Rachel Donais

[Rachel Donais @RDonais]

@sircryptotips Monsanto should be held accountable.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Finnish scientists trucked in real forest dirt and grass and laid it over the gravel at four daycare yards. They let the kids dig around in it for a month. The blood tests came back with changes the researchers hadn’t expected to see so fast or so clear.

The study ran at ten daycares in two Finnish cities with 75 kids aged three to five. Four of the yards got the forest treatment: about a tennis court worth of soil and grass laid over the gravel, plus planters and peat blocks the kids could dig and climb on. Three others stuck with their normal gravel yards. The last three were daycares where the kids were already visiting real forests every day.

After one month, the variety of bacteria living on the kids’ skin shot up, and the kind that helps train the skin’s immune defenses jumped the most. Their gut bacteria started to look like the gut bacteria of the forest-visiting kids. Their blood showed more of the immune cells whose job is to keep the body from freaking out at harmless stuff like pollen and peanuts, and overall inflammation dropped. The kids on the plain gravel yards showed none of this.

Childhood asthma in the US doubled between 1980 and 1995. Food allergies in kids jumped 50 percent between 1997 and 2011, then jumped another 50 percent between 2007 and 2021. And peanut allergies in one-year-olds tripled between 2001 and 2017.

The Finnish researchers think one of the reasons is simple: kids today don’t get dirty enough. 37 percent of American preschoolers now spend an hour or less outside on a normal weekday. Their immune systems are getting trained in environments stripped of the bacteria humans have always lived around.

Aki Sinkkonen, who led the study, put it in plain words: “It would be best if children could play in puddles and everyone could dig organic soil.” The Finnish government is now helping pay for daycares across the country to make the same changes.

[Rachel Donais @RDonais]

How to avoid overpayment of taxes on your Bitcoin https://t.co/syebyWOJzH via @YouTube

[Rachel Donais @RDonais]

@Wilbroad256 all options: A-D

[Rachel Donais @RDonais]

@economyninja Yes

[Ai Business Journal @ArchieIntel]

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 Mark Zuckerberg just admitted Biden-Harris Admin "pressured" Facebook to censor Americans.

[Rachel Donais @RDonais]

Just made a donation to Kennedy24 https://t.co/VzWyPUA1qt

[etherscan.eth @etherscan]

📢 We're excited to share that Solscan has now joined Etherscan!

With the addition of @solscanofficial to the team, we hope to continue executing on our vision of providing credibly neutral and equitable access to blockchain data.

[ZKsync @zksync]

https://t.co/vAN5JBS7Mk

[Rachel Donais @RDonais]

Help Me Stop The Censorship https://t.co/swAO21IuT2 via @YouTube

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Have you heard dis information?

[Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr]

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[Rachel Donais @RDonais]

@DrPippaM Or at least the part about predicting crimes before they happen.

[Rachel Donais @RDonais]

@DrPippaM This reminds me of the movie Minority Report.

[Nick Anthony @EconWithNick]

All eyes are on Jackson Hole, but the real statement of the summer came from @neelkashkari: “I keep asking anybody to explain to me what problem [a CBDC] is solving.” 🧵

[Rachel Donais @RDonais]

I just subscribed to What's Web3 https://t.co/0bPQA0WPVv
Wanting to learn more about the future of the internet.

[Rachel Donais @RDonais]

@kwaykey Agreed. Web3 tutorials will help people participate sooner and with less frustration.

[Rachel Donais @RDonais]

Trying out @zksync 2.0 zkEVM!

https://t.co/SUwi1QUYk9

Send some test tokens for 0x485532c10508400742dc.

[Rachel Donais @RDonais]

@BBCClick I have been enjoying The Mentalist on Amazon Prime.

[Rachel Donais @RDonais]

@aprilrendonvera @MarketingProfs Yes, it did for a solar company that I worked for. Customers put egg magnets on their fridge.