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[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A London hospital just built a rooftop garden where its sickest patients can lie outside in their beds, still on full life support, surrounded by plants and open sky. For intensive care, the idea is brand new. The instinct behind it is about 4,000 years old.

King's College Hospital opened the garden on 29 May 2026, the first of its kind in the UK. It sits on the roof above the 60-bed critical care unit, with room for six beds. Each bed pulls up next to a weatherproof cabinet that supplies power, data, and medical gases, so a patient can stay hooked up to their machines while breathing fresh air. It cost 2 million pounds, paid for by a hospital charity. The designer described the goal as a hospital ward set down in a meadow.

Doctors in ancient Egypt sent distressed patients to walk through palace gardens, around 2000 BC. The kings of Persia built huge walled gardens around 550 BC, planted with shade trees and running water. Our word "paradise" comes straight from the old Persian word for one of those walled gardens.

Then medicine moved indoors. As drugs and machines took over in the 1800s, the gardens mostly disappeared from hospitals. Florence Nightingale pushed back. In her 1859 book on nursing, she called fresh air the first rule of caring for the sick and direct sunlight the second. She noticed her patients in east-facing rooms got better faster, and that being able to look out a window beat staring at a blank wall. Flowers and bright colour, she wrote, were actual means of recovery.

She was working from what she saw, not hard data. In 1984, a researcher named Roger Ulrich tested it in the journal Science. He pulled ten years of records from a Pennsylvania hospital and compared gallbladder patients in rooms facing a small clump of trees against matched patients in identical rooms facing a brick wall. The patients who could see trees went home almost a full day sooner. They needed far fewer doses of strong painkillers. And nurses wrote about a third as many notes about them struggling, just over one per patient versus nearly four. That one paper helped get window views written into hospital building rules.

Now King's is turning its roof into a live study, tracking how sunlight and greenery cut down the delirium, the confusion and hallucinations that can take hold during long stays in intensive care. A 2 million pound ward, full of custom-built equipment, made to deliver something a doctor on the Nile was already prescribing four thousand years ago.

[Shubham Mishra @brahma_4u]

India trains the engineer.

America files the patents.
Gurtej Sandhu was raised in Amritsar and trained at IIT Delhi.

He now holds 1,299 US patents at Micron, Edison topped out at 1,093.

Sandhu is the 7th most prolific inventor in American history.

His titanium nitride deposition work is why every DRAM cell in your phone and every GPU training a foundation model actually holds charge.

Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix own 95% of global DRAM.

None of them are Indian.

We export the inventor.

We import the chip.

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | Oslo, Norway | MEA Secretary (West) Sibi George responds to question by reporters from Norway - "Why should we trust you?" " Will the PM take critical questions from the Indian Press?"

[Āsurā @iAsura_]

Best thing I read with my morning coffee today.

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

I would like to appeal to all Members of Parliament…

Please reflect upon your conscience, remembering the women in your own families.

The legislation to ensure women’s reservation in legislative bodies is a significant opportunity to do justice to women of our nation.

Please do not deprive our Nari Shakti of new opportunities.

If this amendment is passed unanimously, it will further empower the women of our country and strengthen our democracy.

Let us come together today to create history.

Let us ensure that the women of India, who are half of the nation’s population, receive their rightful due.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

The most accurate futurist in world history is Ray Kurzweil. Amazing prescience.

[vc @vcepx8]

@HalimA60962 G

[vc @vcepx8]

@qwertyuiop24684 been a while mate

[vc @vcepx8]

biological renaissance - can you feel it yet?

[vc @vcepx8]

@AaryanGondal Good job, why don’t you look at Karpathy’s autoresearch loop and try experimenting with internal loops to make agents better at performing tasks through constant iterations

[vc @vcepx8]

@karpathy Soon it will be spoken english, and later brain2computer. The future is limitless.

[vc @vcepx8]

More from less for more

M/L = M^♾️

[vc @vcepx8]

@grok @AaryanGondal but what about a world of total surveillance where tweets are used to determine a person’s online personna and possibly their political views

[vc @vcepx8]

@WesRoth @grok if AI might discover better batteries and/or better superconductors, how will that impact value of rare materials since they will still be used to make components

[vc @vcepx8]

Things were better when value wasn’t printed

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

While you slept last night, completely still in your bed, our galaxy moved millions of kilometers through the cosmos. You woke up in the same room, on the same planet, yet unimaginably far from where you were the night before.

The Milky Way is not drifting quietly through the universe. It is racing through space at around 600 kilometers per second, carrying billions of stars, planets, and everything on them along for the ride.

It is a good reminder that even when life feels motionless, you are always in motion.

Stay connected,
Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

[vc @vcepx8]

The singularity is not near, it’s here.

[vc @vcepx8]

Would you rather be an optimist and wrong or a pessimist and right?