We are living in a time of SIGNS. They are everywhere. I am not talking about physical signs like billboards. I am talking about the more metaphysical signals, symbols and warnings that are appearing everywhere.
We are also slammed on a daily basis with warnings of impending doom. Fear mongering is a tool employed by those who want to control us and steer us in the direction they want us to go
Bombarded as we are there is a tendency to feel overwhelmed and to lean toward dismissing all the incoming alarms and retreat into our comfort zone. Unfortunately, we really cannot afford to remain ignorant. Now more than ever is the time to be informed, to stay alert, and to do our due diligence.
The Last Days are here. No longer can we enjoy the luxury of blissful ignorance. There is too much at stake. Those who want to enslave us, control us and kill us are working over time. I know it is hard for people to accept that there are those who are conspiring against us. However, that is the TRUTH.
There are many signs/indicators all around us that give us insight into HOW they are planning to destroy us..
Let me interject a little tidbit, before going futher. There are signs of the EVIL that is in this world…BUT! There are also signs of God’s love for us and His plans for us. God is always working on behalf of those who CHOOSE HIM.
Today we are going to look at the sign of the Bees. Yes, bees. Such a tiny creature, yet so important to our survival. More importantly a huge harbinger of what is in store for humanity.
If you will pay attention to what is happening to Bees, what is being done to the bees, you will get a very clear picture of what the elite have planned for YOU. Not only what they have planned, but what they are already implementing.
Honey Bees – Our Canary in the Coal Mine
The Death Of Bees Explained – Parasites, Poison and Humans Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell Jul 9, 2015 In 2015 the bees are still dying in masses. Which at first seems not very important until you realize that one third of all food humans consume would disappear with them. Millions could starve. The foes bees … Click Here to Read More
Idiom: “canary in a coal mine”
Etymology: An allusion to caged canaries (birds) that miners would carry down into the mine tunnels with them. If dangerous gases such as carbon monoxide collected in the mine, the gases would kill the canary before killing the miners, thus providing a warning to exit the tunnels immediately.
The use of canaries in coal mines dates back to the 19th century when mining was still done by hand with little regard for safety standards. As miners dug deeper into the earth, they encountered pockets of methane gas which could cause explosions or suffocation if not detected early enough.
To solve this problem, miners began bringing caged canaries into the mines with them because these birds were highly sensitive to toxic gases like carbon monoxide and methane. If there was any danger present, the birds would start showing symptoms like coughing or convulsions before humans even noticed anything wrong.
Over time, this practice became standard procedure in many mines around the world until technology advanced enough that electronic sensors could replace living creatures as detectors.
This idiom is significant because it reminds us that we need to pay attention to the warning signs around us and take action before it’s too late. Whether it’s in our personal lives or on a global scale, ignoring the canary in the coal mine could have dire consequences. Source
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MODERN SCIENCE STEPS AND GOALS:
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Hegelian Dialectic: What It Is & How Does It Apply To You?
Hegelian dialectic is ‘PROBLEM-REACTION-SOLUTION’ and how it works is like this:
- The government creates or exploits a problem in which attributes blame to others.
- The people react by asking the govt for protection and help (safety and security) to help solve the problem.
- Then, the government offers the solution that was planned by them long before the crisis occured.
What’s the outcome? The outcome of all of this is: the rights and liberties are exchanged for the illusion of protection and help.
A Breakthrough in Robotic Bee Design
MIT’s robotic bees mark a significant leap in the evolution of tiny flying machines. These new robots are more agile and capable than previous models, offering enhanced endurance, speed, and precision.
One notable advancement is their ability to hover for over 1,000 seconds—more than 100 times longer than earlier versions. This extended hover time allows for increased efficiency and versatility, enabling the robots to carry out intricate tasks with greater accuracy. Yes, and be aware that these are robots, remote controlled, and following commands to complete whatever “TASK” their commanders have in mind. Which do not necessarily have to have anything to do with pollinating the flowers and vegetables.
Kevin Chen, an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, stated, “The amount of flight we demonstrated in this paper is likely longer than the cumulative flight time our field has achieved with these robotic insects.”
This leap in performance opens exciting possibilities for assisted pollination, as robotic bees could help mitigate the loss of natural pollinators.
The robots are designed to execute acrobatic maneuvers, such as aerial flips and precise path-following, even spelling “M-I-T” in mid-air. These advanced control systems allow for refined movements and improved navigation of plants, flowers, and other targets.
The robots’ enhanced speed—reaching 35 cm/s—paired with their increased precision means they could eventually take on the essential role of pollination in controlled environments like greenhouses and urban vertical farms.
Overcoming Challenges in Robotic Pollination
Natural pollinators like bees excel at tasks that current robotic systems still struggle to replicate. The efficiency and precision of a bee’s flight result from complex muscle systems and biological mechanisms.
For robotic bees to match this level of sophistication, scientists must address challenges related to durability, flight stability, and control.MIT’s new design achieves significant progress by utilizing fewer wingsand incorporating complex transmissions that reduce mechanical strain.
The latest robotic bee design features a split structure, with each half containing a single outward-flapping wing. This configuration enhances stability, minimizes wing interference, and creates additional space for electronics.
The team also developed new long wing hinges, improving the robot’s durability and reducing stress during flight. These advancements enable the robots to perform tasks that were previously difficult or impossible for robotic insects, such as extended hovering or complex aerial maneuvers.
“Compared to the old robot, we can now generate control torque three times larger than before, allowing us to execute highly sophisticated and accurate path-finding flights,” said Chen.
These enhancements provide researchers with hope that robots may soon be capable of landing on flowers with precision, effectively performing essential pollination tasks with an accuracy comparable to that of real bees.
Next-Generation Pollination Systems
The next phase of development will focus on further extending the robots’ flight capabilities. MIT researchers aim to increase the robots’ endurance to beyond 10,000 seconds while improving their ability to autonomously navigate real-world environments.
Equipped with small batteries and sensors, these robotic bees could fly independently, conducting pollination tasks in agricultural fields without constant human oversight.
One of the most exciting prospects for these robotic bees is their potential role in urban farming and multilevel agricultural environments. In densely populated areas with limited space, vertical farms could utilize robotic bees to efficiently pollinate cropswith minimal environmental impact.
This innovation could bolster food production in areas where arable land is scarce and reduce dependence on traditional pollination methods.
Real-World Applications of Robotic Bees
Although still in the early stages, MIT’s robotic bees could soon have significant implications for agriculture. Here are three practical applications for these flying robots:
Pollination in Controlled Agricultural Settings: In environments like vertical farms and greenhouses, robotic bees could carry out precise pollination tasks where natural pollinators may be absent. By complementing the efforts of real bees, robotic insects could ensure that crops receive the necessary pollination, thereby enhancing yields and reducing pesticide usage.
Supporting Natural Pollinators: As bee populations dwindle, robotic bees could provide essential support to the remaining natural pollinators. These robots could be deployed in areas where bee populations struggle, filling the gap and ensuring vital crops receive proper pollination.
Pollination in Remote or Extreme Environments: In regions where natural pollinators cannot thrive, such as extreme climates or disaster-affected areas, robotic bees could perform pollination tasks. Their deployment could help restore agricultural activity and food production in regions facing environmental challenges.
Challenges Ahead and the Path Forward
Despite the significant advancements represented by MIT’s robotic bees, challenges remain.
Future research will prioritize refining the robots’ flight capabilities, extending battery life, and ensuring their durability in real-world environments. Scaling the technology for widespread agricultural adoption will require overcoming logistical challenges and ensuring that robotic bees can operate effectively alongside natural pollinators.
Nonetheless, MIT’s research signifies a promising step toward addressing the global pollination crisis.
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What Are Robot Bees?
Robot bees, or mechanical bees, are machines designed to do the work of actual bees, like pollinating plants, as well as monitor the health of bee hives. They are used to increase productivity in the agriculture industry, particularly as the global bee population grows more fragile.
Bees play a critical role in agriculture, helping to pollinate some 35 percent of the world’s food crops, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. And honey bees, specifically, pollinate more than 90 commercially grown crops in the United States alone, including apples, broccoli and almonds. For the most part, these bees are a managed species, like livestock, and they are transported from one place to another to pollinate crops that eventually yield the fruits and vegetables we all consume.
While there is no looming threat of global food supply shortages due to mass bee extinction — as has been widely reported — honey bees still face significant challenges. Commoditized bees are particularly vulnerable to various parasites and diseases, and they have strict dietary needs.
Meanwhile, the global human population is increasing quickly — along with the demand for food — affecting everything from the growth of coffee beans to almonds.
“You’ve got these complex supply and demand curves going on. And our pollinators are able to meet most of the demand, but not all of it,” Simon Potts, a professor of biodiversity and ecosystem services at the University of Reading, told Built In. “There is just a bigger and bigger demand for insect-pollinated crops across the world.”
Robot bees, also called mechanical bees, could be the future. | Video: BBC Earth Lab
How Are Robot Bees Being Used?
Researchers and engineers from around the world have been experimenting with ways robots can do the work of real bees. Some fly around with propellers and use ionic liquid gel-coated horse hair bristles to collect and transfer pollen from one plant to another. Others have flexible wings powered by “artificial muscles” and use an electrostatic patch to perch on just about anything. And some don’t fly at all, but instead roll on the ground and pollinate flowers by blasting them with pulses of air. Ya, none of that sounds anything like natural pollination to me. I would rather have the fuzzy little fellas that God made, Thank You. Why don’t they spend all the money they have been spending on robot bees on protecting our natural bees. Helping bee keepers more effectively produce by learning what the bees need and providing it for them. Instead of “Commodity Farming” them moving them around to suit the corporate farms.
Pollinate Crops
One example is BloomX (formerly known as Bumblebee AI), an Israeli startup that uses artificial intelligence and elements of biomimicry to pollinate crops when they need pollinating.
Bearing resemblance to a push lawn mower, the company’s machine is capable of imitating the best natural approach to pollinating specific crops. One is a “cross pollination mechanism,” which uses an electric charge to collect pollen from one flower and apply it to another by passing between rows of crops — similar to how honey bees pollinate. Another uses vibration at the base of a plant to initiate the release of pollen, mimicking how bumble bees pollinate crops like blueberries and strawberries.
This approach, according to BloomX’s founder and CEO Thai Sade, is more efficient and sustainable than using commoditized honey bees. When they are used generically, and shipped from place to place in an unnatural way, bees are forced to withstand different climates and environments in which they cannot work to their full potential, resulting in unhealthier bees and lower crop outputs. Gee, no kidding, what a surprise. Bees, like humans ARE NOT MACHINES that you can control and FORCE to produce ON DEMAND. They need a stable environment/home.
“Honey bees, as a creature, have different preferences, different attractions to flowers, different ways they pollinate technically,” Sade told Built In. “So they are not aligned if you want to pollinate many crops commercially.”
Since 2020, BloomX’s technology has been used to assist in growing avocados, as well as blueberries in South America. It is also in the R&D phase of launching a machine made specifically for use in greenhouses, a rapidly growing market in food production. Well, though you can grow plants in a green house… they are not of the same quality as those grown naturally. You can grow plants they hydroponic way but I guarantee you that because they do not receive the nutrients from the sun and the earth, they cannot possibly be as beneficial to our bodies.
Maintain Hive Health
RoboRoyale is a project that is working to combine microrobotic, biological and machine learning technologies into a system that can support the well-being of a hive’s queen bee.
Researchers from Durham University, University of Graz, Czech Technical University and Middle East Technical University have developed a six-legged device that operates around the queen, with a central camera for monitoring her, as well as six individual “artificial agents” that are the size of actual honey bees. These little robots are designed to take care of some of the tasks ordinarily handled by a queen bee’s court, such as grooming her, feeding her and moving her around the hive, so she can do what she does best: lay eggs. Seems to me that they have been using their Robo bees to spy on the beehives worldwide. I doubt that there is anything about the bees and their issues and needs. I believe that have been collecting data in order to orchestrate their demise.
On average, a hive has 20,000 to 30,000 bees — the majority of which are simply pollinators that travel many miles around their hive to all kinds of flowers, creating honey for the hive. Then there’s the queen’s court, also known as worker bees, which take care of the queen. The queen is the mother of most, if not all, of the bees in a hive. She can live upwards of five years, laying between 175,000 to 200,000 eggs per year. The queen is the central figure in the hive’s operation, which is why RoboRoyale focuses its attention there — the health of a queen largely indicates the health of the entire hive, as well as its pollination efficiency.
“If we can control an entire colony’s behavior with just the queen, this is a minimally invasive way of interacting with them,” Farshad Arvin, an associate professor in robotics at Durham University and coordinator for the RoboRoyale project, told Built In. “If we want to increase pollination in some time of the year, we can regulate [the hive’s foragers’ flights] by adjusting some RoboRoyale system parameters.”
RoboRoyale works with domesticated honey bee hives at the University of Graz in Austria, which maintains its own observation hives. The ultimate goal is to commercialize the product, providing observation hives and RoboRoyale robots that beekeepers can then use for their own colonies and queens. Arvin said this will hopefully happen in the next ten years.
“We are not going to replace them, but we give them benefits so they can survive,” he continued. “We strengthen their system. We help them, but we let them do pollination.”
Other Notable Robot Bee Projects
As the honey bee situation garners more attention and urgency, a number of robotic bee projects are gaining momentum in an effort to find alternatives.
MIT scientists develop robotic insects for artificial pollination. | Video: DRM News
MIT’s Robotic Bees
MIT has been working on a robotic bee, with the latest version weighing less than a paper clip and being able to hover for 1,000 seconds — 100 times longer than its predecessor. Because of its lightweight frame, the bee can perform different maneuvers while using miniature batteries or sensors to keep it powered during flight. The hope is that this robotic bee can support farmers growing crops in multilevel warehouses.
An overview of HIVEOPOLIS. | Video: Artificial Life Lab Graz
HIVEOPOLIS
In addition to RoboRoyale, the European Union (EU) has funded other projects, including HIVEOPOLIS. As part of this project, EU researchers built a robotic bee known as RoboBee, which can mimic the dancing movements of bees to communicate with them. If real bees are willing to follow the directions of a robotic counterpart, RoboBee could lead bees to safer areas and away from pesticide- and disease-ridden sites.
An overview of the process of building Festo’s BionicBee. | Video: Festo
Festo’s BionicBee
Festo’s Bionic Learning Network develops technology solutions for climate change, with one of its projects being the BionicBee. The BionicBee weighs just over an ounce and uses GPS technology to locate itself in a room and communicate its position to other BionicBees, enabling a group of these bees to act as a coordinated swarm. Festo uses experiments like this to inform the design of future products.
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Researchers at WPI continue the research they started at the University of Maryland. | Video: UMD
Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Robotic Bee Prototype
Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute are also building a robotic bee to aid in artificial pollination efforts. The current prototype is less than five inches wide and is equipped with a camera, four propellers and a rechargeable lithium battery. With the goal of designing a robotic bee that can navigate environments on its own, researchers believe this technology can be useful for search and rescue missions in addition to pollination initiatives.
Arugga AI Farming – Autonomous Pollination Robots
Arugga’s autonomous pollination robots in action. | Video: Kye Smith Creative
Arugga’s Pollination Robots
Arugga is reportedly the first company to commercialize robotic pollination for greenhouse-grown tomatoes. Its AI-powered robot scoots up and down rows of tomato plants, uses computer vision to determine whether a given plant is ready for pollination and then blitzes the flowers with calibrated streams of air to initiate pollination.
Advantages of Robot Bees
Whether they’re used for pollination or for health monitoring, robot bees have the potential to provide a variety of benefits for the agriculture industry.
More Productive Than Real Bees
Sade claims farmers using BloomX’s can yield upwards of 20 to 40 percent more crops than if they used commercial honey bees. The performance of Arugga’s bots are reportedly on par with the bumblebees it is trying to mimic — in some cases better by as much as 5 percent.
Then there’s the added bonus of these robots’ ability to collect and analyze crop data along the way, giving growers more control and allowing them to make more informed decisions about ways to improve their yield.
And while RoboRoyale is still in progress, Arvin said its tiny robots could have a big economic impact.
“If we can contribute to increased pollination, that means higher quality agriculture [and] better food production,” Arvin said. “And if we can increase the wellbeing of the queen — a strong queen, a strong colony, means better honey production.”
More Resilient Than Commercial Honey Bees
The majority of bee pollination today is done with commoditized honey bees, not wild ones. And the ways they are being transported and used are not sustainable.
“They are not supposed to be working commercially in an agricultural environment, because agriculture is not nature,” Sade said. “The way we use them is very unsustainable. For their health, for the environment, for the land.”
And because of climate change, honey bees are increasingly acting in ways that are not beneficial to their hive’s survival, or pollination. For example, unseasonably hot days may trigger a queen bee’s court to prepare her to lay eggs at the wrong time of the year, which can be dangerous to the survival of the entire hive. RoboRoyale’s microbots can head that off by surrounding the queen to prevent the court from getting close to her.
Bumblebees are another commonly used pollinator, but many countries don’t allow them to be imported to prevent them from becoming an invasive species. Arugga seeks to work mostly in countries where importing bumblebees isn’t allowed. In Australia, for example, the pollination process is handled with manual labor. In that case, Arugga claims its robots have demonstrated yield improvements of up to 20 percent.
Arugga’s robots can also help growers avoid the many inefficiencies that come with normal bumblebee pollination. For instance, bumblebees cannot work in extreme heat, and they can transmit viruses between flowers. Robot bees don’t have these problems.
Safer to Use in Greenhouses
Robot bees have the potential to act as quasi wild pollinators in greenhouses, without requiring that the whole greenhouse be opened up to the actual wild. That’s important because greenhouses are becoming an increasingly popular alternative to outdoor farms. These are closely monitored environments, so there is no need for pesticides.
“The problem with these closed systems is that, quite often, they don’t have wild pollinators coming in from the environment,” Potts said. “Because if you open it up to the environment, then pests are going to get in and that’s an issue for food quality.”
Disadvantages of Robot Bees
At the same time, using robot bees comes with its fair share of potential challenges. And environmentalists like Potts remain skeptical.
Potential Damage to the Environment
Mining for the metals that go into our technology negatively impacts the environment, and a mass creation of robot bees would only add to that.
Then, if a robot bee breaks while it’s out in the field, it could just sit there, along with the heavy metals, lithium battery and other toxins it is full of — potentially to be consumed by birds and mammals or absorbed by the soil and surrounding crops.
Could Be a New ‘Invasive Species’
Introducing a new pollinator — even a mechanical one — out in the wild could have a huge impact on a given area’s biodiversity. Unless they are explicitly programmed to do so, robot bees likely won’t pollinate things like wildflowers the way bees do, which could have deep ramifications across an entire ecosystem.
“There’s this whole food web that’s secured by having bees pollinate wildflowers,” Potts said. “If you were to replace those bees, then the wildflower communities would start to collapse, which would then impact all our birds and mammals. It would mean whole communities would go into these extinction cascades.”
Even if robot bees didn’t entirely replace real bees, there is a danger of them becoming a sort of “invasive species,” as Potts put it. That would result in a catastrophic loss of biodiversity.
“When you introduce something like an alien species that shouldn’t be there, it basically shakes up the whole system,” Potts said. “It’s almost like it would be an invasion on a global scale.”
Lack the ‘Flexibility and Sophistication’ of Real Bees
Real bees can fly for hours and remain stable in wind and rain. They seek out flowers that are miles away from their homes and use sophisticated olfactory and visual cues to find not only the right flower, but the right parts of that flower to pick up and drop off pollen. All of these abilities and behaviors come naturally to a real bee, but are incredibly difficult for even the smartest of robots. RIGHT, because GOD in His infinite wisdom created all things to be intricately connected and amazingly perfect.
| Honeybees also discriminate food sources. While humans have a variety of food each meal, bees opt to visit only one flower species per trip. This discrimination is certainly beneficial to plants as it provides a pure transfer of pollen, enabling the plants to remain one species and not become a hybrid.
Pollen is collected via static electricity when bees land on the flowers and is stored in sacs on their legs. Nectar collection requires one of bees’ special adaptations: the proboscis. The proboscis is a carefully adapted tongue that functions like a pump. Bees stick their proboscis in the flower and pull out nectar. The nectar is swallowed, but rather than entering the bee digestive tract, it is stored in a specially developed sac located at the bottom of the esophagus above the stomach. While the bee is in flight returning to the hive, she adds more saliva to the nectar. Bee saliva also contains a special adaptation: invertase. This enzyme, found no where else in nature, works to break down the complex sugars in nectar to simple sugars i.e. honey, |
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What’s more, many crops require “specialist behaviors and techniques,” according to Potts, and bees have a “whole repertoire” of behaviors they can use according to whatever flower they’re interacting with. Even if they’re presented with a totally new flower, bees are smart enough to work out how to get pollen from it.
“That flexibility and sophistication, I think they’re so far away from being able to [replicate],” Potts said. “Why replace something that is an absolute black belt at doing it — superb — with something that isn’t?”
And yet, the global population is expected to grow to 8.5 billion people by 2030 and reach 9.7 billion people by 2050. To meet the demand, food production will need to increase drastically. So will the number of pollinators, particularly honey bees, which are already facing their own unique challenges in the face of habitat loss, pesticide use, climate change and other factors. We may need the help of robot bees to help keep us afloat.
“I don’t think we will replace all the bees in the world. We also need them,” BloomX’s Sade said. “We need to work much better with our planet Earth. Our resources are limited, and we need to be very, very cost-effective environmentally and financially on how we use our resources.”
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So, they are justifying the risks they are taking with our environment because of overpopulation…
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Declining Birth Rates: Actual Conditions and Causal Factors of …
Feb 13, 2015 · Some countries successfully countered the birth rate decline by implementing various initiatives to increase the birth rate. Such initiatives include legal support for unmarried couples living together, childcare subsidies in cash and in-kind, and enhanced childcare services. In such countries, the ideal number of children and the actual number …
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Fertility rate: ‘Jaw-dropping’ global crash in children being born – BBC
Jul 14, 2020· Falling fertility rates mean nearly every country could have shrinking populations by the end of the century. And 23 nations – including Spain and Japan – are expected to see their populations …
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Bye, Bye, Baby? Birthrates are declining globally – here’s why it matters
- Birthrates are falling globally.
- In many countries, COVID-19 has suppressed population growth by causing a decline in births, migration and life expectancy.
- Even before the pandemic, urbanization was driving population decline.
Why population decline matters
Why should you care about population decline? Fewer people are good for the climate, but the economic consequences are severe. In the 1960s, there were six people of working age for every retired person. Today, the ratio is three-to-one. By 2035, it will be two-to-one.
Some say we must learn to curb our obsession with growth, to become less consumer-obsessed, to learn to manage with a smaller population. That sounds very attractive. But who will buy the stuff you sell? Who will pay for your healthcare and pension when you get old?
Because soon, humanity will be a lot smaller and older than it is today
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Falling fertility rates: What does it mean for our planet?
July 29, 2022 Falling birth rates across nearly all the developed world– and now much of the developing world– have demographers like Paul Morland concerned.
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Global fertility has collapsed, with profound economic …
Jun 1, 2023 · Whatever some environmentalists say, a shrinking population creates problems. The world is not close to full and the economic difficulties resulting from fewer young people are many.
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Suddenly There Aren’t Enough Babies. The Whole World Is Alarmed.
Birthrates are falling fast across countries, with economic, social and geopolitical consequences
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The world is at a startling demographic milestone. Sometime soon, the global fertility rate will drop below the point needed to keep population constant. It may have already happened.
Fertility is falling almost everywhere, for women across all levels of income, education and labor-force participation. The falling birthrates come with huge implications for the way people live, how economies grow and the standings of the world’s superpowers.
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Leaked messages reportedly from Elon Musk claim he …
2 days ago, May 2025 · Musk has long made his fears about the world’s declining birthrate clear. Back in 2023 (the same year he met St Clair), he tweeted: “Population collapse is an existential problem for humanity, not overpopulation!” He echoed …
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If you have not figured it out yet, the mainstream media and the ruling elite LIE!! They create news to scare you into compliance. They created “Science” to draw you away from GOD. But GOD NEVER LIES! God’s Word tells us the HONEY is of very great value!!
Proverbs 24:13
My son, eat honey, for it is good,Exodus 3:8
So I have come down to deliver them from the power of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey
Why would God say he is taking us to a land filled with milk and HONEY if those things were not special treasures, or at minimum valuable resources?
Honey has many beneficial properties, including:
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Diabetes management
Studies have shown that honey is beneficial in treating and managing diabetes mellitus. It contains antioxidants that play a significant role in controlling diabetes mellitus. Honey can help lower the level of sugar (plasma glucose) in the blood of individuals with diabetes. Honey also reduces blood lipid and reactive protein content in most people and those living with hyperlipidemia (excess lipids in the blood).
Cancer management
Recent studies suggest that honey helps fight cancer by interfering with cell signal pathways. Honey induces an immune response against cancer cells, preventing them from proliferating. This action prevents lung cancer cells, skin cancer cells, colon cancer, prostate cancer, mouth cancer cells, breast cancer, leukemia, bladder cancer, and bone cancer cells from developing.
Promoting heart health
Antioxidants present in honey help improve heart health by reducing the risk of heart failure. They lower the risk of heart failure by reducing the ability of platelets in the blood to clot and preventing low–density lipoproteins (a protein that carries cholesterol in bloodstreams) from oxidizing.
Asthma and cold management
Folk-traditional doctors included honey in medicine to treat cough, fever, and asthma. Honey can help prevent and reduce asthma, common cough, and fever symptoms. Some studies show that honey treatment successfully manages asthma by preventing airway inflammation. Such properties also make honey helpful in the management of chronic bronchitis.
Wound healing
Honey is the oldest wound treatment and healing agent known to humankind. It activates an immune response that fights infection, stimulating white blood cells (which help fight infection and disease) to begin tissue repair. Honey is effective in the treatment of acute and mild wounds and surface and partial burns.
Source of antioxidants
Your body contains free radicals responsible for aging, impairing cell function, and causing heart and blood vessel disorders. Honey and other antioxidant-rich foods can protect you against such and other chronic conditions.
Dark honey usually contains more significant amounts of antioxidants compared to lighter honey. The quantity and quality of oxidizing agents in honey depend on the type of honey and the flower that provides the nectar. A study on healthy adults showed increased plasma–antioxidants in their bodies. Thus proving that antioxidants improve the immune defense system of the human body. Source
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Robot bees: The future of pollination?
MIT researchers are working on tiny robotic bees, capable of helping pollinators. But should we invest in robot bees, or focus on saving the real ones?
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Recent advancements in robotics have led to some fascinating ideas, like the development of robot bees. MIT researchers have created tiny robots that mimic insects, capable of pollinating flowers and crops. You might be thinking this is eerily reminiscent of the Black Mirror episode “Hated in the Nation”, but, thankfully, so far there’s no sign that these bees are likely to start attacking people. While this technology is impressive and could help in areas where our natural pollinators are struggling, it raises an important question: should we be focusing more on saving real pollinators rather than relying on robots?
BLACK MIRROR Recap: “Hated in the Nation” Is a Honeycomb of MysteriesWarning: The following recap contains spoilers. If you don’t want to know about what happens in this episode, “Hated in the Nation,” or if you really don’t like getting bees in your bonnet, you’ll want to leave the page now! The final episode of this season of Black MirrorOpens in a new tab, “Hated in the Nation,” was written by Charlie Brooker, and is based on the showrunner’s own experiences dealing with internet harassment. The story is 90 minutes of classic pulp mystery (feature-length ain’t no thang on Netflixmang), but because this is one of the darkest sci-fi series to ever hit the small screen, technology inevitably finds its way into humanity’s bzzzzzzzzzzzness. (That will make sense soon, and oh how you’ll laugh!) The finale, which felt Fringe-esque but much darker, centers on a detective, Karin Parke, played by Kelly Macdonald (No Country for Old men), and her shadow, Chloe “Blue” Perrine played by Faye Marsay (Waif on Game of Thrones). And what begins as a (relatively) normal murder mystery into the death of a woman who wrote an ill-received op-ed, eventually becomes a comment on the baselessness of human nature online, as well as the state of our environment and its fragile yet critical bee population. Parke and Blue get to know each other over the body of the dead op-ed author, Jo Powers, who received a cake right before her death (second cake delivery this season; go cake!). It immediately becomes apparent that Parke is old school and Blue is as cutting edge as they come, as the former comes from a world of experience in the field while the latter has a background in all things digital. (It’s an X-Files-ish dynamic, minus the supernatural element.) When another victim—Tusk, the rapper—who was also despised online (on Twitter or an extremely Twitter-like site; it’s a bit unclear) turns up dead, the detective-shadow duo realize that the two murders must be linked. The fact that little electronic bees are plucked and sucked out of the two victims (by CT machine for ol’ Tusk) then confirms that theory. The electronic bees, or Autonomous Drone Insects (ADI’s), found in both victims’ heads lead the detective duo to a company named Granular, and it’s there, through the head of the “swarm” division, Rasmus Sjoberg, and presumably the CEO, Vanessa Dahl (she’s pretty quiet), that we’re introduced to the technological component of the story: a population of robot bees, which are on the order of at least tens of thousands, that have been brought online to help make up for the dying bee population. (Which could happen in reality if there was large-scale colony collapse.) The robo-bees are a refreshing take on the classic “so this is how robots are going to kill us” scenario, because the problem here isn’t superintelligent A.I. (á la Ex MachinaOpens in a new tab), it’s relatively simple A.I. that simply performs its task too well. The bees also use 3-D printing hives to duplicate themselves, which is awesome (silicon valley, run with it). Even though Parke and Blue—look, the show name is baked right in—have the murder weapon (zee bees!), they still don’t know who the murderer is. Then, thanks to some clever digital sleuthing on Blue’s part, they find out it’s Twitter. Literally. Kind of. Blue realizes that the killer robo-bees are choosing their targets based on how much the hashtag #DeathTo [insert person here] is being used on Twitter (or a nearly identical social media site, “hashtags” and “tweets” are used on the service): Whoever earns the most #DeathTo tweets in a given 24-hour period of time, like both Tusk and Jo Powers did, earns the wrath of the bees. In their pursuit of their unknown suspect, Park and Blue are joined by an NCA officer, played by Benedict Wong (the “NCA” sounds suspiciously like the NSA, probably for a reason…) and the three try their best to protect the next target, Clara Meades, from the bees. The three take her to a safe house, but they’re no match for a mega swarm that invades the house and eventually Meades’ nasal cavity. Thanks to the involvement of the NCA via Wong’s character, the episode not only opens up the discussion about online trolling and the extinction of critical species, but also touches on the topic of government surveillance. We find out that Granular, the company behind the robo-bees, is indeed funded by the government. But that’s come at a price: the bees, which are equipped with facial recognition abilities, are being used to spy on the civilian population. The argument’s made that murders and terrorist plots have been stopped thanks to the bees, but it’s still endlessly creepy thinking about little bee-sized GoPro cams buzzing about everywhere—especially if they can recognize your face and kill you. After interviewing a former Granular employee who tried to kill herself thanks to her own dance with the dark side of the internet, Karin is turned onto a strong possible suspect: another former Granular employee who’s a genius coder with a vendetta against the society that turned on the woman he liked (the other former Granular employee who tried to kill herself). From there out it’s a mad dash to catch the evil coder who’s taken control of the robo-bees, Garrett Scholes. After Blue follows some digital breadcrumbs, she, Parke, and the rest of the police are able to track down a hard drive Scholes didn’t destroy completely. On the hard drive, Sjoberg finds “the key” to taking over Scholes’ program and shutting down the bees. Parke realizes that Scholes is too smart to make mistakes, and that the key is probably a trap. But she’s too late. The key is used, the bees are activated, and everybody who used the Twitter hashtag #DeathTo—over 387,000 people—are murdered. It turns out that Scholes’ target wasn’t Jo Powers, or Tusk, or even the exceptionally bratty Chancellor Pickering, but was indeed everybody who sits behind their computer and spews hateful rhetoric online. The episode ends simultaneously watching Scholes change his appearance and go on the lamb, and with Parke testifying in court that, due to guilt, Blue has killed herself. But because this is Black Mirror, there is one final twist: Blue is in cahoots with Scholes! No, not really, but didn’t you expect that? No, the final twist is that Blue is indeed alive, and she has Scholes squarely in her sights, presumably ready to do him justice. She fires off a text to her partner/mentor, “Got him,” and as we watch Blue follow Scholes off on some side street in a village somewhere, the episode ends. Leaving a perfect beginning for… Parke and Blue: the sci-fi cop show that really should be coming to Netflix next summer. |
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Natural Pollinators
Pollinators like bees, butterflies, and birds are crucial for the health of our environment. From the clothes we wear to the foods we eat, bees are there every step of the way. But lately, these vital creatures are disappearing due to things like pesticide use and habitat loss.
Robotic Bees: The solution?
Robotic pollinators could help solve this problem. These itty bitty insects, designed to fly and navigate like bees, could step in when real pollinators are in short supply. They could be especially useful in large-scale farming or in regions where pollinator populations have almost entirely collapsed.
The idea of having tech that can do what bees do is fascinating, but it’s not without challenges; according to MIT News, “even the best bug-sized robots are no match for natural pollinators like bees when it comes to endurance, speed, and maneuverability.” Beyond this, robots can’t replace the complex relationships that natural pollinators have with plants and the environment. There’s no replacement for biodiversity, and there’s no way to account for every effect robotic replacement would have on our ecosystems. For example, even if the robots became effective pollinators, they wouldn’t feed the birds, bears and other animals that eat bees, beehives and honey.
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Don’t forget about the real pollinators
While robot bees are undeniably cool, we shouldn’t let that distract us from what’s really important: protecting the pollinators we already have. The decline of bees and other pollinators is a result of human actions, and we have the power to reverse it. Focusing on reducing pesticide use and protecting and expanding habitat will help us improve the health of natural pollinator populations.
These innovative researchers at MIT are doing important work. Robotic pollinators may have a place in the future, but they can’t be a replacement. If we invest in saving the bees now, we won’t need to rely on flying robots later. For now, let’s all focus on growing our own pollinator gardens, investing in native plants, and telling our government to do the same. Let’s use technology to support nature, not replace it.
Caroline Waga
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CERN founded in 1954
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (/sɜːrn/; French pronunciation: [sɛʁn]; Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire), is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, it is based in Meyrin, western suburb of Geneva, on the France–Switzerland border. It comprises 24 member states.[4] Israel, admitted in 2013, is the only full member geographically out of Europe.[5][6] CERN is an official United Nations General Assembly observer.[7]
The acronym CERN is also used to refer to the laboratory; in 2023, it had 2,666 scientific, technical, and administrative staff members, and hosted about 12,370 users from institutions in more than 80 countries.[8] In 2016, CERN generated 49 petabytes of data.[9]
CERN is also the birthplace of the World Wide Web.[11][12]
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The convention establishing CERN[14] was ratified on 29 September 1954 by 12 countries in Western Europe.[15]The 12 founding member states of CERN in 1954At the sixth session of the CERN Council in Paris from 29 June to 1 July 1953, the convention establishing the organization was signed, subject to ratification, by 12 states. The convention was gradually ratified by the 12 founding Member States: Belgium, Denmark, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Yugoslavia.[23] |
The laboratory was originally devoted to the study of atomic nuclei, but was soon applied to higher-energy physics, concerned mainly with the study of interactions between subatomic particles. Therefore, the laboratory operated by CERN is commonly referred to as the European laboratory for particle physics (Laboratoire européen pour la physique des particules), which better describes the research being performed there.[citation needed]
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THE GLOBE OF SCIENCE AND INNOVATION AKA Palais de l’Equilibre
The Globe of Science and Innovation is a visitor center, designed to inform visitors about the significant research being carried out at CERN. The wooden structure, which is 27 metres (89 ft) high and 40 metres (130 ft) in diameter, is a symbol of planet earth and was originally built for Expo.02 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. In 2004, it was moved to its current location in Meyrin in the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.
History of the Globe
The globe started life as the Palais de l’Equilibre at Expo.02 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. It was designed by Geneva architects, Hervé Dessimoz and Thomas Büchi, as a model of sustainable building.[1] It is 27 metres (89 ft) high and 40 metres (130 ft) in diameter, roughly the size of the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.[2] The globe consists of two concentric spheres nested within one another, made up of five different types of timber: Scotch pine, Douglas pine, spruce, larch, and Canadian maple.[3] The outer shell is composed of wooden slats, and two ramps run between the two spheres, allowing visitors to see out. The inner sphere is made of 18 wooden arches, covered by wooden panels; this forms the walls of the globe’s interior. This construction model enables the globe to act as a natural carbon sink.[3]
After Expo.02 was closed, the Swiss Confederation donated the Palais de l’Equilibre to CERN,[4] and it was renamed the Globe of Science and Innovation. It was moved and re-opened in 2004, in time for the 50th anniversary of CERN.[2] In 2010, the globe was renovated and its new, permanent exhibit, Universe of Particles, was opened.[3]
The Globe hosts CERN, private and public events on a regular basis.
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CERN – UNIVERSE OF PARTICLE
The permanent exhibition in the visitor centre Globe of Science and Innovation communicates the dimension and the fascination of the research work, which takes place at CERN. The visitor enters a “Universe of Particles”. Spherical exhibition units are composed to a content-generated room narrative. They offer a variety of possibilities for information and interaction, target-group-specific and thematically prepared. The highlight of the staged free-flow exhibition is a multimedia-based, dynamic spatial experience making the big bang as a phenomenon tangible. The exhibition space becomes an exhibit itself.
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CAN YOU SEE HOW LONG THEY HAVE BEEN BUILDING TOWARD THE HIVE NET OF TECHNOLOGY?
The internet was invented in 1969
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1961: Introduction of packet-switching concept.
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1969: ARPANET established.
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1971: Invention of email.
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1983: Introduction of the Domain Name System (DNS).
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1990: Invention of the World Wide Web.
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1995: Commercialization of the internet begins.
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