Peace through (ideological) Purity; 'Western values'; maximum personal freedom via institutions of pure reason (i.e., science and logic).
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The Purist (purely logical) answer is to first determine if this is a(n impossible) paradox or merely a (possible) puzzle.
We need to strip it to its bare elements and examine whether the question allows or implies an inconsistency in space (i.e., difference at points of space, e.g., a particle travelling in two separate directions or possessing two speeds at the same moment).
Here the judge says "WILL be hanged at noon" AND that "the execution WILL be a surprise."
This allows for an inconsistency in space as the logical prisoner is now both expecting to be hanged AND not expecting to be hanged at the same time.
Conclusion: This is an unsolvable paradox which violates metaphysics, and therefore logic, as per Russel's Paradox.
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SECRETARY RUBIO on ICC: We've tried for a year and a half to get them to reform in a nice way. However, they haven't been willing to do so, so we will have to try a different approach.
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''Tú tienes poder sobre tu mente, no sobre los acontecimientos externos. Date cuenta de esto y encontrarás la fuerza".
- Marco Aurelio
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Romance is when even an ordinary evening feels special because of one person's presence.
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I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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They call aging natural, as if nature were beyond criticism.
Disease is natural. Suffering is natural. Death is natural.
None of that makes them desirable.
That's all.
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New angle of the seriously wounded Polish policeman firing at the suspected terrorist in Krakow today.
This man is a hero and all of Poland is praying for him.
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Those young lads who fought and died in old and modern wars have far more courage then I do.
Sacrificing your life for the safety and security of others is an act many of us wouldn't dare to attempt.
These wernt soldiers, these were children.
Boys.
Next time you sit in an exam and think "this is soo boring"
Remember, this is the least of your worries. If you were born 95 years earlier, you would be in a trench smelling nothing but corpses, rats and manour. Hearing the noise of gut reaching screames, gun fire and the sergeant shouting orders. You would witness murders, pain and torture.
It truly puts it in comparison the pleasures we take for granted today.
Be grateful and thankful.
I also want to thank those who are going through the same pains of war and torture across the world such as those serving in the middle East and those being persecuted for their beliefs such as the Nigerian Christians.
The world and Britain needs healing.
The future is bright if we choose the right paths.
Lest we forget.
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I'm 52 years old. I have terminal Stage IV esophageal cancer. And my life has become something I never could have imagined.
I have metastatic adenocarcinoma with signet-ring features. It's spread to my liver, lymph nodes, stomach and peritoneum. The surgery that was supposed to potentially save my life was aborted when they discovered it had already spread.
I've been through chemotherapy. I've had a stent shoved down my esophagus just to help me swallow. I've lived with a feeding tube. I've had to rethink something most people never give a second thought to: eating.
A cheeseburger. Pizza. A normal meal with my family. Things that used to be completely ordinary have become things I miss.
Every meal is a calculation. Calories. Protein. What can I swallow? What will hurt? What will stay down? How much can my stomach tolerate?
I deal with nausea, abdominal pain, strange sensations throughout my torso, swallowing difficulties, and the constant uncertainty of what is happening inside my body.
I monitor blood markers. I read CT scans. I research clinical trials. I look at experimental treatments and scientific papers, trying to find something, anything, that might give me more time.
And there's a particularly cruel part of terminal cancer that people don't always understand:
You can look relatively healthy. You can walk every day. You can laugh, read, have conversations, research things, and make plans. Meanwhile, you know there's an incurable disease growing inside you.
You become acutely aware that the future everyone else takes for granted is no longer guaranteed to you.
I have a wife. I have children. I have things I still want to experience, conversations I still want to have, and memories I still want to make.
I've even started leaving little handwritten messages around the house for my wife to find someday. Things I want her to know when I'm no longer here to tell her.
I'm not writing this because I want anyone's pity.
I'm writing it because terminal cancer is so much more than a diagnosis or a statistic. It's an entirely different existence. It's fighting for your life while simultaneously trying to figure out how to keep living it.
I don't know how much time I have. Neither does anyone else.
But I'm still here. Still walking. Still researching. Still looking for treatments. Still trying to eat. Still making plans.
And I'm not done fighting.
If you're healthy, don't take the ordinary things for granted. You have no idea how extraordinary they are until they become difficult or impossible.
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Myślę ze warto abyście zobaczyli z czego strzelał terrorysta. To prawdopodobne platforma AR czyli najbardziej popularna konstrukcja karabinka. Celownik optyczny - krótka luneta typu biegowego albo ew. kolimator (plus powiekszalnik?).
To co mogę Wam powiedziec na 100% ~ strzela sie z tego niezwykle szybko i ultra celnie na każdym dystansie poza walka w pomieszczeniu.
Walka regulaminowym pistoletem to jak ruszenie z nożem do masła kontra gość w zbroi z kataną.
Ten policjant ma dostać najwyższe możliwe odznaczenie przysługujace za odwagę. #podziwiać.
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Good men must know violence, so evil men do not become fluent in it.
~ Miyamoto Musashi
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Scientists from Spain and China have made a major breakthrough in Alzheimer’s research. They created special nanoparticles that can clear away toxic brain plaque — one of the main causes of Alzheimer’s — and even reverse memory loss in mice. The study, published in Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, showed that just three injections of these nanoparticles removed up to 60% of the harmful amyloid beta proteins from the brain within one hour.
The most amazing part is what happened afterward. Mice that had severe memory and thinking problems started behaving like normal, healthy mice again within six months. This dramatic recovery happened because the treatment didn’t just clean up the brain — it also repaired the brain’s blood-brain barrier (BBB). This barrier normally protects the brain and helps remove waste, but in Alzheimer’s, it becomes damaged and allows harmful substances to build up.
These nanoparticles work like a “supramolecular drug,” which means they do more than just carry medicine — they actively help restore the brain’s natural cleaning system. They reactivate an important protein called LRP1, which helps clear waste from the brain. By fixing this system, the treatment improved blood flow, reduced inflammation, and allowed the brain to start healing itself.
Although this research is still in the animal-testing stage, it opens an exciting new direction for Alzheimer’s treatment. Instead of only trying to destroy toxic proteins, future therapies might focus on reviving the body’s natural defenses. If this approach works in humans, it could completely change how we fight Alzheimer’s and other brain-degenerative diseases.
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Reversing aging might one day be as simple as a pill, if this Harvard research holds up.
A team led by David Sinclair at Harvard Medical School, with colleagues at MIT and the University of Maine, screened combinations of small molecules to see if any could turn back the clock inside aging cells.
They built tests that tell young cells from old ones, including an “aging clock” that reads which genes are switched on and a live test of how well a cell keeps its proteins in the right compartments.
They found six chemical cocktails that restored youthful patterns in both, reversing the cells' measured age in less than a week.
The same lab had previously rejuvenated cells using three “Yamanaka” genes delivered by a virus, an approach that has restored vision in old mice and is being prepared for human trials.
Chemicals are far easier to give than gene therapy, which is why the team hopes this could one day lead to a pill for age-related diseases. This was a 2023 study in cells in the lab, and the cocktails have not been tested in people.
source: Yang, J.-H., Petty, C. A., Dixon-McDougall, T., et al., & Sinclair, D. A. (2023). Chemically induced reprogramming to reverse cellular aging. Aging, 15(13).
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🚨 Scientists just turned spinach leaves into human heart tissue… and it could change medicine forever.
Researchers discovered that the tiny veins inside spinach leaves can carry nutrients almost like human blood vessels. After removing the plant cells, they used the leaf as a natural scaffold to grow human heart cells.
This breakthrough could one day help repair damaged hearts naturally and it raises a chilling question…
What other hidden cures are waiting inside nature?
Source:
Gershlak, J. R., Hernandez, S., Fontana, G., Perreault, L. R., Hansen, K. J., Larson, S. A., Yang, Y., Dolivo, D. M., & Murphy, W. L. *Plant tissues as biomaterials for tissue engineering*. Biomaterials.
ALT 🚨 Scientists just turned spinach leaves into human heart tissue… and it could change medicine forever. Researchers discovered that the tiny veins inside spinach leaves can carry nutrients almost like human blood vessels. After removing the plant cells, they used the leaf as a natural scaffold to grow human heart cells. This breakthrough could one day help repair damaged hearts naturally and it raises a chilling question… What other hidden cures are waiting inside nature? Source: Gershlak, J. R., Hernandez, S., Fontana, G., Perreault, L. R., Hansen, K. J., Larson, S. A., Yang, Y., Dolivo, D. M., & Murphy, W. L. *Plant tissues as biomaterials for tissue engineering*. Biomaterials.
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Jak dziecko pyta o bohatera to proszę.
Żaden Marvel, żaden DC.
Bohater z tu i teraz, z krwi i kości.
