Picture this: You’re taking a walk along your usual route when you spot something new. It’s a pop-up bakery with free croissants! I think it’s safe to say that, moving forward, you’ll always double-check to see if the tasty treats have returned. This is a silly fantasy, of course, but for one golden retriever, it’s her reality! Well, her experience is similar enough, anyway. One day, while going on her daily walk, Daisy spotted an abandoned treat in some nearby bushes. It was a croissant! This delicious delicacy was so good, there was no way she could ever forget about it. In fact, Daisy still checks that same spot five months later. Mom found this so sweet, she decided to surprise her dog in the very best way. See how in the video below! @daisythegoldiee Replying to @Whiskey ♬ Cute Funny Quirky Awkward – JAS Music After Five Months, Daisy the Golden Retriever Finally Discovers Another Croissant in the “Magical” Bushes on Her Daily Walks It should be noted that dogs should not be regularly eating whole croissants (they lack any nutritional value but do have loads of unhealthy stuff for our four-legged friends). That said, giving one as a rare treat can be oh-so-delightful. Just look at that sweet pup’s reaction to finally discovering another surprise treat! “If she was human she’d build a whole religion around the magical croissant tree,” someone hilariously points out in the comments. Others add, “She got one in full bloom! Those are so rare to find!” and “This is me every week in the charity shop, where I once found a £300 dress for £6.” Dogs will do just about anything for a treat, and another dog named Molly is the perfect example. This adorable pup is quick to throw away trash in exchange for tasty snacks! Then there are pickier dogs like this husky: He won’t eat a biscuit unless it’s dipped in tea. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here! The post Golden Retriever Dutifully Checks For Lost Bakery Items In The Same Spot Every Day… So Mom Set Up A Surprise! appeared first on InspireMore.

A study team from Oxford University has identified a fermentation method that creates the perfect balanced diet for honey bees who can’t get enough natural pollen. Synthetic pollen substitutes are often fed to bees as a dietary supplement to natural pollen, but until now it’s been difficult to replicate the blend of lipids, called sterols, […] The post Scientists Engineer Yeast to Create Honey Bee Superfood – Colonies Grew 15-Fold appeared first on Good News Network.

This article is the first in a series where I will be looking at possible nutritional dangers related to the kind of slow-boiling economic SHTF that we all find ourselves in. For inspiration, I need look no further than Daisy’s recent comments in her Survival Sunday post: “Maybe our epic disaster isn’t going to be an EMP or a war or a supervolcano. Maybe it’s just going to be prices climbing ever upward until normal folks can’t afford to eat or have utilities. Maybe that is the major disaster of our lifetime.” With double-income families with children now using food banks in my county, folks, we’re already there! Embarrassing as this is, I am going to share my own story in this article of how cutting back and cutting back on my food budget recently caused a major health problem. Y’all know how I love this community, so I am going to share, despite the embarrassment! My hope is that I might help one person avoid what I have just been through. The Background: How it Happened Let’s face it: meat has gotten to be outrageously expensive. I used to have a budget where I was buying high-quality meat from a local abattoir. Food prices went up, gas prices went up, and suddenly, I was looking for space in my food budget. It didn’t happen consciously: I just went to the abbatoir less and less. I filled up on beans and lentils, drawing on some of my pantry preps. I cut back on eating out, where I had always ordered a meat treat. As I normally eat less meat than the average person, this cutting back meant that I was eating almost NO meat. I would say perhaps I was eating only one or two servings of meat per week or less, which is substantially down from when I could afford to eat out every week. Then, I made a crucial error. I was already aware that reducing my consumption of red meat was affecting my energy levels. I learned that lesson a few years ago. I had been taking a high-quality supplement a couple of times a week that my sister had recommended. However, it was also expensive. When the last bottle was getting low, I remember being reluctant to reorder it, remembering the cost of getting the two bottles. Now, I didn’t consciously do this: my mind just let it slip to order more, and I fell out of the habit of taking it. At some point, I remember thinking, “Maybe I’ll be OK without it.” What I did not know at the time was that these choices were setting the stage for a B12 deficiency that would seriously affect my health. B12 Deficiency: What is it? In short, B12 is a vitamin that our bodies cannot produce. It can only be found in animal products. According to the Mayo Clinic, B12 has some pretty important jobs in our body, including to “make and support healthy nerve cells and red blood cells, and the DNA inside cells.” While most people eating a varied and healthy diet in America should be getting enough B12, there are certain groups who should be aware of the risk of deficiency: “vegetarians or vegans [or reluctant vegetarians, in my case!], older people, people who had gastric surgery, and people with certain digestive conditions such as celiac disease and Crohn’s disease” [L There are a dizzying array of symptoms that can come along with a B12 deficiency. Yes, being dizzy is one of them! My own symptoms came up on me so slowly that I didn’t realize it until I was almost completely incapacitated: bone-crushing exhaustion, headaches, dizziness and weakness, memory problems, and severe brain fog. You will see that I ticked most of the boxes on the Mayo Clinic list: “fatigue, muscle weakness, stomach problems, nerve damage, vision problems and mood changes.”  However, these are only the most common and typical symptoms. If you are concerned, you can check out this much more detailed information on the B12 Society website. If you are medically minded, this website also has quite a bit of detailed information on tests, testing and treatment. In my own case, getting diagnosed was not so simple. I was convinced that I was IRON-deficient, and yet I knew that I was consuming an appropriate amount of plant-based iron each day. A conversation with a local pharmacist over my interest in purchasing some high-iron tablets quickly changed my mind. “You’re self-treating,” he said. “You don’t actually know what’s wrong with you. I strongly recommend that you get to your doctor and get tested before you do anything more.” That supplement that my sister had recommended? When I checked the bottle, I was shocked to see that it also contained B12. I really didn’t know how it had been helping me. I went to my doctor and had my iron, hemoglobin, and B12 levels checked. Only the B12 came back as deficient. The pharmacist had been right. A Simple Solution on a Budget I got a call from my doctor when they got the results. I was to start taking a 1200 microgram supplement immediately. I will be retested in two months. To be honest, I’ve been taking them for about a week and, hmmmm, I don’t know….maybe I’m feeling a tiny bit better? It is going to take some time. I feel embarrassed that I compromised my health so seriously because my budget was tight. As readers who know my posts are aware, I make a lot of effort to maintain my health as best I can. However, I’m glad to have learned a valuable lesson. What I Learned and How I’m Preparing I have learned to be much more aware about my nutritional health and how I cut my food budget. In terms of preparedness, you bet I am adding some B12 supplements to my emergency pantry. The B12 supplement I bought this weekend costs less than $14 per bottle, and the expiry date is way out in 2028. You better believe I will be stocking up on these and putting a whole bunch in my pantry and bug out bag! So, now I have a tool to improve my health that costs less than 20 cents a day. I feel lucky that I learned this lesson before things got more serious. The OP recommends this supplement or this one if your budget is tight. B Aware of B12 I recently allowed a shortage of funds to unknowingly but seriously compromise my health. How are you dealing with the grocery budget crunch we are all feeling? Do you have any tips you can share with us on how you are maintaining nutrition during these difficult times? Please tell us in the comments section. The post Slow SHTF Food Budget Crunch: A Hidden Danger appeared first on The Organic Prepper.

WASHINGTON—What did the president know, and when did he know it? That used to be the eventual question for most administrations. When it comes to former President Joe Biden, however, the question is: Did the president know much of anything? The GOP-led House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has been trying to answer that question with a series of behind-closed-doors interviews with former Biden staffers. The transcripts aren’t out yet, but after the interviews, Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., has been happy to share his observations with the press corps. Ian Sams, the Biden White House press guy who dealt with the sticky stuff, appeared before the committee Thursday. Afterward, Comer told reporters that his big takeaway from Sams’ turn in the hot seat was the revelation that he spoke with Biden face-to-face only twice during the two-plus years he served in the Biden White House. There was also a virtual meeting and a phone call. That was news because Sams was the guy responsible for jumping all over those who questioned Biden’s mental acuity. When former special counsel Robert Hur famously opined that Biden’s mishandling of classified material would be difficult to use in court because a jury might hesitate to convict a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” Sams slammed the Hur report as “false” and inappropriately personal. That, of course, was before Biden stumbled during the June 27, 2024, Biden-Trump debate so spectacularly that he had to get out of the race and announce that Vice President Kamala Harris would head the ticket. Sams left the White House to work for the Harris campaign. The takeaway from Sams’ testimony, as filtered by Comer, is that a tight cabal of handlers successfully siloed Biden so completely that Biden barely spoke to one of his fiercest defenders. “In fact, Robert Hur spent more time with Joe Biden than Ian Sams,” Comer concluded. Comer also offered that he interacted with Biden more than the former Biden spox. And Sams never even flew on Air Force One with the former president. That’s so wrong. Even Comer flew on AF1 with Biden, he told reporters. Three former Biden White House staffers—senior adviser Annie Tomasini, Jill Biden top aide Anthony Bernal, and Physician to the President Kevin O’Connor—invoked their Fifth Amendment rights and declined to answer questions. Nothing to see here. Last month, Axios reported that top Biden whisperer Mike Donilon told committee staffers that he had negotiated a $4 million payday for running the Biden 2024 campaign, with the sweetener of a $4 million bonus if Biden won—a revelation that pointed to the greed that greased a Biden candidacy and doomed the Democratic Party. According to Comer, Sams didn’t have much of a recollection of his face time with Biden. Which is strange because usually staffers who finally have a chance to talk with the big guy have a good story to tell about it. It seems a faulty memory is part of the Biden administration experience. COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post What Did President Biden Know, and How Long Did He Remember It? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

This article is the first in a series where I will be looking at possible nutritional dangers related to the kind of slow-boiling economic SHTF that we all find ourselves in. For inspiration, I need look no further than Daisy’s recent comments in her Survival Sunday post: “Maybe our epic disaster isn’t going to be an EMP or a war or a supervolcano. Maybe it’s just going to be prices climbing ever upward until normal folks can’t afford to eat or have utilities. Maybe that is the major disaster of our lifetime.” With double-income families with children now using food banks in my county, folks, we’re already there! Embarrassing as this is, I am going to share my own story in this article of how cutting back and cutting back on my food budget recently caused a major health problem. Y’all know how I love this community, so I am going to share, despite the embarrassment! My hope is that I might help one person avoid what I have just been through. The Background: How it Happened Let’s face it: meat has gotten to be outrageously expensive. I used to have a budget where I was buying high-quality meat from a local abattoir. Food prices went up, gas prices went up, and suddenly, I was looking for space in my food budget. It didn’t happen consciously: I just went to the abbatoir less and less. I filled up on beans and lentils, drawing on some of my pantry preps. I cut back on eating out, where I had always ordered a meat treat. As I normally eat less meat than the average person, this cutting back meant that I was eating almost NO meat. I would say perhaps I was eating only one or two servings of meat per week or less, which is substantially down from when I could afford to eat out every week. Then, I made a crucial error. I was already aware that reducing my consumption of red meat was affecting my energy levels. I learned that lesson a few years ago. I had been taking a high-quality supplement a couple of times a week that my sister had recommended. However, it was also expensive. When the last bottle was getting low, I remember being reluctant to reorder it, remembering the cost of getting the two bottles. Now, I didn’t consciously do this: my mind just let it slip to order more, and I fell out of the habit of taking it. At some point, I remember thinking, “Maybe I’ll be OK without it.” What I did not know at the time was that these choices were setting the stage for a B12 deficiency that would seriously affect my health. B12 Deficiency: What is it? In short, B12 is a vitamin that our bodies cannot produce. It can only be found in animal products. According to the Mayo Clinic, B12 has some pretty important jobs in our body, including to “make and support healthy nerve cells and red blood cells, and the DNA inside cells.” While most people eating a varied and healthy diet in America should be getting enough B12, there are certain groups who should be aware of the risk of deficiency: “vegetarians or vegans [or reluctant vegetarians, in my case!], older people, people who had gastric surgery, and people with certain digestive conditions such as celiac disease and Crohn’s disease” [L There are a dizzying array of symptoms that can come along with a B12 deficiency. Yes, being dizzy is one of them! My own symptoms came up on me so slowly that I didn’t realize it until I was almost completely incapacitated: bone-crushing exhaustion, headaches, dizziness and weakness, memory problems, and severe brain fog. You will see that I ticked most of the boxes on the Mayo Clinic list: “fatigue, muscle weakness, stomach problems, nerve damage, vision problems and mood changes.”  However, these are only the most common and typical symptoms. If you are concerned, you can check out this much more detailed information on the B12 Society website. If you are medically minded, this website also has quite a bit of detailed information on tests, testing and treatment. In my own case, getting diagnosed was not so simple. I was convinced that I was IRON-deficient, and yet I knew that I was consuming an appropriate amount of plant-based iron each day. A conversation with a local pharmacist over my interest in purchasing some high-iron tablets quickly changed my mind. “You’re self-treating,” he said. “You don’t actually know what’s wrong with you. I strongly recommend that you get to your doctor and get tested before you do anything more.” That supplement that my sister had recommended? When I checked the bottle, I was shocked to see that it also contained B12. I really didn’t know how it had been helping me. I went to my doctor and had my iron, hemoglobin, and B12 levels checked. Only the B12 came back as deficient. The pharmacist had been right. A Simple Solution on a Budget I got a call from my doctor when they got the results. I was to start taking a 1200 microgram supplement immediately. I will be retested in two months. To be honest, I’ve been taking them for about a week and, hmmmm, I don’t know….maybe I’m feeling a tiny bit better? It is going to take some time. I feel embarrassed that I compromised my health so seriously because my budget was tight. As readers who know my posts are aware, I make a lot of effort to maintain my health as best I can. However, I’m glad to have learned a valuable lesson. What I Learned and How I’m Preparing I have learned to be much more aware about my nutritional health and how I cut my food budget. In terms of preparedness, you bet I am adding some B12 supplements to my emergency pantry. The B12 supplement I bought this weekend costs less than $14 per bottle, and the expiry date is way out in 2028. You better believe I will be stocking up on these and putting a whole bunch in my pantry and bug out bag! So, now I have a tool to improve my health that costs less than 20 cents a day. I feel lucky that I learned this lesson before things got more serious. The OP recommends this supplement or this one if your budget is tight. B Aware of B12 I recently allowed a shortage of funds to unknowingly but seriously compromise my health. How are you dealing with the grocery budget crunch we are all feeling? Do you have any tips you can share with us on how you are maintaining nutrition during these difficult times? Please tell us in the comments section. The post Slow SHTF Food Budget Crunch: A Hidden Danger appeared first on The Organic Prepper.

After a series of failures and partial successes, launch 10 is Starship’s most successful flight, but in at least one aspect that was achieved by setting less ambitious goals.

And funnily enough, it’s a potter wasp.

It pays to be weird in the fish-eat-fish world of the sea.

It certainly was a bad trip (to the hospital).

Dark Forest vs Zoo: Two Answers to the Fermi Paradox Dark Forest vs Zoo hypothesis is a clean way to ask a hard question: if the galaxy is crowded, why is it quiet? Either everyone hides to survive (Dark Forest)—or we’re in a hands-off reserve (Zoo). TL;DR Dark Forest: Don’t broadcast. Any signal could bring a threat. Zoo: Advanced civilisations avoid contact. We’re being observed, not engaged. Both try to answer the Fermi paradox—lots of stars, no clear signals. What is the Dark Forest idea? It treats space like a dangerous forest. You stay quiet because you can’t know others’ motives, tech levels, or timelines. In game-theory terms: silence or pre-empt. What is the Zoo Hypothesis? Proposed by astronomer John A. Ball (1973), it suggests a “look, don’t touch” rule. We’re left alone until we mature—or ask the right way. Strengths vs. weaknesses Dark Forest pros: Simple survival logic; explains the silence fast. Dark Forest cons: Projects human fears; assumes worst-case motives. Zoo pros: Fits a coordinated, ethical galaxy; explains lack of open contact. Zoo cons: Requires long-term restraint and cooperation we haven’t observed. Could we ever test these ideas? Listen smarter: Hunt technosignatures—waste heat, narrowband beacons, odd infrared glows from mega-engineering. Speak carefully: Limited, well-aimed METI (messaging) to nearby stars or the Solar gravitational focus could act as a “ping.” Bottom line We can be cautious and curious. Keep listening. Debate targeted outreach. Even one confirmed technosignature would rewrite our place in the universe. FAQ Is the Dark Forest vs Zoo hypothesis proven? No. These are framing ideas, not established science. They help guide what to search for next. Does staying silent protect us? Maybe, but silence has a cost: we also miss allies. Many researchers argue for listening first, speaking second. What’s the best current evidence? So far, surveys haven’t found galaxy-scale empires. That nudges expectations toward “rare, quiet, or well-hidden”—not toward certainty. Further reading SETI Institute: Fermi Paradox SETI: The Zoo Hypothesis Universe Today: The Dark Forest hypothesis The post Dark Forest vs Zoo: Two Answers to the Fermi Paradox appeared first on Anomalien.com.