Angelo Villaggi 🇸🇪🇮🇹🇪🇺

Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say “Send me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact. How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.

MACRON SAYS THAT EUROPE CANNOT DEPEND ON THE MOOD OF A 79-YEAR-OLD CRY BABY 🍼

Wow! The Germany-European Parliament warns the world about ICE and the American government’s turn toward authoritarianism and fascism.

Goosebumps! People often ask, is Shakespeare still relevant? Here is a great example, from the Steven Colbert Show, in which Sir Ian McKellen delivers an extraordinary speech. Shakespeare’s words are timeless, urgent and important. #Shakespeare #ianmckellen #stevencolbert

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Alex Pretti was murdered.

The expressive way the clarinet player does a musical call and response to the singer is just mesmerizing. I couldn't stop watching her.

Spend four educational minutes with @CharlesMcBrydeX on fascism and its meaning. We should all understand when and how to use the term. #DemsUnited

The first time Charlie Chaplin spoke onscreen, he implored the people of the world to resist the rising tide of fascism. Nearly 90 years later, it remains a timely message.

Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city, obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”

This is how you wish a nation Merry Christmas. Bring back class to the White House.

For the first time, researchers have identified exactly what Roman builders were adding to their concrete to make it last for centuries.... At an unfinished building site in Pompeii, abandoned during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, archaeologists uncovered something rare: Roman concrete materials that were prepared but never mixed. That frozen moment revealed how Roman builders actually made their concrete. Instead of mixing lime and water the way we do today, they combined quicklime with volcanic ash first, then added water. The reaction produced intense heat and left behind tiny fragments of reactive lime trapped inside the hardened concrete. When cracks later formed and water seeped in, those fragments reacted again and sealed the damage from within. In other words, some Roman concrete was intentionally engineered to heal its own cracks — and it’s still doing it nearly 2,000 years later. Archaeological Park of Pompeii #archaeohistories

A new CERN breakthrough may have finally revealed why anything exists. In a groundbreaking experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, physicists have observed a rare imbalance in the way matter and antimatter behave—offering a potential clue to one of the biggest mysteries in science: why the universe exists at all. This phenomenon, called charge–parity (CP) violation, was detected in baryons—particles like protons and neutrons that form the bulk of matter. By analyzing 80,000 decays of a particle known as the lambda-beauty baryon, researchers found its antimatter counterpart decays just a bit differently—about 2.5%—a statistically significant deviation with only a 1 in 10 million chance of being a fluke. Why does that matter? At the moment of the Big Bang, matter and antimatter should have been created in equal amounts and annihilated each other completely, leaving behind a lifeless universe. But that didn’t happen. A tiny imbalance favored matter, and that microscopic difference allowed stars, planets, and life to emerge. Until now, CP violation had only been detected in mesons, which aren’t the stuff of ordinary matter. This is the first time such asymmetry has been found in baryons—the particles that make up our physical reality—bringing scientists a step closer to understanding how everything we know managed to survive. Source: Observation of charge–parity symmetry breaking in baryon decays. Nature, 2025.

Chancellor Merz: Dear friends, the decades of Pax Americana are largely over for us in Europe, and for us in Germany as well. It no longer exists as we knew it. That's the way it is. The Americans are now very, very aggressively pursuing their own interests. And that can only mean one thing: that we, too, must now pursue our own interests. And, dear friends, we're not so weak after all. We're not so small after all.

Morning Subway ride in Milan, Italy. Like music, espresso.

@jorgenponder @Karinbirdlover *kan leda till i värsta fall allvarliga konsekvenser

@jorgenponder @Karinbirdlover Märkligt att det rekommenderas att vaccinera sig mot "vanliga" influensa, men samtidigt inte lika nödvändigt mot Covid eller ens möjligt på många platser i landet pga regelverket eller pga tillgång. Mycket märkligt eftersom båda (nåja) kan leda till allvarliga konsekvenser

Om vi antar att det finns några antivaxxare på Folkhälsomyndigheten så har dessa en mycket lyckad säsong. Man har sett till att det inte finns nog med vaccin till vad folk vill ha. Politikerna fattar nog inte vad som händer.

Avgiften rusar – elkunder betalar miljarder aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/Rr77…

I’m a chemist. And I need to say this - because it’s getting dangerous out there. The biggest health myth in the world isn’t about vaccines. Or GMOs. Or fluoride. It’s the root of all of them. It’s called chemophobia - and it’s killing science. Fear of “chemicals” now drives vaccine rejection, GMO bans, food hysteria, and entire political movements. From tampons to tap water, people have been taught to fear chemistry - the very thing that keeps us alive. Chemophobia tells us: “Natural is good.” “Synthetic is bad.” That’s a lie. Botulinum toxin is 100% natural and one of the deadliest molecules known. Aspirin is synthetic and life-saving. We’ve gone from banning harmful substances for good reason…to banning safe, well-tested molecules for emotional reasons. You’ve seen the slogans: “If you can’t pronounce it, don’t eat it.” “Paraben-free.” “Clean beauty.” They sound empowering. But they’re not science - they’re marketing. And they’re making the world dumber, poorer, and sicker. Your body doesn’t care if a molecule comes from a plant or a lab. Vitamin C is vitamin C. Formaldehyde is formaldehyde and your body makes more of it every day than any vaccine ever could. Dose matters. Source doesn’t. This fear isn’t harmless. It shapes public policy. It blocks innovation. It raises food prices. It slows down cancer treatments. Chemophobia is now mainstream and it’s costing lives. Scientists aren’t losing because we’re wrong. We’re losing because fear spreads faster than facts. Because influencers sell fear for clicks. Because lawyers monetize doubt. And because scientists are too tired to fight back. So here’s my message, as a chemist and as a citizen: 🧪 Learn how toxicology works. 📣 Call out chemical fear-mongering. ✅ Support policies based on evidence, not emotion. Chemistry isn’t the enemy. It’s the reason you have clean water, safe food, and modern medicine. If we let fear win, we lose all of it.

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