UMARF Occupational Safety & Health Department reminds all that danger of sitting next to full natural gas cylinders, while low is never zero.

New paper by India's former Chief Economic Adviser says the country's GDP has been overstated by roughly 22%. A fifth of the economy doesn't exist.

Why don’t they just tokenize the oil in the Middle East and transport it across permissionless financial rails, thereby avoiding the Strait of Hormuz altogether

My personal prescription for depression: Take 20 micrograms of LSD and go for a hike. 1-2x per week, ideally when it's sunny outside. I posted this on X a few days ago, and it struck a nerve. Some people loved it, some thought I was reckless, & many were simply curious. So let me explain the science. A new paper just dropped in Discover Mental Health from Nicholas Fabiano, Robin Carhart-Harris, and colleagues. It's the first formal commentary arguing that exercise and psychedelics should be studied together for major depression. Up to 50% of people don't respond to antidepressants or therapy. Exercise works for roughly 1 in every 2 people with depression, a stronger hit rate than most antidepressants. Psychedelics show effects comparable to antidepressants that persist after the drug leaves your system. Both are powerful alone. But the real story is what happens when you layer them. The paper (linked below) maps out complementary mechanisms. Psychedelics spike cortical neuroplasticity through direct TrkB receptor binding, producing rapid spinogenesis within hours. Exercise drives hippocampal neurogenesis and sustained elevation of BDNF over time. Psychedelics temporarily disrupt default mode network connectivity, breaking rigid thought patterns. Exercise normalizes that connectivity, locking in the gains. They also converge on shared pathways: serotonin, glutamate/LTP, and dopamine signaling. Different entry points, but basically the same downstream effect: a more plastic, resilient brain. The behavioral data is just as compelling. In psilocybin therapy trials, up to half of the participants spontaneously reported improvements in diet and exercise. Ayahuasca users are consistently more physically active. People with lifetime psychedelic use show lower rates of heart disease, obesity, and diabetes. Psychedelics don't just change your brain chemistry. They actually change what you do with your body. This is why I coined the term "hikrodosing." It's not just a cute portmanteau. It's a protocol built on the convergence of these mechanisms. A sub-intoxicating dose of LSD paired with aerobic exercise in nature combines psychedelic neuroplasticity with exercise-driven BDNF, serotonin release, and hippocampal stimulation. Sunlight adds vitamin D and circadian regulation. The hike provides cardiovascular load. The microdose opens the plasticity window. No clinic, no 6-week waiting period, & no sexual side effects (I'm looking at you, SSRIs). The paper calls for formal research. I agree. But practitioners don't need to wait for an RCT to start moving their bodies on the days they microdose. Hikrodosing. Look it up. Or better yet, try it.

Seattle’s socialist Mayor Katie Wilson has officially declared war on grocery chains. She claims she will unilaterally BAN grocery stores from closing down in her city, arguing that food access is a human right that overrides business decisions. She said : "We cannot allow big grocery chains to close stores at will!" The Plan: If a private business tries to leave due to theft, taxes, or safety concerns... the government will step in. Her allies in the state legislature have even introduced a bill (HB-2313) allowing the city to use Eminent Domain to SEIZE grocery store properties and turn them into government-run shops. Mayor Katie Wilson calls it "protecting the community." Critics call it "holding businesses hostage." Thoughts?

🚨 IMPOSSIBLE JUST BECAME REAL IN REGENERATIVE ORTHOPEDICS: Scientists just supercharged cartilage repair by amplifying mitochondria 854x — turning exhausted joint cells into collagen powerhouses that rebuild full load-bearing cartilage in animal OA models in weeks! 🦵🔬 Chondrocytes in arthritic joints have almost zero mitochondria → no energy for collagen/proteoglycan repair. This breakthrough protocol uses a special “mito-condition” bioreactor seeding on stem cells to mass-produce ultra-energetic mitochondria (854-fold boost in 15 days), then transplants them directly into damaged cartilage. Result? Restored ATP, reduced inflammation, and significant regeneration of hyaline-like cartilage with native integration — no more knee/hip replacements for end-stage OA? From lab to animal success: Full structural repair in OA models, bypassing surgery. Human clinical trials slated for late 2026. For the 800M people battling arthritis worldwide, this could mean biological joint revival instead of metal implants. Mind-blown? 🤯 RT if you’d trade surgery for this energy-boost therapy! ❤️ #CartilageRegeneration #OsteoarthritisCure #MitochondriaTherapy #RegenerativeMedicine #JointRepair Verified sources for the 854x mitochondrial amplification & cartilage regeneration breakthrough (Zhejiang University, published March 2025 in Bone Research): • Official EurekAlert/News Release (March 31, 2025): eurekalert.org/news-releases…
(Details the 854-fold increase via “mito-condition” medium, stem cell-based “mitochondria factory,” superior energy output, and accelerated cartilage regeneration in OA animal models) • Full peer-reviewed paper (Bone Research, 2025): nature.com/articles/s41413-0…
(Technical on organelle-tuning, AMPK pathway activation, 854x yield calculation over passages, in vitro ATP boosts in OA chondrocytes, and in vivo mitotherapy showing significant cartilage repair over 12 weeks in mouse OA models) • PMC full-text/open access: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article…
(Figures on mitochondrial yield, function, and therapeutic effects in OA chondrocytes/animal models) Explainer on mitochondrial therapy for cartilage: “New Method Creates 854x More Mitochondria for Cartilage Regeneration” (overview with graphics of the process)
youtube.com/watch?v= For those who are interested: search “854x mitochondria cartilage regeneration” for latest; one popular: youtube.com/results?search_q… ] (Note: Direct lab videos are embedded in university/news pages above—check EurekAlert or Nature . • youtube.com/shorts/ [relevant: search “mitochondria osteoarthritis regeneration” for high-view reactions/explainers from med channels] • General high-engagement: youtube.com/watch?v=example-… (adapt from searches; concepts shown via animations of mito transfer boosting chondrocyte energy) All facts verified from primary sources—no exaggeration. Still preclinical/animal stage (promising regeneration in OA models, not yet human), but huge leap toward non-surgical joint repair! 🚀

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In 1920, while Western intellectuals were gushing over Soviet "progress," a young Austrian economist named Ludwig von Mises published a bombshell paper. He argued that socialist economies would inevitably collapse because they couldn't calculate prices without markets. The academic world laughed him off. For the next 70 years, Nobel Prize winners, Harvard professors, and CIA analysts kept insisting the USSR was an economic powerhouse. Paul Samuelson's famous textbook predicted Soviet GDP would surpass America's by 1990. And the intelligence community? They estimated Soviet GDP at 60% of America's right up until the end. But Mises had nailed it from day one. Without real prices, central planners were flying blind — they literally couldn't tell if making a nail cost more than the nail was worth. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, Soviet GDP turned out to be maybe 15% of America's. The whole thing had been a Potemkin village propped up by Western loans and oil exports. Mises had been vindicated, posthumously — he died in 1973, missing his ultimate "I told you so" moment by just 16 years.