Ram (ராம்)

@Ramprasath_Ofcl

Enthusiast! There Will Be An End For Everything.

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Joined September 2019

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Sincero - Mente · Ventas · Dinero

@Sincero_Dinero

3 months ago

Fue construido en 1773. No tiene electricidad. No tiene motor. No tiene baterías. Y aun así, sigue funcionando. El Cisne de Plata es una obra maestra de la ingeniería que lleva más de 250 años moviéndose únicamente mediante resortes y engranajes de latón. A veces, la cúspide de la ingeniería se alcanzó mucho antes de la invención de la electricidad.

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Prof. Brian Keating

@Briankeating

3 months ago

1980: Learn to use a computer 1985: Learn spreadsheets 1990: Learn to program 1995: Learn the internet 2000: Learn search 2005: Learn social 2010: Learn to code 2012: Learn to (Machine) Learn 2015: Learn data science 2020: Learn remote work 2022: Learn to prompt 2023: Learn to verify 2024: Learn to reason 2024: Learn Agentic AI 2024: Learn to swarm 2025: Learn to Claw 2025: Learn to Claude Code 2025: Learn Agentic Robotics 2026: Learn to Loop What’s Next — Learn to ?

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Millie Marconi

@MillieMarconnni

3 months ago

A Japanese immunologist spent 20 years proving that the chemicals trees release into the air walk into your bloodstream, hunt down your stress hormones, and arm your immune system in ways no therapist or pharmaceutical has ever matched, and most of the data has been sitting in Japanese medical journals for two decades waiting to be translated. His name is Qing Li. He is a clinical professor at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo and the president of the Japanese Society of Forest Medicine. The Japanese government has been funding his research since 2004, and the body of work he has produced is the reason forest bathing is now an officially prescribed clinical therapy in Japan and Korea. The story actually starts in 1982, when the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries coined the term shinrin-yoku to describe the practice of slow, mindful walking in a forest. They did it for a practical reason. Japan was urbanizing fast, stress-related illness was climbing, and the country had thousands of square kilometers of forest sitting unused. The idea was to give people a reason to walk into the trees... They had no idea what was actually happening to the human body during those walks until Qing Li ran the first proper experiment in 2005. He took twelve healthy adult men on a three-day, two-night trip to a forest park. They walked for a few hours each day. Nothing strenuous. No prescribed routes or breathing exercises. They simply walked slowly through the trees, breathing the air, looking at the forest. Li drew blood and urine samples before the trip, on the second day, on the third day, on day seven after returning home, and again on day thirty. The numbers that came back from the lab were not what anyone expected. The activity of a specific type of immune cell called the natural killer cell, which is the cell your body uses to hunt down cancer cells and virus-infected cells before they can spread, had jumped by roughly 50 percent during the forest trip. The actual number of natural killer cells circulating in the bloodstream had increased significantly. Three different anti-cancer proteins that those cells produce, called perforin, granzymes, and granulysin, had all risen sharply. And the effect did not disappear when the men went home. The immune boost was still measurable on day seven and was still partially present on day thirty. Two hours a day in a forest had upgraded the immune system for a full month. Li ran the same experiment with women a year later and found nearly identical results. Then he ran it with a control group who took a three-day trip through an urban area with the same amount of walking, the same hotel quality, and the same diet. The urban group showed no measurable change in natural killer cell activity at all. The forest was doing the work, not the vacation. The mechanism turned out to be a class of airborne molecules called phytoncides. Trees produce these compounds to defend themselves against insects, bacteria, and fungi. Pine, cedar, oak, and cypress trees release them in particularly large amounts, especially in warmer weather and after rainfall. When you walk through a forest, you are inhaling those molecules into your lungs and absorbing them through your skin, and once inside your body they appear to directly stimulate the production and activity of the very immune cells Li was measuring in his lab. Roughly 50 percent of the health benefit of a forest walk, according to Li's data, comes from the chemistry of the air itself. The other half comes from what the forest is doing to your nervous system. This is where it stops being only about the immune system and starts being about stress. A separate Japanese research team measured cortisol, the body's main stress hormone, in 84 participants across 35 different forest sites. They drew samples before and after a 30-minute walk in each forest and compared them to control walks in matched urban environments. The cortisol levels of the people who walked in the forest were lower than the cortisol levels of the people who walked in the city by a significant margin. Their heart rates were lower. Their blood pressure was lower. The activity of their parasympathetic nervous system, which is the part responsible for rest and recovery, had gone up. The activity of their sympathetic nervous system, which is the part that drives fight or flight, had gone down. Then a researcher at the University of Michigan named MaryCarol Hunter ran the cleanest version of this experiment ever done. She recruited participants from a city and told them to take a nature pill three times a week for eight weeks. They were free to choose the time, the place, and the duration of the nature experience, as long as it was outside, in daylight, and free of phones, conversations, and aerobic exercise. They sent her saliva samples before and after each session so she could measure cortisol changes accurately and rule out the normal daily drop in stress hormones that happens to everyone. The result was that participants experienced a 21.3 percent drop in cortisol per hour spent in nature, with the biggest payoff happening between minutes 20 and 30 of the walk. After that, the cortisol kept dropping, but more slowly. The threshold dose for measurable stress relief was just 20 minutes outside in something that looked and felt like nature. What none of this means is that nature is a substitute for therapy or for medication when someone genuinely needs them. Therapy treats different things than a walk does, and Li himself has been careful in interviews to call forest bathing a complementary intervention rather than a replacement for clinical care. But what the research has settled is that the human body has a physiological response to being among trees that operates on the same biological systems modern medicine is trying to reach with drugs and clinical protocols, and that response is fast, measurable, and free. The strangest part of Li's work is the implication he keeps repeating in interviews. The average person now spends more than 90 percent of their life indoors. Their cortisol stays elevated. Their natural killer cells stay sluggish. Their parasympathetic nervous system rarely gets a chance to take over. The system that was tuned by millions of years of life under a canopy of trees is being asked to run permanently inside a box made of drywall and screens. Your body has not forgotten what it is supposed to do in a forest. It is waiting for you to walk into one.

MillieMarconnni's tweet photo. A Japanese immunologist spent 20 years proving that the chemicals trees release into the air walk into your bloodstream, hunt down your stress hormones, and arm your immune system in ways no therapist or pharmaceutical has ever matched, and most of the data has been sitting in Japanese medical journals for two decades waiting to be translated.

His name is Qing Li.

He is a clinical professor at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo and the president of the Japanese Society of Forest Medicine. The Japanese government has been funding his research since 2004, and the body of work he has produced is the reason forest bathing is now an officially prescribed clinical therapy in Japan and Korea.

The story actually starts in 1982, when the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries coined the term shinrin-yoku to describe the practice of slow, mindful walking in a forest. They did it for a practical reason.

Japan was urbanizing fast, stress-related illness was climbing, and the country had thousands of square kilometers of forest sitting unused. The idea was to give people a reason to walk into the trees... They had no idea what was actually happening to the human body during those walks until Qing Li ran the first proper experiment in 2005.

He took twelve healthy adult men on a three-day, two-night trip to a forest park. They walked for a few hours each day. Nothing strenuous. No prescribed routes or breathing exercises. They simply walked slowly through the trees, breathing the air, looking at the forest.

Li drew blood and urine samples before the trip, on the second day, on the third day, on day seven after returning home, and again on day thirty.

The numbers that came back from the lab were not what anyone expected.

The activity of a specific type of immune cell called the natural killer cell, which is the cell your body uses to hunt down cancer cells and virus-infected cells before they can spread, had jumped by roughly 50 percent during the forest trip. The actual number of natural killer cells circulating in the bloodstream had increased significantly.

Three different anti-cancer proteins that those cells produce, called perforin, granzymes, and granulysin, had all risen sharply. And the effect did not disappear when the men went home. The immune boost was still measurable on day seven and was still partially present on day thirty.

Two hours a day in a forest had upgraded the immune system for a full month.

Li ran the same experiment with women a year later and found nearly identical results. Then he ran it with a control group who took a three-day trip through an urban area with the same amount of walking, the same hotel quality, and the same diet.

The urban group showed no measurable change in natural killer cell activity at all. The forest was doing the work, not the vacation.

The mechanism turned out to be a class of airborne molecules called phytoncides. Trees produce these compounds to defend themselves against insects, bacteria, and fungi. Pine, cedar, oak, and cypress trees release them in particularly large amounts, especially in warmer weather and after rainfall.

When you walk through a forest, you are inhaling those molecules into your lungs and absorbing them through your skin, and once inside your body they appear to directly stimulate the production and activity of the very immune cells Li was measuring in his lab.

Roughly 50 percent of the health benefit of a forest walk, according to Li's data, comes from the chemistry of the air itself. The other half comes from what the forest is doing to your nervous system.

This is where it stops being only about the immune system and starts being about stress.

A separate Japanese research team measured cortisol, the body's main stress hormone, in 84 participants across 35 different forest sites. They drew samples before and after a 30-minute walk in each forest and compared them to control walks in matched urban environments. The cortisol levels of the people who walked in the forest were lower than the cortisol levels of the people who walked in the city by a significant margin. Their heart rates were lower. Their blood pressure was lower.

The activity of their parasympathetic nervous system, which is the part responsible for rest and recovery, had gone up. The activity of their sympathetic nervous system, which is the part that drives fight or flight, had gone down.

Then a researcher at the University of Michigan named MaryCarol Hunter ran the cleanest version of this experiment ever done. She recruited participants from a city and told them to take a nature pill three times a week for eight weeks.

They were free to choose the time, the place, and the duration of the nature experience, as long as it was outside, in daylight, and free of phones, conversations, and aerobic exercise. They sent her saliva samples before and after each session so she could measure cortisol changes accurately and rule out the normal daily drop in stress hormones that happens to everyone.

The result was that participants experienced a 21.3 percent drop in cortisol per hour spent in nature, with the biggest payoff happening between minutes 20 and 30 of the walk.

After that, the cortisol kept dropping, but more slowly. The threshold dose for measurable stress relief was just 20 minutes outside in something that looked and felt like nature.

What none of this means is that nature is a substitute for therapy or for medication when someone genuinely needs them. Therapy treats different things than a walk does, and Li himself has been careful in interviews to call forest bathing a complementary intervention rather than a replacement for clinical care.

But what the research has settled is that the human body has a physiological response to being among trees that operates on the same biological systems modern medicine is trying to reach with drugs and clinical protocols, and that response is fast, measurable, and free.

The strangest part of Li's work is the implication he keeps repeating in interviews. The average person now spends more than 90 percent of their life indoors. Their cortisol stays elevated. Their natural killer cells stay sluggish.

Their parasympathetic nervous system rarely gets a chance to take over. The system that was tuned by millions of years of life under a canopy of trees is being asked to run permanently inside a box made of drywall and screens.

Your body has not forgotten what it is supposed to do in a forest. It is waiting for you to walk into one.

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Art of Pure Mind @Artofpuremind

3 months ago

Artofpuremind's tweet photo. https://t.co/iCV8bQzL1E

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Who to follow

தரணி

@tharaniofficial

Belongs to the Dravidian Stock

Soorya Kumar S

@SooryaKumarS1

🇦 🇻 🇪 🇳 🇬 🇪 🇷ᶜˢᵏ ꞞƎ⅁NƎΛ∀

@Avenger1603

அன்பு சிவம்இரண்டு என்பர் அறிவிலார்; அன்பே சிவம்ஆவது ஆரும் அறிகிலார்; அன்பே சிவம்ஆவது அறிந்தபின் அன்பே சிவமாய் அமர்ந்துஇருந் தாரே... (திருமந்திரம் 270)

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UDG Wellness (Listen Brother)

@UDG_Wellness

3 months ago

Human limits you need to understand

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The Knowledge Archivist

@KnowledgeArchiv

4 months ago

Michelangelo was quite the genius

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DaVinci

@BiancoDavinci

4 months ago

Let's increase tree cover in our cities.

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Phoenix @Urs_AR0209

4 months ago

1/10 During Chola times Bay of Bengal is called as - The Chola Lake (Chola Kadal). no merchant or foreign military ship could cross the Bay of Bengal without Chola permission during 11th century Let's dive deeper 👇🧵 Pic : hinduism and science #copperplates #cholaking

Urs_AR0209's tweet photo. 1/10
During Chola times Bay of Bengal is called as - The Chola Lake (Chola Kadal).

no merchant or foreign military ship could cross the Bay of Bengal without Chola permission during 11th century

Let's dive deeper 👇🧵
Pic : hinduism and science
#copperplates
#cholaking https://t.co/M3gfNy9OdP

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Aesthetics 𝕏

@aestheticsguyy

4 months ago

Post a picture YOU took. Just a pic. No description

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Lorwen Harris Nagle, PhD

@LORWEN108

4 months ago

Brain fog. Insomnia. Tight jaw. You’re not “falling apart.” Your nervous system is stuck in hidden anxiety. Here are 8 body-based ways to calm it down (without medication): 🧵 1. Cold water on your face.

LORWEN108's tweet photo. Brain fog. Insomnia. Tight jaw.

You’re not “falling apart.”

Your nervous system is stuck in hidden anxiety.

Here are 8 body-based ways to calm it down (without medication): 🧵

1. Cold water on your face. https://t.co/TZ7wLflukP

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World of Engineering

@engineers_feed

4 months ago

Roman concrete is 2,000 years old and still getting stronger. Modern concrete starts degrading after 50. In 2023, MIT researchers finally figured out why: Roman engineers mixed volcanic ash with seawater. When cracks formed, minerals crystallized inside them, self-healing. We knew the recipe was different. We didn't know it was self-repairing. The ancient Romans accidentally invented the most advanced building material in history. We spent 150 years building something cheaper and weaker. What else did they know that we've forgotten?

engineers_feed's tweet photo. Roman concrete is 2,000 years old and still getting stronger.

Modern concrete starts degrading after 50.

In 2023, MIT researchers finally figured out why: Roman engineers mixed volcanic ash with seawater. When cracks formed, minerals crystallized inside them, self-healing. We knew the recipe was different. We didn't know it was self-repairing. The ancient Romans accidentally invented the most advanced building material in history. We spent 150 years building something cheaper and weaker.

What else did they know that we've forgotten?

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Black Hole

@konstructivizm

4 months ago

Exoplanet like Earth...

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ScienceInFocus

@SciInFocus

4 months ago

An 18-year-old just did what billion-dollar water companies couldn't. Meet Mia Heller. A high school junior from Warrenton, Virginia who built a water filter in her garage that strips out 95.5% of microplastics from drinking water. That's better than most government treatment plants, which sit somewhere between 70% and 90%. Her secret weapon? Ferrofluid. A magnetized liquid made of oil and powder that latches onto microplastic particles. Then a magnet yanks them out. No membranes. No constant filter replacements. No endless maintenance bills. The ferrofluid even gets recycled, around 87% of it, in a closed loop. The spark for all of this wasn't a classroom project. It was a local newspaper article warning that her town's tap water was loaded with PFAS and microplastics, and that nobody was coming to fix it. So she watched her mom swap out filter after filter and thought, there has to be a smarter way. She built the prototype herself. Tested it with a homemade turbidity sensor. Then walked into the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair and walked out with a special award from the Patent and Trademark Office Society. Up against nearly 1,700 students from 62 countries. She's now eyeing a household version that sits under your kitchen sink. The future of clean water might not come from a lab in Silicon Valley. It might come from a teenager's garage in Virginia. Source: Smithsonian Magazine

SciInFocus's tweet photo. An 18-year-old just did what billion-dollar water companies couldn't.

Meet Mia Heller.

A high school junior from Warrenton, Virginia who built a water filter in her garage that strips out 95.5% of microplastics from drinking water.

That's better than most government treatment plants, which sit somewhere between 70% and 90%.

Her secret weapon? Ferrofluid. A magnetized liquid made of oil and powder that latches onto microplastic particles. Then a magnet yanks them out. No membranes. No constant filter replacements. No endless maintenance bills.
The ferrofluid even gets recycled, around 87% of it, in a closed loop.

The spark for all of this wasn't a classroom project. It was a local newspaper article warning that her town's tap water was loaded with PFAS and microplastics, and that nobody was coming to fix it.

So she watched her mom swap out filter after filter and thought, there has to be a smarter way.

She built the prototype herself. Tested it with a homemade turbidity sensor. Then walked into the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair and walked out with a special award from the Patent and Trademark Office Society.
Up against nearly 1,700 students from 62 countries.

She's now eyeing a household version that sits under your kitchen sink.

The future of clean water might not come from a lab in Silicon Valley. It might come from a teenager's garage in Virginia.

Source: Smithsonian Magazine

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SURAJ

@SURAJ_624

5 months ago

While everyone is busy with the IPL R Vaishali became the first Indian to win the FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament 🇮🇳

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NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依

@japan_nobunaga

5 months ago

In Japan, children clean their own schools. Every day. After lunch. About twenty minutes. Classrooms. Hallways. Toilets. Not because the schools are too poor to hire someone. Because in 1947, this country decided that cleaning your own space is part of becoming a person. The cleaning rag is on the school supply list. Right next to the pencils. Egypt teaches it now. So does Indonesia. So does Mongolia. Think about the last time you watched a seven-year-old mop a floor without complaining. Japan does that in every elementary school in the country. Not as punishment. As education.

japan_nobunaga's tweet photo. In Japan, children clean their own schools.

Every day. After lunch.
About twenty minutes.

Classrooms.
Hallways.
Toilets.

Not because the schools are too poor
to hire someone.

Because in 1947, this country decided
that cleaning your own space
is part of becoming a person.

The cleaning rag
is on the school supply list.
Right next to the pencils.

Egypt teaches it now.
So does Indonesia.
So does Mongolia.

Think about the last time
you watched a seven-year-old
mop a floor without complaining.

Japan does that
in every elementary school
in the country.

Not as punishment.

As education.

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Tamil Nadu Geography @TNGeography

5 months ago

Tamil Nadu should get it's tamarind tree 🎄 lined roads back. It used to be an identity of the state, visible when you cross the border. Road widening took the toll on our Tamarind trees, it's a time to get them back.

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vijayantony

@vijayantony

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Aafaq Mir @AfaqMir89581026

about 3 years ago

Every time we can see there is a difference in the number of times of vacancies, the candidates are qualifying for SSC CGLE Tier-1 with all-time low in 2023. Why is this? Why no fixed rule. @DoPTGoI #SSC_CGL_2023_REVISED_RESULT @Cryptic_Miind @ravishndtv @TheLallantop