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Scientists mapped a piece of brain the size of half a grain of rice. One-millionth the size of the human brain. It took them a year and over 1.4 million gigabytes to scan it. They found over 57,000 cells, 150 million synapses, and even some new structures they didn't know existed. Mapping the entire human brain in this level of detail would require all the data storage generated on Earth in a year + a 140-acre data center. But the human brain itself can hold up to ~2.5 million gigabytes of information - enough for ~3 million hours of HD video or 342 years of continuous viewing. It can process roughly 10 quadrillion calculations per second - enough processing power to run over 4,000 high-end gaming PCs all operating at peak ability. And it only runs on the amount of power needed for a single dim light bulb. No technology even comes close to doing what the brain can do. The more we learn about biology, the more complex it becomes. This is God's Glory on display.

“You only need ONE thing to know you're standing in the middle of a PSYOP.” Chase Hughes (world-renowned behavior expert & interrogation trainer) breaks down the simplest red flag to spot psychological operations in real time. If the opinion requires people to be silenced, cancelled, or publicly shamed, If you’re not allowed to question it, If you’re expected to just shut up and go along, It’s a PSYOP. Watch until the end. This will open your eyes.

When you push your hands into soil, your brain receives a chemical signal it has been primed for across hundreds of thousands of years of human evolution. Not a metaphor. A bacterium. 🌱 Mycobacterium vaccae is a naturally occurring soil microorganism found in garden soil, forest floors, and woodland worldwide. Research published by scientists at the University of Bristol found that it activates specific serotonin-producing neurons in the brainstem via the vagus nerve and immune pathways — the same neurons that modern antidepressant medications target indirectly. Separate Dutch research measured salivary cortisol in gardeners and readers following a stressful task. The reduction in cortisol was measurably greater in those who had spent time gardening. Thirty minutes of hands-in-soil contact produced a neurochemical response that reading — itself well-evidenced as beneficial — did not replicate to the same degree. The cycle is layered: M. vaccae contact is associated with serotonin stimulation. Harvest — even a modest one — is linked to dopamine release. Natural light amplifies both. The garden is not a hobby. It is, in the most literal sense, a biochemical environment that our nervous systems spent millennia being shaped by. Our ancestors spent several hours a day with their hands in the ground. The research is still developing, and correlation does not establish cause. But the mechanism is not metaphorical — it is microbial. 🌿 Your hands may need soil more than they need a screen. #GardenTherapy #SoilScience #GardenWellbeing #AllotmentLife

Prestigious doctor exposes the horror and normalization of euthanizing disabled newborn babies “These are patients — babies — who cannot speak, cannot consent, and cannot ask for help. If we cannot draw the line here, I’m not sure where medical professionals imagine the line to be.”

Bruce Blakeman fully supports medical freedom! @Bruce_Blakeman is running as the Republican candidate for NY Governor. I asked him his position on 3 critical issues 👇 1. Fired unvaccinated workers 2. Religious and medical exemptions to vaccination 3. The Democrats' bill to ban unvaccinated kids from all summer camps He went 3-for-3! #TeachersforChoice approves!!

🚨 MAN BUYS 80 PIZZA HUTS TO BRING BACK THE ICONIC VERSION AMERICA MISSED — AND PEOPLE ARE LOSING THEIR MINDS Tim Sparks, president of Daland Corporation, owns more than 80 Pizza Hut franchises across the country, and he’s now turning many of them back into the old-school Pizza Huts millions of Americans grew up with. While most restaurant chains keep replacing everything with self-checkout screens, gray walls, and sterile modern redesigns… Sparks is bringing back the version people actually remember: • red plastic cups • Pac-Man machines • packed salad bars • giant family booths • Tiffany-style lamps hanging over the tables And people are getting unexpectedly emotional over it. Some of these restored “classic” Pizza Huts are now becoming top-performing locations because customers say it doesn’t just feel like pizza anymore… It feels like stepping back into a completely different era of life. Sparks says the mission is bigger than nostalgia. He wants to rebuild places where families actually sit together again, put their phones down, and talk the way they used to. Now the internet is flooding the comments: • “This feels more human than modern restaurants” • “We didn’t realize how good we had it” • “This is what childhood felt like” • “Why does this make me emotional?” Some customers are reportedly driving HOURS just to eat inside one because they say modern restaurants lost the feeling that made people love them in the first place. Now people are asking: Did corporations deliberately turn restaurants into cold, forgettable spaces... because real human connection was never the priority anymore? 📹: CBS19

There’s a generation a lot of people forget exists. We were born at the tail end of the Boomers, but we are not culturally the same as people born in the 40s and early 50s. We are Generation Jones. And honestly, it explains a lot. We grew up in a world that still felt fundamentally analog, but we were young enough to be dragged headfirst into the digital revolution. We are the bridge generation between rotary phones and smartphones, between slide rules and AI, between Walter Cronkite and algorithm driven media. We remember when there were only a few television channels and the entire country watched the same thing at the same time. We also adapted to the internet, email, forums, social media, streaming and now artificial intelligence. We lived before and after the technological singularity hit everyday life. That is not a small thing. People born in the 40s came of age in a post World War II America that was still industrial, deeply hierarchical and institutionally stable. Their formative years were shaped by the Cold War, Vietnam, the civil rights era and a society where information moved slowly. Generation Jones came later. We inherited the aftermath of all of that. We were the kids who watched Watergate destroy blind trust in government. We watched manufacturing begin to collapse. We saw divorce rates explode. We were the first truly latchkey generation in massive numbers. We learned independence early because many of us had to. We grew up with one foot in old America and one foot in whatever this new thing was becoming. We played outside until the streetlights came on but we also learned DOS commands. We learned cursive and keyboarding. We had card catalogs and Google searches. We went from vinyl records to cassette tapes to CDs to MP3s to streaming in one lifetime. We remember maps. We remember memorizing phone numbers. We remember life before GPS and before every human interaction became filtered through a screen. And because of that, I think Generation Jones developed a very unique perspective. We are adaptable because we had no choice but to adapt. We learned technology as adults instead of being born into it. We remember a slower world but were forced to survive in a rapidly accelerating one. That creates a very different mindset than either older Boomers or younger Gen X and Millennials. A lot of us also reject the caricature people now associate with “Boomers.” We were not buying houses for the cost of a sandwich in 1965. The interest rate on my first house was over 14% and that was after buying down a point. Many of us got hit by recessions, outsourcing, pension collapses and economic instability just like younger generations did. We watched promises evaporate in real time. We understand older generations because we were raised by them. We understand younger generations because we had to evolve alongside them. That’s why the Jones generation often feels culturally homeless. We are rarely discussed, rarely defined and usually lumped into categories that don’t actually fit us. But we exist. We are the human transition point between the industrial age and the digital age. And frankly, there will probably never be another generation quite like us again.

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper. Her name is Audrey van der Meer. She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth. The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time. Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen. Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task. When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once. The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected. When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely. Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG. Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events. The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem. Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next. Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve. Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews. Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad. Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page. A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched. The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall. The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down. The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page. That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it. Two studies. Two countries. Same answer. Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast. Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth. You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick. The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew. Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

🔥 Bishop Barron Just EXPOSED Why “All Men Are Created Equal” Only Makes Sense With God Bishop Robert Barron just dropped a truth bomb on the Declaration of Independence: “All men are created equal” only makes sense if you believe in God as Creator. We’re obviously not equal in talent, intelligence, strength, beauty, or achievement. We’re radically unequal in almost every measurable way. So why does the Declaration call it “self-evident”? Because of that one word: “created.” Every human being has equal, infinite dignity—not because of what we can do, but because we are children of the same God. Our rights don’t come from the government, the culture, or the powerful. They’re endowed by our Creator. Inalienable. Remove God from the equation… and those rights vanish in a heartbeat. This is the moral bedrock of America. No Creator, no equality. No Creator, no rights worth defending. Bishop Barron is right: the American experiment was built on a biblical foundation. Strip it away, and the whole thing collapses. What do you think—can we keep “all men are created equal” without the Creator who made it true? #Rededicate250 #FaithAndFreedom

Chuck Schumer kept you stuck in TSA lines… And now Kathy Hochul has kept you stranded without train service. She is a failed Governor - and it’s time to clean house.

@newstart_2024 It is also great to create new neural pathway’s. Every time we do something outside our comfort zones our mind stretches a bit further and we expand toward new possibilities. This is a great and completely free “longevity” (buzzword = take your money) practice.

David Goggins dropped a hard truth on Chris Williamson’s podcast: We’re raising kids (and adults) to be soft in a world that’s getting harder. You can’t shelter them forever from pain, trauma, or evil. The real move is chosen suffering — doing hard things on purpose every day — so you’re ready when life hits you with the stuff you didn’t choose. Goggins isn’t saying everyone needs to run 200 miles. He’s saying you need to build a part of yourself that’s tough enough to break down adversity and keep moving. Unchosen suffering is coming for all of us. The only real preparation is voluntary discomfort. This hit me. I’ve seen how avoiding discomfort now makes the inevitable challenges later feel crushing. Building some daily toughness has been one of the best things I’ve done. Do you have any form of “chosen suffering” in your routine?

Most people don’t know this. If NY’s pension fund underperforms, you pay the difference, in your tax bill, your school budget, your cost of living. Under @TomDiNapoli’s 19 years, taxpayers were forced to cover $79 billion in pension shortfalls. Meanwhile, last fiscal year: NY fund: 5.84% CA fund: 11.6% California built an in-house team and cut Wall Street fees. DiNapoli paid outside managers $1 billion a year and got half the return. One extra point of return on a $273B fund = $2.7 billion taxpayers never have to pay. DiNapoli left it on the table for 19 years. I won’t.

Historically, Christianity raised the status of women: "Jesus consistently treated women with respect. Yet unless we know something about the prevailing attitudes in Jesus’s day, we will not understand how revolutionary his behavior really was. Take the account of mothers asking him to bless their children. Today, this strikes us as sentimental, soft-focus Sunday school moment. But to understand how significant Jesus’s action was, you need to know that in ancient Roman culture, children had little value. They were regarded as non-persons. It was considered normal to beat them. Fathers even had the legal right to kill their children for any reason. Abortion was widespread. So was infanticide. Unwanted children were abandoned, left outside to die of exposure or to be devoured by wild animals. In fact, leading thinkers of the ancient world—Plato, Aristotle, Cicero—recommended infanticide as legitimate state policy. The practice of infanticide was so widespread that a pagan writer in the second century remarked that one of the oddest things about Christians was that “they do not destroy their offspring.” It is a general truth that a culture that devalues children also tends to devalue women —because bearing children is women’s unique biological and social contribution. Their capacity for fostering new life is the central fact that makes women biologically and psychologically different from men. Of course, women are more than their biology. (Jesus showed respect for women’s spiritual and intellectual capacities as well, as we will see below.) But it is a historical fact that whether a society respects women’s biological functions has a huge impact on whether it respects women generally. Knowing this cultural background, we’re not so surprised that when the mothers brought their children to Jesus, his disciples wanted to shoo them away. We’re also able to appreciate how significant it was that Jesus scolded the disciples for their callousness: “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these” (Matthew 19:14). Jesus was not only showing kindness to children but also respect to mothers. Their love for their children was deserving of respect. It was a reflection of God’s own character. Jesus also said, “Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it” (Mark 10:15). His words were shocking at the time. No one before had set up children as a positive model for adults. Jesus even pronounced some of his strongest condemnations on those who mistreat children: “If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea” (Matthew 18:6). Historian O. M. Bakke, in When Children Became People, says it was Christianity that created our modern concept of children as precious beings worthy of special love and tenderness. And in the process, it also raised the status of mothers, who devote so much of their time and emotional work to bear them, give birth to them, and care for them. The fact that the early church prohibited abortion and infanticide was another reason women flocked to Christianity. Today, people who oppose abortion are accused of being anti-woman. But in the ancient world, women recognized that to be against abortion was to be pro-women. The church’s opposition to abortion and infanticide communicated that Christians cherished the female contribution in bringing new life into the world. They treated women’s uniquely female role and functions with respect." (The Toxic War on Masculinity)

Under Kathy Hochul, New Yorkers pay 70% more for electricity than the rest of the country. 70%. That is not an accident. That is the result of bad decisions. When I am Governor, we will return $2.4 billion in unspent energy funds directly to ratepayers. We will end the mandates that have sent your bills through the roof.

@progressiveact Amen! Well said and Bravo.

“It’s 10 p.m… do you know where your children are?” Back in the day, that message wasn’t just a TV slogan… it was a reminder of parental accountability. Now? Kids raising kids. Social media parenting. The internet babysitting children. And too many parents more focused on being their child’s friend instead of their parent. Everybody wants to blame the schools, the streets, the music, the system… But nobody wants to talk about the collapse of guidance, discipline, structure, and supervision at home. A child without direction will always find direction somewhere else. And nowadays… the streets, the phones, and the algorithms are raising more kids than the parents are. #nyc #ny #fyp

Warren Buffett: "I can end the U.S. deficit problem in 5 minutes. Just pass a law that any time there's a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all members of Congress are ineligible for re-election."

To sell statins, we're told cholesterol damages arteries—in reality, it repairs arterial injury. Statins hence don't prevent death and give 20% of users muscle, liver or nerve damage Here I show what doctors never tell you about statins and heart disease midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-great-ch…

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I’m one of 270,000 Long Islanders who commute to NYC on the LIRR. Now that the railroad is on strike, my neighbors and I will have to drive 120 miles each day—paying Kathy Hochul’s congestion pricing toll on top of high gas prices. Bruce Blakeman is right to call for the toll’s suspension while the parties negotiate. And Leader Ra is wise to make it automatic going forward.