David H Friedel Jr

Nazi Town, USA | American Experience | PBS Nazi Town, USA tells the unknown story of the German American Bund, a 1930s pro-Nazi group with chapters in suburbs and big cities across the country. Many believe the Bund represented a real threat o...

No wonder Trump and Musk attacked public television - it is showing the public the history of America and hard learned lessons we seem to have failed to be taught in High School.

Those in power depend on you all being stupid and naive.

Don't underestimate how powerful one moment of clarity can be

Glad to see Prague and Budapest added back... great destinations

lacked that final few % of capability.

Nobody truly knows where the real threshold is, & once you cross it, the value unlocked can be orders of magnitude greater than the increment that got you there.

That’s why I’m careful not to dismiss “just 3%.” It could be the step that changes everything.

GPT-5 dropped today... and while many are clamoring that it is only "3% better", I will offer some perspective to a world that is often dismissive of incremental improvements...

History is full of examples where species, technologies, and ideas failed to reach escape velocity because they (1/2)

I have a sub - here is the gist: Creatine, Protein, BCAAs, Fish Oil, B vitamins.

I would add that Omega 3s specifically are the value-add according to studies, and NMN seems to be the go-to lately for longevity research.

Wish there was something revolutionary about that stack but it’s really common sense around what is offered today.

Throw in some collagen and some resveratrol, it would be an anti-aging protocol as well.

Without measurable outcomes, you can’t evolve anything.

True protection of a people comes not through force, but through justice, empathy, and the courage to break cycles of violence.

Those who pursue other means do not seek peace, they seek to prolong the suffering, to preserve power through fear, and to inherit a world where their children will fight the same battles they refused to end.

It’s no wonder half the country wants to defund the very programming that makes learning accessible and thought-provoking.

And yes, I donated again to help keep this kind of essential storytelling alive.

American Coup: Wilmington 1898 | American Experience | PBS The little-known story of a deadly 1898 race massacre and coup d’état in Wilmington, North Carolina, when white supremacists overthrew the multi-racial government of state’s largest city through a cam...

I just watched this on PBS, and it was absolutely fascinating, a powerful piece of history conveniently left out of our textbooks.

It suddenly becomes clear why some are so desperate to rewrite the past, especially as Trump and his allies continue their efforts to strip away the rights.

It’s not empowerment; it’s delusion masquerading as optimism.

Belief without understanding doesn’t manifest truth; it blinds you to it. We are being led by the deaf, dumb, and blind.

Too many dumb people in this country have been raised to believe that if you believe in something hard enough, you make it happen, as if reality bends to conviction rather than evidence.

This thinking has replaced curiosity with certainty, science with slogans, & progress with performative belief.

Kennedy is eliminating an entire class of funding out of personal ideology, not scientific consensus.

The anti-vaccine activist & the abrupt dismissal of scientific advisory panels underscores this isn’t just about vaccines.

It’s about whether US wants to lead in precision medicine & biotech

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Properties of stable and unstable place cells within and across days.

Evidence That Memories in Brain Are Physically Moving Around

"I was sure that the memory was going to look more stable over days — and that's not what we found."

Hippocampal representations drift in stable multisensory environments 🏺🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

MB is associated with an overall positive interregional brain connectivity pattern.

The human mind is generally assumed to be constantly thinking.

The phenomenology of mind blanking (MB) challenges this stance.

Mind blanking is a distinct mental state linked to a recurrent brain profile of globally positive connectivity during ongoing mentation 🏺🧪
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A collective exhale.

And in that pause, we may finally have time to process just how far we’ve come… and what we may have missed along the way.

We’re living through an era where our personal and collective capabilities seem to expand weekly. What felt like a stretch last Monday becomes routine by the next.

But this pace has a cost. When the exponential curve flattens, as all things do, it will leave a backdraft.

America’s lowest-paid workers are suffering a sharper slowdown in wage growth than their richer peers, as a direct result of Donald Trump’s policies.

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Farmers go all in on chickpeas as Indian market reopens Australian growers are planting large crops of chickpeas encouraged by a stabilised trade relationship with India.

India drops its 66% tariff on imported Australian chickpeas to just 10%, opening up this massive export market again for Australian farmers #plantscience 🧪 🌿🪴https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-04/australian-chickpeas-boom-as-indian-market-returns/105538646?utm_source=abc_news_app

The Recession Is Always Personal A Personal Philosophy for Professional Survival

My father once told me this one piece of advice... "If your neighbor loses their job, it's a recession. If you lose your job, it's a depression."

It has always stuck with me, and why I work like I do.

Perhaps deeper complexity, consciousness, and even meaning can arise from harmonious interactions, cooperative dynamics, or resonance.

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we're really talking about creative tension. The friction that shapes a river isn't malevolent; it's just physics creating something beautiful through resistance.

Might there be other pathways to complexity and meaning we just haven't imagined?

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Stars form from gravitational collapse, complexity emerges at the edge of chaos, and even consciousness might arise from the dynamic tension between order and disorder in neural networks.

Yet I find myself wondering whether "antagonistic" forces have been crucial drivers of evolution or
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The fastest way to become amazingly confident is to become dangerously competent. Compete externally and you compare. Compete internally and you improve.

Compound the fact that most of these new tariffs are 15% or higher, and you’re not just nudging inflation, you’re choking supply chains, squeezing consumers, and slowing GDP growth at a time when rates are already elevated and debt service costs are climbing.

This is how you engineer stagflation.

We are only 3 months in. Unless paired with productivity gains or innovation, tariffs over 8% are historically deflationary for growth, and inflationary for costs, a double bind.

As seen now in Headline PCE rising to 2.8%, the real drag will hit within 9–12 months if nothing offsets it.