Piece of advice: if you are a parent, watch out what the Finns are doing and copy them. It's one of the few countries that pays closer attention to their youth. They observe, study, and adjust all the time!
For example, they are now gradually reversing their decade-long, tech-heavy education model to combat declining cognitive performance and severe classroom distractions. Schools are scaling back on devices in favor of printed textbooks, handwriting instruction, and pen-and-paper assignments.
For most of human history, women have had about 100 periods in their lifetimes. Today's women have over 400. A Chinese biologist named Hongmei Wang thinks that gap is part of why women run out of eggs decades earlier than they have to.
Wang is 52. She runs a lab at the Institute of Zoology in Beijing that studies the cellular machinery of fertility. Her idea is simple. Bleed four times a year instead of twelve, save eggs, extend the fertile window. Mouse data so far backs her up.
Before birth control, women were pregnant or breastfeeding through most of their fertile years, and both pause periods. About 100 cycles in a lifetime. Now, with later marriages, fewer kids, and longer lives, the number sits above 400. Each cycle uses up eggs. Run out, menopause starts.
That cycle hypothesis is one of three threads in her lab. The second was a 2024 paper in the journal Cell Discovery. Her team grew lab stem cells, named them M-cells, and injected them into the ovaries of old monkeys past their fertile years. Damage in the tissue healed. Hormones came back. One treated monkey gave birth to a healthy baby. They tried it on 63 women whose ovaries had quit decades early, a condition called premature ovarian failure. Four had healthy children. The team patented the technique and licensed it to a private firm.
The third project is in Barcelona. Wang is partnering with biologist Alfonso Martínez Arias to grow fake human embryos from stem cells. Almost every country bans growing real ones in a lab past 14 days. The window from day 14 to day 28 is when the body's basic blueprint forms, the layers that turn into brain and heart and bone. Almost everything we know about it comes from animals, because the human version has been off-limits in labs for decades. The fake embryos are how Wang plans to look inside.
She does not oversell any of it. "When we stop ovulation, we save more eggs, but we also stop the body from making estrogen, and that molecule is absolutely vital for health," she told El País. Years of low estrogen weaken bones and wear down the heart. She is still working out how to keep the eggs without paying that price.
The backdrop is China. Last year, the country had 7.92 million babies, a 17% drop and the lowest birth rate since 1949. The population shrank by 3.4 million people in a single year. Wang knows her work will not arrive in time to fix those numbers. But the girls born this decade may grow up with a reproductive clock no woman has ever had before.
My unpopular hot take is we need to accept paying higher petrol prices.
I'd rather pay more for petrol than have Malaysia's healthcare and education budget for the poor slashed to sustain petrol subsidy.
There, I've said it. Do what you will with this information.
Lebanon has been hit with one of the largest waves of Israeli airstrikes since the escalation began.
Civilians are bearing the brunt of these attacks.
Civilians are #NotATarget.
Israel launched its largest coordinated strikes on Lebanon, killing at least 254 and wounding 1,165, hours after the ceasefire, with both Israel and the US saying the truce did not cover Lebanon.
Iran suspended oil tanker movements through the Strait of Hormuz in protest and warned of a regret‑inducing response if attacks in Lebanon continued.
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Tindakan TEGAS mesti di ambil. Jika bukan sekarang bila lagi???
Kemarahan rakyat akibat pemandu mabuk ini sudah sampai ke kemuncaknya.
Hukuman sedia ada iaitu penjara minimum 5 tahun, maksimum 10 tahun dan denda minimum RM20,000 & maksimum RM50,000.00, serta hilang kelayakan memiliki lesen selama 5 tahun; hukuman ini ternyata GAGAL memberi pengajaran kepada pemandu-pemandu di luar sana.
Pindaan undang-undang mesti dilakukan segera khusus untuk PEMANDU MABUK & MENGAKIBATKAN KEMATIAN.
Pindaan terhadap peruntukan undang-undang semasa dilihat wajar dibuat menjadi MEMBUNUH TANPA NIAT terhadap PEMANDUAN MENYEBABKAN KEMATIAN AKIBAT MABUK (dadah/arak/seumpanya). Jika ini boleh dilakukan maka, pemandu-pemandu mabuk yang sabit salah akan berdepan dengan hukuman penjara sehingga 30 tahun.
Pindaan juga wajar di buat untuk membolehkan pampasan wajib diberikan kepada waris mangsa.
*kredit kepada pemilik video.
KEMASKINI
BERITA BURUK UNTUK MALAYSIA
Berita buruk untuk Malaysia hari ini apabila Arab Saudi dilaporkan tidak akan menjual minyak kepada Negara Asia termasuk Malaysia pada bulan April. Ini susulan mereka mengurangkan pengeluaran dan ancaman keselamatan kerana Perang US Iran
70 peratus minyak untuk rakyat Malaysia dibeli dari Negara Negara Arab dan Malaysia paling banyak beli minyak dari Arab Saudi iaitu sebanyak 33.3 peratus diikuti UAE sebanyak 20.6 peratus
Ia bersamaan 1/3 keperluan minyak Malaysia dengan kos sebanyak RM 18 Bilion. Kini cabaran besar untuk Malaysia mencari pengganti kepada Arab Saudi untuk membeli minyak. Dengan banyak negara berebut dan pengeluaran minyak dunia berkurangan. Malaysia semakin hampir hadapi masalah besar
US and Israeli attacks on Iran may not affect Malaysians directly, but rising energy and shipping costs could push up prices of food and everyday goods, said UUM's maritime affairs expert Bakri Mat.
He said Malaysia could feel global commodity and shipping price shifts within days, with broader impacts in one to three months, reports NST.
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Malaysia is grappling with a growing double burden of malnutrition, with 54.4% of adults obese and nearly 2.8 million living with multiple NCDs.
The situation is exacerbated by a shortage of dietitians, as only 55% of the country's 1,100 clinics provide dietetic services, said the Parliamentary Special Select Committee on Health.
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One of the many examples, that happened today, ordered a cake and requested for an order confirmation after making payment. It's okay to reply late, but never tell your customer you're busy. Like what am I to say, you want me to feel bad and say sorry? Nonsense.
It's one thing to be good at advertising and product owners, but many indian small biz owners in Malaysia lack the professionalism in biz. Basic things like timely response, using proper biz language, sending a proper invoice after payment - many lacks these.