Dr. Diana Laulainen-Schein

mother, wife, historian, educator

[Wolf @WolfprwX]

Haaland's unflinching calm under blatant physical attacks needs to be studied 😮

[El Barto Morado 🧬🥇 @elbartomorado]

@BelRedDevils Thank you Belgium 🇧🇪

[USA Gymnastics @USAGym]

Adding another Gold to the medal haul!

With a score of 50.380, Maia Amano & Ruben Padilla win Mixed Synchro at the Pan American Championships!

[USA Gymnastics @USAGym]

Another absolutely epic day in Colombia as both our Men’s & Women’s Synchronized Trampoline teams captured Gold!

Congratulations to Elijah Vogel & Ruben Padilla and Ava DeHanes & Leah Garafalo!

[USA Gymnastics @USAGym]

Ruben Padilla takes individual trampoline Gold at the Pan American Championships!

Padilla scores a huge 61.540 & teammate Alexi Shostak finishes right behind him in second with a 60.280!

[Minnesota Women’s Gym @GopherWGym]

The best finish in school history 💛

2026 was truly legendary!

#Team52 | #AnchoredDown

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

BREAKING: Satellite imagery shows an Iranian ballistic missile struck the AN/FPS-132 phased array radar at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.

If the damage is as severe as the imagery suggests, Iran just destroyed a $1.1 billion piece of equipment that took years to build and cannot be replaced on any timeline relevant to this war.

The AN/FPS-132 is not an ordinary radar. It is one of a handful of early warning sensors in the entire US global missile defence architecture. It detects ballistic missile launches at ranges exceeding 5,000 kilometres. It provides the initial tracking data that allows Patriot, THAAD, and Aegis systems to calculate intercept solutions. Without it, every other layer of missile defence in the Gulf theatre is operating with compressed reaction times and degraded situational awareness.

Qatar intercepted 101 ballistic missiles during this conflict. Sixty-five missiles and twelve drones were fired at Al Udeid specifically. The base’s layered defences stopped nearly all of them. Two got through. One of them appears to have hit the single most valuable sensor in the entire region.

This is the mathematics of asymmetric warfare in a single event.

Iran does not need to overwhelm the defence system. It needs one missile to reach one target. The defender has to intercept everything. The attacker has to succeed once. A ballistic missile costs Iran a fraction of what the radar costs. Even at the most generous estimate of Iranian missile production costs, the exchange ratio is hundreds to one in the attacker’s favour.

Now connect this to the insurance mechanism.

I have written all day that the B-2 and B-52 campaigns are destroying Iran’s conventional military but not its ability to threaten asymmetric targets. This is the proof. The most heavily defended air base in the Middle East, housing CENTCOM’s forward headquarters, protected by Patriot batteries and the most advanced interception systems the US deploys, just lost its primary early warning radar to a single ballistic missile that evaded every layer.

If the US military cannot protect a $1.1 billion radar inside its own most fortified base, on what basis does any reinsurer model that a tanker transiting the Strait of Hormuz is protectable by Navy escorts?

The DFC insurance backstop announced hours ago promised Navy escorts would secure Gulf shipping. The AN/FPS-132 strike demonstrates that even the most sophisticated US defensive systems cannot guarantee protection against Iranian ballistic missiles in a saturation attack environment.

One missile. One radar. $1.1 billion. And a defence architecture that just revealed its fundamental constraint: perfection is required, and perfection is impossible.

The escorts cannot guarantee what the base defences could not. The insurance market already knew this. Now the satellite imagery proves it.

https://t.co/ULBgEzZ3A8

[Dr. Diana Laulainen-Schein @laul0005]

Floridian News is weird.

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

We've all done that

[Dr. Diana Laulainen-Schein @laul0005]

This is so fascinating!

[GP Q @argosaki]

BREASTMILK
She thought she was studying milk.
What she uncovered was a conversation.

In 2008, evolutionary anthropologist Katie Hinde was working in a primate research lab in California, analyzing breast milk from rhesus macaque mothers. She had hundreds of samples and thousands of data points. Everything looked ordinary—until one pattern refused to go away.

Mothers raising sons produced milk richer in fat and protein.
Mothers raising daughters produced a larger volume with different nutrient balances.

It was consistent. Repeatable. And deeply uncomfortable for the scientific consensus.

Colleagues suggested error. Noise. Statistical coincidence.
But Katie trusted the data.

And the data pointed to a radical idea.

Milk is not just nutrition.
It is information.

For decades, biology treated breast milk as simple fuel. Calories in. Growth out. But if milk were only calories, why would it change depending on the sex of the baby?

Katie kept digging.

Across more than 250 mothers and over 700 sampling events, the story grew more complex. Younger, first-time mothers produced milk with fewer calories but significantly higher levels of cortisol—the stress hormone.

The babies who drank it grew faster.
They were also more alert, more cautious, more anxious.

Milk wasn’t just building bodies.
It was shaping behavior.

Then came the discovery that changed everything.

When a baby nurses, microscopic amounts of saliva flow back into the breast. That saliva carries biological signals about the infant’s immune system. If the baby is getting sick, the mother’s body detects it.

Within hours, the milk changes.

White blood cells surge.
Macrophages multiply.
Targeted antibodies appear.

When the baby recovers, the milk returns to baseline.

This was not coincidence.
It was call and response.

A biological dialogue refined over millions of years. Invisible—until someone thought to listen.

As Katie reviewed existing research, she noticed something unsettling. There were twice as many scientific studies on erectile dysfunction as on breast milk composition.

The first food every human consumes.
The substance that shaped our species.
Largely ignored.

So she did something bold.

She launched a blog with a deliberately provocative name: Mammals Suck Milk.
It exploded. Over a million readers in its first year. Parents. Doctors. Scientists. People asking questions research had skipped.

The discoveries kept coming.

Milk changes by time of day.
Foremilk differs from hindmilk.
Human milk contains over 200 oligosaccharides babies can’t digest—because they exist to feed beneficial gut bacteria.
Every mother’s milk is biologically unique.

In 2017, Katie brought this work to a TED stage. In 2020, it reached a global audience through Netflix’s Babies. Today, at Arizona State University’s Comparative Lactation Lab, she continues reshaping how medicine understands infant development, neonatal care, formula design, and public health.

The implications are staggering.

Milk has been evolving for more than 200 million years—longer than dinosaurs walked the Earth. What we once dismissed as simple nourishment is one of the most sophisticated communication systems biology has ever produced.

Katie Hinde didn’t just study milk.
She revealed that nourishment is intelligence.
A living, responsive system shaping who we become before we ever speak.

All because one scientist refused to accept that half the story was “measurement error.”

Sometimes the biggest revolutions begin by listening to what everyone else ignores.

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

Much love to Alex Pretti and Renee Good—but remember—ICE has killed 9 people in 2026. You know the names of the 2 white people they've killed.

ICE has also killed a Black man named Keith Porter, a Cambodian named Parady La, and five Latinos named Heber Sanchaz Domínguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas Campos.

ICE is on pace to kill more than 100 people this year. Abolish ICE. Impeach Noem. Prosecute those who committed these crimes.

[Tim Alberta @TimAlberta]

Okay so,

1) an American citizen exercises his First Amendment right to peaceably assemble and his Second Amendment right to bear arms, out of apparent concern that a tyrannical federal government is violating basic protections afforded under the Constitution

2) after coming to the aid of an unarmed woman who's been shoved to the ground by a masked federal agent, the citizen -- impaired by pepper spray, holding nothing but a cell phone -- is dragged to the ground by a group of other masked agents

3) during the scuffle, shortly after one masked agent removes the weapon from the restrained citizen's person, several other masked agents open fire, unloading 10 shots from close range and killing the unarmed citizen

4) despite video evidence, a spokesman for the federal government says the citizen approached agents with a gun, provoked a violent confrontation, and planned to "massacre" law enforcement

You really want to defend this? Go ahead. Just know, you look like an absolute fool.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like. https://t.co/uts7JpJZzN

[Dr. Diana Laulainen-Schein @laul0005]

@GodsRiches @TheFigen_ Miha Bruns is her name. The sport is T&T (trampoline and tumbling). This specific event is power tumbling https://t.co/bSsyiaUw5K

[Dr. Diana Laulainen-Schein @laul0005]

@addie_1122 Talk to about being on Big Brother and about his sister Ariana...that's Frankie Grande.

[Piyush Mittal 🇺🇸🇺🇦🟧🌊🌈 @piyushmittal]

How Fox News describes LA vs. How LA really is

[Dr. Diana Laulainen-Schein @laul0005]

@LarryBoorstein @NoLieWithBTC Not to mention the US was barely involved in WW I.

[Meagan ❄️ @atlmeagsnow]

How did we get into this mess? You ask. Well, too many of you had football coaches for social studies teachers.

[Dr. Diana Laulainen-Schein @laul0005]

@gbush7 @ashishkjha Not accurate. https://t.co/APrC0Jve15