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🇺🇸A skydiver scattered 248,000 seeds over Colorado's desert to help restore native plants and support biodiversity. The incredible moment was captured on camera. Writer: Daniyal

Seednace 2 mini on @openart_ai Prompt Seedance 2.0, 15 seconds, 16:9. Main subject from @ image1 — lock her completely. Face, skin tone, body, outfit, everything stays identical the whole way through. She's wearing a grey faded sleeveless crop top, loose high-waist light blue jeans, black canvas sneakers, black cord necklace, black wavy hair in a messy side-swept ponytail with bangs. Korean woman, early-2000s feel. The whole thing is shot in a quiet Korean residential neighborhood — narrow concrete alleys, low-rise houses with small terraces, a front yard with a clothesline, potted plants, parked bicycles and motorcycles, big trees, and overhead cables everywhere. No shops, no vendors, nothing commercial. Just a real neighborhood. Camera treatment is the whole point. This needs to look like someone's friend grabbed a DV camcorder and just started recording — no plan, no setup, no nothing. Heavy handheld shake, constant reframing, subject drifting toward the edges, autofocus hunting, lens breathing, exposure pumping. The image itself should look faded, low contrast, slightly washed out, with that digital noise and compression feel that early-2000s home video had. No stabilization. No modern grading. This aesthetic is non-negotiable. She starts sitting on a concrete sidewalk fixing her ponytail, arms raised, genuine smile, wind catching her hair — camera barely holding focus. Then the camera follows her into a narrow alley where she crouches down and feeds a stray cat that comes right up to her. After that she's in her front yard hanging laundry on the clothesline, morning breeze moving everything, camera swaying and hunting. Mid-section she's on the front terrace with a coffee cup, just sitting quietly, looking out at the street — loose drifting shot from the side. Then a right-side close shot where she raises her arm, waves warmly toward someone off-frame and says "Annyeong" — camera catches it a beat late. Final shot is a slow tracking walk down the street, coffee cup in hand, she notices the lens, turns slightly and gives a real quiet smile — then the recording just cuts to black mid-motion like the camcorder got switched off. Audio is strictly natural. Morning birds, light breeze, distant motorcycle sounds, faint neighborhood chatter, cat, coffee cup, footsteps on concrete, leaves. No music, no sound design, nothing added.

🐢Creative manual pruning! A Chinese man trims green plants into the shapes of turtles and rabbits. @salahzhang @consulat_de @zhang_heqing @pan_xuesong @xuejianosaka @YDunhai @CG_WangBaodong #plants# #Creatives# #pruning# #natureandwild# #AmazingChina# #art# #reels# ㅤ

Botanists have known for years that plants can communicate with each other. Register for free to learn why scientists believe they may also be eavesdropping on their leafy competitors

China added a Germany-sized low carbon electricity grid last year. Nearly 500 TWh more generation, almost all solar and wind, built in factories that still burn coal. Carbon payback came in under two years and power sector emissions still fell. Germany already had zero carbon nuclear power. It shut the last plants down in 2023 because ideology demanded it. Higher prices and more coal and gas backup followed. One country scales clean energy through ruthless pragmatism. The other commits economic suicide and calls it environmental virtue. The West is economically self-destructing by submitting to blue haired lesbians on SSRIs.

AI data-center developers like on-site gas plants because they avoid the laborious process of connecting to strained electric grids. Local residents worry about the stealthy ways they’re approved and their impact

The wonderful use of wormwood Dragon Boat Festival green wormwood, green leaves carry the breeze, hang the house to avoid disasters and evil, and store a light fragrance in the bag. It is not only a unique plant and tree custom in summer, but also a thousand-year-old custom rooted in the folk. It allows us to isolate the heat with the fragrance of plants and trees, and carries the promise of peace with the four seasons with a small incense bag.#DragonBoatFestival# #Wormwood#

I ran across this video a few days ago and couldn’t stop watching it. It’s about something ordinary & boring, a plastic gas lighter. But it changes how one thinks about manufacturing. That lighter in so many of our homes, holds pressurised gas. It has over 30 microscopic parts, has to pass international safety codes, & travel 10,000 miles by sea, & the total cost of doing all that, materials, labour, freight, every middleman along the way, comes to fifteen U.S cents. So how does anyone make money on this? Turns out almost the entire world’s supply comes from one place: a county called Shaodong, in China’s Hunan province. It wasn’t always there. But today, Shaodong has 114 lighter-related companies packed into the place & between them they source more than 200 different components from each other, all within a 20-kilometre radius. They supply something like seventy percent of the world’s disposable lighters. And the industry alone employs over 80,000 people locally. Nobody there is winning on cheap labour anymore. They’re winning by shaving a thousandth of a cent off the thickness of a plastic wall, or redesigning a base so a few thousand more units fit into the same shipping container. It took my thoughts back to an old professor of mine, Michael Porter. His 1980 book, Competitive Strategy, is still the 1st book most MBAs read, the one that gave the world the Five Forces and basically invented modern strategic thinking. But there’s a quieter piece of his work, on industrial clusters, that never got nearly the same attention, and it is the one that explains exactly what is happening in Shaodong. His argument was that nations and regions rarely win because of cheap inputs. They win when rival firms and specialist suppliers crowd into the same small geography for long enough that they keep pushing each other past what any one of them could manage alone. He found it in the Swiss watchmaking towns of the Jura, in the German printing press industry and in Italy’s ceramic tile and footwear districts (interestingly, it’s the SAME blueprint which built Morbi, in Gujarat, into the world’s second-largest ceramic cluster, now outproducing Italy by volume. I have posted before, about Morbi) None of these started out as giants. The neighbourhood made them giants. Which is exactly why it’s so relevant to India’s climb up the global manufacturing table I’ve also attached a slide with this post that I saw recently and which shows us breaking into the top 5 manufacturing globally. (A quick reference check told me that we may not have overtaken Korea yet, but the trajectory’s clear) That climb has happened on the back of scale: bigger plants, bigger parks, more FDI. I should declare an interest here, because the Mahindra Group set up 2 of India’s first integrated, plug-and-play business cities, in Chennai in 2002 & Jaipur in 2006. Both have been extremely successful. Chennai’s business zone alone today employs 45,000 people.. But I admit that we need to think differently. A park brings in investors and hands them a ready plot, power, water & roads A cluster is a completely different animal: hundreds of small, specialised suppliers, each obsessed with doing a tiny thing better than anyone else, feeding off each other’s presence for years until no outsider can compete with the whole. I think that’s the work ahead of us now. Not just more factories, and not just more parks. Policymakers & developers like us need to start consciously pulling as many of the inputs and resources a sector needs, the toolmakers, the component suppliers, the testing labs, the logistics specialists, into the same neighbourhood. Shaodong and Morbi both got there by accident, one town stumbling onto a way to shave a thousandth of a cent off a lighter wall, the other discovering it had the clay and, later, the gas pipeline for tiles. We don’t have the luxury of waiting for accidents anymore. We need to do it on purpose