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Lichens: An Intimate Epic at Earth’s Edges

https://youtu.be/0GOgiJlHkcY?si=d0RRfhUdyJQobGVT In the hush that follows a glacier’s retreat, where raw stone stings in the cold and the wind scours every hope of life away, a lacework appears. Delicate at…

Serge Blake August 30, 2025

Global Health Medicine

Tetanus: A Scientific and Medical Overview

https://youtu.be/MzzOKh6gbGg?si=qIBvms9lsmuvMPhl Introduction Tetanus is a preventable but life-threatening disease caused by Clostridium tetani, an anaerobic, spore-forming bacterium. Despite being well understood and entirely preventable through vaccination, tetanus continues to claim…

Serge Blake August 30, 2025

Entertainment Movies Opinion & Analysis

The Fraught Genius of Terrence Howard: From Stardom to “Terryology”

https://youtu.be/g197xdRZsW0?si=vguYn3N3_647g24h Prologue : The Actor Who Rewrote Math On a warm September evening in 2019, Terrence Howard stood beneath the glaring lights of the Emmy Awards red carpet. He wasn’t…

Serge Blake August 23, 2025

American history History & Culture

The Chicago Outfit: America’s Most Enduring Crime Syndicate

https://youtu.be/7pBfyqI2oXI?si=ZaW7axEus8VS9Xos Few names in organized crime evoke as much intrigue as The Chicago Outfit. While the Mafia in New York has been immortalized in movies like The Godfather and Goodfellas,…

Serge Blake August 22, 2025

Food and Lifestyle Global business

Mixue: How a 3,000 Yuan Shaved Ice Stall Became the World’s Largest Fast-Food Chain

https://youtu.be/b7XgGeqhXts?si=S6geDwbih7JKvDTw Introduction : The Snow King Who Outpaced McDonald’s In March 2025, while the world was watching Silicon Valley tech IPOs, a different kind of corporate giant quietly stole the…

Serge Blake August 22, 2025

Global Health Medicine Science

The Cancer : Everything You Wanted To Know, But Didn’t Wanted To Ask

https://youtu.be/GkxrJSTLH_s?si=e-7fV7fqh3ZoSwAk Cancer begins as a single cell gone subtly, then catastrophically, wrong. That cell’s DNA—life’s instruction set—acquires changes that tip its behavior from disciplined citizen to rogue operator. Over months…

Serge Blake August 16, 2025

Global Health Health History & Culture

Mushrooms are the creators of our consciousness

https://youtu.be/QwV3qXeLfzM?si=dypPeGK57xQw9ykW https://youtu.be/yFTLMvu19Xs?si=M4us7v2IxF4cStTE I. Mushrooms : The Cosmos Silent Gangsters Life on Earth began in the crucible of a young, volatile planet. Simple molecules—water, carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorous—coalesced into amino acids,…

Serge Blake August 16, 2025

Global Politics Human Rights Opinion & Analysis

No LGBT, No Jews, No Blacks, No Asians, No Hispanic. The New Town In USA

Part 1: A Gate in the Ozarks https://youtu.be/9-Bfx-3Bxy4?si=WCUfpZKfy82eyj2U On a narrow dirt road winding through the Arkansas Ozarks, a small sign marks the entrance to “Return to the Land.” Hand-carved…

Serge Blake August 16, 2025

Videos

Boxfish — a bright little fish with a cube-shaped body

So that's a juvenile box fish. Unsurprisingly, toxic to eat. Probably my favorite reef fish, although juvenile harlequin sweetlips are pretty close. They're called "disco fish", they shaken their butt…

Serge Blake August 10, 2025

Environment World

Mount Kailash: A Personal Journey into the Heart of the Sacred Peak,or is it?

Standing on the windswept Tibetan plateau, surrounded by an endless expanse of sky and earth, I first glimpsed Mount Kailash. Its silhouette was unlike any mountain I had ever seen—an…

Serge Blake August 9, 2025