On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
The BBC have documented for the first time Dolphins using pufferfish to get high. The pufferfish releases Neurotoxins and in large amounts can kill the animals but in small doses actually leave the dolphins in a state of bliss. This is because in small doses it has a narcotic effect. Once the dolphins have done passing the puffer fish around they are then free to swim away. The is the first time this phenomena has been documented in the wild.
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