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Eye floaters eliminated with fruit enzymes. This study used: ⬩190 mg bromelain ⬩95 mg papain ⬩95 mg ficin Literally dissolves the floaters away within months. ⬩92% of people felt “bright” ⬩90% felt better or much better ⬩92% were satisfied after supplementing. ◇ Pineapple ◇ Papaya ◇ Fig are some foods with these enzymes, which tear apart the collagenous eye proteins.

What if dark matter… doesn’t exist? Galaxies shouldn’t spin the way they do. Stars on the edges move too fast. According to gravity, they should fly off. So we invented “dark matter.” Invisible mass. Never directly detected. But what if the mistake isn’t missing mass… it’s assuming time is uniform? In my τ-field model: • Mass = time compression • Gravity = flow along time gradients Now scale that up to a galaxy: The outer regions aren’t “missing gravity”… they’re sitting in a different time structure. So instead of adding invisible matter: The field itself changes how motion behaves Flat rotation curves aren’t a mystery. They’re what happens when time isn’t evenly distributed across the system. No particles needed. No hidden mass. Just geometry of time. So the real question is: Did we invent dark matter… because we assumed time was constant? #Physics #DarkMatter #Cosmology #Space #Science

America's First Stand Against Religious Piracy: The Barbary Wars In 1786, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams met Tripoli's ambassador in London to ask why North African states were attacking American ships, kidnapping sailors, and enslaving them—despite no prior conflict with the young U.S. The ambassador's blunt answer: It was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, written in their Koran—that all nations not acknowledging their authority were sinners, it was their right and duty to make war on them, enslave captives, and that every Muslim slain in battle went straight to paradise. Jefferson refused to pay endless tribute as blackmail. When Tripoli declared war in 1801, he sent the U.S. Navy and Marines to fight back—blockading ports, torching the captured USS Philadelphia in a legendary raid by Stephen Decatur, and marching to victory at Derna (inspiring "to the shores of Tripoli" in the Marine Corps Hymn). America ended the piracy, freed its people, and proved we'd never submit to extortion masked as religious duty. Proud of our founders drawing the line from the start.

Images reveal Hezbollah books for children that teach kids how to kill “infidels.” These were found in schools in Southern Lebanon. Teaching children how to behead non-Muslims.

From 2008 to 2015, Antarctic sea ice was running at record highs. Then the system flipped. By 2017, sea ice had hit record lows. A new study explains why. A cold surface layer in the southern ocean had been gradually thinning since 2005, while warmer deep water was slowly rising closer to the surface. Then in 2015, strong winds mixed that heat upward, disrupting the ocean structure and rapidly reducing sea ice. The paper concludes the decline was a "result of atmospheric forcing" and "ultimately triggered by strong winds in 2015." It was a natural, wind-driven event, in other words (not a CO2 melt story), and one today's climate models fail to reproduce, according to the authors. Looking at the latest data, another swing may be playing out. Sea ice is surging in 2026, with extent currently higher than in the early 1980s.

Most states who allied with Cortes didnt do so from hating the Mexica or them being oppressors The Mexica were conquerors, but ruled loosely (see pic 1). This left subjects with their own interests, which enabled opportunistic defection to gain power Thats why Cortes got allies in most cases Obviously there were exceptions, Tlaxcala really did hate the Mexica, but as you note the Tlaxcalteca were just one group who allied with the Conquistadors, others didn't share the same motives (On that note, no Chichimecs allied with Cortes against the Mexica), see further down for more detail Also, Cortes had more then 400 Conquistadors, he had 2000-3000 (due to reinforcements, such as Narvaez's forces, see pic 2), and there were likely more then 200,000 indigenous soldiers, not just 100,000. And obviously while the Spanish did build schools, hospitals, roads etc, the Mesoamerican civilizations already had these things, in fact the Spanish regularly praised Aztec schools, doctors, cities etc (see link with quotes below) For a somewhat longer explanation on the motives of why states allied with Cortes, see below: -------------- While the Mexica of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan were conquerors, they and other major Mesoamerican powers didn't often directly govern the places they conquered (no draft animals + the terrain made it logistically iffy): Subjects usually kept their kings, laws etc, with basic obligations like to not block roads, to pay taxes (not usually of sacrificial victims: those were mostly collected in wars, not from already conquered subjects, keep in mind too EVERYBODY did sacrifices, including the groups allied with Cortes), and so on That meant subjects (which were STATES, not "tribes", the region had cities writing etc for millennia already) kept their own political ambitions and agency. Defecting was common, as was pledging yourself as a subject (as subjects got mostly left alone anyways) or ally to another state, to take out your collective rivals or capitals, to then have higher status within that new kingdom you helped prop up THAT is what happened with Cortes and how he got allies The Mexica/Tenochtitlan got help overthrowing their old capital and rose to power this same way a century before Cortes. And decades after Cortes, various states like the Zapotec kingdom of Tehuantepec, the Iximche Maya etc, allied with other Conquistadors to take out their rivals too, with the Mexica being uninvolved... actually, they may have fought ALONGSIDE the Mexica, who were in Spanish subject armies by then! So this was just a common thing, not a unique uprising to Mexica rule in particular, and not even most Spanish authors thought Mexica rule was particular bad or unfair: To the contrary Conquistadors and Friars like Cortes, Diaz, the Anonymous Conqueror, Sahagun, Duran, Acosta, and Las Casas all praised Mexica rule as dignified, just and proper (I'd argue they were TOO excusing, here) Now, Tlaxcala specifically may have resented the Mexica, yes... because they were at war, Tenochtitlan was trying to conquer Tlaxcala: It wasn't a subject already inside the empire. Texcoco, Chalco, Xochimilco etc WERE inside it, and (to varying degrees) BENEFITTED from Mexica rule, due their political marriages with Mexica royalty and the taxes Mexica conquests brought into the valley Which is probably why they, unlike Tlaxcala, only allied with the Conquistadors and Tlaxcala AFTER Tenochtitlan was ravaged by smallpox, multiple Mexica kings/nobles died etc. By then states had less to lose & more to gain by switching sides Even then, most subjects in the Aztec Empire didn't defect; (there were ~500 such subjects, arguably only a dozen or so defected) and of those that did, some only did so conditionally, unwillingly, or only specific officials/factions switched sides (EX: Ixtlilxochitl II of Texcoco and his followers defected, not his brother/the king Coanacochtzin; while Xochimilco only switched sides after being beaten and forced to etc) Even Tlaxcala, the closest thing to a innocent victim here, in contrast to the Mexica as frequent aggressors, used Cortes to attack other cities to further their own political reach, not just to strike back at the Mexica: Everybody was using and manipulating each other, it wasn't as simple as states rallying against Mexica tyranny (which as I said, wasn't much of a thing), nor Cortes dastardly playing (or graciously liberating) local states against each other There were no clear "good guys" or "bad guys", just different groups with different interests willing to go to slightly different lengths -------------------- For even more info, see: - x.com/Majora__Z/stat… and x.com/Majora__Z/stat… for slightly longer/alternative versions of the above writeup and docs.google.com/document/d/1PE… a MUCH longer google doc version - x.com/Majora__Z/stat… and x.com/Majora__Z/stat… where I respond to and address critiques/skepticism of all the above information - x.com/Majora__Z/stat… and x.com/Majora__Z/stat… on Aztec vs Nahua vs Mexica vs Tenochca as terms and what "Aztec" actually means (or can mean) - x.com/Majora__Z/stat… on how Cortes was used by local kings & officials like Xicomecoatl, Ixtlixochtlli II, Xicotencatl, and even Moctezuma II as much as Cortes used them, see also x.com/Majora__Z/stat… for even more info - x.com/Majora__Z/stat… and x.com/Majora__Z/stat… touches on the motives behind Moctezuma II's actions in his interactions with Cortes a bit (I should do a more in depth version) - x.com/Majora__Z/stat… and x.com/Majora__Z/stat… on other common Conquest myths/misconceptions and how events actually played out - x.com/Majora__Z/stat… on Aztec warfare and how it was more pragmatic then ritualistic, and this docs.google.com/document/d/1JW… larger google doc on the same topic - x.com/Majora__Z/stat… has quotes from Spanish, Italian, and German authors at the time praising Aztec and other Mesoamerican cities, art, governance etc, re: the point I brought up about Europeans not thinking Mexica rule was unjust - x.com/Majora__Z/stat… is a directory of even more posts I've done on Mesoamerican cities, art, politics, sacrifice, engineering and other topics.

Imagínate: llega Hernán Cortés con 400 hombres, y con 400 hombres toma Tenochtitlán. ¡Eso es ridículo! Sobre todo, si te cuentan que Tenochtitlán era la gran capital de un gran imperio poderosísimo. Pensar que un imperio así cae ante 400 personas es absurdo. La realidad es que la ciudad cae ante 100.000 guerreros y de esos 100.000 guerreros, prácticamente todos, más de 99.000, son indios, son tlaxcaltecas, cholutecas, chichimecas, chalcas, totonacas…, que todos son aliados de Hernán Cortés. Habrá que preguntarse por qué todos se alían con Hernán Cortés, por qué todos son enemigos de los mexicas, por qué todos odian a los mexicas, por qué el enemigo de todos, el gran opresor, son los mexicas. Hernán Cortés firma alianzas con estos pueblos y al día siguiente de caer Tenochtitlán empiezan la reconstrucción de Tenochtitlán de inmediato, que se convertirá en la ciudad de México. De inmediato empieza la construcción de casas, de caminos, de puentes… Para 1531, apenas diez años después de la conquista, ya está la ciudad de México, la ciudad de Querétaro, la ciudad de Tlaxcala, la ciudad de Puebla... Y en cada una de ellas se está construyendo una catedral, se están haciendo acueductos, se está haciendo una red de conventos alrededor de los volcanes del centro de México… Es decir, se empieza a construir. No es un tema de «llegamos, los conquistamos a ustedes y ahora nos llevamos sus recursos». Es gente que llegó a quedarse a vivir ahí y empezaron a construir todo lo que a los mexicanos nos gusta de México. Juan Miguel Zunzunegui

Love this—nucleobases are cool, but don't sleep on glycine! The OG amino acid, simplest one out there, no side chain, just H. Shows up in every protein we know, meteorites, Ryugu... basically the quiet MVP of life. Without it, no folding, no flexibility, no us. Give the little guy some love.

🧬 Scientists Just Found the Building Blocks of DNA… on an Asteroid! Imagine the tiny ingredients that make your DNA — the code of life — floating in space. Scientists analyzing samples from a distant asteroid found all five DNA/RNA building blocks: adenine, thymine, cytosine, guanine, and uracil. No full DNA, no life — just the raw pieces that could help life start. This discovery hints that space rocks might have delivered the ingredients for life to Earth billions of years ago. A tiny clue, a huge mystery. Source: Callahan, M. P., Smith, K. E., Cleaves, H. J., Ruzicka, J., Stern, J. C., Glavin, D. P., ... & Dworkin, J. P. (2011). Carbonaceous meteorites contain a wide range of extraterrestrial nucleobases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(34), 13995–13998.

High time, huh? Yeah, we've already done the moon-landing thing—twelve boots on lunar soil, one guy orbiting solo while the rest played golf up there. But hey, we took a fifty-year coffee break, dismantled the old ride, and now we're rolling out a shiny new SLS like it's 1969 all over again. Same highway, better brakes. Here's hoping we don't pull over for another nap—let's actually build that lunar base and keep driving toward the stars... or at least a nice little solar-system Airbnb. in all earnestness I’m glad we’re back, preserve earth colonized space.

The next chapter of America’s journey to explore the solar system begins TONIGHT. Artemis II and the SLS rocket roll out of the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Complex 39B as we target a launch attempt as early as April 1. This mission will potentially send astronauts farther into space than any human has traveled before - around the Moon and safely back home. And, under @POTUS’ National Space Policy Directive, we’re just getting started.

SpaceX rocket launches are totally insane NASA - ~ 406 launches across ~60 years SpaceX - ~626 launches in just ~18 years SpaceX reusability completely rewrote the rules for space SpaceX went from single-use disposable rockets to commercial airplane-style operations And this is still just the beginning

For 2 years, the most expensive Alzheimer’s drug on the market worked. Nobody could explain exactly why. Now they can. Lecanemab (Leqembi) doesn’t just stick to toxic brain plaques. A structural fragment called Fc flips a genetic switch inside microglia. The brain’s immune cells reprogram themselves to eat amyloid. Remove the Fc fragment? The drug still binds to plaques perfectly. But nothing gets cleared. Zero effect. The most overexpressed gene during this cleanup: SPP1, also called osteopontin. SPP1 alone reduced plaque area in lab tests. Future Alzheimer’s drugs might not need to be antibodies at all. They could target SPP1 directly. Smaller molecules. Fraction of the cost. The $26,500 question: could the next Alzheimer’s drug cost $50?

The heliopause is a living membrane: 30,000–90,000°F plasma, thinner than any vacuum we can make, yet it guards us like a cell wall—deflecting cosmic rays, pulsing with solar flares, expanding when the Sun roars, contracting when it rests. Boundaries aren't optional. The universe doesn't do chaos—it does edges. Without them, no homeostasis, no 'me' vs 'you,' no home. Even interstellar travel demands it: break out of this bubble, and we'll need new ones—magnetic, gravitational, whatever—or we dissolve into the galaxy. Even in Star Trek, we need force fields around ships. No boundary, no meaning. It's not just physics. It's the quiet rule that lets anything exist at all. Base reality.

Voyager hit a 90,000°F wall at the solar system’s edge. NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft crossed one of the most dramatic frontiers in the cosmos: the heliopause, the tenuous boundary where the Sun’s influence finally gives way to interstellar space. What the probe discovered there was astonishing—a turbulent zone of superheated plasma with temperatures soaring between 30,000 and 90,000 °F (roughly 17,000–50,000 °C). This wasn’t a physical wall or barrier, but a dynamic transition region where the outward-flowing solar wind abruptly slows, compresses, and piles up against the incoming pressure of interstellar material. That compression converts kinetic energy into thermal energy, driving the plasma to extreme heat levels far beyond anything found inside the heliosphere. Remarkably, despite the blistering temperatures, this “wall of fire” would pose no danger to a hypothetical astronaut. The plasma is extraordinarily diffuse—far less dense than the best vacuums achievable in Earth laboratories—so there are simply too few particles to transfer meaningful heat. The region is hot in temperature but cold in practical effect. Voyager’s instruments captured clear signatures of the crossing: a sudden plunge in solar wind particles, a sharp rise in galactic cosmic rays, and faint plasma oscillations that revealed the density and temperature of this exotic boundary layer for the first time. These vibrations—analogous to ripples on an unseen sea—provided direct measurements of conditions in a realm previously known only through theory. The heliopause itself serves as a vital shield. The entire heliosphere—the vast bubble carved by the Sun—deflects most of the galaxy’s high-energy cosmic radiation, helping protect life on Earth from constant bombardment. Beyond this protective envelope lies the harsher, unfiltered radiation environment of the interstellar medium. Today, more than 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from home, Voyager 1 remains the farthest human-made object ever sent into space. Still operational and transmitting precious data, it continues to reveal the secrets of this distant frontier. At the outer limit of our solar system, space is neither empty nor serene. It is a violent, glowing threshold—and humanity has only begun to map its mysteries.

Just saw Masih Alinejad's front-page drop from The Australian: 30,000+ faces of Iran's protest dead. Honestly? That number hits like a brick—hard to wrap my head around. U.S. outlets? Crickets. Some folks even say it's 'just' a few thousand. Spent way too long digging with Grok: whistleblower docs, leaked IRGC files, and—here's the kicker—data straight from Iranian physicians. Over eighty medics across twelve provinces tracked bodies, saw hospitals undercount by ninety percent, and still landed above 30k. They weren't guessing; they were counting what the regime hid. HRANA's got ~7,000 named, but that's only what's verified. Official line? '3,000-ish'—blame terrorists, bury the rest. War-zone fog means no one's got the real tally, but when doctors risk everything to log this... 30,000 doesn't feel like hype. It feels like silence. Why aren't we talking about this?

This should have been on the front page of The New York Times. I speak to students in America and most have no idea that more than 30,000 Iranians were killed for protesting and demanding freedom. No names. No faces. No coverage. This silence kills me.💔 Thank you, Australia.

🚨UK POLICE INVESTIGATE GAMERTAG MAN CREATED NEARLY 20 YEARS AGO The UK police are an embarrassment. But this is bad even for them. A guy created his gamertag when he was just 13 years old Police went to his house to arrest him for racism but they left after discovering he was of Chinese descent The offensive username he chose? "ChingChongChinaman" Haven't the Police got anything better to do?

@RedaMansour Always figured Israel was this monolithic ……reality's way less black-and-white.

Sunni muslims are 18% of the Israeli population: 400 mosques all over the country. 200 official mosques financed by the Israeli government. 300 imams and muezzins are government employees with salaries and benefits. The Israeli government buys Quran books for these mosques.

We just saw the exact moment a star exploded for the first time ever. Astronomers have achieved a rare feat: imaging the exact moment a massive star detonated—and the explosion was anything but spherical. SN 2024ggi, a supernova located 22 million light-years away in the spiral galaxy NGC 3621, was detected a mere 26 hours after ignition. This extraordinarily early discovery allowed researchers to train the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile on the event while it was still in its infancy. Using the technique of spectropolarimetry—which analyzes the polarization of light to reveal geometric structure—the team uncovered a surprising truth: the expanding shockwave was distinctly aspherical, elongated into an “olive” or prolate shape along one primary axis. This asymmetry means the catastrophic rebound following the star’s core collapse did not propagate uniformly in all directions, directly contradicting the long-standing assumption that the deepest layers of a core-collapse supernova explode spherically. The progenitor was a red supergiant 12–15 times more massive than the Sun that had exhausted its nuclear fuel, triggering gravitational collapse of its iron core. In most supernovae, the initial shape of this breakout is quickly obscured as the blast wave slams into the star’s outer envelope. Here, however, astronomers captured polarized light signatures of the still-unobscured ejecta, freezing the explosion’s geometry in time. The discovery carries far-reaching consequences. It strongly suggests that asymmetry is common, if not universal, in the earliest phases of massive-star deaths. Current theoretical models, which often assume spherical symmetry at the core, will need significant revision. Moreover, these distorted explosions could help explain observed peculiarities in supernova remnants, the production of gamma-ray bursts, and the kicking of neutron stars and black holes to high speeds at birth. By catching a star in the act of dying asymmetrically, SN 2024ggi has given us a vivid glimpse into the violent, chaotic physics that govern the final heartbeat of the universe’s most massive stars. [🎞️ Artist’s animation of a supernova explosion] [Unique shape of star’s explosion revealed just a day after detection. ESO, 2025]