Wild Lee

Proud Citizen, Cognitive Complexity, Solitude, Selective Organization, Psychology , Art, Sarcasm, Humor, Curiosity, Photography, ...Faces

[Smart Science @SmartScience]

🚨 STOP COMPLAINING — IT’S LITERALLY TRAINING YOUR BRAIN TO BE NEGATIVE

Ever notice how some people seem stressed all the time, even over small things? Science says it’s not just their personality — it’s their brain.

Research shows that repeated complaining actually rewires your brain. Every time you complain, your brain activates stress and threat-detection circuits. Do it again and again, and those circuits get stronger. This process is called neuroplasticity — your brain becomes better at whatever you practice most.

So if you constantly talk about problems, frustrations, and annoyances, your brain learns to search for negativity. What starts as a bad day slowly turns into a habit of negative thinking. Over time, the brain treats the world as a dangerous place, even when nothing is wrong.

This is why chronic complainers often feel tense, irritated, or overwhelmed by small issues. Their stress level stays high because their brain is stuck in “alert mode.” Even minor problems feel big, because the brain has been trained to react that way.

The powerful part? This can be reversed. Stanford researchers explain that once you understand how your brain works, you can retrain it. Shifting how you speak — focusing on solutions, gratitude, or learning — builds new, healthier pathways. Your brain can be trained for calm, resilience, and clarity just as easily as it was trained for stress.

What you repeat, your brain remembers.

So choose your words carefully — you’re shaping your mind every day.

[Next Science @NextScience]

🚨 This Amazon Fungus Can Break Down One of the Toughest Plastics

Deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Yale researchers discovered a fungus called Pestalotiopsis microspora with a remarkable ability: it can break down polyurethane, a difficult-to-decompose plastic.

Even more surprising, two strains were able to use polyurethane as their main carbon source without oxygen—similar to conditions found deep inside landfills.
Could nature already hold a solution to our plastic crisis?

The discovery is promising, but it is not yet a large-scale solution. Much more research is needed before this fungus could be used to clean up plastic waste.

Source:
Russell, J. R., et al. Biodegradation of polyester polyurethane by endophytic fungi. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 77(17), 6076–6084.

[Wild Lee @WildLee293223]

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[@_rt* @literatura_rte]

PAUL SIGNAC (1863-1935)
Concarneau, calme du matin (Opus no. 219, larghetto)
Painted in 1891

[@_rt* @literatura_rte]

Yehan Wang

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

Physicists may have made a huge mistake when they introduced dark energy. That is what a team of mathematicians say after looking at the equations. Because they find that, actually, it’s unnecessary. If they are right, that would be the ultimate embarrassment for physicists.

[Shining Science @ShiningScience]

Scientists are using extracts from sheep's wool to regenerate bone tissue in living animals.

Researchers at King’s College London have unlocked a highly sustainable breakthrough in regenerative medicine by turning ordinary sheep’s wool into advanced bone-healing scaffolds.

The team extracted keratin, the tough structural protein that gives wool its strength, and developed it into thin, biomimetic membranes. In laboratory trials, these membranes successfully supported the growth of human bone cells. When tested in living animal models with severe, non-healing skull injuries, the wool-derived scaffolds guided the growth of new bone directly across the damaged areas, demonstrating the immense clinical potential of this abundant agricultural byproduct.

What makes this discovery particularly remarkable is the quality of the regenerated tissue. While collagen has long been the gold-standard scaffold in orthopedics, it often suffers from poor structural strength and rapid degradation.

The new wool-based keratin scaffolds, however, produced bone that was far more organized, stable, and structurally similar to healthy natural bone than tissue grown with conventional collagen. Because wool is a renewable resource often discarded as farming waste, this technology offers a scalable, eco-friendly, and cost-effective alternative that could soon challenge the long-standing medical reliance on expensive, animal-derived collagen.

source: Gamea, S., Kaabi, H., Elredah, I., Aljohani, H., Horamee, S., Abu Shaqrah, H. J. N., Lu, E. M.-C., Hodgkinson, T., Balto, H., Sharpe, P. T., & Elsharkawy, S. (2026). Bone regeneration of rat calvarial defect using biomimetic keratin-based membranes. Biomaterials Advances, 184, 214806.

[The past time woman @Thepasttimew]

I bought my first CD player only in 1993. When did you get yours, and did you have a huge CD collection (or do you still have it)?

[Leiko Tar @LeikoTar]

光を捉えること - Capture of Light

#aiart #aiartist #digitalart #Midjourney #art

[Leiko Tar @LeikoTar]

囚われた地平線 - The Imprisoned Horizon

#aiart #aiartist #digitalart #Midjourney #artmootsㅤ

[🇺🇸 Jake Hilton 🇮🇱 @TheDemSlayer]

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you…

The Muslim Female. 😬

[Wild Lee @WildLee293223]

Every Picture Tells A Story https://t.co/qGoyUvEPlj via @YouTube
Every Picture Tells a Story ~ Rod Stewart (1971)

Spent time feelin' inferior standing' in front of my mirror
Combed my hair in a thousand ways, but I came out lookin' just the same
Daddy said, son, you better see the world
I wouldn't blame you if you wanted to leave
But remember one thing, don't lose your head to a woman that'll spend your bread
So I got out

Paris was a place you could hide away, if you felt you didn't fit in
French police wouldn't give me no peace, they claimed I was a nasty person
Down along the left bank, minding my own
Was knocked down by a human stampede
Got arrested for inciting a peaceful riot, when all I wanted was a cup of tea
I was accused

I moved on
Down in rome I wasn't getting enough
Of the things that keep a young man alive
My body stunk, but I kept my funk at a time when I was right out of luck
Getting desperate, indeed I was looking like a tourist attraction
Oh, my dear, I better get out of here for the vatican don't give no sanction
I wasn't ready for that, no, no

I moved right out east, yeah
On the peking ferry I was feeling merry, sailing on my way back here
I fell in love with a slant-eyed lady by the light of an eastern moon
Shanghai lil never used the pill, she claimed that it just ain't natural
She took me up on deck and bit my neck
Oh, people, I was glad I found her
Oh, yeah, I was glad I found here

I firmly believed that I didn't need anyone but me
I sincerely thought I was so complete
Look how wrong you can be
The women I've known I wouldn't let tie my shoe
They wouldn't give you the time of day
But the slant-eyed lady knocked me off my feet
God, I was glad I found her

And if they had the words I could tell to you
To help you on your way down the road
I couldn't quote you no dickens, shelley or keats
'Cause it's all been said before
Make the best out of the bad, just laugh it off
You didn't have to come here anyway, so remember

Every picture tells a story don't it?
Every picture tells a story don't it?
Every picture tells a story don't it?
Every picture tells a story don't it?
Every picture tells a story don't it?
Every picture tells a story don't it?

[Wild Lee @WildLee293223]

Folks..They Got the BIG GUY. https://t.co/7B3d4Wqqrq via @YouTube

[Wild Lee @WildLee293223]

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[Wild Lee @WildLee293223]

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[Ryan Fournier @RyanAFournier]

🚨 WIN: Florida is the 1st state banning welfare cash for luxury items under Gov. DeSantis! ☀️ 
EBT will NO LONGER pay for:
Theme parks 🎟️
Tattoos & spas 💇
Cigarettes & booze 🍺
Psychics 🔮
Welfare is for basics—NOT luxury! Florida leads AGAIN! 🇺🇸🔥

[Wild Lee @WildLee293223]

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[Mark Lambert @sitsio]

Does anyone remember this amazing story? On July 2, 1982, a truck driver from California flew 16,000 feet into the sky in a lawn chair. Larry Walters, 33, from San Pedro, had dreamed of flying his whole life. He bought 42 eight-foot helium weather balloons, tied them to a regular Sears lawn chair, strapped on a parachute, packed a BB gun to pop balloons to descend, a CB radio, sandwiches, and a six-pack of beer.
He expected to float a few hundred feet above his backyard. He cut the rope and shot up like a rocket — to 16,000 feet. He drifted directly into the main approach path for LAX. Two airline pilots radioed the tower: they had just passed a man in a lawn chair holding a gun at 16,000 feet. For 45 minutes, he floated over Los Angeles, freezing cold, too scared to shoot balloons because he might fall. Finally, he started popping balloons one by one and slowly descended.
He landed tangled in power lines in Long Beach, California, causing a blackout. When police arrested him, they asked why he did it. He said, "A man can't just sit around." The FAA fined him $4,000. He became a national folk hero — Lawnchair Larry — and inspired the movie Up.

[AstroScroll @astroscroll]

The claim in this post is pretty much true. Scientists conducted research showing that when a person practices manifestation (self-talk), their subconscious mind can indirectly influence how the body responds.