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Ultra-processed foods now dominate the food supplies of high-income countries, with over 50% of energy intake coming from ultra-processed foods in the United States. Observational data has revealed that greater ultra-processed food consumption is associated with adverse mental health outcomes, while data from randomized controlled trials has demonstrated improvements to mental health following reduction in ultra-processed food intake. Ultra-processed foods are known to contain high concentrations of microplastics, largely due to both the processing and packing procedures. In light of recent findings which demonstrated alarming microplastic concentrations in the human brain, we propose that microplastics may partially mediate the adverse mental health effects of increasing ultra-processed food intake. In this viewpoint, we discuss the overlapping mechanisms for adverse mental health, paucity of research in the area, and propose a Dietary Microplastic Index (DMI) to study this potential relationship.

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When we think about renewable energy, images of sprawling solar farms or towering coastal wind turbines usually come to mind. Yet, there is a quieter, more compact option: a slender strip of material fluttering in the breeze, capable of converting ambient airflow into usable electrical energy.

In our research group, we have been exploring how flexible structures—thin polymer sheets—can convert the energy of ambient flow into electricity using piezoelectric materials. These materials generate an electrical signal when mechanically deformed. Think of them as energy translators—converting flutter and vibration into voltage.

Our work focuses on a simple idea: attach a flexible plate with a piezoelectric sheet to the downstream side of a cylinder and expose it to wind. As wind flows past the cylinder, it causes the attached plate to flutter—much like a flag.

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Catalog number: WPCR-16723
Rare and out of print.
This rare remastered audio was copied directly from the original CD and uploaded in lossless format. The only lossy conversion is YouTube’s final processing step.

0:00 In The Beginning.
1:24 Let There Be Light.
6:22 Supernova.
9:46 Magellan.
14:26 First Landing.
15:43 Oceania.
19:02 Only Time Will Tell.
23:29 Prayer For The Earth.
25:39 Lament For Atlantis.
28:22 The Chamber.
30:11 Hibernaculum.
33:43 Tubular World.
37:05 The Shining Ones.
40:05 Crystal Clear.
45:47 The Sunken Forest.
48:25 Ascension.
54:14 A New Beginning

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Their search for Earth’s lost spices just crash-landed them into a world of trouble! 💥 When the six-member crew of the Serrano wrecks their ship; Kent, C-LA, Ada, Eloy, Mod and Nexus must race against time and some mysterious planet inhabitants to escape before they become the main course.

What’s next for Spice Frontier?

Steamroller Animation is an independent studio that has thrived in a competitive industry for more than a decade. While we’ve built a successful business providing high-quality animation services, our budget for original content is limited.

Spice Frontier: Escape from Veltegar marks our first pilot-length episode, created with a new real-time pipeline in Unreal Engine. Over the past 3.5 years, we’ve invested our profits into developing this technological framework that will support a future range of incredible stories.

Spice Frontier is our industry calling card, and we’re seeking investment, co-production partners, broadcasters, and distributors to bring future episodes to life.

Support independent filmmaking so we can share more Spice Frontier with the world!

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Watch the full interviews with Dr. Christof Koch and Professor Michael Levin, which are discussed in this video, here:
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• Famous Neuroscientist on 5-MeO-DMT and Int…

Hans Busstra talks to Dr. Bernardo Kastrup about the groundbreaking work of Professor Michael Levin and Dr. Christof Koch.

Levin’s research into bio-electric fields reveals that cellular networks use electrical signals not just for immediate physiological tasks, but to coordinate complex patterning and memory across tissues—suggesting a kind of distributed intelligence in living systems.

Christof Koch, meanwhile, champions Integrated Information Theory (IIT), which proposes that consciousness is an intrinsic property of certain physical systems with high levels of causal interconnectivity.

Both lines of inquiry challenge the traditional reductionist view that mind is merely an emergent byproduct of neural activity. Instead, they point to a more holistic, perhaps even fundamental, role for information and consciousness in nature. Though Levin and Koch make no explicit metaphysical claims in their work, their empirical findings and views are very much in line with analytic idealism.

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