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It's easy to feel powerless against cancer, but research has identified several ways that we can reduce the odds of it occurring.
It's easy to feel powerless against cancer, but research has identified several ways that we can reduce the odds of it occurring. According to a recent analysis from the World Health Organization (WHO), more than a third of all cancer cases globally are preventable. Lung, stomach, and cervical cancers make up nearly half of those cases.
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So! This is a perfect case study in situations where you should be wary of misinformation.
Take a moment and ask yourself, a project like this requires a lot of time, money and dedication of resources, why would scientists dedicate that time to something that could just be done by a tree?
The answer is they wouldn't. So that means this claim requires further investigation!
This project is called LIQUID 3, and it's not meant for cities with wide open spaces, it's meant for cities like Belgrade in Serbia. These cities are densely populated and heavily polluted, to the point where pollution actually chokes out current trees and makes creating green spaces difficult.
Liquid 3 was a PhD scientists answer to these problems. The microalgae tank is intended for spaces where you either:
Don't have enough space to plant full trees, or
Don't have enough time to plant trees and wait for them to grow up.
The tank is extremely efficient when you consider the amount of space needed compared to the amount of CO2 turned into oxygen. The tank can operate throughout the winter. And most importantly, it can be quickly set up in areas that desperately need relief from air pollution NOW not in 10 years when trees are done growing. Children currently suffocating on polluted air can't wait for trees to grow, they need to be taken care of now, and Liquid 3 is one of the ways to take care of them. Depending on the species of microalgea used, a number have shown a pretty amazing capacity to pull heavy metals out of the air which is something trees can get choked up by.
The tanks aren't just tanks either! Liquid 3 have solar panels placed on top, they have lighting and mobile phone charging, and they work as public benches. The designers of it want to encourage green spaces where there's room, but where there isn't room or time, Liquid 3 can step in. Realistically, this isn't a replacement for trees. It's replacing boring metal city benches with new, cooler benches that also clean the air (and have at least some heating during the winter).
Not only that, but the microalgea that grows is native to Serbia and all that microalgea has a ton of great uses! It makes for great fertilizer, compost, wastewater treatment, cleaner biofuels and even for helping create new tanks for further air purification. They only require a quick algae divide once a month, and the produced algae can be carted off to where ever it's needed. This makes them effective solutions for areas that can't sustain complex installations.
So yeah, there's actually quite a lot of places that would like these. Lots of people currently breathing in terrible quality air would much rather have their boring city benches replaced with really fucking cool algae tanks that clean the air and can be used to help create + sustain future green spaces in cities. I dunno about you, but I'd take that over a dumb metal bench any day. Put these at every bus stop and I'd be delighted.
can ppl pls reblog this version
Well damn. I was also like wtf is this stupid slime tank and then I read the rest and my mind got blown
As spring gives way to summer, many of us feel the urge to head for the mountains, rivers, deserts, and open spaces.
More than twelve hundred years ago, the Tang Dynasty poet Li Po (Li Bai) understood that impulse well.
A wanderer, poet, and lover of the natural world, Li Po spent much of his life traveling among mountains, rivers, and remote landscapes. Though often associated with Taoism, his work has long been embraced by Zen practitioners for its directness and intimacy with experience.
Unlike philosophers who sought to explain reality, Li Po often allowed reality to speak for itself.
One of his most celebrated poems concludes:
“The birds have flown away.
The lonely cloud drifts on.
We sit together, the mountain and me,
until only the mountain remains.”
The poem contains no doctrine and offers no formal teaching. Yet it points toward something familiar to both Zen and Taoist traditions: the softening of the boundary between self and world.
The mountain does not change.
What changes is our relationship to it.
As summer approaches, Li Po’s poetry offers a gentle reminder that nature is more than scenery. Mountains, rivers, clouds, and moonlight are not separate from practice. They can become places where the mind settles, striving falls away, and our sense of separation begins to loosen.
More than twelve centuries after his death, Li Po’s poems continue to endure because they return us to something simple:
Sometimes wisdom begins by going outside and paying attention.
Liberation is the falling away of illusions, not the accumulation of insights or states.
The notion that you can reach what you already are is the original misperception. The seeker assumes separation, but the sought is never absent. Effort reinforces this illusion by postulating a future attainment, yet what is, is ever now.
Awareness is not a result—it is the ground. To chase it is to overlook it. The paradox is this: liberation is not gained but uncovered; it’s the undoing of the one who tries. What remains when all seeking ends is not the fruit of effort, but the effortless clarity of what always is.
“Awareness is primordial; it is the original state.” — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That
“Effort implies the existence of an ego. And the ego cannot dissolve itself by its own effort.” — Jean Klein, The Ease of Being
“Reality is ever attained and never attained. Attained because it is your real nature; never attained because it is never lost.” - Sri Atmananda Krishna Menon
In recent years, mRNA in lipid nanoparticles (mRNA–LNPs) has emerged as a promising strategy for treating numerous conditions, including COV
In recent years, mRNA in lipid nanoparticles (mRNA–LNPs) has emerged as a promising strategy for treating numerous conditions, including COVID-19, various cancers and chronic genetic disorders. To date, this technology has not been successfully used for pancreatic diseases, but that could be about to change. In a paper published in Nature, scientists from China report the development of a new lipid nanoparticle drug-delivery system specifically designed for the pancreas.
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The important thing is allowing the whole world to wake up. Part of allowing the whole world to wake up is recognizing that the whole world is free—everybody is free to be as they are. Until the whole world is free to agree with you or disagree with you, until you have given the freedom to everyone to like you or not like you, to love you or hate you, to see things as you see them or to see things differently—until you have given the whole world its freedom—you’ll never have your freedom.
Adyashanti
the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness – it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness, and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.
Anthony de Mello
Realize that whatever you think yourself to be is just a stream of events; that while all happens, comes and goes, you alone are, the changeless among the changeful, the self-evident among the inferred. Separate the observed from the observer and abandon false identifications.
Nisargadatta Marharaj
Real detachment may be recognized by the arising of joy. Detachment, happiness, and contentment are one and the same.
I always forget there are maga people on tumblr, this doesn’t feel like a website you’d find them on, so to keep them away:
Reblog if your blog is a maga free zone because if it wasn’t clear enough fuck ice, fuck maga, fuck Trump, Fuck Rowling, and fuck all the other bigots I missed
What keeps our cells the right size? Scientists have long puzzled over this fundamental question, since cells that are too large or too smal
In a study published in Nature Communications, a team at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) found that a gene called CISTR-ACT acts as a controller of cell growth. Unlike genes that encode for proteins, CISTR-ACT is a long non-coding RNA (or lncRNA) and is part of the non-coding genome, the largely unexplored part that makes up 98% of our DNA. This research helps show that the non-coding genome, often dismissed as "junk DNA," plays an important role in how cells function.
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In a proper practice of awareness, the complete proper relationship is that awareness comes towards you rather than you going towards it. In other words, if awareness is not possessed or owned, then it happens. Whereas if you try to possess and own awareness, if you relate to it as "my awareness," then it runs away from you. In order to understand this, you need to have the actual experience of it, rather than just reading the menu.
— Chogyam Trungpa
If you know how to suffer, you suffer much less.In the first part of the talk, Thay explains how to make good use of suffering, learning the
The Art of Suffering: Transforming Pain into Peace and Joy
Thich Nhat Hanh · July 29, 2013 · Upper Hamlet, Plum Village, France
If you know how to suffer, you suffer much less. Thich Nhat Hanh explains how to make good use of suffering, learning the art of suffering in order to create understanding, compassion, love, and happiness. It is like the mud and the lotus flower; a good gardener knows how to make good use of the mud. Rather than running away from suffering, learning to be in touch with it, embrace it, and look directly into it has the power to heal. The cessation of suffering is in suffering itself. By having the capacity to listen to our own suffering and understanding it, we suffer less.
Even the Buddha was a human and suffered. In just one week, we can know the art of suffering in order to generate joy and happiness. There is a usefulness to suffering. We are always trying to run away from suffering, often using consumption as an escape. The Buddha teaches us to do the opposite. Do you have time to look deeply at your suffering and the suffering of others? Can we listen to the suffering in the world and inside ourselves?
Thay explains the chant of Namo Avalokiteshvara, which is about listening to suffering. Its energy can also heal your suffering. The practice of hearing the bell allows all our cells and ancestors to listen with us, which is deep listening. We listen as a stream and practice for everyone.
In the second part of the talk, Thay explains how to invite the bell of mindfulness, a practice that brings peace and happiness right away. It reminds you to live deeply every moment, in the here and now. Walking mindfully is an easy way to live deeply every moment. Walking quickly is a habit transmitted by our ancestors. When you run, you miss the now. Walking mindfully heals and nourishes you. You are solid, you arrive at every step. If everybody does the same, the collective energy is powerful and brings peace. Breathing in and out mindfully, you enjoy walking and arrive home, in the here and now.
Thich Nhat Hanh also talks about how to generate a feeling of joy anytime you want, understanding the suffering in other human beings, and making breakfast mindfully with joy. The Kingdom of God is available every day through the practice of mindful breathing and mindful walking. The ups and downs in the ocean should not alter the joy of being sacred water.
