Are those stem cells or cells from the plant stem?! #pseudoscience

"Since we can never know anything for sure, it is simply not worth searching for certainty; but it is well worth searching for truth; and we do this chiefly by searching for mistakes, so that we can correct them. Science, scientific knowledge, is therefore always hypothetical: it is conjectural knowledge. And the method of science is the critical method: the method of the search for and the elimination of errors in the service of truth." —Karl Popper, In Search of a Better World.

Bangladeş’te bir İslamcı, elinde silahla tıp fakültesini basıp "Kadınların eğitilmesi haramdır!" diye bağırıyor. Önce "Başörtülü bacımız okula giremiyor" diye mağduriyet yaratanlar, güçlenince "Kadının okula gitmesi haram" demeye başlıyor. Olan yine geleceğe oluyor… 🇧🇩

Cute theory, let's play it out. A monkey hoards a trillion bananas. The troop, enraged, beats him to death. They gather around the pile to feast at last. But... oh wait, there is no pile. It turns out the "bananas" were shares in a banana-launching company the dead monkey founded. The shares were worth a trillion because he was alive to run it. Now he is dead and the stock is worth $0. The retarded monkeys have clubbed their way into a recession. But it gets worse. Half the "bananas" were tied up in a rocket that supplies bananas to monkeys on the far mountain who had no bananas at all. Another chunk was tied up in a little satellite dish that beamed banana coordinates to the troop after a flood took out their trees. So now they realized they beat to death the only monkey who knew how the dish worked. So the monkeys sit there. No bananas. No rockets. No coordinates to get more banananas. Just a dead body and a powerful sense of fairness as they all now became infinitely poorer. OH And somewhere a smaller monkey watches the whole thing and quietly decides he will never build anything in front of these animals again.

“To follow socialist morality would destroy much of present humankind and impoverish much of the rest.” Economist Friedrich Hayek pointed out that no group of planners has enough knowledge to run an economy. @ryanmcmaken of @mises explains why Hayek’s ideas matter today:

Most people don't understand the difference between having billions in the bank, liquid, & having ownership shares in companies worth billions. And I think it would behoove the media to explain this once in a while.

"There are no subject matters; no branches of learning—or, rather, of inquiry: there are only problems, and the urge to solve them." ––Karl Popper, Realism and the Aim of Science.

Been brushing up on the discourse and I’ve decided that every single person is richer than me is a greedy bastard and every single person poorer than me is a loser. I and only I have the exact right amount of money.

136 kilos de cheveux de femmes iraniennes retrouvés dans des camions en provenance d’Iran par la douane arménienne depuis janvier 2026. Cela fait des mois que nous alertons sur la disparition des corps de femmes iraniennes massacrées en janvier, que nous dénonçons les utérus prélevés sur certains cadavres… Aujourd’hui, l’horreur atteint un nouveau degré avec ces images de cheveux saisis par centaines de kilos. Pourquoi un tel silence de la communauté internationale face à ce régime barbare ?

She thought her baby didn’t make it, until a tiny movement changed everything.. 🥺

A lot of people seem angry that Elon is now a trillionaire, so it’s worth reminding them that he didn’t achieve this by making anyone else poorer. Wealth isn't zero-sum. Paul Graham explained it well: paulgraham.com/wealth.html

Every single person who still cringes at the memory of trying to bullshit their way through an interview or exam question: today, the slate is wiped clean. Set down your burden of shame. Nothing - nothing, I say - could touch this.

Elon Musk did not become a different person when he landed in America. In South Africa, he may still have been brilliant, restless, and ambitious, but the environment would not have given him the same room to build SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and everything else. Talent matters. The country you build in decides how much of that talent can become real.

The first trillionaire in human history - Elon Musk - Born in South Africa - Bullied relentlessly as a kid - Immigrated to North America - Arrived with a backpack and a dream - Built Zip2 with his brother - Sold it 4 years later for $300 million - Co-founded PayPal with the profits - Revolutionised digital payments - Sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion - Bet everything on Tesla and SpaceX - Got mocked for electric cars - Got laughed at for reusable rockets - Nearly went bankrupt in 2008 - Kept building anyway - Turned Tesla into the world’s most valuable automaker - Made EVs mainstream and transformed the automotive industry - Made reusable rockets a reality - Reduced the cost of reaching space by 95% - Sparked the modern commercial space race - Built Starlink and connected millions around the world to high-speed internet - Turned SpaceX into the most valuable private company in history - Bought Twitter for $44 billion - The world said he overpaid - He was called reckless, stupid & crazy - Advertisers fled, media declared it dead - Critics called it the worst acquisition in tech history - Renamed it 𝕏 - Rebuilt the platform anyway - Turned it into one of the most influential platforms on Earth - Launched xAI and accelerated the global AI race - Sent astronauts to space - Is trying to get humans to mars - Created millions of jobs - Generated hundreds of billions in value - Inspired an entire generation of builders Before: - Failed repeatedly - Worked insane hours - Slept in factories and offices - Got bullied, laughed at and mocked - Constantly told “it’s impossible” - Kept building anyway - Made it possible Today: - Richest person on Earth - First trillionaire in human history - Largest IPO in history $1.77 trillion Most people quit when the world laughs at them. Elon Musk built the future instead. Love him or hate him… Nobody has changed more industries in a single lifetime. Payments. Cars. Energy. Space. Social Media. Communications. AI. History won’t remember the people who said it couldn’t be done. It will remember the people who did it anyway. Congratulations Elon. The first trillionaire. 🚀

This is still the greatest video of all time. Iranian state media: “No bomb can reach us because Allah protects us…” *Moments later*

Elon’s stock holding value is because people think/hope he is going to do fabulous good for billions of people. What an age we live in! So instead of sniping let’s hope they are right. If they aren’t he will be worth far less and all of humanity will be poorer.

Congratulations to Ehrenberg-Bass Institute researchers Dr William Caruso, Professor Jenni Romaniuk, Dr Bill Page and Dr Zachary Anesbury on receiving the Silver Medal Award for Best Paper Published in the International Journal of Market Research (IJMR).

The Ehrenberg-Bass Institute’s North American Advisory Board convened in New York last week for a productive and engaging meeting. Chaired by Jim Koch, the Board worked through a full agenda that included updates from our director and discussions on key strategic priorities.

A lovely example of using imagination to get what needs to be done done, rather than being stymied by organisational rules “computer says no”.

George Orwell’s 1984 was published today in 1949. “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

In a famous 1972 televised debate, David Susskind argued that a woman could not be president because of the hormonal changes that occur during menstruation. ⁠ ⁠ Germaine Greer immediately put an end to the debate by asking him if he could tell whether she was menstruating at that very moment, which left his argument without a response.⁠