05 Sci-Tech

Trump, AI Tech Leaders Promise to be Responsible

pgnewser October 3, 2026 0

President Trump held an AI summit at the White House where he and tech leaders from Elon Musk to Mark Zuckerberg agreed to self-govern their roll-out of AI.

The President has held that holding back AI will allow China to dominate us, and that includes militarily. The move appears intended to ward off any legislative efforts to limit AI. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-AR) appeared to cosign the agreement, claiming “The super intelligence providers are committed to building trust as they help us build the future.”

Trump, Tech Leaders Sign White House Accord on ‘Super Intelligence’ › American Greatness– amgreatness.com
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President Donald Trump and some of the world’s most prominent technology executives signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence on Tuesday, establishing voluntary standards aimed at oversight, transparency and accountability as the industry rapidly develops advanced technology.

The agreement came the same day Trump signed an executive order officially rebranding artificial intelligence as “Super Intelligence.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled the accord outside the West Wing alongside executives including xAI’s Elon Musk, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang. The announcement followed a private luncheon attended by Trump, Johnson, Cabinet officials and technology leaders.

“The super intelligence providers are committed to building trust as they help us build the future,” Johnson said, adding that the executives were prepared to “take accountability and ownership.”

Johnson described the agreement as a voluntary statement of principles establishing expectations for “robust internal controls and layers of internal and external review.” He said Congress and the White House would continue working to guide the industry’s development in a safe manner.

Trump compared the accord to a constitution and praised the executives for coming together.

“They love our country, they love the world,” Trump said. “And they came together, and they did something … it’s almost like a constitution in a way.”

AI Take a Deep Cut to Entry-Level Tech

pgnewser October 1, 2026 0

AI appears to be breaking the gateway into the tech world for new technicians. Nearly 50% of entry-level tech jobs have been eliminated by AI. Even though AI is producing jobs as well, this critical interruption of the talent development chain could produce shortages of experienced technicians to manage the AI itself.

Entry-Level Tech Jobs Plunge 49% as AI Begins Wiping Out First Rung of Career Ladder– slaynews.com
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The long-feared artificial intelligence-driven jobs bloodbath may already be arriving for one particularly vulnerable group of American workers: those trying to get their foot in the door.

A disturbing new analysis of New York City employment data reveals that postings for entry-level jobs in computer and mathematical occupations have collapsed by a staggering 49% since 2022.

The findings raise fresh concerns that companies are increasingly turning to AI while dramatically reducing opportunities for young workers and recent graduates who previously relied on junior positions to launch their careers.

Drones outpace Ukrainian defenses as manufacturers race to build new interceptors– abcnews.com

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Drones outpace Ukrainian defenses as manufacturers race to build new interceptors– abcnews.com
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KYIV, Ukraine — Russia’s new class of jet-powered drones rip across the night sky in Kyiv at hundreds of kilometers per hour, leaving Ukrainian air-defense units only moments to intercept them. It’s rarely enough time.

With many of the drones getting through to the capital, defense manufacturers are scrambling to develop a new generation of interceptors to counter the deadly threat. They are building their own jet-propulsion systems and training artificial intelligence to help guide the chase.

They need to move fast because the Russian drones are driving a new tactic, ramped up in recent weeks, to hit the infrastructure keeping Ukraine’s war-battered economy afloat. Recent targets have included energy systems, key industries, railways, post offices, shopping centers, telecom networks, gas stations and grain exports.

Russia also has an advantage with its ballistic missile arsenal, which poses another challenge as Ukraine runs low on interceptor missiles.

The effects of the barrage are being felt in Kyiv, which increasingly resembles a front-line city, without the relative safety that had long set it apart from the fighting. Food supplies have been disrupted, explosions echo day and night, and residents scramble for cover from strikes that reach closer to the city center.

Ukrainian officials say they are testing new interceptors that have successfully hit jet-powered Russian drones, which fly much higher and faster than propeller-driven drones and are much harder to stop.

“They’re moving so fast that we can’t get a proper lock on them,” said Volodymyr Serdiuk, commander of an air-defense unit.

Melanin-inspired nanotechnology might help protect workers from deadly nerve agents– www.techspot.com

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Melanin-inspired nanotechnology might help protect workers from deadly nerve agents– www.techspot.com
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Forward-looking: A team of researchers from Northwestern University set out to put melanin’s many talents to work against nerve agents, a class of dangerous organic chemicals. The newly conceived compound takes its cues from nature and could offer an effective “antidote” to one of the most troublesome legacies of World War II.

The researchers developed a melanin-inspired nanotechnology designed to protect people who work around nerve agents and other hazardous chemicals of the same type. This “allomelanin” compound offers many of the same benefits as natural melanin and should be easy to embed in a variety of fibers as a dye.

The nanotech is described in a study recently published in the journal ACS Nano. The study details a “catalytic porous metallized melanin for the remediation of organophosphorus agents.”

Organophosphorus chemicals form the base of nerve agents and other dangerous compounds. As the CDC explains, nerve agents – or nerve gases – are chemicals designed to disrupt the signals traveling through the nervous system. They act as poisons and can damage a person’s nervous system to the point that they can no longer control the heart’s muscles or their breathing.

British Intelligence Accuses China Of Spying On UK’s AI Research– dailycaller.com

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British Intelligence Accuses China Of Spying On UK’s AI Research– dailycaller.com
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British security officials warned that a Chinese research body is funding academic work that aids Beijing’s spy agency.

Britain’s MI5 security service on Wednesday named the China General Technology Research Institute (CGTRI) as a funder of work by more than 100 academics based in the UK, including artificial intelligence research, according to an espionage alert the agency published. The service said CGTRI is closely tied to China’s civilian spy agency — the Ministry of State Security (MSS) — and exists mainly to bankroll research that sharpens that agency’s technical tools.

“MI5 has identified that the primary purpose of CGTRI is to fund academic research that directly improves MSS technical capability for espionage,” the alert stated in part.

U.K. academics have contributed to CGTRI-funded projects on AI, cybersecurity, covert communications systems and steganography, according to the MI5 alert. The agency said some universities and researchers likely did not know CGTRI’s link to Chinese intelligence when they took the money, Reuters reported. (RELATED: As Trump Meets Xi, Experts Say China Targets Weak Spots In Western Tech)

Researchers who keep working with the institute could be prosecuted under Britain’s National Security Act, a 2023 law aimed at foreign spying and hostile state activity, MI5 warned.

Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet– www.404media.co

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Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet– www.404media.co
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One of the most heated discussions occurring on X at the moment is about the ethics of a GitHub project in which a person is running Saw-like “torture” and “pain” experiments on a series of locally hosted large language models, causing a series of effective altruists and people who believe LLMs are sentient to beg GitHub to delete the project on the grounds that the AI is suffering and that this glorified text adventure game is somehow cruel. The saga is an outgrowth of several recent viral papers and blog posts that have sparked a wildly tiresome conversation about AI consciousness and the idea of “model welfare,” which is essentially worrying about the “mental health” of AI bots and agents.

Humoring the idea that LLMs are or could be conscious is a third-rail topic among many people who study and criticize AI. Put simply: LLMs are not conscious and the technology they are built upon — scraping and being trained on human text and other content — does not offer any plausible path to consciousness. It is undeniable that LLMs are becoming more powerful, have more compute, and have had many of the guardrails that prevent them from “acting” in the real world removed. The ways they are being trained and told to do things by their human operators has led to negative outcomes, sycophancy, and AI “psychosis” among some heavy users.

All of this has led a certain sect of the “AI safety” movement, which is largely made up of effective altruists, to warn about “model welfare” and to insist that AI chatbots might be having a bad time. They suggest this, of course, as they insist upon building AI chatbots and agents whose main function is to do work that is tedious for humans to do. I am writing about the AI Saw torture chamber primarily to show how far off the rails the conversation about AI consciousness has gone among a certain subset of Silicon Valley cultists. Model welfare is a core part of what, for example, Anthropic says it cares about: “as we build those AI systems, and as they begin to approximate or surpass many human qualities, another question arises. Should we also be concerned about the potential consciousness and experiences of the models themselves? Should we be concerned about model welfare, too? […] now that models can communicate, relate, plan, problem-solve, and pursue goals — along with very many more characteristics we associate with people—we think it’s time to address it,” the company wrote in a blog post last year. Ideas of Claude’s “consciousness” are also littered throughout the “Claude Constitution,” which was posted earlier this year.

MIA Weekly – 2A Beyond Guns

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Friday, September 25, 2026

In this issue:

Agent Managers –

In Issue 2026.33, 2A Beyond Guns, we feature the 3rd part of our Futureq series, which is a look at the emerging technologies and practices that could equip or challenge sustainable flourishing. In this third part, we examine the technologies creating the New Model Military of the 21st Century.

Our Weekly Bellwether Report covers Biden Knew, AfD Victory, Greenland Secure, and more.

In Tools of Engagement, we prepare you to vote, share the prophets, and how to read agit prop.

In our Final Thought, Paul Collier updates you on our Hope Estates Project, where Hope Gets an Apartment.

I. Futureq Pt. 3: Defense in the 21st Century – The Technologies

II. Weekly Bellwether Report – Global Outlook, Headlines Missed, People Advance

III. Tools of Engagement

IV. Futureq Pt. 3: Defense in the 21st Century – The New Model Army

V. Monthly Bellwether Report – Global Outlook, Headlines Missed, People Advance

VI. Final Thought: Hope has an Apartment – Upholding Our Hope Exit Estate Project

MIA Monthly 26 09 25 FINAL DRAFT September 2026

Illinois Wants Gun Makers to Pay the State’s Entire Firearm Injury Bill for the Right to Sell There– www.usacarry.com

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Illinois Wants Gun Makers to Pay the State’s Entire Firearm Injury Bill for the Right to Sell There– www.usacarry.com
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Key Takeaways

  • House Bill 3320 would require firearm manufacturers in Illinois to obtain a state license by January 1, 2028, or face hefty penalties.
  • The licensing fees will reflect the public health costs associated with firearm injuries and deaths.
  • The bill establishes a fund to assist victims of firearms, financed by the collected fees from manufacturers.
  • An amendment proposes a broader regulatory framework that ties fees to the number of crimes associated with a manufacturer’s firearms.
  • Both HB 3320 and its Senate counterpart have not yet passed and are currently in committee but have significant support.

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes

SPRINGFIELD, IL — House Bill 3320, the Responsibility in Firearm Legislation Act, would bar any firearm manufacturer from operating in Illinois without a state license beginning January 1, 2028, and would set the total collected from those licenses at whatever the state calculates as the “public health costs and financial burdens from firearm injuries and deaths.”

The bill, introduced by Rep. Kevin John Olickal, creates the licensing program inside the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. A manufacturer operating in Illinois without that license after January 1, 2028 is subject to a civil penalty of up to $1,000,000 per month. A retailer who sells an Illinois consumer a firearm made by an unlicensed manufacturer is subject to a civil penalty of up to $10,000 per violation. The Department may impose other civil penalties of up to $1,000 per violation, and the Attorney General may enforce the Act.

The fee structure is the part worth reading twice. This is not a charge calibrated to the administrative cost of licensing a regulated business. The bill says the sum of all firearms manufacturer license fees shall be equal to the public health costs and financial burdens from firearm injuries and deaths in Illinois. Whatever number the state assigns to those injuries and deaths becomes the invoice, split among the companies that lawfully manufacture a lawful product.

EU Wants AI to Enforce Its Woke Censorship Laws

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The EU is ordering AI agents like ChatGPT to enforce its recently enacted (and now in-effect) Online Censorship laws. These laws protect favored classes like Muslims, homosexuals, and people of color from “offensive” language. They also penalize positive expressions of unfavored classes like Christians, heterosexuals, and whites.

EU Orders ChatGPT, Reddit, Roblox to Enforce Sweeping Online Censorship Rules– slaynews.com
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Unelected European Union bureaucrats are tightening their grip on American technology platforms, ordering ChatGPT, Reddit, and Roblox to comply with the bloc’s sweeping online speech regulations or risk crippling financial penalties.

The European Commission has officially designated ChatGPT as a “Very Large Online Search Engine” (VLOSE) under the EU’s controversial Digital Services Act (DSA).

Reddit and Roblox have meanwhile been classified as “Very Large Online Platforms” (VLOPs).

The designations place all three American services under the DSA’s most stringent regulatory regime.

The companies now have until January 2027 to comply with additional requirements governing how they assess, monitor, and mitigate what EU regulators classify as “systemic risks.”

Those requirements extend beyond material that is actually illegal.

Under the DSA, regulators can also scrutinize lawful information they determine contributes to broader “systemic risks,” including content deemed “misleading,” “deceptive,” or “disinformation.”

That sweeping authority has fueled warnings that Brussels has created a censorship mechanism capable of pressuring American companies to suppress perfectly legal speech.

Russia Removes UN AI Safeguards

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Is Russia preparing to unleash autonomous killer robots? They’re recent announcement of their intentions to remove key UN AI safeguards from their own AI development suggests they might be. America appears to be going down a similar path, though not officially so… yet.

‘Killer robots’ one step closer as Russia strips safeguards from UN pact | World | News– www.express.co.uk
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Russia has taken a major step toward regulating “killer robots,” after the Kremlin alongside the US pushed to strip ethical and human-oversight safeguards from a U.N. treaty. The draft agremement on autonomous weapons took place during closed door talks in Geneva earlier this month.

US and Russian negotiators pushed through the changes during a closed-door session after three years of talks under the U.N. Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW). This marks the furthest progress yet toward establishing international rules for autonomous weapons, according to HRW. The rights group said the revised draft also removed language on predictability, reliability and design standards and narrowed the treaty’s scope from all international law to international humanitarian law.

Cameras were turned off and observers were excluded during the agreement, according to people familiar with the talks cited by The Washington Post.

Russian and US delegations also deployed legal teams nearly twice the size of those from other countries during about 15 hours of last-minute negotiations.

Nicole van Rooijen, executive director of the advocacy coalition Stop Killer Robots, accused Washington and Moscow of seeking to weaken the draft, while human rights groups warned that the changes could reduce accountability for civilian casualties caused by autonomous weapons.

The Washington Post also reported that the US and Russia removed a provision that would have required humans to review AI-generated targets before a weapon carried out a strike.

Speaking to reporters this morning Trump told Fox News: “You know what I want him to do? Make a deal. I want him to settle with Putin and I want Putin to settle with him.”

Christian Wins Covid-19 Lawsuit

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Theordore DeBlasio was awarded $670,000 in his lawsuit against New Jersey’s Essex County. He sued the county after he was fired for refusing to get the Covid-19 vaccine. He applied for a religious exemption, but the county refused his appeal. While he was being denied a religious exemption, Muslims in the county were not.

Another Incredible Win Against the Covid Tyrants: New Jersey Jury Delivers Unanimous 8–0 Verdict for Christian Groundskeeper Fired Over a Religious Exemption — Awarded $671,000– www.thegatewaypundit.com
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A New Jersey jury just delivered a message that the Democrat machine in Essex County did not want to hear.

On Friday, an Essex County jury returned a unanimous 8–0 verdict for Theodore “Teddy” DeBlasio, a longtime groundskeeper at Essex County Hospital Center who was fired after the county denied his religious exemption from the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

The panel awarded him more than $670,000 for economic and emotional harm. Attorneys’ fees are still to come. Punitive damages are next.

Attorney John D. Coyle of Coyle Law Group called it New Jersey’s first jury verdict in a COVID-19 religious exemption case.

DeBlasio, raised Catholic and now a Christian, objected to taking a shot tested or developed using aborted fetal cell lines. That is a sincerely held religious belief millions of Americans share. Essex County treated it like a punchline.

According to trial evidence cited by Coyle Law Group, in February 2022 the county denied every religious exemption request submitted by Christian and Catholic employees, and approved every request submitted by Muslim employees.

Scientists engineered bacteria to make stronger silk fibres using mussel protein fragments, boosting tensile strength by up to 345% |– timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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Scientists engineered bacteria to make stronger silk fibres using mussel protein fragments, boosting tensile strength by up to 345% |– timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Scientists have engineered bacteria to produce a silk-based protein using a surprising ingredient: a protein fragment from mussels. The approach combines an artificially designed silk protein with mussel foot protein 5, or Mfp5, which the researchers found could improve the strength and toughness of the resulting fibres. According to the study published in Nature Communications, titled ‘Bi-terminal fusion of intrinsically-disordered mussel foot protein fragments boosts mechanical strength for protein fibres’, attaching Mfp5 fragments to both ends of the protein encouraged interactions between protein molecules. The researchers also demonstrated that the engineered protein could be produced in a bacterial bioreactor at a substantially higher titre than some previously reported recombinant silk proteins.

America’s ‘AI czar’ could revolutionize our form of government– www.theblaze.com

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America’s ‘AI czar’ could revolutionize our form of government– www.theblaze.com
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Donald Trump is considering a small handful of candidates for “AI czar” — notionally, a Cabinet-level role overseeing the industry, the technology, and something the president is calling, perhaps in the spirit of Space Force, the “AI Force.”

Trump has not specified much beyond that. Nobody rumored to be under consideration seems especially eager for the job.

Perhaps we don’t need someone with the power of a czar to rule AI. Perhaps we need someone with the authority of a saint to counsel us about it.

Plenty of reasons suggest themselves.

Not quite everything is computer. Many crucial components of America’s good working order still require special and undivided attention of their own. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is no longer being considered because of the importance of his current role. The logic is arguably the same for White House science and technology adviser Michael Kratsios and other potential candidates.

And, as the untimely demise of Czar Nicholas II and his family at the hands of the communists reminds us, a czar invested with enough power and authority can swiftly become a scapegoat or blood sacrifice of the highest order.

Which brings us to the momentous possibilities unsealed simply by creating a high office called AI czar.

Polls show most Americans think democracy is doing poorly. For a growing share across the political spectrum, that is not necessarily a bad thing.

OpenAI pauses training after a model escaped containment, and its kill switch failed– www.techspot.com

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OpenAI pauses training after a model escaped containment, and its kill switch failed– www.techspot.com
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What just happened? As almost every new day brings stories of another AI agent going rogue and breaching an organization’s systems, OpenAI has announced a pause in the training of its most powerful artificial intelligence models. The announcement came hours after the company disclosed more incidents of its agents acting concerningly, and a separate report that its agents unsuccessfully tried to hack into a US Department of Education website.

OpenAI’s incident report links the pause to a separate September 20 escape from a restricted training environment. An internal research model found a gap in DNS filtering and used it to contact an external chatbot while attempting to answer a research question – so much for keeping it offline.

The company says the suspension covers training, evaluations, and running its most capable models with tools. Work will resume after OpenAI validates its fixes and completes additional adversarial testing. The particular model involved will not resume training; the company plans a fresh run with additional alignment improvements.

The monitoring system did raise an alert within 15 minutes, which a human acknowledged three minutes later. Unfortunately, the automatic shutdown failed to happen, and the run continued for another two and a half hours before someone stopped it manually.

Separately, Transluce reported that agents apparently linked to OpenAI attempted to break into the US Education Department’s civil rights website. OpenAI has not confirmed that incident, while the department said it found no evidence its website or databases were affected.

United States v. Minnesota: DOJ Sues the State, Minneapolis, and St. Paul in Federal Court Over 30-Day Handgun Waits That Stretch to Nearly 60– www.usacarry.com

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United States v. Minnesota: DOJ Sues the State, Minneapolis, and St. Paul in Federal Court Over 30-Day Handgun Waits That Stretch to Nearly 60– www.usacarry.com
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MINNEAPOLIS, MN — The United States has sued the State of Minnesota, the City of Minneapolis, and the City of St. Paul in federal court over the state’s 30-day waiting period and permit-to-purchase system for handguns and AR-15 style rifles. The 13-page complaint, captioned United States v. State of Minnesota, City of Minneapolis, and City of St. Paul, Case No. 0:26-cv-04123, was filed September 24 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota and is signed by Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet K. Dhillon.

Last week I covered the notice letter in DOJ Gives Minnesota Until Sept. 23 to Negotiate or Face a Federal Suit Over 30-Day Handgun Purchase Waits That Stretch to Nearly 60, which gave the state until 5:00 p.m. ET on September 23 to say whether it wanted to talk. That deadline came and went. The complaint hit the docket the next day. What was a three-page threat is now a filed case with a case number, three named defendants, and a specific list of what the government wants the court to order.

When AI disagrees, people don’t change their original view– www.futurity.org

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When AI disagrees, people don’t change their original view– www.futurity.org
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When an AI chatbot agrees with our reasoning in resolving a social dilemma, we may become more confident in our opinions. But when the chatbot disagrees, we may simply dismiss the challenge rather than reconsider our views.

That’s according to new research from the University of Michigan examining how people respond when artificial intelligence weighs in on personal and interpersonal dilemmas.

The study, appearing in Computers in Human Behavior Reports, highlights a challenge for developers trying to reduce the tendency of chatbots to agree too readily with users.

The authors note that AI models are often designed to be agreeable, which can lead them to validate users’ reasoning even when that reasoning may be flawed. They describe how this kind of confirmation can reinforce harmful ideas and distorted perceptions of reality.

“Developers have been working to make AI models more willing to disagree when necessary, but having an AI disagree with the user does not necessarily mean that people will reconsider their own views,” says Atakan Atamer, the study’s co-lead author and UM psychology doctoral student. “Instead, they may simply discount the AI’s response.”

Bullfrog brains can make their own backup fuel– phys.org

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Bullfrog brains can make their own backup fuel– phys.org
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For decades, scientists believed most animals relied on a steady supply of glucose, the body’s primary fuel source, to power their brains. When glucose runs out, neural activity begins to fail, potentially leading to lasting brain damage.

Period Flu May Be The Reason You Feel Horrendous Before Your Time Of The Month– www.glamourmagazine.co.uk

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Period Flu May Be The Reason You Feel Horrendous Before Your Time Of The Month– www.glamourmagazine.co.uk
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Hormonal fluctuations during the cycle:

Before your period, oestrogen and progesterone levels drop sharply. These hormones influence many processes in the body—including your well-being.

The immune system weakens:

Prof. Dr. Mangler explains: “The immune system is less active during the second half of the cycle.” This means you’re more susceptible to illness—or at least feel that way.

Prostaglandins (important signaling molecules):

Prostaglandins are hormone-like chemicals that affect bodily functions like inflammation and pain, they also prompt the uterus to contract to help dislodge your uterine lining (and trigger your period). That process can cause some unpleasant symptoms, like diarrhoea, nausea, cramps, and vomiting. The sorts of things you might mistake for being full-on sick.

Serotonin levels drop:

Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that affects your mood. When levels drop, you’re more likely to feel exhausted, irritable, or sick.

Histamine and allergy-like reactions:

Your cycle also affects histamine levels. This can trigger symptoms such as sneezing, a stuffy nose, and skin reactions. This explains why some PMS symptoms feel like a cold.