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[flasatos @xlepouras]

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[Insane Reality Leaks @InsaneReality]

The calmest near-death reaction I've ever seen

[TARS @TARS955736]

Κούνια μπέλα έσπασε η κουτέλα
Χύθηκε το γάλα τι θα πει η δασκάλα
Κούνια μπέλα έπεσε η κοπέλα
Χτύπησε το γόνα και γελά η παγώνα
Κούνια μπέλα κούνια κούνια μπέλα

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Ulexite stone is a mineral, it is not transparent but yet it projects an image of what ever is behind it onto its surface

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The number of satellites launched into space

[🎞️ thebrainmaze]

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

«The Black Hole» is an international prize winner short film that offers a portrait of temptation and greed from a genuinely sci-fi point of view.

[🎞️ Olly Williams and Phil Sansom]

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Honda used every part of the Accord to make this award winning ad, in 2003

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

This guy built 9 different types of bridges made out of LEGO to demonstrate the complexity of each one.

They get better and more advanced each each time.

[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.

[𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐇𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 @DKH013]

Problem Solved 😂

[Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho]

“I appreciate this is deeply offensive to the Chinese”

Back when the BBC wasn’t captured by far left radical ideological institutions, it made some absolutely fantastic productions.

This one was way ahead of its time and it’s brilliant.

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

Creator Ivan Miranda is going viral for his clock that tells the time with black and white marbles

[Wholesome @wholesome_X_]

He stole a stone from his wife just to make her happy 😊🤍

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

English men once sold their wives instead of getting divorced ...

Wife selling in England was a way of ending an unsatisfactory marriage that probably began at the end of 17th Century, when divorce was a practical impossibility for all but the very wealthiest. There were roughly as many wife sales as there were divorces by the Act of Parliament in 18th-19th Centuries.

The practice, though never legally recognized, followed a ritualized public form, often conducted in a marketplace or inn, with the wife led by a halter and "sold" to a new partner, thereby effecting a de facto, if not de jure, separation. Wife selling provides the backdrop for Thomas Hardy's 1886 novel The Mayor of Casterbridge, in which the central character sells his wife at the beginning of the story, an act that haunts him for the rest of his life, and ultimately destroys him.

Although the custom had no basis in law and frequently resulted in prosecution, particularly from the mid-19th century onwards, the attitude of the authorities was equivocal. At least one early 19th-century magistrate is on record as stating that he did not believe he had the right to prevent wife sales, and there were cases of local Poor Law Commissioners forcing husbands to sell their wives, rather than having to maintain the family in workhouses.

Wife selling persisted in England in some form until early 20th Century according to the jurist and historian James Bryce, writing in 1901, wife sales were still occasionally taking place during his time. In one of the last reported instances of a wife sale in England, a woman giving evidence in a Leeds police court in 1913 claimed that she had been sold to one of her husband's workmates for £1.

"George Wray tied a halter around his wife’s waist and headed to the nearest market. He wasn’t there to buy anything—he was there to sell his wife. Onlookers shouted as he auctioned her off to the highest bidder, William Harwood. After Harwood turned over a single shilling to Wray, he put his arm around his purchase. “Harwood walked off arm in arm with his smiling bargain,”reported an onlooker, “with as much coolness as if he had purchased a new coat or hat.” It was 1847, and Wray had just gotten the equivalent of a divorce."

Historians disagree on when or how the custom started and how widespread it was, but it seems to have been an accepted alternative divorce among lower-class Britons. Wife sales were crude and funny, but they also served a very real purpose since it was so hard to get a divorce. According to some scholars, Wife selling in its "ritual form" appears to be an "invented custom" that originated at about the end of 17th Century, although there is an account from 1302 of someone who "granted his wife by deed to another man". The practice was common enough in the 17th Century for English philosopher John Locke to write (apparently as a joke) in a letter to French scientist Nicolas Toinard [fr] that "Among other things I have ordered you a beautiful girl to be your wife ... If you do not like her after you have experimented with her for a while you can sell her and I think at a better price than a man received for his wife last week in London where he sold her for four sous a pound; I think yours will bring 5 or 6s per pound because she is beautiful, young, and very tender and will fetch a good price in her condition." With the rise in popularity of newspapers, reports of practice become more frequent in second half of 18th Century. In words of 20th Century writer Courtney Kenny, the ritual was "a custom rooted sufficiently deeply to show that it was of no recent origin". Writing in 1901 on subject of wife selling, James Bryce stated that there was "no trace at all in our [English] law of any such right",  but he also observed that "everybody has heard of the odd habit of selling a wife, which still occasionally recurs among humbler classes in England".

📷 : Selling a Wife (1812–1814), by Thomas Rowlandson

#archaeohistories

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

10 tons of cement, one abandoned ant colony, and weeks of digging revealed a mind blowing underground world.

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

In 1998, Honduras completed an ambitious project over the Choluteca River, a modern bridge built with Japanese engineering and intended to serve as a major artery for the country. It was constructed to be stronger and more resilient than anything that had come before it. Engineers designed it to survive hurricanes, flooding, and the intense tropical weather that often strikes Central America. For a moment it stood as a symbol of progress.

Then Hurricane Mitch arrived later that same year. Mitch became one of the deadliest storms in Central American history, unleashing days of relentless rain, destroying towns, and wiping out roads across Honduras. Entire communities vanished under landslides and floodwaters. Yet in the middle of this destruction, the new bridge remained standing almost untouched. It had survived exactly what it had been built to withstand.

The problem was that the storm reshaped the land itself. The Choluteca River, swollen and violent, carved a completely new channel miles to the side of the bridge. When the waters finally receded, the bridge stood proudly over an empty patch of earth, disconnected from the river it was meant to span. It became known worldwide as the Bridge to Nowhere, a strange monument to the idea that the world can change even when the structures we build remain strong.

After the disaster, engineers studied the Choluteca Bridge as a case study in climate adaptation, using its survival and the river’s rerouting to illustrate why modern infrastructure must plan not only for extreme weather but also for shifting landscapes themselves.

#archaeohistories

[Eco tonic | wellness 🌿 @WisdomLifeHack]

Plant for your health.

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

This artist plays one of Vivaldi's most difficult pieces on his accordion, a work that is normally performed by a whole orchestra.

[Christopher Wipper @SGTWipper1Each]

Air Force: A 1,000ft landing strip? Perfect, plenty of room to land!

Navy: A floating postage stamp? Hold my beer, I got this!

[🎼🌺Music Love♥️ @ThoNg676733]

Wow! I didn’t expect that. Very talented.

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

MY JAW DROPPED😭???