- this is a list of ~4K of the largest employers in the United States of America as well as links to apply for jobs to them. Hopefully, it will make things easier for you to apply for a job to them if that's what you want:
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According to Daily Mail, Chen’s father passed away when he was 20, leaving him as the sole caregiver for his paralyzed mother. Since then, he has worked tirelessly to support her. He prepares meals with his feet, tends to their farm barefoot, and even feeds his mother by holding a spoon in his teeth. His devotion has touched millions in China, where he is celebrated as a symbol of filial piety and perseverance.
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- On a quiet coast in South Korea, an elderly woman spent decades harvesting and selling kelp, saving every extra won despite the physical demands of working at sea. Instead of keeping her savings for herself, she donated her life earnings to fund university scholarships for students who could not afford tuition. Her modest income from seaweed helped open doors to education, transforming years of hard labor into opportunities for the next generation and proving how one person’s sacrifice can shape countless futures. #fblifestyle
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- Dr Wise said the data provided to KPMG by the university did not accurately reflect course costs.
"The problem with using external consultants is they don't know what questions to ask. They basically take what's given to them, and then they use it," she said.
Professor Probyn-Rapsey said it was particularly galling for academics to have their futures determined by dodgy data.
"You can imagine how irritating this is for academic staff whose livelihoods depend on precision and who have an immense amount of respect for good quality data," she said.
"This kind of data is known as garbage in, garbage out. And the garbage out that consultancy groups are using is the garbage that we're presented with to justify our job losses and the restructuring of our universities."
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- The progress came as a result of China's intensified efforts to protect and restore its mangroves, which are evergreen trees or shrubs that grow in intertidal zones on tropical or subtropical coasts. Sometimes referred to as "coast guards," they play a vital role in purifying seawater, in mitigating the impacts of wind and waves, and in maintaining biodiversity.
China expands mangrove forest coverage amid conservation efforts
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- Feature: Chinese agricultural technology transforms oilseed harvesting landscape in Pakistan
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ISLAMABAD, April 22 (Xinhua) -- In Pakistan's eastern Bhakkar district, farmers were left in awe as they witnessed the newly imported oilseed harvesters from China efficiently and briskly carrying out their tasks.
"In Pakistan, we lose up to 40 percent of our crop due to our reliance on a single type of harvester used for harvesting all crops including wheat, oilseeds, and others, so seeing such a sophisticated machine specifically designed for oilseed harvesting is truly fascinating," Muhammad Masood, a local farmer told Xinhua.
Feature: Chinese agricultural technology transforms oilseed harvesting landscape in Pakistan
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- “The public loves this story,” Karl Stefanovic put to him on his podcast.
“If you go back far enough, the public liked stoning witches and things like that,” Mr Abbott replied.
“The public can sometimes be misled, and on this it is being.”
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- Speaking to CNBC’s Squawk Box, the ultra-billionaire slammed the “absurd” tax system in the US, which sees the top one per cent of taxpayers pay about 40 per cent of all tax revenue and the bottom half pay three per cent, according to the Tax Foundation.
“It’s kind of a tale of two economies,” Mr Bezos said.
“You have a bunch of people in this country who are doing really well, but you also have a bunch of people in this country who are struggling.”
The Blue Origin founder said taxes for the bottom half of earners shouldn’t just be lowered but cut to “zero”.
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- A German Shepherd was once being trained to become a service dog, but there was one little problem that his trainers simply could not overcome. He became deeply attached to a stuffed elephant and refused to leave it behind. No matter how important the training was, the dog apparently had decided that his favourite toy was coming with him.
Service dogs have to learn to remain focused in many different environments and follow commands even when something exciting or distracting is nearby. For this German Shepherd, however, the stuffed elephant was apparently too important to ignore. Instead of leaving his favourite toy behind during training, he kept trying to bring it along, turning serious training sessions into something much more adorable.
Although failing service dog training might sound disappointing, not every dog is suited for that demanding role. Dogs can have different personalities, preferences, and temperaments, and sometimes the qualities that make one dog unsuitable for service work simply make them perfect companions. In this case, the German Shepherd may not have become a working service dog, but he certainly proved that he had one very strong priority: never leave his beloved stuffed elephant behind.
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- Simon Petrus was 17 years old, in Grade 12, living in the Ohangwena Region in northern Namibia. His parents were unemployed. He had no engineering training, no lab, no funding.
He built a phone anyway.
Using scraps from old televisions and broken mobile phones, Petrus spent two years putting together a device that could make and receive calls without a SIM card or airtime. It ran on radio frequencies instead of a cellular network.
The phone wasn't small. It wasn't sleek. It looked like something pulled from a science fiction film set in a garage. Wires, a screen, buttons, a built-in fan, a light bulb, charging sockets for other devices, and a working radio and television. All crammed into one handmade unit.
His parents funded the project with over $2,000 they didn't have.
In 2016, Petrus entered the phone in a regional technology competition in Namibia. It won first place for his school and earned him a spot at the national finals.
The device hasn't been developed further or brought to market. It has limitations. Radio frequency communication doesn't work the same way a cellular network does, and the claim that it can "call anywhere in the world" needs context. But what Petrus built, with no training, no internet to learn from, and no budget, was remarkable.
He was 17. He built a working phone from garbage 💛
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- You've probably seen this woman's face in your fridge... This jar of chilli oil turned its creator into one of China's biggest food icons and conquered the world.
Tao Huabi, 79, is the founder of Lao Gan Ma ('Old Godmother'), the spicy sauce many people put on everything. She started with nothing and is now a billionaire. Here's her recipe for success:
🌶️ Famine fuels the fire. Born in 1947 in Guizhou, one of China's poorest provinces, Tao experienced the Great Famine as a child. According to her biographer, Tao was so hungry she dreamt of putting mud in her mouth just to feel full. Later, she started experimenting with flavours to make simple meals go further.
🌶️ Don’t be held back. Tao never received a formal education and couldn’t read or write, yet built one of China's best-known food brands. Even after becoming a successful businesswoman, she still had important documents read aloud to her.
🌶️ Stick to your principles. After her husband died in 1984, Tao took a second job carrying rocks to pay off debts from his medical bills. She vowed never to borrow money again, telling her sons, "Use whatever you have, whether much or little, always use your own money."
🌶️ Spot what sells. Tao started a roadside noodle stall, serving a crunchy, spicy sauce made from local chillies. It was here she earned the nickname 'Old Godmother'. One day when she hadn't made the sauce, she noticed customers didn't want the noodles. They wanted the sauce to take home.
🌶️ Spread the word. Tao started producing jars of the sauce, and when a highway was built nearby, she gave them out for free to truckers. Soon, people were travelling from across the region just to buy her chilli oil. It's a strategy she's used again and again, in modern times relying on social media for exposure.
🌶️ Think bigger. In 1996, Tao bought two houses and turned them into a factory. She kept expanding from there. For years, though, she still personally checked the sauce, blistering her tongue from tasting so many chillies.
🌶️ Keep control – no matter what. Despite the company's success, Tao refused to list it on the stock market, choosing instead to stay private and let word of mouth do the marketing. Today, with her two sons in charge, around three million bottles of Lao Gan Ma are produced every day, using 45,000 tonnes of chillies a year. Hot stuff!
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- The phone rang in a Kyoto office in October 2002, and the man who answered it understood almost nothing the caller said.
Two words got through: congratulations, and Nobel.
Koichi Tanaka assumed someone had dialed the wrong number.
He was 43, a mid-level engineer at Shimadzu, a company that makes measuring instruments.
No master's degree. No doctorate. No professorship.
He rarely spoke at international conferences and was unknown to most of the chemists whose field he had quietly upended.
The work being honored was seventeen years old.
In 1985, preparing a sample in the lab, he reached for the wrong material and mixed a batch that should have gone straight in the trash.
He ran it through the machine anyway.
What came back was a way to lift enormous biological molecules into a mass spectrometer without tearing them apart, something chemists had spent years describing as impossible.
He has said he only attempted it because he wasn't a chemist and had no idea it couldn't be done.
That technique is now used in drug development and in the early detection of ovarian, breast and prostate cancers.
He shared the 2002 chemistry prize with the American John Fenn and Switzerland's Kurt Wuthrich.
He remains the only person to win a Nobel Prize holding neither a master's nor a doctoral degree.
At a conference afterward, a scientist walked up and greeted him as Dr. Tanaka.
Tanaka corrected him on the spot: it's Mr. Tanaka. I'm an engineer.
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- It takes a certain kind of inner strength to be a whistleblower.
Courage and determination are obvious traits that whistleblowers share, but blowing the lid on alleged misconduct in the nation's biggest companies and organisations requires a willingness to risk everything.
A whistleblower can risk losing their job, their relationships, and potentially their sanity — if they want to expose wrongdoing.
Several whistleblowers I have spoken to over the years often say that reality is what makes it hard to be a whistleblower in Australia and deters more people from coming forward.
Australia's laws just don't protect them.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-04/whistleblowers-need-a-one-stop-shop-for-reporting-misconduct/107110700
- Bangkok police arrested 51‑year‑old Sutthichai, also known as Tong, on Sept 10 after CCTV footage captured him allegedly sexually abusing koi fish in a private pond in the Thung Song Hong area. The incident occurred on Sept 7, when he arrived by bicycle, exposed himself, and later entered the pond naked before abusing the fish. He fled when confronted by the housekeeper and owner, who later filed a police report.
Investigators located Sutthichai the next day in Lak Si, still wearing the same clothes from the incident. He attempted to escape but was detained. During questioning, he admitted to the act, claiming he had gone to wash but became aroused when he saw the fish. He said he had abused koi twice that night and had engaged in similar acts with other animals and objects in the past. He also admitted to drug use.
The pond’s owner, Bobby, said he had kept koi for seven to eight years and had noticed fish dying with bent bodies, initially blaming fights. Suspicion grew after a sex toy was found near the pond, prompting him to adjust CCTV cameras, which later captured the abuse. Police said charges under consideration include animal cruelty, property damage, committing an indecent act, and nighttime trespassing.
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- A student from Tsinghua broke down an old Chinese framework from 吕氏春秋 called 八观, basically 8 ways to observe a person.
Character shows up loudest exactly when a person's situation changes. Not when everything is calm.
I think it makes a lot of sense, so I want to share it in plain words. This is not fortune telling. It is practical judgement, and honestly a way to protect yourself.
1. When someone finally makes it, watch who they still respect. If they suddenly look down on old friends, old colleagues or the people who helped them before, that tells you about their gratitude.
2. When someone gets power or a promotion, watch who they pull up with them. Capable people around them means they want to build something real. Only yes-men and bootlickers around them, be careful.
3. When someone gets rich, watch what they spend on. Money going into learning and growing their ability is a good sign. Money only going into showing off and enjoyment shows a weak base.
4. Do not just listen to talk. Watch action. Sweet words with no follow through is a warning. Test people with money, with tasks, and with time.
5. Look at what someone does with their free time. After work, after sleep, the leftover hours show the person clearly. Learning and levelling up, or endless scrolling, drinking and short dramas.
6. Once people get comfortable with you, watch how they talk. Many are careful when things are new, then get loose once relaxed. Careless complaints and loose talk can come back to bite. Same reminder for our own mouth.
7. When someone is down and desperate, watch what they still refuse to take. That line they will not cross tells you their real bottom line.
8. When someone is low and ignored, watch what they still refuse to do. If a person will do anything and betray anyone to get ahead, take note.
The part that hit me most is this works both ways. It is not only for reading others. It is a mirror.
What do I do when I have money, when I have a bit of power, when I have free time, when I am under pressure? That answer is the real me.
Anyone can look good on a calm day.
Watch how a person handles a change they did not ask for.
That is where the real character shows up.
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- Lab-grown brain clusters just outlived every previous record by three times, and they remembered every developmental step along the way. 🧠⏱️
A team led by Paola Arlotta at Harvard and the Broad Institute sustained peppercorn-sized human brain organoids, each containing more than one million cerebral cortex cells, in culture for over five years. Published in Nature on August 19, 2026, the study found the organoids faithfully mirrored the molecular developmental sequence of the human brain during gestation and early life. Crucially, the cells retained a memory of each developmental stage already completed, allowing them to skip forward to more advanced states rather than repeating early steps. The previous record stood at just 694 days.
This internal clock, encoded in the cells themselves, means brain development is not solely driven by external signals, opening a path toward modeling late-onset neurological diseases in the lab.
News Source: Harvard FAS Current, "Lab-grown brain 'organoids' set longevity record" (August 2026)
#BrainOrganoids #Neuroscience #StemCells #BrainDevelopment #Harvard
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- An Austrian farmer has engineered an ingenious, lightweight plastic armor vest lined with sharp defensive spikes to shield grazing livestock from wolf attacks. Rather than resorting to lethal traps or expensive high-voltage fences, this modern take on ancient spiked collars targets a predator’s core hunting instinct—striking the neck and torso. The vest is molded from weather-resistant, non-toxic polymers that weigh so little that sheep and calves move freely without distress, yet it transforms vulnerable prey into an impenetrable, porcupine-like deterrent the moment jaws clamp down.
Beyond immediate physical defense, the armor acts as a clever psychological barrier that conditions apex predators to abandon livestock entirely. Wolves that bite into the painful, unyielding spikes quickly learn a harmless yet unforgettable lesson, encouraging them to retreat and seek out natural wild game instead. By utilizing durable, recyclable plastics that withstand harsh Alpine winters, this low-cost innovation offers a remarkably peaceful coexistence between thriving wildlife conservation and traditional mountain farming.
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- A wing van driver who risked his life to save six people during Typhoon Tino has lost his job over it — and is now being offered a new one by the provincial government.
Francis Anthony Narvasa, from Villaba, Leyte, was driving through Barangay Cotcot in Liloan, Cebu on November 4 when a police officer asked him and his assistant, Ric Vincent Arañez, for help. Floodwaters were sweeping residents away.
The pair used their company wing van to block the rushing current, allowing rescuers to reach those trapped. Six people were pulled to safety, including a police officer who had fallen into the water during the operation.
A video of the rescue went viral. Soon after, the vehicle’s owner dismissed both Narvasa and Arañez, asking them to return the keys and stay away from work.
The firing drew swift backlash. Cebu Governor Pamela Baricuatro learned of the dismissal and immediately offered Narvasa a job as a driver at the Cebu Provincial Capitol.
“I am deeply grateful to Governor Baricuatro for this opportunity and for the support during this challenging time,” Narvasa said in Cebuano.
The Department of Labor and Employment in Central Visayas has since stepped in. Regional Director Roy Buenafe said Narvasa was not given due process before being terminated, and that he should have been allowed to explain his side first.
Buenafe said the driver’s act of heroism should have been commended and rewarded, not met with dismissal. DOLE 7 has opened a fact-finding investigation into the vehicle owner and plans to formally honor Narvasa during its anniversary celebration in December.
Typhoon Tino was the deadliest tropical cyclone to hit the Philippines this year, with nearly 200 reported fatalities.
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According to Daily Mail, Chen’s father passed away when he was 20, leaving him as the sole caregiver for his paralyzed mother. Since then, he has worked tirelessly to support her. He prepares meals with his feet, tends to their farm barefoot, and even feeds his mother by holding a spoon in his teeth. His devotion has touched millions in China, where he is celebrated as a symbol of filial piety and perseverance.
#fblifestyle #DidYouKnow #didyouknowfacts
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- On a quiet coast in South Korea, an elderly woman spent decades harvesting and selling kelp, saving every extra won despite the physical demands of working at sea. Instead of keeping her savings for herself, she donated her life earnings to fund university scholarships for students who could not afford tuition. Her modest income from seaweed helped open doors to education, transforming years of hard labor into opportunities for the next generation and proving how one person’s sacrifice can shape countless futures. #fblifestyle
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- Dr Wise said the data provided to KPMG by the university did not accurately reflect course costs.
"The problem with using external consultants is they don't know what questions to ask. They basically take what's given to them, and then they use it," she said.
Professor Probyn-Rapsey said it was particularly galling for academics to have their futures determined by dodgy data.
"You can imagine how irritating this is for academic staff whose livelihoods depend on precision and who have an immense amount of respect for good quality data," she said.
"This kind of data is known as garbage in, garbage out. And the garbage out that consultancy groups are using is the garbage that we're presented with to justify our job losses and the restructuring of our universities."
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- The progress came as a result of China's intensified efforts to protect and restore its mangroves, which are evergreen trees or shrubs that grow in intertidal zones on tropical or subtropical coasts. Sometimes referred to as "coast guards," they play a vital role in purifying seawater, in mitigating the impacts of wind and waves, and in maintaining biodiversity.
China expands mangrove forest coverage amid conservation efforts
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- Feature: Chinese agricultural technology transforms oilseed harvesting landscape in Pakistan
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ISLAMABAD, April 22 (Xinhua) -- In Pakistan's eastern Bhakkar district, farmers were left in awe as they witnessed the newly imported oilseed harvesters from China efficiently and briskly carrying out their tasks.
"In Pakistan, we lose up to 40 percent of our crop due to our reliance on a single type of harvester used for harvesting all crops including wheat, oilseeds, and others, so seeing such a sophisticated machine specifically designed for oilseed harvesting is truly fascinating," Muhammad Masood, a local farmer told Xinhua.
Feature: Chinese agricultural technology transforms oilseed harvesting landscape in Pakistan
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- “The public loves this story,” Karl Stefanovic put to him on his podcast.
“If you go back far enough, the public liked stoning witches and things like that,” Mr Abbott replied.
“The public can sometimes be misled, and on this it is being.”
https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/dead-in-the-water-why-its-last-beers-for-the-gas-tax-push-that-has-failed-to-convince-the-pm/news-story/2fda2252aafda400772369812b6a904d
- Speaking to CNBC’s Squawk Box, the ultra-billionaire slammed the “absurd” tax system in the US, which sees the top one per cent of taxpayers pay about 40 per cent of all tax revenue and the bottom half pay three per cent, according to the Tax Foundation.
“It’s kind of a tale of two economies,” Mr Bezos said.
“You have a bunch of people in this country who are doing really well, but you also have a bunch of people in this country who are struggling.”
The Blue Origin founder said taxes for the bottom half of earners shouldn’t just be lowered but cut to “zero”.
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- A German Shepherd was once being trained to become a service dog, but there was one little problem that his trainers simply could not overcome. He became deeply attached to a stuffed elephant and refused to leave it behind. No matter how important the training was, the dog apparently had decided that his favourite toy was coming with him.
Service dogs have to learn to remain focused in many different environments and follow commands even when something exciting or distracting is nearby. For this German Shepherd, however, the stuffed elephant was apparently too important to ignore. Instead of leaving his favourite toy behind during training, he kept trying to bring it along, turning serious training sessions into something much more adorable.
Although failing service dog training might sound disappointing, not every dog is suited for that demanding role. Dogs can have different personalities, preferences, and temperaments, and sometimes the qualities that make one dog unsuitable for service work simply make them perfect companions. In this case, the German Shepherd may not have become a working service dog, but he certainly proved that he had one very strong priority: never leave his beloved stuffed elephant behind.
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- Simon Petrus was 17 years old, in Grade 12, living in the Ohangwena Region in northern Namibia. His parents were unemployed. He had no engineering training, no lab, no funding.
He built a phone anyway.
Using scraps from old televisions and broken mobile phones, Petrus spent two years putting together a device that could make and receive calls without a SIM card or airtime. It ran on radio frequencies instead of a cellular network.
The phone wasn't small. It wasn't sleek. It looked like something pulled from a science fiction film set in a garage. Wires, a screen, buttons, a built-in fan, a light bulb, charging sockets for other devices, and a working radio and television. All crammed into one handmade unit.
His parents funded the project with over $2,000 they didn't have.
In 2016, Petrus entered the phone in a regional technology competition in Namibia. It won first place for his school and earned him a spot at the national finals.
The device hasn't been developed further or brought to market. It has limitations. Radio frequency communication doesn't work the same way a cellular network does, and the claim that it can "call anywhere in the world" needs context. But what Petrus built, with no training, no internet to learn from, and no budget, was remarkable.
He was 17. He built a working phone from garbage 💛
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- You've probably seen this woman's face in your fridge... This jar of chilli oil turned its creator into one of China's biggest food icons and conquered the world.
Tao Huabi, 79, is the founder of Lao Gan Ma ('Old Godmother'), the spicy sauce many people put on everything. She started with nothing and is now a billionaire. Here's her recipe for success:
🌶️ Famine fuels the fire. Born in 1947 in Guizhou, one of China's poorest provinces, Tao experienced the Great Famine as a child. According to her biographer, Tao was so hungry she dreamt of putting mud in her mouth just to feel full. Later, she started experimenting with flavours to make simple meals go further.
🌶️ Don’t be held back. Tao never received a formal education and couldn’t read or write, yet built one of China's best-known food brands. Even after becoming a successful businesswoman, she still had important documents read aloud to her.
🌶️ Stick to your principles. After her husband died in 1984, Tao took a second job carrying rocks to pay off debts from his medical bills. She vowed never to borrow money again, telling her sons, "Use whatever you have, whether much or little, always use your own money."
🌶️ Spot what sells. Tao started a roadside noodle stall, serving a crunchy, spicy sauce made from local chillies. It was here she earned the nickname 'Old Godmother'. One day when she hadn't made the sauce, she noticed customers didn't want the noodles. They wanted the sauce to take home.
🌶️ Spread the word. Tao started producing jars of the sauce, and when a highway was built nearby, she gave them out for free to truckers. Soon, people were travelling from across the region just to buy her chilli oil. It's a strategy she's used again and again, in modern times relying on social media for exposure.
🌶️ Think bigger. In 1996, Tao bought two houses and turned them into a factory. She kept expanding from there. For years, though, she still personally checked the sauce, blistering her tongue from tasting so many chillies.
🌶️ Keep control – no matter what. Despite the company's success, Tao refused to list it on the stock market, choosing instead to stay private and let word of mouth do the marketing. Today, with her two sons in charge, around three million bottles of Lao Gan Ma are produced every day, using 45,000 tonnes of chillies a year. Hot stuff!
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- The phone rang in a Kyoto office in October 2002, and the man who answered it understood almost nothing the caller said.
Two words got through: congratulations, and Nobel.
Koichi Tanaka assumed someone had dialed the wrong number.
He was 43, a mid-level engineer at Shimadzu, a company that makes measuring instruments.
No master's degree. No doctorate. No professorship.
He rarely spoke at international conferences and was unknown to most of the chemists whose field he had quietly upended.
The work being honored was seventeen years old.
In 1985, preparing a sample in the lab, he reached for the wrong material and mixed a batch that should have gone straight in the trash.
He ran it through the machine anyway.
What came back was a way to lift enormous biological molecules into a mass spectrometer without tearing them apart, something chemists had spent years describing as impossible.
He has said he only attempted it because he wasn't a chemist and had no idea it couldn't be done.
That technique is now used in drug development and in the early detection of ovarian, breast and prostate cancers.
He shared the 2002 chemistry prize with the American John Fenn and Switzerland's Kurt Wuthrich.
He remains the only person to win a Nobel Prize holding neither a master's nor a doctoral degree.
At a conference afterward, a scientist walked up and greeted him as Dr. Tanaka.
Tanaka corrected him on the spot: it's Mr. Tanaka. I'm an engineer.
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- It takes a certain kind of inner strength to be a whistleblower.
Courage and determination are obvious traits that whistleblowers share, but blowing the lid on alleged misconduct in the nation's biggest companies and organisations requires a willingness to risk everything.
A whistleblower can risk losing their job, their relationships, and potentially their sanity — if they want to expose wrongdoing.
Several whistleblowers I have spoken to over the years often say that reality is what makes it hard to be a whistleblower in Australia and deters more people from coming forward.
Australia's laws just don't protect them.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-04/whistleblowers-need-a-one-stop-shop-for-reporting-misconduct/107110700
- Bangkok police arrested 51‑year‑old Sutthichai, also known as Tong, on Sept 10 after CCTV footage captured him allegedly sexually abusing koi fish in a private pond in the Thung Song Hong area. The incident occurred on Sept 7, when he arrived by bicycle, exposed himself, and later entered the pond naked before abusing the fish. He fled when confronted by the housekeeper and owner, who later filed a police report.
Investigators located Sutthichai the next day in Lak Si, still wearing the same clothes from the incident. He attempted to escape but was detained. During questioning, he admitted to the act, claiming he had gone to wash but became aroused when he saw the fish. He said he had abused koi twice that night and had engaged in similar acts with other animals and objects in the past. He also admitted to drug use.
The pond’s owner, Bobby, said he had kept koi for seven to eight years and had noticed fish dying with bent bodies, initially blaming fights. Suspicion grew after a sex toy was found near the pond, prompting him to adjust CCTV cameras, which later captured the abuse. Police said charges under consideration include animal cruelty, property damage, committing an indecent act, and nighttime trespassing.
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- A student from Tsinghua broke down an old Chinese framework from 吕氏春秋 called 八观, basically 8 ways to observe a person.
Character shows up loudest exactly when a person's situation changes. Not when everything is calm.
I think it makes a lot of sense, so I want to share it in plain words. This is not fortune telling. It is practical judgement, and honestly a way to protect yourself.
1. When someone finally makes it, watch who they still respect. If they suddenly look down on old friends, old colleagues or the people who helped them before, that tells you about their gratitude.
2. When someone gets power or a promotion, watch who they pull up with them. Capable people around them means they want to build something real. Only yes-men and bootlickers around them, be careful.
3. When someone gets rich, watch what they spend on. Money going into learning and growing their ability is a good sign. Money only going into showing off and enjoyment shows a weak base.
4. Do not just listen to talk. Watch action. Sweet words with no follow through is a warning. Test people with money, with tasks, and with time.
5. Look at what someone does with their free time. After work, after sleep, the leftover hours show the person clearly. Learning and levelling up, or endless scrolling, drinking and short dramas.
6. Once people get comfortable with you, watch how they talk. Many are careful when things are new, then get loose once relaxed. Careless complaints and loose talk can come back to bite. Same reminder for our own mouth.
7. When someone is down and desperate, watch what they still refuse to take. That line they will not cross tells you their real bottom line.
8. When someone is low and ignored, watch what they still refuse to do. If a person will do anything and betray anyone to get ahead, take note.
The part that hit me most is this works both ways. It is not only for reading others. It is a mirror.
What do I do when I have money, when I have a bit of power, when I have free time, when I am under pressure? That answer is the real me.
Anyone can look good on a calm day.
Watch how a person handles a change they did not ask for.
That is where the real character shows up.
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- Lab-grown brain clusters just outlived every previous record by three times, and they remembered every developmental step along the way. 🧠⏱️
A team led by Paola Arlotta at Harvard and the Broad Institute sustained peppercorn-sized human brain organoids, each containing more than one million cerebral cortex cells, in culture for over five years. Published in Nature on August 19, 2026, the study found the organoids faithfully mirrored the molecular developmental sequence of the human brain during gestation and early life. Crucially, the cells retained a memory of each developmental stage already completed, allowing them to skip forward to more advanced states rather than repeating early steps. The previous record stood at just 694 days.
This internal clock, encoded in the cells themselves, means brain development is not solely driven by external signals, opening a path toward modeling late-onset neurological diseases in the lab.
News Source: Harvard FAS Current, "Lab-grown brain 'organoids' set longevity record" (August 2026)
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- An Austrian farmer has engineered an ingenious, lightweight plastic armor vest lined with sharp defensive spikes to shield grazing livestock from wolf attacks. Rather than resorting to lethal traps or expensive high-voltage fences, this modern take on ancient spiked collars targets a predator’s core hunting instinct—striking the neck and torso. The vest is molded from weather-resistant, non-toxic polymers that weigh so little that sheep and calves move freely without distress, yet it transforms vulnerable prey into an impenetrable, porcupine-like deterrent the moment jaws clamp down.
Beyond immediate physical defense, the armor acts as a clever psychological barrier that conditions apex predators to abandon livestock entirely. Wolves that bite into the painful, unyielding spikes quickly learn a harmless yet unforgettable lesson, encouraging them to retreat and seek out natural wild game instead. By utilizing durable, recyclable plastics that withstand harsh Alpine winters, this low-cost innovation offers a remarkably peaceful coexistence between thriving wildlife conservation and traditional mountain farming.
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- A wing van driver who risked his life to save six people during Typhoon Tino has lost his job over it — and is now being offered a new one by the provincial government.
Francis Anthony Narvasa, from Villaba, Leyte, was driving through Barangay Cotcot in Liloan, Cebu on November 4 when a police officer asked him and his assistant, Ric Vincent Arañez, for help. Floodwaters were sweeping residents away.
The pair used their company wing van to block the rushing current, allowing rescuers to reach those trapped. Six people were pulled to safety, including a police officer who had fallen into the water during the operation.
A video of the rescue went viral. Soon after, the vehicle’s owner dismissed both Narvasa and Arañez, asking them to return the keys and stay away from work.
The firing drew swift backlash. Cebu Governor Pamela Baricuatro learned of the dismissal and immediately offered Narvasa a job as a driver at the Cebu Provincial Capitol.
“I am deeply grateful to Governor Baricuatro for this opportunity and for the support during this challenging time,” Narvasa said in Cebuano.
The Department of Labor and Employment in Central Visayas has since stepped in. Regional Director Roy Buenafe said Narvasa was not given due process before being terminated, and that he should have been allowed to explain his side first.
Buenafe said the driver’s act of heroism should have been commended and rewarded, not met with dismissal. DOLE 7 has opened a fact-finding investigation into the vehicle owner and plans to formally honor Narvasa during its anniversary celebration in December.
Typhoon Tino was the deadliest tropical cyclone to hit the Philippines this year, with nearly 200 reported fatalities.
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