S&D Deleon

Jesus is my bright morning star.

[Earth @earthcurated]

Hotel temporarily closes an entrance due to a hummingbird nesting on the door handle.

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

A peaceful moment in the snow with the largest trees in the world, the giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum), captured by photographer Michael Block.

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

Incredible view of Earth and the International Space Station captured from the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour capsule by Sultan Al Neyadi.

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

Ladybug Lift-off. 🐞💨✨

📽: Fumihiro Hirai

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

The largest trees in the world are found in Sequoia National Park, California.

📽: Muhammad Arsalan Sabir

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

Sea otter mothers give their pups almost constant attention, carrying it on her belly away from the cold water, grooming its fur, and letting the pup nurse or sleep.

📽: Connie Levenhagen Niemi

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

The beautiful glasswing butterfly is known for its unique transparent wings that allow it to camouflage without coloration.

📽: Brandon Price

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

"The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean." ― Carl Sagan

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

A stars massive outburst captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

📽: NASA/ESA

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

Human population density around the world.

📽: Tyler Morgan-Wall

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

Mesmerizing timelapse of a lenticular cloud hovering over Mount Teide in the Canary Islands as day turns to night, captured by photographer Bartosz Wojczyński.

[Mercedes K. Schneider @deutsch29blog]

.@BethMooreLPM Lookie here!

[HustleBitch @HustleBitch_]

🚨 KEVIN O’LEARY JUST SAID THE QUIET PART OUT LOUD - ELITES ARE FILTERING THEIR BLOOD OVERSEAS

Billionaire Kevin O’Leary was filmed in Dubai casually describing a procedure where nearly five meters of blood are drained from the body, run through a dialysis-style machine, ozonated, oxygenated, then pumped back in.

This wasn’t an experiment.
This wasn’t a one time test.
This was a repeatable, scheduled procedure he says he does every time he’s in the UAE.

Mr. Wonderful openly says it’s his fourth time.
He openly says he blocks off half a day just to do it.
And he openly says the effects are noticeable almost immediately.

This procedure isn’t FDA approved.
And it isn’t explained on mainstream medical shows Americans are told to trust.

Yet the same class of people urging the public to “follow the science” are quietly flying overseas to filter their own blood - then walking out saying they feel incredible.

First it was Tijuana.
Now it’s Dubai.
Same procedure.
Same quiet pattern.

What’s the first thing this makes you think of?

[Night Sky Today @NightSkyToday]

Milky Way galaxy rising above Monument Valley

[S&D Deleon @ateed57]

@archeohistories Wow!✝️

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Seven date palm trees have been grown from 2000 year-old seeds that were found in the Judean desert near Jerusalem...

In 2020, the seeds – oldest ever germinated – were among hundreds discovered in caves and in an ancient palace built by King Herod the Great in 1st Century BC.

Their names are Adam, Jonah, Uriel, Boaz, Judith, and Hannah, and their ages are well, actually, this one’s a bit complicated. Adam, Jonah, Uriel, Boaz, Judith and Hannah are date-palm trees, and although they were all planted in recent years, the seeds from which they germinated all came from ancient archaeological sites. These seeds, according to radiocarbon dating, were about 2000 years old. They had waited two millennia to sprout.

The seeds of Judean date palms turn out to have remarkable longevity. A team led by Sarah Sallon, which planted these trees, first tried in 2005 to germinate a 2000 year-old seed from the ancient fortress of Masada. To the surprise and delight of Sallon and her colleagues, it sprouted, and they named that first date-palm tree Methuselah, who in the Bible lived to the age of 969.

“I was so not expecting it,” says Sallon, a doctor at Hadassah Medical Center who got interested in date palms as medicinal plants. At the time, the team didn’t even think to take basic measurements, such as seed weight or size, for comparison with modern date seeds. So after the success of Methuselah, they decided to try again, but more systematically. After all, was Methuselah a fluke, or were lots of date seeds viable after 2,000 years?

Sarah Sallon at the Louis L Borick Natural Medicine Research Center in Jerusalem and her colleagues previously grew a single date palm tree (Phoenix dactylifera) from one of the seeds. The team has now managed to grow a further six.

The ancient seeds were prepared by soaking them in water, adding hormones that encourage germination and rooting, then planting them in soil in a quarantined area. Team used radiocarbon dating to reveal the seven seeds were all around 2000 years old. Genetic analysis showed that several of them came from female date palms that were pollinated by male palms from different areas. This hints that the ancient Judean people who lived in the area at the time and cultivated the trees used sophisticated plant breeding techniques.

Historical accounts of the dates that grew from the palms in this region describe their large size, sweetness and medicinal properties. The Roman scribe Pliny the Elder, for example, wrote that their “outstanding property is the unctuous juice which they exude and an extremely sweet sort of wine-flavour like that of honey”. Unlike Egyptian dates, they could be stored for a long time, meaning they could be exported throughout the Roman Empire.

Sallon and her colleagues found that the seeds of ancient Judean dates are larger than modern varieties, which is often indicative of bigger fruit. They now hope to recreate the ancient fruit by pollinating females with males.

Judea’s date palm crops started to die out after the region’s wars with Rome in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. Sallon believes the hot, dry conditions of the Judean desert probably helped to preserve the leftover seeds for so long.

Previously, the world’s oldest germinated seed was a 1300 year-old Chinese lotus seed recovered from a dried lake bed in China. In 2012, researchers in Russia grew a flower from 30,000-year-old fruit tissue recovered from frozen sediment in Siberia.

#archaeohistories

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

The red-billed streamertail (Trochilus polytmus), also known as the doctor bird, scissor-tail or scissors tail hummingbird, is the most widespread hummingbird in Jamaica.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Hummingbird chick hatching