhysics @CharlesMullins2]

🚨 SCIENTISTS JUST MADE A NANOSCALE METAL SANDWICH VIBRATE ONE TRILLION TIMES PER SECOND AND IT WASN’T CAUSED BY HEAT.

Researchers stacked ultra-thin layers of platinum and copper (just a few nanometers thick) and hit them with extremely short laser pulses.

The structure began oscillating at ~1 terahertz one trillion vibrations per second.

Surprisingly, this motion wasn’t driven by the usual process of the metal lattice heating up and expanding. Instead, it was caused by hot electrons slamming into the interfaces and exerting pressure from within, like microscopic hammers pounding on the layers from the inside.

Why this matters:

• This is one of the fastest structural changes ever directly observed in a metal
• It reveals that electrons can drive atomic motion much faster than heat can transfer through the material
• The effect can be tuned by changing the materials and layer thicknesses
• It opens new ways to control matter at the nanoscale using light

The deeper implication:

For decades, we’ve mostly thought about light turning into heat in metals, and then heat causing atoms to move. This experiment shows a more direct route: light excites electrons, and those electrons can mechanically “pound” on the atomic lattice almost instantly.

This electron pressure effect could become a powerful new tool for ultrafast control of nanomaterials, with potential applications in plasmonic chemistry, ultrafast optics, and next-generation nanomechanical devices.

We’re learning that electrons aren’t just carriers of charge and heat they can also act as tiny, incredibly fast mechanical drivers inside materials.

How do you think being able to drive atomic motion with electron pressure (instead of heat) could change nanotechnology or ultrafast science?

Follow for more frontier ultrafast physics and light-matter interaction research.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Dyson, a company best known for its vacuums and hair dryers, has unveiled a new automated rotating farm design that aims to make food production more local, sustainable and dependable.

[NoLimit @NoLimitGains]

4 high-growth companies are joining the Nasdaq 100 on Monday.

Index fund flows might start pushing these higher:

[Emanuel Quiñones @EQuinones6310]

The World Cup has turned America into a discovery channel for the rest of the world.

And they are not handling it well.
In the best possible way.

Here is what they are discovering:

Free public restrooms. Europeans pay every time.
Free water at every restaurant. Just appears.
Free refills. Coffee. Sodas. Iced tea. Unlimited.
Free chips and salsa before you even order.
Free warm bread with dinner.
Ice in drinks like civilized people.
Air conditioning everywhere. Not a moral debate. A fact.
Parking lots attached to the actual place you are going.
Drive throughs where the food comes to the car while you sit in it.
Ranch dressing by the gallon.
Tex-Mex that cannot be explained only experienced.
Dental care that actually works.
Buccee’s. There are no words for Buccee’s.

Then they found the grocery stores.

Five of them within one mile.
Each one the size of an aircraft hangar.
Burgers. Steaks. Brisket. Ribs. Pulled pork. Lamb. Veal. Every cut of every animal ever domesticated by human civilization available in one refrigerated aisle at ten in the morning on a Tuesday.

The Germans stood in the meat section for forty five minutes.
In silence.
Processing.

They finally understand why we do not have trains.

We have roads wide enough for the cars we actually drive.
Parking lots the size of small European countries.
Airports in every city worth visiting.

Why would we need trains.

The Germans are taking ranch home by the bottle.
The Dutch found queso and briefly lost the ability to speak.
The Japanese are photographing HEB like it is the Louvre.
The Czechs are weeping in West, Texas.

Welcome to America!
The greatest country on earth.

[Ben Kelly @benkellyone]

10 things to do before 40 if you want financial freedom:

→ Learn how SBA loans work
→ Build relationships with retiring Boomers
→ Get comfortable with leverage and debt
→ Buy your first cash-flowing asset
→ Hire people smarter than you
→ Set up multiple LLCs for asset protection
→ Master one skill that pays $10k+ per month
→ Create systems that work without you
→ Build a network of investors and operators
→ Stop trading time for money

40 is NOT the finish line.

It's when the real game starts (if you prepared correctly).

[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

To whatever we face, our job is to respond with:

Hard work
Honesty
Helping others as best we can

[Humble Flow @HumbleFlow]

This is a quote from John Hunyadi, who spent his life fighting Muslims, and it captures how Europeans feel today:

"We have had enough of our men enslaved, our women raped, wagons loaded with severed heads of our people, the sale of chained captives, the mockery of our religion... [W]e shall not stop until we succeed in expelling the enemy from Europe."

[Learn Latin @latinedisce]

Remember back in 1009 when Al-Hakim ordered the destruction of the Holy Sepulchre, and then we finally grew a pair and conquered the Holy Land to the cry of DEVS VVLT? Good times.

[Andrew Lokenauth @FluentInFinance]

Most people don’t have an opportunity problem. They have a priority problem.

$100 invested in a Roth IRA. “Too risky.”
$100 on dinner & drinks. “Worth it.”

$30 for a book. “Not worth it.”
$30 for food delivery. “No problem.”

2 hours learning a skill. “No time.”
2 hours scrolling social media. “Just one more video.”

Your priorities are building your future right now.

[PBInvesting ⚡️ @PBInvesting]

less is more

[Dan Go @CoachDanGo]

If you want to change any part of your life you have to get pissed. You have to get to a point where you won't tolerate a lower standard. Most people try to think their way into change but strong emotions are the spark that makes you get off your butt and do something about it.

[Learn Latin @latinedisce]

Ave Regina caelorum — “Hail, Queen of Heaven.”