• To see the larger image of this post could open the image in a new tab perhaps by right clicking to open in a new tab or drag and drop the image into a new tab that way. Alternatively could perhaps for example click on the image icon and click the image or right click the image to open in a new tab or window or drag and drop the image into a tab to perhaps load the image URL. Another idea maybe when loaded in this post can click the title or right click the title to open in a new tab or window or drag and drop the title to a tab that way.

Red lines drawn to perhaps compare the ship floor plan drawing from the image of the ship on secureteam10’s video with this perhaps ship floor plan diagram drawing from David Jacobs presentation video.

The ship drawing on David Jacobs presentation video are perhaps from someone who had done hypnotic regression with David Jacobs who perhaps were abducted into the ship depicted in the drawing. The floor plan drawing of the ship really does seem to look very similar to the picture on secureteam10’s video. So perhaps the person were abducted into the same or similar ship with what’s on secureteam10’s video.

• Also just to note hypnotic regression are perhaps just being relaxed and able to remember memories. It should be impossible for any person to control someone else's mind since any person only control theirself. Someone can perhaps have a belief system like to do what someone says but still any person are not another person, anyone only control theirself.

Also, I myself are certain I had seen the exact same or similar ship perhaps when I were abducted while feeling like I were asleep. More information in the text document.

Main text document called "Information about totalitarian and manipulative aliens":

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fmdRfZ5y3pbi1W-CZrOaX3u1sQJtnvRiq7XHvSkzi2g/edit?usp=sharing

Google drive link with the ZIP file that should have the main text document and more information:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ja7nqDa0dlCVnnduwmhHRcqkmmTPj5cT/view?usp=sharing

Google Drive folder that should have same files as the ZIP file so can perhaps look at and download each individual file:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11y1ttJjEU3hKXGcIP4FZh14EB4uwk_h5?usp=sharing

Archive .org link with the ZIP file:

https://archive.org/details/information-about-totalitarian-and-manipulative-aliens

MEGA .nz link with the ZIP file:

https://mega.nz/folder/VZRG3JZK#V4sWbn-qcUa3a1ybQRDWIQ

Website which should have information just like this post and other information elsewhere:

https://sites.google.com/view/logicandethics/

Link for the photo of the alien ship in secureteam10’s youtube video starting around 1:06, up close of the image at 1:33. More information with text in the video like mentioning location and time at the start of the video and other information near the end of the video starting at 2:33:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVFk8nHaeB8

• Video called: GIRL NEAR AREA 51 SNAPS HD PICS OF ALIEN UFO BEFORE ABDUCTION! UFOS ARE REAL 2015

Link for the floor plan drawing on David Jacobs presentation video (image starting at and explained at 19:07 of the video) – I've re uploaded this video on my youtube channel:

https://youtu.be/OfQ_P7H7FhQ?t=1147

• Video called: David Jacobs Presentation - video with ship floor plan drawing Research and own experience are that these aliens are in the wrong.

These aliens exploit people as a genetic resource for use with making human hybrids. They are totalitarian, I’ve heard of psychological manipulation, torture.

I do hope any alien person or anyone for that matter change from being in the wrong, to not be totalitarian and instead be decentralized to ensure each other’s well being.

• To see the larger image of this post could open the image in a new tab perhaps by right clicking to open in a new tab or drag and drop the image into a new tab that way. Alternatively could perhaps for example click on the image icon and click the image or right click the image to open in a new tab or window or drag and drop the image into a tab to perhaps load the image URL. Another idea maybe when loaded in this post can click the title or right click the title to open in a new tab or window or drag and drop the title to a tab that way.

Red lines drawn to perhaps compare the ship floor plan drawing from the image of the ship on secureteam10’s video with this perhaps ship floor plan diagram drawing from David Jacobs presentation video.

The ship drawing on David Jacobs presentation video are perhaps from someone who had done hypnotic regression with David Jacobs who perhaps were abducted into the ship depicted in the drawing. The floor plan drawing of the ship really does seem to look very similar to the picture on secureteam10’s video. So perhaps the person were abducted into the same or similar ship with what’s on secureteam10’s video.

• Also just to note hypnotic regression are perhaps just being relaxed and able to remember memories. It should be impossible for any person to control someone else's mind since any person only control theirself. Someone can perhaps have a belief system like to do what someone says but still any person are not another person, anyone only control theirself.

Also, I myself are certain I had seen the exact same or similar ship perhaps when I were abducted while feeling like I were asleep. More information in the text document.

Main text document called "Information about totalitarian and manipulative aliens":

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fmdRfZ5y3pbi1W-CZrOaX3u1sQJtnvRiq7XHvSkzi2g/edit?usp=sharing

Google drive link with the ZIP file that should have the main text document and more information:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ja7nqDa0dlCVnnduwmhHRcqkmmTPj5cT/view?usp=sharing

Google Drive folder that should have same files as the ZIP file so can perhaps look at and download each individual file:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11y1ttJjEU3hKXGcIP4FZh14EB4uwk_h5?usp=sharing

Archive .org link with the ZIP file:

https://archive.org/details/information-about-totalitarian-and-manipulative-aliens

MEGA .nz link with the ZIP file:

https://mega.nz/folder/VZRG3JZK#V4sWbn-qcUa3a1ybQRDWIQ

Website which should have information just like this post and other information elsewhere:

https://sites.google.com/view/logicandethics/

Link for the photo of the alien ship in secureteam10’s youtube video starting around 1:06, up close of the image at 1:33. More information with text in the video like mentioning location and time at the start of the video and other information near the end of the video starting at 2:33:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVFk8nHaeB8

• Video called: GIRL NEAR AREA 51 SNAPS HD PICS OF ALIEN UFO BEFORE ABDUCTION! UFOS ARE REAL 2015

Link for the floor plan drawing on David Jacobs presentation video (image starting at and explained at 19:07 of the video) – I've re uploaded this video on my youtube channel:

https://youtu.be/OfQ_P7H7FhQ?t=1147

• Video called: David Jacobs Presentation - video with ship floor plan drawing Research and own experience are that these aliens are in the wrong.

These aliens exploit people as a genetic resource for use with making human hybrids. They are totalitarian, I’ve heard of psychological manipulation, torture.

I do hope any alien person or anyone for that matter change from being in the wrong, to not be totalitarian and instead be decentralized to ensure each other’s well being.

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/17499284

Brain structure can tell us a lot about reading skills. Importantly, though, the brain is malleable — it changes when we learn a new skill or practice an already acquired one.

For instance, young adults who studied language intensively increased their cortical thickness in language areas. Similarly, reading is likely to shape the structure of the left Heschl’s gyrus and temporal pole. So, if you want to keep your Heschl’s thick and thriving, pick up a good book and start reading.

[...] it’s worth considering what might happen to us as a species if skills like reading become less prioritised. Our capacity to interpret the world around us and understand the minds of others would surely diminish. In other words, that cosy moment with a book in your armchair isn’t just personal – it’s a service to humanity.

Scientists have revolutionized diamond synthesis with a groundbreaking method that creates diamonds at room temperature and pressure.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.dk/post/9189541

Abstract:

Working from home has become standard for employees with a university degree. The most common scheme, which has been adopted by around 100 million employees in Europe and North America, is a hybrid schedule, in which individuals spend a mix of days at home and at work each week1,2. However, the effects of hybrid working on employees and firms have been debated, and some executives argue that it damages productivity, innovation and career development3,4,5. Here we ran a six-month randomized control trial investigating the effects of hybrid working from home on 1,612 employees in a Chinese technology company in 2021–2022. We found that hybrid working improved job satisfaction and reduced quit rates by one-third. The reduction in quit rates was significant for non-managers, female employees and those with long commutes. Null equivalence tests showed that hybrid working did not affect performance grades over the next two years of reviews. We found no evidence for a difference in promotions over the next two years overall, or for any major employee subgroup. Finally, null equivalence tests showed that hybrid working had no effect on the lines of code written by computer-engineer employees. We also found that the 395 managers in the experiment revised their surveyed views about the effect of hybrid working on productivity, from a perceived negative effect (−2.6% on average) before the experiment to a perceived positive one (+1.0%) after the experiment. These results indicate that a hybrid schedule with two days a week working from home does not damage performance.

Posting this as I find it astonishing how nature invented electrical motors with gearshift way before humans did.

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Heart cockles, a group of marine molluscs, contain little communities of algae in their shells as part of a symbiotic relationship; the algae get shelter and protection, and the cockles get algae-processed nutrients.

Now, scientists have discovered that cockle shells have a host of mind-boggling adaptations to keep these algae happy, including windows that offer “the first example of fiber optic cable bundles in a living creature.”

“We show that the fibrous prismatic crystals act like parallel bundles of fiber optic cables in the shell windows, not just transmitting light but projecting high-resolution images through the window,” that have “a resolution of >100 lines/mm,” said researchers led by Dakota McCoy of the University of Chicago.

From the article in the link above:

Fig. 1: Heart cockles (Corculum cardissa and Corculum spp.) are asymmetrical, photosymbiotic bivalves.

Fig. 2: Transparent windows allow heart cockle shells to transmit 11–62% of photosynthetically active radiation (mean = 31%) and significantly screen out UV radiation (mean = 14%, range = 5–28%).

Scientists have broken the record for the world’s thinnest pasta with a new “nanopasta” that measures just 372 nanometers, which is 200 times thinner than a strand of human hair. Britton, Beatrice et al.

“By dissolving 17 wheat flour in warm formic acid and cooling, a dope can be created which can be electrospun into porous mats of 372 nm fibers of pasta,” said researchers led by Beatrice Britton of University College London. “The pasta was made by applying an electric charge to a starch solution which is ejected towards a grounded substrate while drying during flight.”

The paper, in a very funny but serious way, makes a strong case for the relative uselessness of the index finger, and it's recommendation for amputation if it's at all damaged and impeding existence.

Discoveries about a young ancestor's teeth may shed light on the upward trend in brain size over millennia.

Other explanations

Bipedalism developed long before bigger brains, and the use of tools was widespread in earlier hominid branches. As a result, these causes have been ruled out as the main driving force in brain evolution, despite being essential preconditions. https://efossils.org/book/bipedalism-vs-brain-size

Preteen teeth

The recent study of the 1.77 Million-year-old remains of an 11 to 12-year-old early homo from the Dmanisi site in Georgia is significant. https://phys.org/news/2024-11-fossil-teeth-childhood-prelude-evolution.html. This study of dental development throws some light on another human oddity, which is our very extended childhoods. The fossil's age places it close to the emergence of larger brains in our ancestors. A useful timeline is found here https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/larger-brains/

For context that's around this point in Human Evolution

Modern Human life history is distinguished by a prolonged childhood in which mental and somatic development rates diverge. This slow development is crucial for developing high cognitive abilities in our socially complex species.

A slowing childhood in a supportive family and cultural transmission

This individual experienced rapid growth in their first five years, faster than in apes. For example, their wisdom teeth fully emerged at 12 years of age compared to 17-24 today. This rapid growth was unexpected given the age of the fossil and its relationship to modern humans. However, the teeth did have a sequence of growth similar to modern humans. Marcia Ponce de León from the University of Zurich and co-author of the study commented "Milk teeth were used for longer than in the great apes and the children of this early Homo species were dependent on adult support for longer than those of the great apes". She suggests that "This could be the first evolutionary experiment of prolonged childhood".

It is believed that children's development slowed as cultural transmission increased, making the quantity of knowledge conveyed from old to young more crucial. This transmission would have allowed them to make greater use of available resources while developing more sophisticated behaviours, providing them with an evolutionary advantage.

The demands of large brains cause Humans to develop more slowly than our closest animal cousins. Energy directed toward the brain dominates the human body's metabolism early in life, which is possibly one other reason why humans develop at a rate more akin to a reptile than a mammal in early childhood. A five-year-old's brain is a real energy monster. It uses twice as much glucose as a fully grown adult. See https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140825152558.htm

What does this explain?

However, just identifying some of the forces influencing the brain's evolution does not account for the emergence of more recent advances such as symbolic language. https://www.britannica.com/science/human-evolution/Language-culture-and-lifeways-in-the-Pleistocene Nonetheless, the brain's expansion was an essential precursor to the richness of human culture. Even in this early era of human evolution where children needed to mature rapidly, and life expectancy was low, adult care exerted a protective effect.

Additional Info

A variety of circumstances probably influenced brain development, including contributions from diverse hominid lineages with larger brains that were previously lumped into a single smaller smaller-brained species. Ian Tattersall provides a nuanced discussion of brain size and how it relates to humanities tangled origins in this 2023 article: Endocranial volumes and human evolution, https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10517302/

I was searching online for quite a while this evening, chasing a half-remembered bit of trivia, that trilobites were supposedly unique in their use of calcite for their lenses, composing the ommatidia of their compound eyes.

It must be so obvious to scientists in the field of studying insects that they never mention it in their papers...

So, what compound(s) do modern arthropods use in their compound eyes. If it isn't calcite, what do modern 'bugs' use?

According to Khamis, this is the first time that the African native smaller mealworms' ability to decompose plastics has been recorded.

She stated that while Africa generates only 5 percent and uses 4 percent of global plastic, there is an increase in the usage of single-use plastic, making the continent the second most polluted.

Khamis said scientists tested the ability of the lesser mealworm to consume polystyrene, one of the major microplastics that is fast accumulating both in land and water bodies.

Males of the four Ptiloris species, a group within the birds of paradise native to Australia and New Guinea, have long fascinated biologists as well as female birds with their courtship displays. A male repeatedly fans out dark satiny wing feathers into a curved arc. He sways his head rhythmically and opens his mouth to a soundtrack of short, sharp thwacking sounds.