When something is free, you are the Product.

There's a tree you can buy at a good native plant nursery that hasn't been seen in the wild for more than two hundred years. Every Franklin tree alive today descends from seeds collected in the 1770s from a tiny population growing along Georgia's Altamaha River. It's called the Franklin tree. In 1765, the botanist John Bartram and his son William were exploring southeast Georgia when they came upon a small grove of flowering trees neither had ever seen before. White, camellia-like blossoms with yolk-yellow centers. Sweetly fragrant. Growing on just a few acres of riverbank and, as far as anyone could tell, nowhere else on Earth. They eventually named the species after their friend Benjamin Franklin. William couldn't stop thinking about it. He returned in the 1770s, collected seeds, and succeeded in growing the trees in the family garden outside Philadelphia. By 1803, the Franklin tree had disappeared from the wild. No one knows exactly why. Perhaps a disease arrived with expanding agriculture or a species confined to a single tiny patch of habitat simply ran out of luck. Botanists have searched the Altamaha for more than two centuries and have never found another wild population. The species survives today only because William Bartram carried home those seeds. So every Franklin tree blooming in a yard or arboretum right now is descended from a plant the wild has already lost. It's a strange and hopeful thing to plant: a species rescued by one person's curiosity, still alive because someone thought to bring a few seeds home.

Dette var et funn Geir. "Dyrt men lønnsomt" - og argumentasjonen er helse og miljø på det mest perifere. Ikke økonomi.

Godt om NRKs Dagsrevyen. Der fyker de rundt som blinde høner på jakt etter en vinkling som både er dramatisk nok og kritisk nok. nettavisen.no/norsk-debatt/m…

Oh boy..... I think I might now understand why the natives are the most conservative demographic in Canada.....

⭕️This is stunning!!! You have the CIA director, the Secretary of State, the National Security Advisor, and the Secretary of War all opposing the deal, and Vance still won his way!??? WTH is happening?!!

Europeans arriving for the World Cup: “The food is actually really good.” “Wait, they really do free refills?” “The stadiums are insane.” “Ok the weather is no joke.” “Air conditioning isn’t optional here.” “The roads are complete chaos.” “Why is this gas station bigger than my airport?” “Everyone is way friendlier than I expected.” The 2026 World Cup may go down as the largest American propaganda campaign ever conducted. And we’re not even trying.

That strike killed a Hezbollah terrorist who was directly responsible for murdering five Americans.

Betyr dette at Schibsted skal slutte med falske nyheter og i stedet begynne å rapportere balansert om det som faktisk skjer i Storbritannia og resten av Europa, uten politisk vinkling eller utelatelse av sentrale fakta og kontekst?

Hvis du kjøpte SpaceX på Fredag er du mer opp enn oss bitcoinere er opp de siste 5 åra Gratulerer 😭🤡

🚨 Exclusive: Reza Pahlavi - ‘Any deal with this Iranian regime will fail’ My @thetimes interview with the Shah’s son on the framework deal, Trump, his remaining hopes for the Iranian people and life as an exile thetimes.com/world/middle-ea…

The European mind can’t comprehend The retractable grass field Brother, this is an NFL stadium in Las Vegas. The grass field lives OUTSIDE. When it's game day, the entire field rolls into the stadium on a giant tray. The grass field weighs around 19 million pounds and sits on a giant movable tray. Before Raiders games, the entire field is rolled into the stadium. After the game, it gets rolled back outside so the grass can receive actual sunlight. Which is objectively insane. The field travels about 600 feet between its outdoor position and the stadium. It takes roughly 90 minutes to move. Nobody thought: "Maybe we should use artificial turf." No. America looked at a 9-acre field and said: "What if we made it mobile?" We're the same country that built Hoover Dam, put a man on the Moon, races Oscar Meyer Weinermobiles and deep fries Oreos at state fairs. Subtlety has never been our thing. 🇺🇸

Somebody has to be the richest person on the planet. The fact that it’s the guy who popularized electric cars, made rockets reusable, and is working on curing blindness and paraplegia as a side quest seems fair to me.

Naftali Bennett told the Iranian regime tonight: if he becomes Prime Minister, he will be their “worst nightmare ever” and “won’t relent” until the Iranian people are free. Anyone claiming Israel would soften without Netanyahu is wrong, and thank God it won’t. Free Iran!

St. Catherine's Monastery Library in Egypt is the oldest library in the world that's been continuously running. It was built back in the 500s under Emperor Justinian, right at the foot of Mount Sinai, a remote location that's really not easily accessible. That isolation is exactly what saved it. While wars, fires, and invasions wiped out pretty much every other big ancient library, this one survived. The monks were just trying to keep their community going, so they copied books for daily prayers, for teaching the younger monks, and for keeping records. Year after year, those practical copies piled up. What started as everyday stuff slowly turned into this incredible collection: early Christian writings, ancient Greek texts, medical books, and languages almost nobody speaks anymore. One of the craziest moments came in the 1970s when the monks were doing some repairs and found a hidden room stuffed with forgotten manuscripts. They call them the New Finds. A bunch of them were palimpsests, where someone had scraped off the original writing and reused the pages. Thanks to modern imaging tech, we've been able to read what was underneath: lost texts in Syriac, Arabic, Greek, even some early Christian hymns nobody knew still existed. It really felt like cracking open a time capsule inside another time capsule. The place is also home to the Codex Sinaiticus, one of the oldest complete Bibles we have, from the 4th century. Not a copy. The real thing. Finding it basically changed how scholars understood early Christianity. Think about it: this library has kept going through the rise and fall of empires, through Crusaders marching by, Ottoman rule, world wars, and modern politics. Just a handful of monks stubbornly keeping the lights on for nearly 1,500 years. That's why it's special. (Photo of the Saint Catherine's Monastery, looking down from Mount Sinai by Berthold Werner - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/inde…)

Israeli operations were halted the moment they hit an American veto. The sudden stop of drone strikes on regime police stations and Basij units in mid-March wasn’t a coincidence — it was Trump’s priority: keep the Iranian regime alive long enough to drag it back to the negotiating table. Washington and Jerusalem weren’t playing the same game. Israel wanted regime change because it’s the only way to truly end the nuclear threat. The US saw the war as “continuation of policy by other means” — calibrated pressure, not decapitation. That’s why Trump blocked some of Israel’s most effective moves. They were too effective. They risked actually collapsing the regime and forcing America to deal with the Iranian people’s real representative: Reza Pahlavi — the man Trump pointedly refused to meet. In the end, the failure to align their strategies and agree on the campaign’s objectives is, in my view, what produced these hesitations and tactical dithering. The frustrating part is that, had Israel been given a free hand, it could have finished the job within a few additional weeks.

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Trump is about to get very frustrated with the almost wall-to-wall criticism of his Iran-Deal. Vance is alone in selling this, and no one is buying it.

I think that’s right. I also think he’s being pragmatic and thinking about midterms here. In order to help the Iranian people and keep supporting Israel,he can’t allow Democrats to win the House and Senate.They will impeach him.

The shah’s son: ‘Any deal with this Iranian regime will fail’ thetimes.com/world/middle-ea…

I'm not concerned about the MOU, which doesn't say much. I'm concerned that the entire military might of the US couldn't force the regime into submission. If America failed to win the war with Iran, how could it protect Taiwan? How could it protect the gulf Arab states?