A homeowner in Grand Rapids‚ Michigan‚ found the best kind of surprise in his bathroom ceiling: a 100-year-old time capsule&;#33; When Jesse Leitch hired someone to fix his heater‚ he never expected them to find hidden souvenirs from the past. These items included a very small cast iron pan and some old newspapers from 1915. Jesse and his family were thrilled by the discovery&;#33; According to WZZM‚ these items weren’t stored in any specific way‚ but were simply found lying loose. This makes it all the more incredible that this time capsule from the 1910s was still in such good condition. “Just basically as they were cutting into the ceiling above the bathroom — it wasn’t in a box‚ it was just all this stuff kind of set in a pile basically‚” the homeowner said. This resident is thinking about leaving a time capsule of his own&;#33; Screengrab from YouTube Jesse found the unexpected time capsule in his ceiling very exciting. In fact‚ it actually inspired him to do something he’d been wanting to do for some time. “Because‚ you know‚ I’ve always kind of thought about doing stuff like that‚ you know‚ if we renovate the place‚ leave something on the wall for the next guy‚” he said. “I knew this place was built in 1910. And so it’s just a really old building and made me think about‚ you know‚ obviously‚ some some kid living here thought thought this stuff was important to stick around for the next guy.”  Screengrab from YouTube As for what the Michigan resident plans to do with the time capsule items‚ he might try to use them. “With a cast iron pan‚ I think we want to clean the rust out of it and try like cooking some tiny‚ tiny food with it and see how that works. Cook over a tea light‚” Jesse said. We’re wishing him the best of luck with that endeavor&;#33; Hopefully‚ this homeowner will also leave a time capsule for future generations to find. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Homeowners Discover Time Capsule In Ceiling — Turns Out‚ It’s Nearly 110 Yrs Old&;#33; appeared first on InspireMore.

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A proposed House rule faces a crucial vote Friday in the latest showdown between Speaker Mike Johnson and Republican lawmakers. The rule would combine four unrelated foreign aid bills into a single legislative package—an approach favored by President Joe Biden but long resisted by conservatives. Johnson‚ R-La.‚ has pledged that lawmakers will get to vote on each of the four bills individually. However‚ following those separate votes‚ the bills will be consolidated into a $95.3 billion unified package without further deliberation. This combined legislation would then be sent to the Senate‚ where it is expected to pass. In a rare bipartisan vote by the Rules Committee late Thursday night‚ the panel adopted the rule‚ 9-3‚ and sent it to the House floor. The committee’s three conservative members—Reps. Thomas Massie‚ R-Ky.‚ Ralph Norman‚ R-S.C.‚ and Chip Roy‚ R-Texas—voted against the measure. Following the committee’s decision‚ Heritage Action for America announced its opposition to the rule—a rare stance against a procedural motion. With expectations that each individual bill will pass independently‚ defeating the rule Friday presents conservatives with their best opportunity to block the foreign aid package in the House. House Speaker Mike Johnson is facing a Republican-led effort to remove him from his leadership post over objections to the foreign aid package. (Photo: Kent Nishimura/Getty Images) Johnson’s strategy integrates funding bills for Ukraine ($60.84 billion)‚ Israel ($26.38 billion)‚ and the Indo-Pacific ($8.12 billion) with the 21st Century Peace Through Strength Act‚ a bill that would impose more sanctions on China‚ Iran‚ and Russia. In addition‚ the speaker’s strategy incorporates a bill mandating TikTok‘s parent company to sever ties with the Communist Chinese government or cease operations within the United States. Lawmakers also will vote on a bill related to border security‚ although it won’t be included in the four-bill package governed by the House rule adopted Thursday. Johnson’s endorsement of this comprehensive foreign aid approach follows months of lobbying from the Biden administration regarding its $95 billion supplemental request. The Senate approved the measure in February. At the time‚ Johnson criticized the Senate for not prioritizing border security. My statement on Senate’s failure to address the most critical aspect of national security supplemental legislation: pic.twitter.com/ENjJ0WzKsK— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) February 13‚ 2024 “Promising votes on four ‘separate’ bills that are immediately tied back together is a disingenuous maneuver that lawmakers should reject‚” Heritage Action Executive Vice President Ryan Walker said. Heritage Action highlighted in an accompanying memo that the House rule “is designed to produce a single bill consistent with the Senate-passed foreign aid supplemental.” Conservatives have voiced objections to the Senate’s supplemental spending bill‚ advocating prioritization of border security and separate consideration of each bill. However‚ the pending rule fails to address either concern. “The rule put forth by leadership makes the House bills almost identical to the reckless‚ unrelated supplemental package passed by the Senate‚” Heritage Action’s Walker said. “A conservative-led House can and must do better for Americans than promising a watered-down border bill that’s going nowhere and attaching a crucial TikTok bill that’s already passed the chamber. Heritage Action urges responsible‚ honest action to defend America’s interests—but the rule to combine these four bills fails on both counts.” &;gt;&;gt;&;gt; Fact Sheet: Supplemental Appropriations to Meet the Moment Almost a year ago‚ in May 2023‚ the House passed the Secure the Border Act (HR 2). Subsequently‚ in November‚ the House approved a $14 billion aid bill for Israel by a vote of 226-196‚ despite opposition from the Biden administration and Senate Democrats. The House passed the TikTok bill in March. Heritage Action‚ the grassroots partner of The Heritage Foundation‚ which boasts 2 million activists nationwide‚ noted the rarity of its decision to score a rule vote. (Heritage established The Daily Signal in 2014.) Johnson is already facing conservative backlash for pursuing the unpopular foreign aid bills. Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene‚ R-Ga.‚ and Massie are seeking Johnson’s formal removal as speaker. Now‚ the uproar over the House rule is exacerbating those feelings among other members. The House Freedom Caucus—an influential coalition of conservative lawmakers—announced Thursday it would oppose the rule. Don't just tweet about securing the border. Actually DO IT by killing the rule for @SpeakerJohnson’s #AmericaLast foreign wars package. Americans need to know: who’s willing to just talk and who’s willing to FIGHT&;#63; pic.twitter.com/OvVEvxczkI— House Freedom Caucus (@freedomcaucus) April 18‚ 2024 Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine two years ago‚ the United States has allocated about $113 billion to Ukraine‚ averaging approximately $900 per American household. Despite this‚ the Biden administration persistently has sought an additional $60 billion from U.S. taxpayers to bolster efforts in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Growing opposition to foreign aid is consistent with new polling unveiled Thursday and exclusively shared with The Daily Signal. &;gt;&;gt;&;gt; Republican Opposition to Ukraine Funding Now at 66% American voters voice opposition to each of the foreign aid bills under consideration‚ according the J.L. Partners poll of 897 likely U.S. voters. Support for Ukraine funding‚ championed by President Joe Biden‚ stands at 33%‚ with opposition at 47%. Indo-Pacific funding garners support from 23% of respondents‚ while 42% express opposition. Funding for Israel draws support from 27%‚ with 50% in opposition. The poll underscores robust opposition from Republican voters toward Ukraine funding‚ with a mere 17% endorsing a $60 billion loan for the nation while 66% express opposition. Nothing says “thank you” to Republican voters quite like House GOP leadership pushing a bill that GOP voters hate because it gives an additional $60 billion to Ukraine—while blocking any amendments to secure our border. https://t.co/ikhFyuY68c— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) April 18‚ 2024 J.L. Partners conducted the poll between April 16-18‚ with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.3 percentage points. The post House Showdown: Vote Looms on Biden’s Foreign Aid Package Despite Conservative Dissent appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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How life first began on Earth remains a huge question – scientists have ideas of how it kicked off‚ perhaps near a hydrothermal vent providing the energy needed for the chemical reaction to take place that eventually led to the first living organisms. It's sometimes spoken about like an unlikely event‚ where the right mix of chemicals coalesced by chance and random collisions into life. But what if it was physics underlying these reactions‚ guiding life into existence&;#63;That is part of an idea presented by American physicist Jeremy England‚ who believes that life may be a consequence of entropy.          Entropy is a measure of the disorder of a system. When something is in a state of high entropy (or high disorder) you could could switch around the components of the system and it would pretty much be the same.But within the universe there are things‚ like life‚ which exist in a state of low entropy. This may seem like it violates the second law of thermodynamics (that entropy in a closed system always increases‚ or everything tends towards disorder) but that is not the case. Life does not violate the second law as it draws on energy from the environment‚ expending energy in order to temporarily decrease its own entropy‚ like how you can expend energy to temporarily push snow into the shape of a snowman and create temporary order‚ until entropy draws it back into disorder once more. When the overall system (including the energy source for life‚ and the heat expended by life) is taken into account‚ the overall system continues to tend towards entropy.This statistical law of the universe were first discovered by Rudolf Clausius‚ who noticed that heat flows from bodies with higher temperatures towards one at a lower temperature‚ and not the other way around. According to England‚ life and life-like structures may arise in complex‚ chaotic environments in ways which better distribute heat to the environment. In other words‚ life and life-like structures arise as a consequence of entropy‚ for its ability to distribute heat.In one paper‚ England simulated a complex soup of 25 chemicals at varied concentrations with various levels of energy applied to the system to &;quot;force&;quot; chemical reactions to take place‚ just as sunlight can trigger the production of ozone in our atmosphere (thank you‚ entropy).&;quot;As anticipated in previous theoretical works‚ our central finding was that kinetically stable behaviors of such a system are indeed biased toward appearing to be finely tuned to the external drive‚&;quot; England and co-author Jordan M. Horowitz wrote in their paper. &;quot;In other words‚ the long-time behavior of the system is enriched in outcomes that would be observed only with small likelihood in a random and uniform sampling of the whole space of possibilities.&;quot;While some soups moved towards equilibrium as expected‚ more extreme systems experienced &;quot;spontaneous fine-tuning&;quot;‚ rearranging themselves into more complex structures better able to cope with the complex environment and better distribute heat.In a second paper‚ the team found more &;quot;lifelike patterns of collective molecular behavior&;quot; as well as a &;quot;statistical tendency of the system to adopt structures with higher-than-equilibrium rates of work absorption [...]‚ whereby the highly irreversible transitions that sustain the system’s nonequilibrium bias towards resonant structures occur because the resonance helps them harvest more work from the external [source of energy].&;quot;Though this is an analogue for life and not nearly replicating its complexity – the theory is controversial and more work‚ as always‚ needs to be done – the results are intriguing‚ and suggest that life could arise as a result of the laws of physics. If correct‚ it would suggest that life is likely ubiquitous throughout the universe‚ arising in complex systems such as our own planet.“You start with a random clump of atoms‚ and if you shine light on it for long enough‚&;quot; as England told Quanta Magazine in 2014‚ &;quot;it should not be so surprising that you get a plant.&;quot;