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“According to an article in the South China Morning Post, concealed in regular safety helmets or uniform hats, lightweight wireless sensors constantly measure the wearers brainwaves and stream the data to AI to detect emotional spikes such as depression, anxiety or rage.”

OMG this is frightening. 😳

The neighbouring towns of Baarle-Herzog and Baarle Nassau the borders between Belgium and Netherlands are like a plate of scrambled eggs. There are 22 mini Belgian enclaves in the Netherlands and seven of these have parcels of land within them that are mini Netherlands.Some borders but right through bars and restaurants.

Crazy. Gotta visit next year! 🇧🇪🇳🇱

“It was the French, however, who came up with the first “universal” standards of measurement.”

In 1792 two astronomers surveyed the distance (meridian arc) from the equator to the North Pole using platinum rods and discovered, by extrapolation, that the distance was 10 million metres. The metre was then inscribed by two points on a platinum iridium bar.

Fascinating!

“Something strange is happening to nature’s clock, because everywhere around us the timing is off.”

Here, here…

“The average hunter-gatherer only worked 3-5hrs per day,”

“In 1972, a geologist named Michael Siffre agreed to take part in a NASA-funded study where he would spend six months alone in a cave in Del Rio, Texas. He had not external cues like sunlight or the seasons to mark his time inside. by day 79, Siffre had not only begun to lose track of time, he had begun to lose his mind. Siffre began to contemplate suicide and on day 179 he was brought out.”

“During the Song Dynasty(960-1279), the Chinese built incense clocks to tell the hours passing…by knowing the time it took and the order in which the scents burned, observers could tell the time of day by the smell in the air.”

Love this! ❤️👃

“The Swedes are so good at converting their garbage that only 1% of its citizens household waste ends up in landfill.”

“Today the average person in North America uses 100kg of plastic every year, most of it is in the form of packaging which gets thrown out.”

Gobsmacking!