George Washington is buried here! His body has been here for over 226 years.
Without his sacrifice, we wouldnโt be celebrating America's 250th birthday ๐บ๐ธ
Freedom 250 is hosting the Great American State Fair in DC at the end of this month to celebrate his sacrifice and millions of others!
They are setting up a giant Ferris wheel in front of the Washington Monument and will have patriotic performers and a special appearance from Trump. I canโt wait! It is going to be so awesome.
God bless America ๐ฆ
MULAN was released 28 years ago today.
To make the film feel authentic, Disney sent artists to China to study its landscapes, architecture, & culture firsthand. Many of the movieโs backgrounds were inspired by sketches and photos from that research trip.
@StoryTrading You really have no clue what's happening. These soldiers were ADVANCING into Lebanese territory, a hill near Nabatieh, when there's meant to be a ceasefire
Hezbollah has already agreed to cease fire if Israel does. Israel has not agreed, and said the complete opposite
@business And so the countries of the world have over its governments to artificial intelligence. Doesnโt that Sounds like Sky net or so ๐คgreat stroyline though am I right?
And so the countries of the world have over its governments to artificial intelligence. Doesnโt that Sounds like Sky net or so ๐คgreat stroyline though am I right?
France, like other countries in Europe, is seeking strategic autonomy as it leans on AIโs promise in boosting software development. https://t.co/hG3Yu52r7y
๐จBlaqbonez (@BlaqBonez ) & Asakeโs โChanelโ returns to #1 on Ghana Apple Music Top Songs Chart.
โ It has now spent 12 days at #1 on the chart.
The Whale Cemetery in Yanrakynnot, located in the remote Chukotka region of Russia, is a powerful sacred site overlooking the Bering Sea.
In this coastal indigenous community, Chukchi hunters place the massive skulls of harvested gray whales vertically along the shore so the spirits of the animals can look out toward the ocean. This precise orientation is deeply rooted in local spiritual beliefs, as it is meant to guide the whale's soul back to its home in the sea to ensure its rebirth and the continuation of life.
While the traditions behind this reverence span generations, many of the bones visible today accumulated during the difficult economic times of the 1990s, when local hunting intensified to provide food for the isolated region.
Today, Yanrakynnot sits within the protected territory of Beringia National Park, keeping these unique traditions alive alongside neighboring archaeological wonders. Just across the water on Yttygran Island lies the famous fourteenth-century Whale Bone Alley, a historical complex of jawbones and skulls that confirms this coastline has served as a central spiritual hub for Arctic marine hunters for hundreds of years.
[๐นVadim Makhorov]
Jio Platforms is gearing up for what could become Indiaโs biggest IPO ever. The telecom giant serves nearly 525 million subscribers and counts Meta, Alphabet and KKR among its backers. Now, Ambaniโs digital crown jewel is preparing for its next chapter.
@talktosanjai has more: https://t.co/asKEjUXDl7
Scientists have engineered tobacco plants to function as living factories for multiple psychedelic compounds.
Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel successfully modified Nicotiana benthamiana, a close relative of tobacco widely used in plant biotechnology, to produce five powerful tryptamine psychedelics. These compounds are naturally found in โmagic mushrooms,โ certain plants, and the secretions of a toad species.
The breakthrough could pave the way for more sustainable and scalable production of psychedelic medicines, which are currently under intense investigation for treating depression, anxiety, PTSD, and addiction.
To achieve this, the team introduced nine genes from different organisms (fungi, plants, and animals) into the tobacco plants using a transient expression technique called agroinfiltration. This method temporarily delivers the genes without permanently altering the plantโs genome, allowing the plants to produce the compounds for a limited time.
The modified plants synthesized psilocybin and its active form psilocin (from mushrooms), as well as DMT, bufotenin, and 5-MeO-DMT (the potent psychedelic from the Colorado River toad). Some plants were even engineered to produce all five compounds simultaneously.
This plant-based approach offers a promising alternative to harvesting psychedelics from wild or cultivated natural sources, many of which face increasing pressure from habitat loss, overharvesting, and rising research demand. Using common agricultural plants as biological production systems could reduce costs and environmental impact.
While the yields in this proof-of-concept study were relatively modest, the work demonstrates the feasibility of producing complex psychoactive molecules in greenhouse-grown crops. It builds on decades of research using plants to manufacture pharmaceuticals and opens new possibilities for future psychedelic therapies.
[Berman P, et al. Complete biosynthesis of psychedelic tryptamines from three kingdoms in plants. Science Advances. 2026;12(14):eaeb3034. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aeb3034]