Mixing Sodium with Potassium

 

Missing Straw

 

Navy SEAL Sleep Technique

Every day, it seems there’s another viral hack making its rounds that promises to transform your quality of life for the better. In the realm of sleep, one such hack that’s been trending on TikTok all summer long is the Navy SEAL Sleep Technique — initially shared by author, podcaster, and former Navy SEAL officer Jocko Willink

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To get a better sense of this napping strategy—including what it involves, how effective it is, and how it compares to other popular sleeping techniques like the 4 7 8 Sleep Method and the Military Sleep Method—we spoke to Po-Chang Hsu, MD, a medical content expert for Sleeping Ocean and graduate of the Tufts University School of Medicine.

Before we dive in, remember that sleep hacks can only get you so far. To give yourself a greater chance of better sleep, it’s worth investing in the best mattress for your body type and preferred sleeping position.

What is the Navy SEAL Sleep Technique?
“The Navy SEAL Sleep Technique involves laying the back on the floor at the edge of the bed and then putting the legs on the bed,” Dr. Hsu begins. “This puts the sleeper in a position similar to the letter Z, but with the laps stretching a bit onto the bed. The legs are elevated at a 90-degree to 120-degree angle.”

In addition, it’s important to highlight that the Navy SEAL Sleep Technique is actually geared for a short, restorative nap of eight to 10 minutes (rather than a full night’s rest) to stay alert when you’re short on sleep and crunched for time. “In a military sleep manual, special forces are advised to use breaks in combat for an afternoon nap,” he explains.  READ MORE...

Hanging Birds

 

The Handbreak

Bison Versus Buffalo

Never mind what the unofficial anthem of the American West says about buffalo roaming—this type of bovid is not found on U.S. soil. What we have stateside, making up the best-known herds in Yellowstone National Park and on Catalina Island, are bison.

Though bison are sometimes colloquially called buffalo, the two are biologically different, unconnected in their ranges, and can be told apart by a few distinguishing physical features. Here's everything you need to know about the two oft-confused families of ancient grazing giants.

Buffalo and Bison Classification
Buffalo and bison belong to the tribe Bovini, which includes medium to massive animals of the Bovidae family. The Bovidae family also includes antelopes, gazelles, goats, and sheep.

While a number of Bovini species are commonly called buffalo or bison (the anoa a "dwarf buffalo" and the gaur "Indian bison," for example), there are only four true bison and buffalo species.

American bison (Bison bison) roam in Yellowstone and are portrayed on the National Park Service's arrowhead emblem and the U.S. Department of the Interior's seal. They're the heaviest land animals in North America and, since 2016, the U.S.'s national mammal, joining the patriotic ranks of its national bird, the bald eagle.  READ MORE...

Glider

Old Chinese Pyramid

The unknown civilization that built the ancient pyramid vanished without traces. The recent discovery at the footstep of the pyramid could help archeologists identify it. The ancient city is home to immense fortifications and sophisticated infrastructure, thousands of luxurious artifacts and a 230-foot-high stepped pyramid.

During excavations at the 4,300-year-old Shimao pyramid in Shenmu, northwest China’s Shaanxi province, archaeologists have uncovered what appears to be a portrait of a king carved in stone.

The Shimao Archaeological Site is located in the northern part of the Loess Plateau, at the southern end of the Ordos Desert.

The site dates back to around 2000 BC and covers an area of approximately 400 hectares. Originally believed to be part of the Great Wall of China, Shimao’s walls were uncovered to be Neolithic in age after jade pieces were discovered at the site.

More than 70 meters tall, the pyramid there is almost half as high as the pyramids of Giza. In contrast to other ancient pyramids, Shimao was built with a practical purpose: at the peak stood a palace covering nearly ten football fields’ worth of space, or 80,000 square meters.  READ MORE...

Biking Cat

 

Another Day in Paradise

Being sarcastic usually gets me in a lot of trouble with people as my comments are more pointed than they should be, but living in America or the USA or in the South these days is far from living in Paradise unless you compare the way we are living here to the way the Chinese are living there.

So, what has changed here in America???

• Racism has increased because BLM, WOKE, and CRT decided to make RACISM an issue...
• Inflation/Recession has hurt the economy because of all the government spending...
• Getting off our dependence on OIL happened too quick which has turned our economy upside down...
• Politically, we are divided 50/50 which has resulted in neither side having a clear majority or a mandate...

So, what we used to think of being a paradise in the USA is no longer paradise...  and, to make matters worse...  politicians have never fixed the problems that we had over 50 years ago, like:

• Racism Problems
• Declining Education
• Wealth Gap
• Housing Issues
• Heathcare Issues
• Illegal Drug Issues
• Double Standard
• Biased Judicial System

It seems that career politicians just want to make promises and tell us what we want to hear while getting nothing done other than making sure they get re-elected.  We re-elect the bastards because we believe their LIES and HALF-TRUTHS.  In essence, we did this to ourselves and the politicians took advantage of our apathy and/or political ignorance, and mental laziness...

It wasn't until Trump became president and tried to clean the SWAMP that our equally divided sides emerged that was exascerbated by the BLM movement.  Consequently, two equally opposing side emerged...

We have confronted the REAL ENEMY and it is US (Not USA) but the general public us.

Censorship & Truth

What I dislike more than anything else other than someone who is BUTT UGLY is the media censoring the news because they are of the opinion that there are things going on of which I should not be aware.

This is BULLSHIT...

And, this is bullshit because these media outlets are financed by liberal billionaires and what they don't want me to know will hurt their liberal party and its movement...

Hitler did the same thing in Nazi Germany...  and currently both Russia and China are doing the same thing with their people...  giving them the news that only the government wants them to know...

Oftentime, censorship is designed to HIDE THE TRUTH...

So, we are living in a world of lies, just like we did when we were a child and our parents told us that Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy were all real...  those were lies...  designed to keep us innocent and naive...  it wasn't until much later that we found this out and realized our parents had lied to us and they could no longer be trusted....

How much do you trust someone who lies to you over and over again?

It hurts when you find out that they have lied...

But most of us refuse to admit that liberals lie to us...  even though they lied about Trumps relationship with Russia and tried to impeach him because of this lie...  no one was penalized because of this lie...  what kind of truth is that?

Truck Fight

 

Giant Megalithic Complex

The megalithic site. (José Antonio Linares-Catela et al., Trabajos de Prehistoria, 2022)

A huge megalithic complex of more than 500 standing stones has been discovered in southern Spain which could be one of the largest in Europe, archaeologists told AFP Thursday.

The stones were discovered on a plot of land in Huelva, a province which flanks the southernmost part of Spain's border with Portugal, near the Guadiana River.

Spanning some 600 hectares (1,500 acres), the land had been earmarked for an avocado planation.

But before granting the permit, the regional authorities requested a survey in light of the site's possible archaeological significance – and revealed the presence of the stones.

"This is the biggest and most diverse collection of standing stones grouped together in the Iberian peninsula," said Jose Antonio Linares, a researcher at Huelva University and one of the project's three directors.

It is likely that the oldest standing stones at the La Torre-La Janera site were erected during the second half of the sixth or fifth millennium BCE, he said.

"It is a major megalithic site in Europe," he said.

At the site, they found a large number of various types of megaliths, including standing stones, dolmens, mounds, coffin-like stone boxes called cists, and various enclosures.

"Standing stones were the most common finding, with 526 of them still standing or lying on the ground," said the researchers in an article published in Trabajos de Prehistoria, a prehistoric archaeology journal in the Iberian Peninsula.

The height of the stones was between one and three metres (3-10 feet).  READ MORE...

Playing Dead

 

A Future Without White People

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WHITENESS IS A seduction. Whiteness is also an illusion. These are the twin motifs on which Pakistani writer Mohsin Hamid props up The Last White Man, his new novel about race metamorphosis and human morality. 

Anchored in the bare and elegiac prose Hamid has made his trademark style, the book springboards from a single unexplained incident. Anders, a white man, awakens one morning to a new reality: his skin has “turned a deep and undeniable brown.”

The transformation, of which Anders’ is the first—but not the only, and certainly not the last—elicits worthy exploration. What if whiteness were suddenly gone? Would the social order of life come undone? Would anything change? Where Hamid lands doesn’t exactly persuade.

The sequence of events that follows plays into an ancient fear, that of The Other. (One’s need to estrange, Toni Morrison has said, is “a desperate attempt to confirm one’s own self as normal.”) For Anders, confusion bubbles. Panic swells. 

Initially, he flirts with thoughts of violence after realizing the transformation is irreversible. “He wanted to kill the colored man who confronted him here in his home,” Hamid writes, “to extinguish the life animating this other’s body, to leave nothing standing but himself, as he was before.”

It’s understandable why those who benefit from a particular standing would do anything to preserve it. The conscious seduction of power, of understanding the privileges from which one benefits and the life it affords, is, in part, about the necessity of control. I’d probably be upset and a little sad if I lost all of that, too.  READ MORE...

Underwater Dancing

 

Adjustable Focus Reading Glasses

After the milestone age of 50, even the most perfect vision will start going downhill.  Mine sure did, and I depend on my computer to do my job.

Focusing on close-up objects became increasingly difficult. I felt tired and drowsy all the time. And I didn’t even realize it was a vision problem.

A single pair of prescription glasses was no longer enough. And I had to change my prescriptions every couple of months. It was so frustrating and expensive!

Fortunately, we now have an amazing pair of self-adjusting glasses that promises to fix your vision in seconds! Without breaking the bank.

But is it as good as the manufacturer claims?

We decided to test it ourselves and see first-hand what these affordable glasses can do…

What Is It?
It’s called VisionFocus and it’s a true game-changer!  Let’s face it, most of us don’t change our prescription as often as we should.  With VisionFocus, WE DON’T HAVE TO!  It’s 100% ADJUSTABLE! You can fix your eyesight - WITHOUT visiting your optometrist.

VisionFocus is built to last you a lifetime - scratch-resistant polycarbonate lenses paired with a fashionable rugged frame. It’s basically indestructible!

It works perfectly for both short & farsighted people. I keep a second pair in my glove compartment, so I don’t have to re-adjust my “main” glasses when I’m driving.

How Does It Work?   In order to find out how it works, CLICK HERE...

Norway Roads

 

Things are Getter Better

 

My back surgery was 10 weeks ago tomorrow...  and while I still walk with a walking stick, my walking time to complete a mile has gone from 48 minutes down to 31 minutes...  and now I make no stops whereas when I first started I was stopping twice...   IMPROVEMENT...

But, it took me 10 weeks to get here and believe me those 10 weeks were very stressful on me as I am used to healing quickly...

But, things are getting better...  which is why I thought of the song Getting Better  by the Beatles...

We don't think of The Beatles much anymore but they were popular between 1960 and 2000...  now we have groups whose lyrics are no longer profound...  sadly, music is not getting better...

My life changed moderately after I had my heart attack and again a little more moderately after I was diagnosed with cancer and then another cancer on top of the first one...  but, over time my body adjusted and I was able to do most of those things that a man my age was supposed to be doing...  BUT, this back surgery threw me for a loop and after 10 weeks, I am beginning to feel like I wanted to feel after 2 weeks...

I can see the light at the end of the tunnel and it is not the light of death...  it is the light of recovery...  I will soon be 80% and maybe I will even get back to 90% but it is doubtful that a man who is 75 years old will ever get back to 100%...  too much has happened to my body for that to happen.

The reason why I will return to 80-90% is that I took care of my body all of my life...  eating healthy, exercising regularly, sleeping, no tobacco, no drugs, no alcohol...  my HIGHS came from being HIGH on life...  it is an interesting concept and not one that is often taught to our children...

One Bite of the Apple

According to the story of Adam and Eve, assuming that you believe the story of Adam and Eve, Adam and Eve lived in the Garden of Eden - a utopia - where everything they needed or wanted was provided to them - however, they needed or wanted nothing...  or so the story goes - while living in this Garden, Adam and Eve were mature but innocent and had no knowledge of anything but GOOD - then this talking serpent came to the Garden and offered them food - AN APPLE - and when they took a bite of the apple, they were TRANSFORMED from mature people but innocent to mature people who were now aware of EVIL...  so, because of the FOOD they went from GOOD to GOOD & BAD...

Whatever happened to Adam and Eve was, according Biblical teaching, allowed to happen because God willed it to happen.  God is also seen as the creator of Adam and Eve where he created Adam first, then took a rib from him and created Eve so that he would have a companion.  It was also God's idea to create the serpent and instruct the serpent to tempt Adam and Eve with FOOD...  So, one could say that if God had not of wanted to test Adam and Eve, then Adam and Eve would have never known evil...

And while that concept sounds logical...  one must remember that God also created Jesus and created a situation where Jesus was not just going to be tempted but he was going to be crucified because of evil.  So, in order for Jesus to be killed by evil, God had to have Adam and Eve become aware of evil.  Hence, did the serpent tempt Adam and Eve into eating FOOD or did God arrange it so that it would happen regardless of what Adam and Eve did or did not do?

Interesting ideas presented right?

Now, what if the story of Adam and Eve along with all the stories in the Bible simply stories that are intended to convey a more subtle message to those who want to see it...  that is to say that God was or is an extraterrestrial from another planet (which aligns with God not being human or from earth) who came to this planet and altered the DNA of the animals that he found on this planet or that he created for this planet.  And, that the apple which is red and blood which is red represents the transformed DNA.

If we look at the Bible from that perspective, we can easily imagine that all the stories in the Bible are describing events that pertain to extraterrestrials interacting with humans, including the stories and Jesus and his death.  Especially since he told Caesar that his kingdom was not of this world...   as Christians we thought he was talking about Heaven...  but, he was not talking about Heaven at all but living and existing in another world, perhaps another dimension.

Why is human DNA so similar to the DNA of CHIMPANZEES?

Is this some sort of mysterious coincidence?  Or, is this the result of DNA manipulation by aliens (extraterrestrials) who visited this planet centuries ago?

Why is it so difficult to believe?  Because of our religious indoctrinations as a child?