OKLO combining forces with LEU in Ohio

Oklo Inc. and Centrus Energy Corp. are partnered to build a localized, integrated nuclear fuel cycle hub in Piketon, Ohio. Their collaboration aims to establish a centralized "one-stop shop" for advanced nuclear fuel services by combining uranium enrichment and deconversion services at a single geographic location. This approach bypasses a major domestic supply chain bottleneck for the next generation of American nuclear energy.The partnership operates across several core components and strategic initiatives:Co-Located Fuel and Power HubThe Location: The operations are centered at the Centrus Piketon Site in Pike County, Ohio. This location is home to the American Centrifuge Plant—the only U.S. facility currently licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to produce High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium (HALEU).The Joint Venture: The companies finalized a joint venture to build a new commercial deconversion facility directly adjacent to Centrus's existing enrichment lines.The Power Campus: The facility will sit next to Oklo’s planned 1.2-gigawatt advanced power campus. Notably, this power campus is backed by a landmark agreement with Meta Platforms to fund development and anchor long-term electricity demands for future data centers.Solving the Fuel Deconversion BottleneckWhat is Deconversion?: Once uranium is enriched into a gas form (uranium hexafluoride), it must be "deconverted" into a chemical form like uranium metal or oxide before being fabricated into usable fuel rods.Industry Efficiency: Advanced reactor technologies use diverse reactor designs, meaning companies traditionally have to build separate deconversion lines for each individual fuel fabrication plant. By centralizing deconversion next to enrichment in Ohio, Oklo and Centrus eliminate the need for redundant facilities across the U.S., simplifying logistics and drastically reducing the cost and hazards of shipping HALEU between states.Shared Energy Off-Take AgreementCircular Power Synergy: The agreement goes beyond fuel production. Under their expanded Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), Centrus intends to purchase clean, always-on energy generated by Oklo’s upcoming Aurora Powerhouse microreactors to run its highly energy-intensive HALEU enrichment cascades.Fuel Procurement: In return, Oklo secures a stable, domestic pipeline of HALEU fuel from Centrus to power its expanding commercial reactor fleet.

 -Tom

Ebola quarantine

https://www.facebook.com/share/1Cd7teoURk/

I was on the team that received American Ebola patients at the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit in October 2014. I am back at the unit now. I have never been more afraid in thirteen years of doing this work.

There are sixteen Americans inside a sealed corridor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center as I write this. Most of them came off a Dutch expedition cruise ship called the MV Hondius. Three of their fellow passengers are already dead. I am one of the physicians inside the same corridor, taking care of them.

I am writing this from a hotel room across the parking lot from the hospital at 1:14 AM Sunday because the rotation protocol requires me to stay within forty miles of the facility and the only place I have been since May 8th that does not have a stranger's air recycling through the vents is this hotel room. I am required to be back at the unit at 5:45 AM. I have approximately three hours before I have to walk back across that lot.

I am not going to identify my hospital or my colleagues or the federal agencies coordinating the response. I have a public-statements clause in my employment contract. I am not going to violate it. What I am about to describe is publicly verifiable from CDC, university, and federal records.

What I am about to describe is the gap between the institutional response inside the building and the language being used outside of it.

In October 2014, when our unit received the American Ebola repatriations of that year, we held public briefings. The lead physician of our program stood in front of cameras at a hospital briefing room and answered questions from reporters every other day. There was a dedicated information channel. There were daily updates published on the university's website. There were named clinicians available for interviews. There was a level of public transparency about what we were doing inside the unit that, by current standards, looks like science fiction.

That was twelve years ago for an outbreak that killed roughly eleven thousand people in West Africa and resulted in two confirmed transmissions on American soil.

The current outbreak has, on American soil so far, killed three confirmed people and infected approximately eleven additional confirmed cases. The numbers are smaller. The transparency is also smaller — by a factor I do not have language for.

There have been no public briefings from our unit since the current activation. There have been no named physicians available for interviews. The information channel published in 2014 has not been updated for the current event. The hospital's communications office has issued a single sentence. The federal agencies have issued a small number of advisories — including HAN-528, which I will get to — and one routine situation update.

The CDC's official position to the public, in case I need to remind you, remains, verbatim: "extremely low public health risk to the general American population."

I was on the activation pager rotation in 2014 and I am on it now. The page that came to me on October 6, 2014 was four characters long. It read: "ETA 1400." The page that came to me on May 7, 2026 was four characters long. It read: "ETA 1400."

I sat at my kitchen table the morning of May 8th and I looked at my phone for a long time. Both pages were on my screen. I had pinned the 2014 one in a folder marked "Reference." It is the page I think about more than any other communication I have received in my career. It is the page that means a small unit at a Midwestern hospital is about to do something only four buildings in the country can do.

I packed a bag.

Here is what is publicly verifiable about the current event.

On May 2nd, a Dutch expedition cruise ship called the MV Hondius docked carrying a strain of hantavirus called Andes virus. The only hantavirus on earth ever documented spreading from one human being to another through respiratory transmission. Three of the passengers are dead. Sixteen American passengers were transferred to our biocontainment unit through a federal repatriation arrangement. Twenty-three additional American passengers flew home on commercial flights before screening protocols existed. They are now in Arizona, California, Georgia, Texas, Virginia, and Nebraska. A KLM flight attendant in Amsterdam who was never on the ship is hospitalized with confirmed infection after a few minutes of contact with one of the disembarked passengers on a connecting flight.

The Andes incubation window is six weeks. We are entering week four.

The case fatality rate is between 35 and 40 percent. In adults over 60 with comorbidities — which is roughly the demographic of the average expedition-cruise passenger — the mortality rate is meaningfully higher. There is no vaccine. There is no antiviral. The CDC has activated its Emergency Operations Center for the response, which is the part the public does not understand the weight of.

The CDC's Emergency Operations Center has four tiers of activation. The lowest is a watch posture, where staff monitor an event but do not deploy. The next level is Standby. Then there are activation levels — Level 3, Level 2, and Level 1, in increasing intensity. Level 1 is the highest tier and is reserved for full-mobilization responses requiring multi-agency coordination, deployment of CDC field staff, and twenty-four-hour operational support across multiple time zones.

The previous Level 1 activations in the past two decades were H1N1 in 2009, the Ebola epidemic in 2014, and COVID-19 in 2020.

The Andes response was activated to Level 1 on May 9th.

The previous time the CDC activated to the highest tier for a hantavirus event was never. The first time in agency history. That is publicly verifiable in the CDC's activation history.

The CDC press briefings continue to use the phrase "extremely low public health risk."

I am writing this because the institutional response inside the federal architecture has been at the maximum activation tier for three weeks and the message to the general public has been calibrated to the second-from-bottom tier. That gap is the gap I am writing from.

I will not describe the patients. I will not describe specific clinical details. I will tell you what the operational picture is, because the operational picture is the same for every Level 1 federal biocontainment activation regardless of the pathogen.

When I report for a shift, I go through a personnel airlock. I remove my street clothes and put on hospital scrubs. I then put on a Level C powered air-purifying respirator suit with its own HEPA breathing system. The suit weighs nine pounds with the battery pack. I cannot wear it for more than four hours at a stretch without rotation. I work the unit in four-hour patient-care blocks with two-hour breaks. There are seventeen nurses and four physicians on rotation at this facility. Across all four federal-tier biocontainment facilities in the country combined — Nebraska, Emory, NIH, Bellevue — there are roughly two hundred and twenty biocontainment-credentialed nurses and approximately fifty physicians with the training to operate inside this kind of unit. That is the entire national capacity. If the case load goes above that, the country runs out of qualified hands. That is the math I think about during the two-hour breaks.

I have two parents. They are 79 and 81 and they live in a small condo in Sarasota, Florida. My father spent thirty-seven years as a union carpenter. He has chronic restrictive lung disease from a lifetime of wood dust and from a generation of being told that masks were optional. He carries a portable oximeter in his pocket. His baseline saturation on room air is 92 percent. If he were to contract this disease, he would not survive the first seventy-two hours. Florida has confirmed monitored cases from the Hondius — Tampa is roughly an hour from my parents' building.

I have not been able to visit them in eleven days because the rotation protocol requires me to stay within forty miles of the unit. I called my mother on May 11th. I called her again last Tuesday. I am supposed to call her tomorrow afternoon. She is going to ask me when I am coming to visit. I am not going to be able to answer her honestly. The post-rotation observation period is seven days after the last patient is cleared. I have no way to estimate when that will be.

I mailed them a fifty-pack of respirators on May 8th, before I drove to the airport for the activation flight. I mailed a fifty-pack to my sister and her two kids in Phoenix. I mailed a twenty-five-pack to the friend who took care of our dog during the 2014 rotation. I mailed five additional packs in the last week.

The CDC published a Health Alert Network advisory this month — HAN-528 — and the entire actionable guidance for the general public at the point of entry is one phrase, verbatim: "an N95 or higher-level respirator."

The CDC named one specific construction class in that advisory. A five-layer respirator manufactured to the GB 2626-2019 standard with two melt-blown polypropylene electrostatic filtration layers in the middle. It is the same construction class we wear in the outer ring of this unit — during transit, ambulance handover, and family-area coverage. It is what the medical crew on the MV Hondius has been wearing at every shift since the ship's second death. The crew is not sick. The passengers were not given it. Three of them are dead.

The brand I ordered is at the link below. I am not going to type the brand name in this post because every comment section on the internet turns into a fight about whether the poster is paid. Look at the construction specifications. Cross-reference the GB 2626-2019 standard against CDC HAN-528. Decide for yourself.

→ aerolab.shop/products/aerolab-kn95-respirator

I have to walk back across that parking lot in three hours. I will close this.

I did this work in 2014. The response then was loud — press briefings, named physicians, public situation updates, dedicated agency communications. The response was loud because the agencies understood that public confidence in the institutional response depends on public communication about the institutional response. The repatriations resulted in zero secondary transmissions on American soil because of the work that was done inside this unit by the same colleagues I am working with right now. We did our job. The system worked.

This time the response is institutionally the same — the same Level 1 EOC activation, the same biocontainment protocol, the same staff I worked with twelve years ago — and the public communication is institutionally quiet. The same federal apparatus is in motion. The press briefings are not happening. The named-physician interviews are not happening. The CDC director has not addressed the activation in any public forum I have been able to find. I do not have an explanation for the gap and I am not going to speculate about it.

I do know what the publicly verifiable signals are. The activation level. The biocontainment unit. The construction class named in HAN-528. The infection in Amsterdam from a few minutes of contact on an airplane. The three dead passengers. The twenty-three Americans who flew home without screening.

I do know what I am doing for my own household. I mailed the respirators on May 8th.

— Dr. M.

Biocontainment-credentialed ICU physician, thirteen years

Federal-tier facility, midwestern United States

Posted from a hotel room across the parking lot at 1:14 AM Sunday

Not paid. Not affiliated. Not posting through any hospital system, device, or network.

Account will be deleted by 5:30 AM.

P.S. If you only read one paragraph of this post, read this one. The CDC's Emergency Operations Center was activated to the highest tier in agency history for a hantavirus event on May 9th. The previous Level 1 activations were H1N1 in 2009, Ebola in 2014, and COVID-19 in 2020. Our biocontainment unit was activated for live-patient care on May 7th — only the third such activation in the unit's nineteen-year operational history. The first was Ebola in 2014. The second was a Lassa fever person-under-investigation in 2019 who was ultimately ruled out. The third is the event we are working right now. The respirator construction the CDC named in HAN-528 is in the link above. The press conference that admits the public should be paying attention to this event has not happened yet. Order one.

 -Tom

Terrible air quality in El Paso and Ciudad Juarez

https://elpasomatters.org/2025/03/12/el-paso-air-quality-rank-dust-pollution-wind-weather/

A real hotspot for pollution from drought conditions and wind, and fossil fuels. 

Communism vs Capitalism

You have two cows

Socialism: If you have two cows, you give one to your neighbor.

Communism: If you have two cows, you give them to the government and the government then gives you some milk.

Fascism: If you have two cows, you keep the cows and give the milk to the government; then the government sells you some milk.

Capitalism: If you have two cows, you sell one and buy a bull.

- Wikipedia https://share.google/qp5yasJ71bCnnUiLF

Parkinson's tail

https://youtu.be/wABYQ8_7KGk?is=ZpnITqIOFAcPABto

Smart! A moveable tail to help offset balance issues. 

Physicians Are Not Providers

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/ANNALS-25-03852

The name "provider" deprofessionalizes medicine and reduces medicine to transactions. 

Simple changes to reduce pedestrian deaths

https://youtu.be/tMBR3ur1egk?si=9-nrflnbzMepUk8d

But it takes political will to risk losing votes because they slow traffic down. 

Narco subs go autonomous

https://youtu.be/rLm4qysvzxs?si=saBXVeOhZbrHSGn1

Satellite radar

https://youtu.be/UKLuei1CnZY?si=R1RFdWvtOGLBmhBA

Satellite radar see through clouds. Using interferometry from multiple passes, it can detect mm movement of ground (to predict landslides) and bridges (to detect failure earlier.) Military applications abound - in tracking enemy vehicles in any weather. 

Cool - ask Google Omni to imagine a drone fly-through

https://youtu.be/ZfqLUVLRTj8?si=m1hOznDsORUzsXJ6

Here's a video I prompted with Google Omni

Wow - position-sensing that can see through walls using your Wi-Fi router

https://youtu.be/0OdR8rRMz3I?si=zgOc_-IuUdFtrje9

Reflected radio waves can reveal a lot of information about things moving nearby. And, at a global scale, satellites can track ships that have "gone dark" for nefarious purposes. 

And this tech is simple and cheap - in this video, a single chip setup could read her heart rate and breathing through walls. 

https://youtu.be/oBDX_dPvq4A?si=O1TRbAuD-R2VUI-y

Re: Love, health, and friends.

"Love to share, health to spare, and friends to share" 

-Quincy Jones on his 82^nd birthday

Brave new world of human gene editing

Earlier attempts made unpredictable, catastrophic changes. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/science/embryos-gene-editing-crispr.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Spend more effectively

https://youtu.be/iGkVqeFUVNU?si=-8aofXF2xfmqcmm_

1. Does this buy me time, or steal it?
2. Is this a story, or just a thing? 
3. Does this bring me closer to people? 
4. Can I make it a treat vs. a standard? 
5. Can I pay now and enjoy later?

Snail Mail

https://g.co/gemini/share/d6a28b98847b

Sleeping with even a little light promotes diabetes

Just one night of exposure to 100 lux (equivalent to a streetlight shining through a curtain) during sleep impaired glucose tolerance the next morning. It also "increased heart rate and sympathetic [nervous system] activity during the entire sleep period." 

This was studied in 20 healthy young adults 18-40 years old, and the moderate-light condition was four 60-watt incandescent overhead ceiling light bulbs (a total of 100 lux). 

Electric hydrofoil ferry uses 80% less power than comparable ferries

https://youtu.be/EkhMDAxY8Jk?si=S0FiDJXPXrDmQFIW

Or you can have their personal C-8 boat. 

Yours for under $400,000. 

What about in rough seas?

https://youtu.be/2i2Zf9WVlNY?si=MjRyehePFaO80zwY

https://youtu.be/IOVlTKmK5bc?si=kdWtVWfWgd6ljj-m

Warehouse logistics technology

https://youtu.be/5lCWqEFVzbY?si=UlmIaLtfDhh_FE_h

I hope you like to nerd out on this logistics equipment as much as Destin does! 

How Google maps funds the best route, efficiently

https://youtu.be/kS-CGkiPetQ?si=yrTf6TiDjTeCNaIY

I keep coming back to this video in my mind, imagining how efficiently a computer finds the best route between point so rapidly. 

Bio-concrete made with bacteria

https://youtu.be/n--BQG7rn7U?si=Kyk36Oyhhhrb1KXn

Why do we stretch when we wake up?

We stretch when we wake up to reset our muscles and nervous system after hours of stillness. This instinctive behavior—known scientifically as "pandiculation"—promotes blood circulation, lubricates joints, and primes the brain for movement.

Resetting the Body: During sleep, your muscles relax, blood pressure drops, and joints can become stiff. Stretching signals the brain to awaken from its low-power state and increases blood flow to warm up stiff tissues.

Lubricating Joints: Movement stimulates the production of synovial fluid, which acts as natural lubrication for your joints to prevent pain and stiffness.

Rebooting the Nerves: Pandiculation is a three-step process (contraction, release, and lengthening) that reboots the nerves and muscle spindles controlling muscle tone, helping you achieve better posture and mobility for the day.

Releasing Feel-Good Chemicals: Stretching stimulates the release of endorphins, naturally boosting your mood and easing the unconscious physical tension that can build up overnight.

This process is controlled by the hypothalamus and involves the release of chemicals like cortisol and dopamine, which give you an energetic jump-start, inducing reductions in chronic stress severity and reduced cortisol. 

Has the beneficial effect been studied prospectively? 

Forcing people to transition from a brief, instinctive morning yawn-stretch into an intentional, structured stretching routine significantly improves physical, mental, and vascular health.

-regular static stretching physically reduces stiffness in major arteries.

- 10 minutes of daily stretching counteracts muscle degradation and prevents drops in explosive muscle performance caused by prolonged sitting or sedentary lifestyles.

-Overnight, muscle fibers naturally shorten and tighten. Holding a stretch for the physiologically optimal 30 seconds forces these fibers to physically lengthen, improving overall range of motion and long-term posture.

Smart home of the 1870's

https://youtu.be/V2lEgMHF2Fo?si=ZeyuaDyHh8aKVa2O

I think you'll like this guy's inventiveness and the number of quirky mechanical devices he has in his home. 

His invention, among others, was to add huge weights on top of a hydraulic water reservoir to maintain a constant and higher pressure as the reservoir neared empty. 

He had telephones, central heating, and electric light decades before others did. 

SpaceX IPO doubts

Trading view had an article about the SpaceX IPO - maybe wait a bit. 

Space company has never been profitable; posted a 2025 loss on tiny revenue and a Q1 2026 loss on, again, tiny revenue. The valuation target? Gargantuan.

IPO Dreams

SpaceX finally cracked open the vault and revealed its financials ahead of what could become the biggest IPO in market history (likely coming in June). The company is reportedly eyeing a valuation north of $1.5 trillion and could raise more than $80 billion in a Nasdaq debut under ticker “SPCX.”

Investors expecting a money-printing rocket factory got a bit of atmospheric turbulence instead. SpaceX lost $4.9 billion in 2025 on $18.7 billion in revenue. In Q1 2026 alone, losses hit $4.3 billion on just $4.7 billion in sales. That's not exactly "to the moon" accounting.

The prospectus confirms what many suspected: SpaceX is really two businesses stitched together with titanium bolts and ambition. One is a mature launch-and-satellite operation. The other is a cash-hungry Al chatbot operation after the merger with xAl, which has been burning through billions building data centers.

Starlink Pays

SpaceX's legacy space operations brought in $4.1 billion in revenue last year, though they still weren't profitable. Meanwhile, Starlink - the satellite internet division generated a chunky $11.4 billion in revenue and continues to be the company's financial workhorse.

Then there's xAI, Elon Musk's artificial-intelligence venture folded into the broader empire earlier this year. xAl generated $3.2 billion in revenue in 2025, but investors are laser-focused on its aggressive spending as it races against rivals in the Al arms race.

In market jargon, this is a “growth-at-all-costs” story. Investors are being asked to ignore today's losses in exchange for tomorrow's potentially massive dominance in Al, space infrastructure, internet connectivity, and maybe Mars Wi-Fi subscriptions somewhere down the line.

Musk, the Unfireable

If investors hoped public ownership might dilute Elon Musk's influence, the filing said: absolutely not. Musk controls roughly 85% of the voting power thanks to supervoting Class B shares carrying 10 votes each. In practice, SpaceX will remain firmly in Elon's grip.

The filing also revealed Musk owns 849 million Class A shares and 5.6 billion Class B shares. Combined with insider holdings, executives and board members control about 86% of the company's voting power. Activist investors need not apply.

There's also a lockup twist. Musk and major insiders agreed not to sell stock for 366 days after trading begins, while other early investors face a 180-day lockup. In short, that's plenty of hype, limited float, gigantic valuation, and volatility potential dialed all the way up.

Patriotism definition

Patriotism is not passive allegiance, but an active, dynamic "praiseworthy competition with one's ancestors" [Tacitus] to achieve greatness. 

The empathy gym - Hidden Brain

3 Independent stages of empathy

Emotional empathy

Cognitive empathy

Compassion

10 times as many people live alone today as compared to 1950.

"In 1950, 22 percent of American adults were single. Four million lived alone, and they accounted for 9 percent of all households […] Today, more than 50 percent of American adults are single, and 31 million — roughly one out of every seven adults — live alone…People who live alone make up 28 percent of all U.S. households,  https://www.themarginalian.org/2012/05/09/going-solo-klinenberg/

And, when we do interact with others, it's much more transactional. 

People in helping professions can develop defensive dehumanization to prevent emotional overload of having empathy. 

47:50

Often when we encounter someone who is different from ourselves or has an opinion that we abhor, It's easy to view them as being either obtuse or dishonest or both. But that's a mistake. It's a view of the world that psychologists call a naive realism. Empathy is the understanding, at a deeper level, that someone else's view of the world is just as true as yours.https://www.hiddenbrain.org/podcast/you-2-0-the-empathy-gym/

Key Takeaways

• The "Muscle" Analogy: Much like going to the gym builds physical strength, deliberate practice can expand our ability to understand and share the feelings of others. [1, 2, 3]
• Benefits of Empathy: Building this skill doesn't just help those around you; it lowers your own stress, reduces the likelihood of depression, and helps you adjust better to difficult situations. [1]
• Mindful Calibration: The episode discusses how we often struggle with empathy fatigue or misdirected sympathy, and teaches methods to calibrate it so we can interact with others in a healthy, mindful way. [1, 2]

NYTimes: I.R.S. to Drop Audits of Trump and Family

So telling — "It revealed the determination of Mr. Trump and his appointees to ram through maximalist measures with minimum outside scrutiny at a moment when they still have uncontested control of government." 

I.R.S. to Drop Audits of Trump and Family https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/us/politics/trump-irs-doj-lawsuit-audit.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

The futility of Training Modules in Health Care—and of management consultants. JAMA

The futility of mandatory yearly video training modules. 

Mandatory Training Modules in Health Care—Time to Reassess. 2026

"physicians receive...annual notices listing required training modules to be completed [on topics] such as privacy, cybersecurity, workplace conduct, infection control, and safety...passive information transfer may have limited effect on real-world practice...Completion of a compliance activity does not necessarily demonstrate knowledge acquisition, competence, or behavior change...It is difficult to imagine subjecting resident physicians to the same unmodified slide deck for a decade without revision...When the primary institutional objective is documentation of completion rather than meaningful learning, clinicians may reasonably prioritize efficiency over engagement." JAMA

And this article, pointing out that absolutely no difference in outcome results from the billions of dollars ($16 million per hospital) spent on management consultants. 

Changes in Nonprofit Hospitals’ Finances, Operations, and Quality of Care After Using Management Consultants. 2026

"Nonprofit hospitals that hired management consultants paid an average of $15.7 million for their services...Despite this substantial investment, analyses of hospitals’ financial performance, operational decisions, and claims-based patient outcomes revealed little evidence of substantial, statistically significant, or systematic improvements attributable to consulting engagements...Nonprofit hospitals expend substantial resources on management consultants, but there was no evidence of meaningful changes in hospital finances, operations, or quality of care."JAMA

Changes in Nonprofit Hospitals’ Finances, Operations, and Quality of Care After Using Management Consultants | Health Care Quality | JAMA | JAMA Network

Changes in Nonprofit Hospitals’ Finances, Operations, and Quality of Care After Using Management Consultants

"Nonprofit hospitals expend substantial resources on management consultants, but there was no evidence of meaningful changes in hospital finances, operations, or quality of care." https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2848641

The money that hospitals spend on administrators reminds me of this reference, and how futile that expenditure really is. 

Ford partners with inventors to get their ideas to market sooner.

https://youtu.be/dsz5UAZB1Hk?si=ARwKD8wuYaeh3oEV

Margin interest rates Robinhood vs Schwab

Based on early 2026 rates, a $100,000 margin loan costs approximately $13.89 to $14.03 per day at Robinhood (Gold) and roughly $28.68 per day at Schwab. Robinhood typically offers lower rates (approx 5%-5.05%) for Gold members, while Schwab’s rate for this amount is higher (approx 10.325%-10.575).

Color vision

https://youtu.be/-DyrBDsKA5s?si=AGsfFbectubHin11

He refers 2:15 to a paper on tetrachromacy (people who have a 4^th set of retinal cones, and are neurologically wired to use them.)

Proving someone has tetrachromacy requires asking a subject to mix red and green light until it looks identical to a reference yellow. Trichromats (normal people) all agree on one specific ratio. A tetrachromat, having a fourth cone type in between, perceives a subtle difference in those "identical" mixtures that trichromats can't, requiring a different mixing ratio entirely.

Although about 12% of women have this 4^th cone type, only a very small proportion of them are able to use the extra come to distinguish more color types. ref

Screenshot - a feature on iPhone released directly because of David Pogue

https://youtube.com/shorts/pFihjYph2oE?si=FZrBxdNf03UltKN7

Jet fuel from algae

https://youtu.be/gq2h2l2vxKM?si=sJhBXKRgEh8ndiIr

1:13 Algae is much more efficient at growing oil per hectare than other candidate plants like palm oil and rapeseed oil. 

1:31 growing algae is prohibitively expensive, unless —

2:37 you feed algae the leftovers from bacterial digestion of agricultural byproducts as the anaerobic bacteria produce biogas. It's a win-win. 

4:01 although burning the algae-derived fuel releases CO2, it balances the CO2 captured by the algae when growing, for a net-zero carbon footprint. 

Radical Acceptance - Hidden Brain Media

28:53 "Accepting the reality you're in instead of standing outside banging on the door of reality [asking it to change] doesn't change a thing." You need a new perspective. 

Stop fighting what we cannot change, it opens up avenues for real change. 

That's what wonder does it really leans us fully in to our humanness. 

Coherent life: Who I am, what I'm doing, and what I believe in are all connected. Compass exercise: write down 3 paragraphs: 

1) my life view - what are the most important questions that define reality. 

2) what do you believe is the purpose of your work - to make the world a better place/ to keep you busy/ to make a living / a place where community can be experienced as we collaborate ? 

3) what's going on with you - what's the long caption of your story right now. 

These give a picture of your life right now and you can discern your core values from these. 

47:00 "Flow State" defined as the experience of full and deep engagement where time stands still, where both the task you are currently involved in, and your skills to perform that task, are in approximate balance. 

But you can turn any situation into a simple flow state by being fully present in the moment. If chopping onions, enjoy the sharpeness of the knife, feel the crispness of the onion, to fully engage in the experience. 

In our "transactional" world, we are always thinking of the future benefit of what we're doing, instead of truly being present in the moment. 

https://www.hiddenbrain.org/podcast/radical-acceptance/

Ocean cleanup benefits in Jakarta

https://youtu.be/XFXQtSnBnTs?si=R4HKp9wQwY_hVMMP

4:49 profiling several people whose lives and jobs have been directly impacted and improved  because of the ocean cleanup project. 5:06 A silkworm farmer has increased his yield 30%.