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🚨: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the exact moment a star was born

Toru Miyazaki gave 11 cats with advanced kidney disease an experimental injection. 15 others didn’t get it. A year later, 9 of the 11 treated cats were alive. Only 3 of the 15 untreated cats survived. He just filed for approval, and the drug fixes a defect only cats have. Most cats die from one thing: their kidneys fail. By age 10, 4 in 10 cats already have chronic kidney disease, and by age 15, the rate doubles to 8 in 10. Once diagnosed, a cat has about 2 years left. The reason kidney disease hits cats so hard is a broken protein in their blood. All mammals carry a protein that helps the kidneys clean out waste. In humans and dogs, the protein floats freely and goes to work when the kidneys are in trouble. In cats, it stays stuck to another protein and can’t get loose. So the waste piles up, and the kidneys eventually give out. Miyazaki originally found the protein in 1999, back when he was at the University of Tokyo. He figured out the cat-specific glitch in 2015. The paper he published in the Veterinary Journal in February laid out the trial. The injection is a working version of the missing protein. His company, the Institute for AIM Medicine, filed the approval paperwork with Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture on April 24, 2026. If the review clears, the drug goes on sale in spring 2027. The 30-year lifespan figure in the tweet is Miyazaki’s own projection of what cats could reach without kidney disease. The trial only ran a year, and the average cat today lives 15. Most die from the same disease this injection treats. The research almost died in 2020. After running out of funding during COVID, Miyazaki went public. Cat owners across Japan responded by sending in 300 million yen, around 2 million dollars total. He resigned from the University of Tokyo and worked on the drug full time. The treatment in front of regulators today exists because cat lovers refused to let the research die.

📺The series finale of ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ aired 23 years ago, May 20, 2003, on UPN

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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.

James Marsters is channeling Spike in the music video for his bands song “Civilized Man”

I hate my brain, nothing bad is happening, I was doing ok and suddenly a BIG ENORMOUS wave of insecurity kicks me and gets me feeling like I am worthless and there is nothing good in me. 😵‍💫

NEVER SKIP A HOSEOK FANCAM

@sopemarket_7 La siguiente gira que consideren mas ciudades aqui y no allá

Wey sus caras en arirang 😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️

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“WHAT A NERD” I SAID WITH BARELY CONTROLLED LUST!!!! WHY IS NAMJOON SO CUTE

Netflix just casually dropped a banger 💥

Sudah 16 tahun berlalu sejak lahirnya "518-062", sebuah lagu yang diproduseri dan dikomposisi sendiri oleh Min Yoongi dengan nama panggung Gloss, sebelum ia bergabung dengan Big Hit sebagai trainee. ​Lagu ini awalnya untuk Composition Song Festival 'Cheong' di Gwangju pada Mei 2010, namun tereliminasi di babak penyisihan pertama. Lagu ini diciptakan agar diingat layaknya sebuah kode pos yang menyampaikan pesan agar peristiwa Gwangju tak pernah terlupakan. Karena merasa sayang jika lagunya dibuang begitu saja, yoongi memutuskan untuk mengunggah lagu beserta video buatannya yang berisi serangkaian foto peristiwa Gwangju ke situs Pann Nate. #SUGA #AgustD #방탄소년단슈가 #슈가 ~🪶

yo por un momento pensé que el final serían ellos reescribiendo el libro de la vida y estaría completo porque quien más que aziraphale y crowley para reconstruir la humanidad si han estado allí desde antes de ser creada y ese final hubiera sido mucho más poderoso me thinks

Official guide to Rocky’s markings by Tom Blake (tomblakedesign on Instagram)

Using "MY YOU" as sound for Yoongi's smile makes it 10x worse 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

하필 멕시코 레전드 찍었잖아 이거 못 봤으면 어쩔 뻔했어

I'm so done with this fandom😭

some phm lockscreens for y'all