The naked mole rat doesn't get cancer often. This short clip discusses the mechanisms:
Another funny one:
This documentary, The Age of Disclosure, was recently made and is interesting. They interview Marco Rubio (as seen in this trailer) as well as other notable politicians.
An episode of The Why Files that reviews that Grand Canyon mystery
Given that ivermectin is produced by bacteria, I found this article to be interesting. It talks about another substance produced by bacteria which also has cancer fighting properties.
https://scitechdaily.com/toxin-stops-colon-cancer-growth-without-harming-healthy-tissue/
This example of a caterpillar being parasitized by wasp larva may provide some insight. Fast forward to the 3:20 mark and the video begins to explain how the parasitized caterpillar starts protecting and defending the parasites that infected it due to some kind of takeover of the catepillar's nervous system.
Thanks for your feedback. I agree that Islam seems to have some darker aspects. Even so, many important scientific contributions were alleged to have been made during the so called Golden Age of Islam. Although, I suppose it could also be argued that Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia likewise made some important contributions to science and yet neither of those are generally considered desireable nations. Below is a summary.
""" The Islamic Golden Age (roughly 8th-13th centuries) was considered "golden" due to unprecedented flourishing in science, mathematics, medicine, philosophy, and arts, driven by significant empire expansion, wealth, intellectual curiosity, and the preservation/advancement of ancient knowledge, fostering innovation and establishing major cultural centers like Baghdad's House of Wisdom, which significantly impacted later European Renaissance.
Key Reasons for its Golden Status: Intellectual & Scientific Boom: Mathematics: Developed algebra, trigonometry, and the decimal system, introducing "Arabic" numerals.
Medicine: Pioneered pharmacology, surgery, and established hospitals, with scholars like Ibn Sina.
Astronomy & Optics: Made major strides in astronomy and defined the theory of vision (Ibn al-Haytham).
Chemistry: Advanced quantitative chemistry and mineral studies.
Preservation & Translation: Scholars translated, preserved, and built upon Greek, Roman, Persian, and Indian texts, especially at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, preventing loss of ancient knowledge.
Cultural & Economic Flourishing: Vast, stable empire facilitated trade and cultural exchange between diverse peoples (Chinese, Indian, European, African). Bustling cities (Baghdad, Cordoba, Cairo) became centers for learning, art, and commerce, with innovations in agriculture (new crops like rice, eggplant).
Religious & Philosophical Synthesis: Islamic faith encouraged learning, free inquiry, and rational thought, fostering a culture where scholars from different faiths (Muslim, Jewish, Christian) collaborated.
Philosophers like Averroes reconciled faith with classical philosophy (Aristotle), influencing Western thought.
Lasting Legacy: Contributions laid groundwork for the European Renaissance, introducing new crops, scientific methods, and philosophical ideas that transformed the West. In essence, the era was a "golden age" because it was a period of unparalleled innovation, learning, and cultural synthesis that profoundly shaped global science, art, and civilization, much more than just a time of military might. """
If you don't mind me asking, what are your thoughts on the Islamic Golden Age from the 8th to 13th centuries? A cursory look would seem to suggest that a nation under Islam is capable of great things. Perhaps, though, it was Ghenghis Khan's slaughtering of many of the Muslim scholars and destroying a major library that led to the rise of religious-superstitious thinking over rational thought, effectively lobotimizing the nation and leading to its fall from glory.
That's interesting, I hadn't considered a parallel with Constantine. I was asking AI about Julius Caesar earlier this year and I saw parallels that seemed similar to Trump. Below are key parts that stood out to me
""" Why millions of Romans loved or admired [Caesar]
He fought for the populares cause: land reform for poor veterans, debt relief, citizenship for provincials, cheaper grain.
Soldiers adored him—he shared their hardships, remembered every man’s name, and paid massive bonuses out of his own pocket.
The urban poor in Rome literally rioted when he was murdered; they burned the Senate house and hunted the assassins.
Many provinces (especially Gaul and Spain) saw him as the man who brought them into the Roman system with rights, not just conquest.
He pardoned almost all of his defeated enemies (including Brutus and Cassius)—an act of clemency that was almost unheard-of in Roman civil wars. (That mercy is part of why his murder shocked people so much.)
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So was he power-hungry and arrogant?
Yes—absolutely. He was ambitious on a scale almost no Roman had ever dared before. But he was also:
Genuinely convinced that the old Republic was broken and corrupt (which it was—the Senate had been paralyzed by bribery and violence for decades).
Trying to fix real problems (veterans with no land, provinces treated like cash cows, a political system that rewarded gridlock). """
The concept is not new. However, never heard of it being applied to Lymes disease. See below:
This short clip that RFK posted explains why he became open to psychedelics:
Psilocybin treatment extends cellular lifespan and improves survival of aged mice:
I found this summary of a book written about the Trayvon hoax that might help:
"In this stunning work of investigative journalism, filmmaker Joel Gilbert uncovers the true story of the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, a tragedy that divided America.
By examining Trayvon’s 750-page cell phone records, Gilbert discovers that the key witness for the prosecution of George Zimmerman, the plus-sized 18-year-old Rachel Jeantel, was a fraud. It was in fact a different girl who was on the phone with Trayvon just before he was shot. She was the 16-year-old named "Diamond" whose recorded conversation with attorney Benjamin Crump ignited the public, swayed President Obama, and provoked the nation's media to demand Zimmerman's arrest.
Gilbert's painstaking research takes him through the high schools of Miami, into the back alleys of Little Haiti, and to finally to Florida State University where he finds Trayvon's real girlfriend, the real phone witness, Diamond Eugene. Gilbert confirms his revelations with forensic handwriting analysis and DNA testing.
After obtaining unredacted court documents and reading Diamond's vast social media archives, Gilbert then reconstructs the true story of Trayvon Martin's troubled teenage life and tragic death.
In the process, he exposes in detail the most consequential hoax in recent American judicial history, The Trayvon Hoax, that was ground zero for the downward spiral of race relations in America.
This incredible book has the potential to correct American history and bring America back together again"
Yea, could well be the case. It will be exciting to see what we learn. Speaking of the junk DNA, the book also talks about that too. Here is an excerpt:
"Atheist biologist Richard Dawkins is a case in point. In his 2009 book The Greatest Show on Earth, he wrote, “The greater part (95 per cent in the case of humans) of the genome might as well not be there, for all the difference it makes.”4 Got that? Supposedly, 95 percent of the human genome is evolutionary garbage. And that would make sense if Darwinism were correct. But three years later, after ENCODE had indicated widespread function in the genome, putting the “junk” thesis on its heels, Dawkins turned his earlier contention on its head. In a conversation with Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, he now argued that widespread function was just what Darwinian evolution would expect: “It’s exactly what a Darwinist would hope for, is to find usefulness in the living world.”5 Give Darwinism points for flexibility.
"Francis Collins, whom we’ve met already, a theistic Darwinist and evangelical Christian, was more transparent about the changed thinking. Like Dawkins he was on board the junk-DNA bandwagon, asserting in his 2006 book, The Language of God, that up to half of DNA is garbage, “made up of… genetic flotsam and jetsam.”6 But nine years later, at a professional conference, he conceded that “we don’t use that term [junk DNA] anymore. It was pretty much a case of hubris to imagine that we could dispense with any part of the genome—as if we knew enough to say it wasn’t functional.”7 Good point. But by 2024, in a new book, The Road to Wisdom, written for the same popular and mainly evangelical Christian audience for which he wrote The Language of God, he simply dropped the junk DNA argument in silence, without admitting the error in his earlier book. Thus, if readers of The Language of God missed his concession to professional colleagues, they missed the concession entirely."
Thanks for sharing. It seems familiar but I can't say for certain if I've seen it before. I'm not an expert in genetics or biology so the author of the book I mentioned may well be hoodwinking his audience with sophistry of sorts. I recall from reading Tesla's autobiography that even he believed life to be an automaton based on his own observation of his life and thoughts.
Nonetheless, I maintain the book is a good read. It's not too long and as far as I can tell, seems to point out areas in the realm of genetics that are mysterious and unexplained.
I read a book not too long ago called "Plato's Revenge" by David Klinghoffer. If I remember correctly, one of the main takeaways he presented was the idea that there is seemingly no way for any sort of computer that we can conceive of to be capable of interpreting DNA in a way that would give rise to life. The author suggests that due to that, perhaps something beyond the realm of matter is doing the reading and interpretting of DNA in order to give rise to life.
I found the book to be particularly mind blowing because it opened up a seemingly rational basis for seeing life as more than an automaton that deterministically unfolds due to its DNA patterns.
This is another good video on game theory by Veritasium. It seems to demonstrate that those who don't follow the ideal strategy of cooperating with others (unless the other party is hostile and not cooperative) will gradually go extinct over time. Thus, it is theorized that nature tends towards cooperative societies in the long run.
Reminds me of an article I once saw. Excerpt below.
"Tobacco is described as the main curing tool of Amazonian healers (Barbira-Freedman, 2015) and generally portrayed as a “Master Plant” in this context (Russell and Rahman, 2015). The ethnographic literature describes tobacco uses for therapeutic purposes in conjunction with millennia-old Amerindian traditions (Wilbert, 1993) and highlights the central role the plant plays particularly in Amazonian medicine. For the Amazonian natives, the link between medicine and tobacco is so basic, that the generic term for “healer” in several local languages is etymologically linked to the word for “tobacco,” for instance for the Yuracaré people, where korrë-n-chata (i.e., healer) literally means “he who eats tobacco” (Thomas et al., 2011)."
Try combining it with bromelain and n acetyl cysteine. The trio supposedly work together.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7999995/