"Science is a collection of stories we tell about how the world works and how we came to know what we know. Those narratives are a part of the broader context within which science operates. The records of the earliest inhabitants of the Indus and Yangtze river valleys are unreliable. We therefore begin with a survey of what can be established about ancient Indian and Chinese science, considered in turn."

https://aetherczar.substack.com/p/ii-11-far-eastern-scientific-precursors

Scientist Wanted

We certainly have plenty of PhDs around here, but I’m in need of someone who specializes in population genetics and fully comprehends what (Ne) is. So, if you’re a population geneticist, or you happen to know one, please get in touch. Let’s just say I have pretty good reason to believe Yuval Harari was wrong […]

https://voxday.net/2026/01/14/scientist-wanted/

Here is the complete Semantic_Contextual_Scoring_OHI_V3 object for the X account @aetherczar (Hans G. Schantz) as of mid-January 2026, based on X's internal moderation and semantic analysis systems. This reflects patterns in posts (primarily science, physics history, engineering, Substack promotion, cultural commentary), bio (neutral professional denoscription), media usage, and engagement history:

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This scoring reflects predominantly neutral, educational content centered on physics (e.g., electromagnetism, alternative theories like quantized inertia), history of science, engineering anecdotes, and Substack promotion. The account holds a blue check (verified individual via Premium subnoscription) and experiences normal algorithmic treatment with good reach in STEM/cultural conservative circles. While some historical threads touch on sensitive topics (e.g., Nazi-era "Jewish Physics" debates), they are framed academically/philosophically without repeated promotion of tropes, dehumanization, or direct targeting of protected groups, keeping violations below high-severity thresholds. No major policy breaches are flagged.

☕️GOLDEN GEESE ☙ Tuesday, January 13, 2026 ☙ C&C NEWS🦠

Unsurprisingly, the Iran story is following the Sun Tzu model, as President Trump unleashes the tariff dashboard, and this historic month races along. Plus much more, in the roundup.

https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/golden-geese-tuesday-january-13-2026

"We must urgently reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that are killing us."

According to the WHO's Vanessa Kerry, "air pollution from fossil fuel use alone accounts for over five million extra deaths a year around the world—almost as many as we've seen from the entire Covid pandemic".

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"Where does Donald Trump stand within this process?

"On the one hand, we cannot ignore the fact that decades of WTO/City of London free trade policies were dismantled under his lead, and pro-tariff policy has been revived in the USA. That’s not a bad thing.

"He has called for rebuilding productive industries, and scrapping Green New Deal/Paris Accord programs that are only designed to destroy the industrial powers of production of all nations.

"And despite the belligerent talk, thus far (and dangerous kidnapping of a foreign head of state), he has not actually launched new wars.

"HOWEVER… as I laid out in my recent episode of Breaking History (Living in the Wake of Toxic Ideas) we also should not ignore that a vast Transhumanist Silicon Valley billionaire cult has come to enjoy a power and influence over the new MAGA government than ever before dreamed possible."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-184376282#:~:text=Subscribed,before%20dreamed%20possible.

Games Workshop bans staff from using AI | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46607681

This is supposedly from Reuters.

https://x.com/DMichaelTripi/status/2011482888160645420?s=20

🚨U.S. issues rare “leave immediately” guidance for Iran

As of January 14 (local time), the U.S. Virtual Embassy of Iran is advising American citizens to leave Iran immediately and explicitly warns not to rely on U.S. government assistance to do so.

@police_frequency

‼️Non-aggression pact via Moscow: Iran and Israel take a pause, — The Washington Post

▪️Iran and Israel, through Russia's mediation, agreed to refrain from mutual strikes, the publication reports, citing diplomats and officials in the region.▪️At the end of December, Israel, through a Russian channel, notified Tehran that...
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👮‍♂️ 🇺🇸 Minneapolis: Over the last hour Law enforcement, including ICE and federal agencies, has cleared the 600 block of 24th Avenue North in Minneapolis after concluding their enforcement operation.

The incident started around 6:50p.m. with a traffic stop of a Venezuelan national. Per DHS, the man fled, crashed, resisted arrest, and assaulted an officer—joined by two others using a snow shovel and broom handle. A federal agent fired, striking the man in the leg (non-life-threatening). Both he and the injured officer were hospitalized. No Minneapolis police fired shots.

Crowds gathered, leading to protests and crowd control measures (including tear gas). This follows last week's fatal ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good in south Minneapolis.

📎 FRONTLINES TPUSA

Technocrats War on Farms is Winning: Farmers scale back Acres in 2026

Top Georgia grower Alex Harrell—just slashed 3,000 acres, cutting his operation in HALF for 2026: “We’re literally PAYING to farm—not getting paid.”

Fertilizer/chemicals still sky-high, commodity prices in the tank == irrigated land already left unplanted in 2025, & MUCH more bare ground coming.

Generational farmers quitting, bankruptcies surging, cropland going idle. This is an engineered consolidation of the food supply: fewer independent growers = more control over your food.

—
"When fertilizer, chemical, and machinery costs go up 300% over a short span of time, everything is upside down, especially when commodities go in the tank."

Guys are quitting and walking away, and that eventually leads to land that doesn’t get picked up … Cropland with no crop."
—

Support local growers...

- @iceagefarmer

#WarOnFarms

https://www.agweb.com/news/business/farmland/farmland-shock-georgia-grower-drops-3-000-acres-warns-unplanted-ground-2026

A sneaky way to shorten the life of the last of the “golden era cars”, variously state to run from around 2000 to 2010-ish.
Routinely, they’re cheap to buy, to insure, to service and repair, and built sufficiently robust that many go on & on with six figure mileages.

My summary below.

Best wishes,
Mike

https://youtu.be/nxBMS00Bql8

In brief, what this Scottish guy is picking up, is MOT advisories where they’re inappropriate on what he calls golden era cars.

The DVSA tracks patterns and a totally honest MOT tester could get dinged if they pass too many older cars or - and this is the subject of this short video - TOO FEW ADVISORIES.

So, even though your 2010 plate Honda Civic with 30k miles, one owner, breezes the MOT, he’s had two in a row, from different parts of the country, and before that, a similar age Honda Jazz, all with inappropriate advisories.

He shows us examples of both lower control arms which he replaced and said the Jazz subframe was the same & also replaced.

The advisories are inappropriate. He doesn’t blame the individual tester. They’re trapped. 
The way the DVSA MOT oversight system works, drives testers to add advisories in order to “be average”. If they’re reporting below average fails and advisories on cars by year and type, DVSA spots this trend & they may get inspected and get an amber rating, for no more than doing their jobs. So they add advisories, not for you the owner, but to avoid The Borg picking them out.

The end result is golden era cars get devalued and even scrapped prematurely, and the ones that survive often get new parts fitted that aren’t needed, so the supply of new parts will dry up much faster. 

If you know there’s an agenda behind this, as we do, you see the nefariousness of it easily. Normies will simply not see it like it is.

Reflecting on the writings of EscapeKey, I think he’d recognise this approach in a heartbeat. Control of almost anything can be had by setting the standards by which something is assessed, setting the quantitative criteria to be met, establishing a feedback loop such that it becomes self-regulating & can be tuned. The architects of this DVSA surveillance system will be able to make predictions about how the attrition of “golden era” vehicles will have been brought forward with no risk of exposure, because the whole thing is based on a “moral foundation” of societal health & safety. Own nothing. Clear everything.

🚷 🇺🇸 🌐 Sec. Marco Rubio freezes all foreign visa processing indefinitely from 75 countries:

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bosnia, Brazil, Burma, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominica, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Republic of the Congo, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Uruguay, Uzbekistan and Yemen.

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