Stefanie Stalf

Diplompsychologin, Mutter von Zwillingen, engagiert für eine zukunftsorientierte Bildung.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

If you can make 65,000 people sing in sync 33 years after your death, you're not just a singer but a legend

[Goku @ProjectGokuu]

Dr. Rachel Rubin says a $14 cream can prevent women from dying of UTIs.

A urologist, she's furious this isn't common knowledge.

Vaginal estrogen, rubbed in twice a week like sunscreen, does a lot at once:

Fewer UTIs
Less urgency and leakage
Less painful, dry sex

"this cream can also help prevent death from urinary tract infections."

In older women, UTIs can turn into sepsis and kill.

Research since the 1990s shows vaginal estrogen cuts UTIs by more than half.

It's cheap, generic, and safe, yet most women are never offered it.

She says the data has been sitting there for decades, ignored.

A pharmacy cream costing less than lunch is being kept from the women it could save.

— Dr Rachel Rubin on Steven Bartlett's (.@StevenBartlett) Diary of a CEO podcast

[AZ Intel @AZ_Intel_]

BREAKING: USGS upgrades Venezuela earthquake to 7.5. Major damage to buildings.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Visual representation of someone pretending to help whilst causing pain.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This tissue box design made it look so elegant

[Perle @veritebeaute]

Quand on lui a demandé de révéler ses secrets de beauté, la ravissante actrice Audrey Hepburn a écrit ce poème, qui fut lu à ses funérailles.

Pour avoir des lèvres attirantes, prononcez des paroles de bonté.
Pour avoir de beaux yeux, regardez ce que les gens ont de beau en eux.
Pour rester mince, partagez vos repas avec ceux qui ont faim.
Pour avoir de beaux cheveux, laissez un enfant y passer sa main chaque jour.
Pour avoir un beau maintien, marchez en sachant que vous n’êtes jamais seule, car ceux qui vous aiment et vous ont aimé vous accompagnent.
Les gens, plus encore que les objets, ont besoin d’être réparés, bichonnés, ravivés, réclamés et sauvés : ne rejetez jamais personne.
Pensez-y : si un jour vous avez besoin d’une main secourable, vous en trouverez une au bout de chacun de vos bras.
En vieillissant, vous vous rendrez compte que vous avez deux mains, l’une pour vous aider vous-même, l’autre pour aider ceux qui en ont besoin.
La beauté d’une femme n’est pas dans les vêtements qu’elle porte, son visage ou sa façon d’arranger ses cheveux. La beauté d’une femme se voit dans ses yeux, car c’est la porte ouverte sur son coeur, la source de son amour.
La beauté d’une femme n’est pas dans son maquillage, mais dans la vraie beauté de son âme. C’est la tendresse qu’elle donne, l’amour, la passion qu’elle exprime.
La beauté d’une femme se développe avec les années.

Theracoach , facebook

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Cristiano Ronaldo’s iconic header against Sampdoria has been crowned the greatest headed goal in football history.

[𝕐o̴g̴ @Yoda4ever]

This is what happiness looks like..🐕🐾😍

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Switching to red netting can reduce pesticide use by up to 50%, offering farmers a simple, highly effective, and eco-friendly way to protect crops.

While most farmers use black or white insect nets, new research from Japan shows that changing the color to red dramatically improves pest control. A study by researchers at the University of Tokyo found that red nets are far more effective at deterring onion thrips, a major destructive pest, than traditional black or white nets.

The secret lies in how insects see color. Thrips perceive red as a strong deterrent, which disrupts their visual cues and prevents them from landing on or damaging the plants. Because the protection comes from color rather than fine mesh size, red nets can use larger openings. This allows better airflow, reduces heat buildup, lowers humidity (which helps prevent plant diseases), and makes working conditions more comfortable for farmers.

Field trials showed that crops protected with red netting required 25% to 50% fewer insecticide applications compared to uncovered fields.

This low-tech “optical pest control” method could help reduce chemical use, slow the development of pesticide resistance, and support more sustainable agriculture.

[Tokumaru, S., Tokushima, Y., Ito, S., Yamaguchi, T., & Shimoda, M. (2024). Advanced methods for insect nets: red-colored nets contribute to sustainable agriculture. Scientific Reports, 14, 52108.
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-52108-1]

[Phosphen @phosphenq]

She's 22. Her AI runs inside the Fortune 100. a16z just led her $21M raise.

"Put up the most minimal fake version you probably can of something and then go sell it."

In 17 minutes, MIT grad Jessica Wu reveals the YC playbook that got her here in 24 months.

From youngest hedge fund quant to founder + the trick her batchmates missed + the Christmas Day deployment + the 10-year founder test

Worth more than a year of YC advice on your timeline

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Kini, P., Wong, J., McInnis, S., Gabana, N., & Brown, J. W. (2016), «The effects of gratitude expression on neural activity», NeuroImage, 128, 1–10. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.12.040

[Monika Schnitzer🇺🇦🇪🇺 @MonikaSchnitzer]

Das ist genau der Fall, vor dem alle gewarnt haben. Europa und der Rest der Welt verlieren den Zugang zu KI Frontier Technologie. Alarmstufe rot!

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This video gets funnier every single time you watch it

[MΛRC VIDΛL @marcvidal]

Absolutamente increíble. Lo que hoy ha hecho Barcelona se recordará mucho tiempo. La Sagrada Familia, Gaudí y los que durante 140 años han creído en ello, lo merecían.

[Elke C 🇩🇪 @ElkeCunow]

Diese visuelle Darstellung zeigt sehr eindringlich, wie leicht unser Geist beeinflusst werden kann.

Die Ringe verändern ihre Position nicht!

Jedoch kann es unter anderem mit Hilfe der Pfeile, Verformung, etc. gelingen, bei uns den Eindruck zu erschaffen, dass sie sich bewegen.

[oldstetic @oldstetic]

a humilhação mais elegante que uma pessoa já impôs a outra

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A promising noninvasive therapy using synchronized light and sound may help the brain clear toxic proteins associated with Alzheimer’s disease.

In a groundbreaking study involving researchers from MIT, Boston University, and Westlake University, scientists have shown that exposing mice to 40-hertz flashing lights and auditory tones can powerfully activate the brain’s natural waste-clearance system, the glymphatic system, dramatically reducing harmful amyloid plaques.

The sensory stimulation induces gamma brain waves that trigger a specific chain reaction: inhibitory interneurons release vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), which prompts astrocytes to expand and increase the flow of cerebrospinal fluid. This enhanced fluid circulation flushes out toxic proteins and cellular debris that accumulate in Alzheimer’s.

When researchers blocked either the astrocytes’ response or the release of VIP, the plaque-clearing effect disappeared, confirming the precise biological pathway involved.

With more than 7 million Americans currently living with Alzheimer’s, a disease projected to cost the U.S. healthcare system over $400 billion annually, this approach is particularly exciting because it is completely noninvasive and could be relatively easy to implement.

While still in the preclinical stage, the results suggest that 40 Hz sensory stimulation could become a safe, accessible tool to help maintain the brain’s “plumbing” and potentially slow or prevent the progression of Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.

This research highlights a novel way to harness the brain’s own waste-removal mechanisms rather than relying solely on pharmaceutical interventions.

[Murdock, M. H., et al. (2024). Multisensory gamma stimulation promotes glymphatic flow and clears amyloid in Alzheimer’s mouse models. Nature. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07132-6]

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

This is biblical.

A woman in her eighties. Ten years into Alzheimer's. Hadn't spoken a full sentence in five years.

Takes one, 5 gram dose of psilocybin.

She slept 19 hours and woke up and spoke for hours about her life, recognized family and held real conversations. She regained bladder control after five years, walked on her own. and dressed herself. Gains held for weeks.

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

ok this is the most awesome project i've ever seen in AI:

a startup called Earth Species Project is teaching AI to understand and talk with animals

there's 8 million species on Earth, yet we can fully understand just one of them: us humans.

but the founders think AI is the first tool powerful enough to close that gap

so they built NatureLM-audio, the first large language model trained on animal sound instead of human text

instead of training from scratch, they took a model that already understands human audio and fine-tuned it on animal recordings (birds, whales, primates, etc)

the bet was that the patterns AI learns from human speech would carry over to animals

and it worked better than they expected. the model started doing things nobody trained it to do, like:

- counting how many animals are in a recording
- telling distress calls apart from friendly ones
- identifying species it had never heard before

it's the same emergent behavior we saw when language models got big enough to surprise their own builders, except pointed at the animal kingdom

a few of the (amazing) breakthroughs they've had:

1. they solved the "cocktail party problem" for animals. the AI can pull one individual voice out of a noisy group recording, like isolating a single sperm whale's clicks from the whole pod

2. they tagged wild crows with tiny recorders, captured 127,000 calls, including the quiet murmurs between family members that normal microphones never pick up.

the model can even tell an adult's call from a chick's. a whole layer of crow conversation we couldn't record before is now on tape

3. most of their work is the AI learning to listen. but with zebra finches, they've started generating brand new synthetic calls and playing them back, which is the first real step from understanding animals toward actually TALKING to them

what makes it particularly meaningful is that it feeds straight into conservation

> with the Hawaiian crow (nearly extinct, only a few hundred left) understanding their calls helps researchers decide which birds to breed together and where to release them.

> with whales, mapping their songs shows exactly how ship noise drowns out their communication, which tells you how to reroute ships so you stop killing them

and they're open-sourcing all of it, so any researcher can build on top

we might actually find out what the animals have been saying this whole time

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Polish prodigy Marcin Patrzalek responds to those claiming his music is fake.

Watch this tutorial breakdown: One guitar, zero fakes – mastering melody, bass, and percussion all at once.