Check out this informative chart detailing when various animals were domesticated—a true narrative of human civilization. Each new domesticated animal marks a technological breakthrough for humanity.

@science

"That deer EXPLODED. The second thing I learned is that pound for pound, a deer is a LOT stronger than a cow or a colt. A cow or a colt in that weight range I could fight down with a rope and with some dignity. A deer– no Chance. That thing ran and bucked and twisted and pulled. There was no controlling it and certainly no getting close to it. As it jerked me off my feet and started dragging me across the ground, it occurred to me that having a deer on a rope was not nearly as good an idea as I had originally imagined. The only upside is that they do not have as much stamina as many other animals.

"A brief 10 minutes later, it was tired and not nearly as quick to jerk me off my feet and drag me when I managed to get up. It took me a few minutes to realize this, since I was mostly blinded by the blood flowing out of the big gash in my head. At that point, I had lost my taste for corn-fed venison. I just wanted to get that devil creature off the end of that rope."

https://sunriseswansong.wordpress.com/2013/08/04/why-we-dont-domesticate-deer/

He's back!
https://twitter.com/Nero

However...
"I didn’t ask for my Twitter back and I don’t want it."
https://news.1rj.ru/str/MiloClinic/42329

Ever wonder how big an Eagle talon is?

Left: how humans see starlings.
Right: how starlings may see each other - with bolder markings and more colour.
https://redd.it/1c9xj28
@r_interestingasfuck

Jerm's recent interview with Roman Bystrianyk is superb. The biggest mistake I have ever made made as a parent and as a scientist was trusting pediatricians on vaccines instead of checking out the history and the data for myself.

https://jermwarfare.com/conversations/roman-bystrianyk-vaccine-history

🇺🇸🇺🇦 The American publication Real Clear Investigations published a shocking confession by former Ukrainian diplomat Andrei Telizhenko: the punitive operation against Donbass in 2014 began under pressure from the CIA. Due to his status, Telizhenko was present at the negotiations.

Delingpole and Dr. Mike Yeadon. If you can make it to London, this would be amazing.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-delingpod-live-in-london-2024-james-delingpole-x-dr-mike-yeadon-tickets-881849604907

In a nutshell, Sheldrake starts from the observation that genes simply don’t contain anywhere near the amount of information needed to “construct” a living being. This whole thing is rather mysterious: how does a cell “know” how to specialize, and what kind of organ it should build? All of this information needs to be somewhere. There are various theories out there to solve such problems, like claims that the information is really in the entire system of gene expression, in the interplay between genes and their control mechanisms, perhaps featuring some form of autonomous intelligence in the cell… Sheldrake’s solution, however, in a move towards a more holistic understanding, bravely discards some of the core materialist tenets in that he theorizes the existence of a morphogenetic field “out there” that communicates with our biological systems. For example, it can “cause microtubules to crystallize in one part of the cell rather than another, even though the subunits from which they are made are present throughout the cell.”5 But not only that, he generalizes this to his concept of “morphic fields” and talks about “habits of nature” more broadly—habits that get stored in a morphic field and in turn facilitate those habits in the organisms with the correct “hardware” to plug into them, such as a species, via a process he calls “morphic resonance.”

https://luctalks.substack.com/p/on-race

Rupert Sheldrake's banned Ted Talk was excellent... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF03FN37i5w

Rupert Sheldrake, PhD, is a biologist and author best known for his hypothesis of morphic resonance. At Cambridge University he worked in developmental biology as a Fellow of Clare College. He was Principal Plant Physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics in Hyderabad, India. From 2005 to 2010 he was Director of the Perrott-Warrick project for research on unexplained human and animal abilities, administered by Trinity College, Cambridge. Sheldrake has published a number of books - A New Science of Life (1981), The Presence of the Past (1988), The Rebirth of Nature (1991), Seven Experiments That Could Change the World (1994), Dogs That Know When Their Owners are Coming Home (1999), The Sense of Being Stared At (2003), The Science Delusion (Science Set Free) (2012), Science and Spiritual Practices (2017), Ways of Going Beyond and Why They Work (2019).

Rupert gave a talk ennoscriptd The Science Delusion at TEDx Whitechapel, Jan 12, 2013. The theme for the night was Visions for Transition: Challenging existing paradigms and redefining values (for a more beautiful world). In response to protests from two materialists in the US, the talk was taken out of circulation by TED, relegated to a corner of their website and stamped with a warning label.

To Learn more about Rupert Sheldrake and his research, please visit https://www.sheldrake.org/

"The people of the former Soviet Union are accustomed to incredulity towards the Grand Narrative of the State. Having lived through a heavily propagandised regime, they are aware of the distance between the message and the product, which is measured in experience of reality.

"It is ours which is the most heavily propagandised population in history. Our news is fake, the ruling ideology itself an argument with everything else that it can never hope to win. This losing battle, with its enormous human casualty rate, is fought on Netflix and the nightly news, in humourless comedy, in sterile novels and derivative dramas."

https://frankwright.substack.com/p/ai-generation

Aurora in Northern Alabama!

Photo of a Tomahawk Land Attack Missile taken moments before striking its intended target.

Rarely seen Green Flash (info in comments)
https://redd.it/1ca3bdz
@r_interestingasfuck

Lenin and the Art of the Impossible

The Tree of Woe contemplates the impossibility of revolution: Every rock star began as a long-haired freak in a garage with a dream of a record deal and groupies. Every best-selling author began as a would-be writer being told that no one buys books. Every successful entrepreneur began by faking it until he made it. […]

https://voxday.net/2024/05/11/lenin-and-the-art-of-the-impossible/

"The opening of a new front towards the Kharkiv region might have one or more of three purposes.

"To surround and eventually take Kharkiv city, the second biggest one in Ukraine.
"To create a buffer zone along the border to prevent Ukrainian attacks on Russian grounds.
"To divert Ukrainian reserves and to prevent them from joining the intensifying fight in the Donbas region."

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/05/ukraine-sitrep-the-sanitary-zone-on-the-northern-border-with-russia.html