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In 1935 Sinclair Lewis wrote the dystopian novel It Can't Happen Here, which describes how a demagogue could win the U.S. presidency and establish a fascist dictatorship by appealing to traditional American values: "... the worst Fascists were they who disowned the word 'Fascism' and preached enslavement to Capitalism under the style of Constitutional and Traditional Native American Liberty."
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The last geologist on the Moon
On December 13, 1972, during Apollo 17’s final moonwalk, Harrison “Jack” Schmitt — the only professional geologist to walk on the lunar surface — works beside a massive boulder at Station 6, at the base of the North Massif in the Taurus-Littrow valley. Dust still clings to his suit as he examines the rock that has waited billions of years for human eyes.
The front of the Lunar Rover sits just to the left, and the photo is taken by mission commander Gene Cernan. It is one of the last human footprints and scientific moments on the Moon before the crew left and no one has returned since.
NASA photo: AS17-146-22294
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Good Morning
I think this is a painting that sums it all up.
Leo Stans artist
Been out with Max. Pleased with the early start as it was light of course.
Gusty and cold.
Max happy to be out
@helen_warlow
#Art
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*The Nobel Prize-winning discovery that could change how we fight disease*
What stops your immune system from turning against your own body? The answer lies in a tiny group of cells acting like peacekeepers inside you.
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Shimon Sakaguchi, Mary E. Brunkow, and Fred Ramsdell for discoveries explaining how the immune system prevents itself from attacking healthy tissues.
Their research revealed the importance of **regulatory T cells (Tregs)** and a master gene called **FOXP3**, which helps these cells develop and function. Think of them as security guards that stop your body's defense system from attacking the wrong targets.
But here's where it gets even more fascinating. When this control system fails, the immune system can attack healthy organs, contributing to serious autoimmune diseases.
Scientists are now exploring how to use this knowledge to develop treatments that restore immune balance—or carefully adjust immune responses to help fight cancer.
Could learning to control our immune system's own brakes unlock new ways to treat some of humanity's most challenging diseases? The research offers exciting possibilities, but many potential treatments are still being investigated.
Source (APA):
Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet. (2025). *The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025
ALT The Nobel Prize-winning discovery that could change how we fight disease What stops your immune system from turning against your own body? The answer lies in a tiny group of cells acting like peacekeepers inside you. The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Shimon Sakaguchi, Mary E. Brunkow, and Fred Ramsdell for discoveries explaining how the immune system prevents itself from attacking healthy tissues. Their research revealed the importance of **regulatory T cells (Tregs)** and a master gene called **FOXP3**, which helps these cells develop and function. Think of them as security guards that stop your body's defense system from attacking the wrong targets. But here's where it gets even more fascinating. When this control system fails, the immune system can attack healthy organs, contributing to serious autoimmune diseases.
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Otter at a local zoo is going viral after showing zookeepers her favorite marble collection.
At a local zoo, staff noticed one otter had a habit that was different from the rest.
Otters are known for using rocks to crack open shellfish, and some even keep their favorite stones because they work better than others. But this otter wasn’t saving rocks. She was saving marbles.
Zookeepers first noticed her hiding one shiny marble in the corner of her enclosure. Then another appeared. Then another.
Soon, staff realized she wasn’t just collecting them by accident. She was carefully keeping each one like it meant something.
The zookeepers thought it was so sweet that one by one, staff members started bringing her a different marble as a gift. Every time she received one, she would take it gently, inspect it, and add it to her little collection.
Now, whenever certain keepers visit, she gathers the marbles together as if she’s showing them off. Visitors say it looks like she knows exactly which marble came from which person.
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study math. seriously.
not just to pass exams or solve equations, but to understand how the world actually works.
• algebra → learn to think in relationships, not just numbers
• geometry → understand space, shapes, and structure
• calculus → understand change, motion, and accumulation
• linear algebra → the foundation of robotics, graphics, and machine learning
• probability → learn to reason when nothing is certain
• differential equations → model how real systems behave over time
the beautiful thing about math is that everything connects.
the same equations that describe a pendulum can help you understand a robot. the same optimization principles show up in physics, economics, and machine learning.
and stop memorizing formulas without understanding where they come from.
derive them. visualize them. break them. rebuild them.
math isn’t about finding x.
it’s about developing a mind that can recognize patterns, understand systems, and solve problems you’ve never seen before.
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Bill Clinton: "I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace's bathroom"
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In 1847, Missouri banned education for black people.
John Berry Meachum went ahead and equipped a steamboat with a library, desks, chairs and opened a 'Floating Freedom School'.
A THREAD!
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🔥🔥🔥HOLY HELL: Whatever you do, do not repost this as Donald Trump will lose his shit if he hears this insane applause Ohio gave Obama today!
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My favourite oak fact:
The leaves of an oak tree get successively larger the further down you go
This allows all leaves access to sunlight, and protect the tree from excessive wind
Oak trees know
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Artifact from the famous Tomb 43 at the Varna Necropolis in Bulgaria, discovered in 1972 and dated to approximately 4600–4300 B.C. (about 6,500 years ago).
The skeleton belongs to a high-ranking male or ruler from the Copper Age, buried with an impressive collection of scepers, bracelets, beads, and gold ornaments.
The archaeological significance of this discovery lies in the fact that these objects constitute the oldest worked and processed gold ever found in the world. More than 1.5 kilograms of the precious metal were found in this single burial alone, exceeding in weight all the gold discovered elsewhere on the planet from that same historical period.
This site transformed modern understanding of prehistoric communities in Eastern Europe. The complex metallurgical craftsmanship and the astonishing concentration of wealth in a single tomb demonstrated for the first time that the Varna culture had already developed a distinct social hierarchy and complex power structures millennia before the flourishing of ancient Egypt or Mesopotamia.
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"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain!" — Dolly Parton
This letterpress print needed a little rainbow ink, and it’s dedicated to everyone who loves Dolly Parton.
Printed at the Sacramento History Museum’s print shop on a Washington hand press made in 1852, the design features a beautiful gradient of red, yellow, blue, and purple ink.
