William Chouffot @ffot

Humanity is transitioning into a collective "superorganism,” experts say. Culture has officially overtaken genetics as the dominant driver of our evolution. For billions of years, the slow process of natural selection dictated survival, passing advantageous genes down through generations. However, researchers Timothy Waring and Zachary Wood from the University of Maine argue that humanity has entered a historic shift where culture, rather than genetics, is our primary tool for adaptation. When faced with challenges like disease or vision loss, we no longer wait millennia for genetic mutations; instead, we rapidly invent vaccines and eyeglasses. This rapid transmission of knowledge and technology allows ideas to reshape human survival in a matter of months, essentially bypassing biological evolution entirely. This profound shift is organizing humanity into a collective "superorganism," closely mirroring the complex social cooperation seen in ant colonies. Our survival now hinges on massive, interconnected networks of institutions, supply chains, and technologies that no individual fully understands, yet collectively protect us. But this superpower has a dark side. The same cooperative structures designed for resource extraction and competition are now driving existential threats like climate change. Ultimately, our future may no longer depend on the biology in our DNA, but on whether we can adapt our global institutions to solve the very problems our collective success created. source: Waring, T. M., & Wood, Z. T. (2025). Cultural inheritance is driving a transition in human evolution. BioScience, 75(10), 803–819.

Hope for Britain’s Ash trees thanks to scientific ‘eureka’ moment Scientists at the John Innes Centre in Norwich have found a way to speed up the germination of seeds, allowing disease-resistant Ash trees to grow, writes @alextomo Read our latest newsletter here: channel4news.substack.com/p/hope-for-bri…

From the those that know. x.com/ZainabFattah/s…

Zainab Fattah @ZainabFattah

3 months ago

Saudi Arabia’s finance minister says good luck buying #oil at the price you see on screen I.e. around $90 a barrel. Real prices for physical oil are between $120 & $160. #IranWar‌ #Hormuz

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Schrödinger’s color theory finally completed after 100 years | ScienceDaily share.google/BELkybfTx52F1l…

America is shorting one of its best assets as the $38 trillion national debt runs out of control  | Fortune share.google/FfHddP7RDUqCYs…

In an era of great power rivalry, Canada is choosing to be principled and pragmatic. To name reality, to act together, and to build what we claim to believe in.

A trooper’s shove showed stardom doesn’t protect Black athletes from police theguardian.com/sport/2025/nov…

‘Operation Raise the Colours’ Organised by Well-Known Far-Right Extremists hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/22/ope…

🤯 Blown away at how easy it was to build a before/after image slider using freely available AI tools to code and debug using plain english. Athough rabbit hole to fall into. wchouffotartist.com/blogs/dust-and… #ai #coding #WebDevelopment #artists #shopifydesign

Physicists succeed in converting light into a supersolid. Anyone else remember Red Dwarf and Rimmer's upgrade to a hard light hologram 🤯 earth.com/news/physicist… #reddwarf #physics #sciencefiction

Looks like the people looking for fraud are committing fraud.

Dumb and dumber.

@avi8torsflying @implausibleblog 😂

As Erasmus said, "The less talent they have, the more pride, vanity and arrogance they have. All these fools, however, find other fools who applaud them." Rory Stewart summarized it perfectly when he said; “Was it for this that the U.S. spent 80 years building power and alliances? Not to be a force for good. But instead to impoverish neighbors, threaten those it protected, rob minerals from war torn countries and break its promise to 100s of millions of the poorest in the world?” Trump has not only cut off military aid already appropriated, he has also lifted sanctions on Russia. So what did Putin, an indicted war criminal do to earn this reward from the US? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! The President of the United States is rewarding one of America’s most dangerous adversaries for murdering 153,000 innocent Ukrainians. He is rewarding a man whose soldiers raped women and young girls. A man who was party to the execution of men and boys. Their only crime? To be Ukrainian. Trump has in the words of the Kremlin, ‘aligned’ the U.S. with a communist thug, brutalizing an ally whose soldiers died on the battlefields of Iraq alongside his own. To say I feel sick to the stomach would be an understatement. I have no words to articulate just how I feel right now. As with everything else, Trump has used executive orders to circumvent the legislative process, He has decided to use ‘impoundment’ to deliberately misinterpret Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution, by abusing the Take Care Clause. This states the chief executive “shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” This needs to be challenged IMMEDIATELY in court. Trump’s not stupid, he knows a legal challenge will mean the aid can stay on hold long enough for him to hold a gun to Zelenskyy’s head and force him to sign a deal to extort his country’s mineral rights. While an indicted war criminal partners with America, to carve up Ukraine. Is this what Trump calls a just and lasting peace? I don’t know who America is anymore. Our young men and women died in Afghanistan and Iraq after coming to the aid of a nation in distress. This nation is now aiding and abetting an indicted war criminal to rape an ally and sovereign country. Is this what they gave their lives for? It is beyond disgusting, but Trump would just say they were ‘suckers and losers’. Europe and the rest of the free world needs to unequivocally condemn the actions of this sociopathic thug. We can talk diplomacy all day long. Trump doesn’t care about diplomacy. He has already demonstrated he doesn’t even care about the rule of law in his own country. Which bit of the man is an unrepentant convicted criminal are people struggling with? It’s time to build a coalition of the willing, to stop two criminals from dismantling the free world. Trump has decided to declare war on the world in revenge for Zelenskyy not digging up dirt on Joe Biden in 2019, that’s who this man is. If we force Zelenskyy to step down what next? Who will be the next leader Trump wants to remove? It’s time to forget America and take ownership of the Ukraine situation. If we fail, Putin WILL regroup and the Baltic States will be next. We should not wait for Trump to leave NATO allowing him to use US membership as leverage. He should be expelled. While he remains in the alliance, he is Putin’s fox in the hen house and this represents an existential threat to global security. We have reached an inflection point which will be discussed by historians for generations to come. This is Britain’s 1939 Poland moment and Keir Starmer has the opportunity right here, right now, to put together a leadership team to defeat the threat to all of us. Tonight Trump will address the world in the State of the Union. His book of lies for the nation. Time for Democrats to send a message. Every Democrat member should enter the chamber wrapped in a Ukrainian flag 🇺🇦to demonstrate to the world that this is not who America is This is sadly what America has become.

King agrees to host Trump visit The new Private Eye is out now

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

MAGA really doesn’t like the Trump, Putin, and Elon Musk floats at the carnival parade in Germany. My hats off to the Germans! 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿

Well he certainly said thanks in this post

Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa

a year ago

An important visit to the United States. In Washington, I met with a bipartisan delegation from the U.S. Senate. Our discussions focused on the continued military assistance for Ukraine, relevant legislative initiatives, my meeting with President Trump, efforts to achieve a just

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Excellent summary by former head of MI6, Sir Alex Younger, of this new era in geopolitics…adapt or die