"For 15 years, Sébastien Fontaine has been trying to kill dirt. The biochemist, who runs a lab at the French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment, wanted to know how much carbon is released by soil — just dirt alone, completely devoid of life. His team sealed dirt into jars and blasted them with sterilizing gamma radiation. Then they waited for the carbon dioxide released by the soil — a sign of ongoing microbial respiration — to drop.

"They waited, and waited, and waited some more: weeks, then months. Under a microscope, the irradiated soil showed no signs of life, but it continued to emit carbon dioxide. The soil wouldn’t stop breathing.

"Fontaine’s lab repeated the experiments and produced the same results. Finally, convinced that they weren’t dealing with an artifact of the experimental setup, they set out to find the source of breath in dead soil."

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-dirt-that-refused-to-die-20260601/

"This restructuring of faith codes, which help identify service members as well as the military in planning for appropriated religious coverage to include them, has now excluded minority faith/worldview groups including Atheists, Asatru, Deists, Druids, Eckankar, Heathens, Humanists, Magick, New Age churches, Pagan, Rosicrucianism, Shaman, Spiritualists, Troth, Unitarian Universalists and various Wiccans."

https://www.military.com/dod-officially-drops-180-faiths-from-militarys-recognized-religion-list

Don’t Cry for Stargate - It Was Already Dead

The cancellation of Amazon’s new Stargate series is disappointing only if you believe a genuine revival was ever possible.

https://arkhaven.substack.com/p/dont-cry-for-stargate-it-was-already

Amazing how much money Hollywood makes after ridiculous stories like this.

Hypnotic conditioning in media.

https://x.com/QuetzalPhoenix/status/2060959249061011859/photo/1

"The scale of anti-Catholic violence—churches burned, priests shot, nuns raped and murdered—remains one of the darkest chapters in modern European history. The Valley was conceived as a place where prayer could be offered for every victim, transcending the bitterness of the conflict. "
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/pope-leo-xiv-visits-spain-as-secret-pact-threatens-valley-of-the-fallen/

"The images were 'chauvinistic and exclusionary', according to journalist Markus Slettholm of the newspaper Morgenbladet."

https://www.dailymail.com/sport/football/article-15876347/Norway-World-Cup-photoshoot-Viking-Erling-Haaland.html

Bavaria legally mandates that crucifixes be hung in the entrances of all state public buildings, to reflect nation's Christian identity.

"One hundred and fifty years of intervening research and archaeology have done little to unscramble this puzzle, and there is hardly one point in the topography of the Holy City to which scholars are entirely agreed.  Hershel Shanks, Editor-in-Chief of Biblical Archaeology Review, succinctly summed up this dilemma in 1999, with a bold and unsettling observation: “Everything you know about Jerusalem is wrong.”"
https://popular-archaeology.com/article/antonia-the-fortress-jerusalem-forgot/#:~:text=One%20hundred%20and,Jerusalem%20is%20wrong.%E2%80%9D

"Over at Quest: Thoughts about God, Truth, and Beauty, an author named Kirk Durston has a fascinating article about J. D. Unwin and his book Sex and Culture. Written in 1934, this book presents the findings of Unwin’s study of 86 different cultures. He breaks the culture down by levels of society and by degrees of sexual freedom.

"The results?

"The highest level of society has only ever been maintained by cultures with premarital chastity and monogamy without easy divorce.

"Societies with sexual freedom collapse within three generations."

https://open.substack.com/pub/ljagilamplighterwright/p/sexual-freedom-destroys-society?r=lp6h7

Interesting...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz23G_UXCGA