ijjjjji Method, version 1
June 9, 2004 by Thundercat
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Well, it seems that ijjjjji has FINALLY gotten around to writing his own method, and in true Gunwitch style, has given it away for free on mASF. I am reposting it here for all of you to enjoy and refer to.
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ijjjji method v1
LOOKS – BODY & HEALTH
Eat natural and varied. 5-6 lesser meals pr day. Some proteins in every meal/snack. Avoid hunger. Eat fat from meat and nuts. Reduce alcohol and drugs.
Do full body wo’s 3 times a week. Lift heavy but watch out for injuries. Do big exercises that demand balance and coordination.
Avoid stress and get lots of sleep.LOOKS – STYLE
Always be clean and groomed. Always smell good. Dress in ways that make you stand out from the crowd. Clothes must be on the edge. Amplify with accessories. When buying clothes, think about your style – not the current fashion.***
BUILD CONFIDENCE
Always be pleased with yourself. Let nothing harm your confidence. Remember successes and forget mistakes after you learned from them.
View improvement as an effect of your persona and as part of a pattern – not as result of a good day. See failures as temporary effects of a bad day.
Do not over analyze in search for answers to everything. Never think about the status in your life. Stop thinking that girls are something fundamentally important. Realize you will be happy no matter what. Stop seeing girls as potential girl friends. See them as a source of entertainment, fun and excitement.BUILD CONFIDENCE – AFFIRMATIONS
Say affirmations with lots of feeling. Say them with confident masculine voice. Some examples:
“I’m alpha and masculine! I got deep voice and I’m perfect! I’m confident and positive!”
“Why are all girls crazy about me? Why am I so charismatic, magnetic and irresistible? Why am I so confident and unstoppable? Why am I a first class lover?”
“All girls are horny, and I’m what they want and need!”
“God had a boner when he created me! Chairs orgasm when I sit in them! I’m the most powerful warm wet pussy magnet in the universe!”POSITIVITY
Create a clear, detailed and vivid mental picture of what you want in life. Find the feeling that will come when you get there. See the picture and feel the feeling as often and as intensively as possible.
Eliminate negative thoughts from your system. Eliminate sources of negativity from your life (news, soaps, negative friends, AFC songs, negative posts etc). Let the positive thoughts, feelings and mental pictures dominate. Choose to be happy, confident and positive – no matter what.***
BE THE PRIZE – SUPPLICATION
Don’t do things only to make others like you.
Never be nice. Never adjust yourself.
Reward – never give (thing, help/service, attention, time). Never do anything on the conditions of others – squeeze in your own conditions.
Never try to impress (brag, say intelligent/interesting/cool things, over act, talk about your friends/exes/things you own etc.)BE THE PRIZE – NEEDY
Don’t show too much interest early on.
Never follow her and never wait for her without good reason. Be ok with her leaving. Show willingness to leave.
Do not try to analyze her. Stop caring about her interest in you. Accept that girls are unpredictable. Remain fully calm and confident when girls do bizarre things to control their feelings.
Always look like you just had great sex – a little tired, hair a little untidy, disinterested, arrogant, not needy, like you got better things to do.
Do not hide your sexuality in fear of rejection. Act on it when you are horny, and never let the outcome affect your mood negatively.
Stop caring what people think of you and show it.BE THE PRIZE – BODY LANGUAGE
Never lean in. Do not turn too much against her early on – show more back than her. Do not face her all the time and don’t give her all your attention.BE THE PRIZE – ATTITUDE
I’m the prize – no girl are better or more valuable than me!
This is my world – others come into my world – not vice versa.
Girls are crazy after me – I need protection!
I’m a fantastic lover.
I’m 100% pleased with myself.***
BE THE MAN – GENERAL
Be 100% masculine at all times.
Always be dominant and in control. Take charge – be the leader – the boss. Do everything with authority. Instruct – never ask. Never seek approval.
Show that you got limited respect for her and that you are not subdued by social norms/rules (scream in her ear, make noise, laugh and sing loudly, pull her hair, pinch her ass, grab her and bite her neck, shout about farting and ass fucking, laugh and admit you are a jerk etc)
Never show a soft emotional side. Don’t show interest in her thoughts and emotions.BE THE MAN – TONALITY
Talk with a dominant tone. Speak slow, deep, rhythmic, clear and relaxed, like you are not in a hurry and got full control. Copy the way air plane pilots talk to their passengers. Make breaks that create anticipation before you get to the point, and breaks where you underline the point with gestures and meaningful eye contact.BE THE MAN – BODY LANGUAGE
Spread yourself out and fill as much space as possible, when you stand, sit and walk.
Move extremely slow and relaxed. Cross rooms like a king headed for his throne. Every movement including head and eyes shall be slow and dramatic.
Move focus/attention rarely. Ignore everyone and everything that doesn’t deserve the boss’ attention.BE THE MAN – KINO
Touch her confidently – never insecure, careful or testing.
Handle her like a doll – grab her and control her movements. Hold her and lead her – change directions, speed etc so you manipulate her movement. Tell her how to do things while you grab her and show her the movements. Lift her up and spin around when you hug/kiss her. Help her with getting clothes off /on. Lift/carry her over obstacles.BE THE MAN – ATTITUDE
I’m the boss and I got full control. I own the guy who owns this place. I’m Zeus – its my duty as god to fuck the nymphs!BE THE MAN – ‘FICTION HERO’
Male heroes in films and romantic novels share a few traits that many girls dream of. Be these things:
Impression: Strong, muscular, tough, hard, big hands, powerful, alpha, dominant, protective, masculine, confident, will power, determination, untamed, rough edges, moody, dark,dangerous, mystic, raw, rough, devilish, wild.
Personality: integrity, identity, pride, honor, sense of humor, self irony, charming, charismatic, flirty, passionate, good kisser, rough lover.
Hidden qualities: weaknesses, wounds, faults, openness to learning and growth, caring, attentive, tender (the clue with these is that he does a everything in his power to hide them).***
STATE CONTROL – GET INTO FLOW
Be relaxed, laid back, unworried and comfy. Feel safe, secure and confident. Feel happy and great about yourself. Trust yourself.
Open a few girls quickly (3s rule) before you do anything else.
Avoid being passive. Never stand still and observe.
‘Let go’ and throw yourself into action. Join in, do something, be part of the action, dig the music, move/walk around, take the lead, wave and talk to people etc.STATE CONTROL – AVOID DEEP THINKING
Focus on your feelings. Let your feelings get carried away by music or something happening.
Avoid deep thinking – don’t analyze – turn off inner dialogue. Forget status, plans and agenda. Avoid mirrors, clocks and other ‘thought triggers’.***
EYE CONTACT
Eye contact must be confident, meaningful and firm – not timid, questioning, analyzing, shy, short, begging or frustrated.FACES
Use funny overdramatized facial expressions for underlining and vibing. Examples: Puppy dog – overly sad face with huge eyes. Dignity – turn head sideways and stare towards the horizon with low eye lids and straight neck. (Look out for new ones among your friends and when watching movies and cartoons)TALK
Don’t talk too much. Don’t try too hard to keep conversation alive – don’t try to fill empty pauses. Don’t be too enthusiastic and interested in what she says. Don’t remember too much what she has said. Don’t answer too quickly. Don’t tell about yourself unless she asks.
Avoid thought stimulating talk like questions, problems, plans, logic, explaining, analyzing, advice, argumentation/defense, fascinating, interesting, intelligent, analytical, theoretical, professional.
Always pump positive emotions – never dwell on the negative.
Never talk without subcommunication – subtext/hidden messages, body language, facial expressions and meaningful eye contact.***
ATTRACTION – GENERAL
Be fit!
Be clean/groomed!
Be the prize!
Be the man!
Be in a strong confident state!
Be sexual!ATTRACTION – SEXUAL STATE
Be in a sexual state. Show it by doing stuff like: Play with something in your hands. Straighten hair/clothes. Touch your face, neck and body. Turn more and more towards her. Move closer. Open relaxed body language. Relaxed smile. Low relaxed eye lids. Sensual eye contact. Whisper like voice. Lick upper lip. Bite lower lip. Look down with ‘sad’ eye brows. Scan her body slowly with eyes. Stare at lips. Open mouth with long breath. Turn head sideways slightly backwards to expose carotid artery. Short heavy breathing.ATTRACTION – OPEN
Attitude and body language must be 100% the man and 100% the prize.
Avoid approaching too directly – talk to her as you pass her or while facing another direction or while in conversation with others.
NEG her if she doesn’t show interest and enthusiasm.ATTRACTION – FLIRTING
Be cocky!
Tease her about wanting you, that you can’t be a couple, that you are not her type, that she should try to seduce another guy etc.
Bust her playfully on everything she does and says.
Pretend like you are searching for a polite way to leave her.
Tell her she is seducing you and beg her to stop.
Say things with hidden sexual messages (subtext) – use a lot of symbolic words: wet, moist, stream, pump, warm, open, grow, big, rise, stiff, hard, hidden, secret, good, from behind, in, deeper, slide, penetrate, ecstasy, bliss, come, suck, lick, tongue, mouth, adventure, feel, rhythm, wave, fantasy, wild, untamed, intense.
Look at her like she said something dirty. Paraphrase stuff she says into a sexual context and tell her she’s a naughty girl.ATTRACTION – INTRIGUE
Be mystical – don’t say everything – indicate and say things indirectly. Hint towards secrets and double meanings with body language, facial expressions and subtext.
Ask her to guess. Give obvious bull shit answers.
Become distracted or cut yourself off or change subject just before you reach the point.
Fractionate attention when there’s a spike in her interest. Look and talk to other girls. Turn away from her. Go toilet. Fall into deep thought. Look around.ATTRACTION – KINO
Butt bump, spank, tackle, push, spin, tickle/prickle, pinch, pull hair, wrestle, lift, shake.
Point somewhere and stick a finger in her belly. Pretend to kiss her hand but kiss our own instead.ATTRACTION – SHIT TEST
Focus on being the prize and the man if she does things to become the prize or make you less dominant.
Stuff like demands, commands, complains, manipulation, negativity, logic questions and threats must be met with attraction (cocky busting/teasing, spanking, tickling or backturn/freezeout). Never with direct/honest answer, frustration, neediness or rapport seeking.
If she complains about you, agree and ask if that’s why you make her so horny.***
RAPPORT
Never seek rapport. When she seeks rapport, give her a little bit, but never enough to satisfy her. Then return to attraction.
Do not try to build trust, comfort and feeling of safety. Don’t try to be kind and considerate. Don’t try to be her friend.
Avoid rapport that is feminine, friendly, careful, considerate or insecure.RAPPORT – KINO
Be the man by using an impulsive and confident caveman style.
Rub, don’t squeeze or pinch. Use slow deliberate movements.
Touch her close to eregenous zones and pull back.
Touch yourself with her hands.
De-escalate kino after escalation.RAPPORT – CLOSING
Create an innocent reason why you should go together to her or your place. Then take charge and make it happen.
If conversation dies, look her in the eyes and say nothing.
Smell her neck slowly from shoulder to hair line. “Mmmmm!” Do it again while gradually making it more like kissing and biting. Continue up and nibble her earlobe gently and continue along her chin towards her mouth. Pull back before you reach her mouth. Then grab her head and kiss her cave man style. Pull back again etc. Continue taking steps forwards and backwards until she is ready for sex.
Let your sexual state affect everything you do. Show her you got problems concentrating. Make it obvious what you think about.
Be the man in bed.***
MATERIAL – ATTRACTION
1 Material suited for opening
1.1 Just say something!
Right now I wanted to talk to you – hi my name is ijjjji!
My evil twin told me to talk to you!
My invisible friend told me to talk to you!
Question – my shirt! I know its nice but I’m worried maybe its too sexy!
Question – you the jealous type? Ok, so if I was your BF, I could still drink coffee with my ex once a week?1.2 Compliment/NEG
Aww so nice hair – is it real? (pull hair) But it moved!
Wow.. beautiful eyes.. especially the right one!
Cute teeth – are they real?
Nice nails – are they real?
Wow.. I can see you work out.. now and then..
You’re pretty – you could have been a model.. if you were a little taller.. and a little thinner..
You look sexy from behind!
Nice outfit you’re almost wearing!1.3 Impression /mini cold read
Bad girl!
Naughty girl!
Wow.. party girl!
You are trouble! I shouldn’t be talking to you!
There is something mystical about you! You give me a strange feeling..
You look like you are hiding something!
I can’t trust you!
Aww you look just like.. a little angel!
Aww you look just like.. a little princess!1.4 Cocky, disqualify
Wow.. you are almost as sexy as me!
You look happy – did you just fart?
Aww… you are soooo cute! I want to adopt you!
Wow – your eyes are the same color as my porsche!
Sooo… I heard you wanted to fight me! Cool.. then we can have hot make up sex afterwards!
Awww you are so cute from behind – I had to see the rest! (She asks what you think) On a scale from 1 to 10.. guess!
I lost my teddy (puppy dog face).. would you sleep with me?Aww you are soo cute.. but we could never be a couple – we are too much the same.. we would fight and throw things and have incredible make up sex all over the place and fight more then sex fight sex fight.. too much drama and intense feelings!
Aww you are soo cute.. I almost forget I’m not looking for a relationship right now!
Wow.. I could marry a girl like you.. but I’d divorce you a week later and take all the money and let you keep the dog.
Are you rich? Aww I need a rich GF who can support me while I start a boy band – The Whatever Boys! But hey – I need groupies too! But you don’t look like groupie material – she can be my groupie and you can be my manager! Yeah!2 Other attraction material
2.1 Cocky, disqualify, frame stealing
Aww I love you.. like a sister!
You want to kiss and hug me but I wont let you.
You want me so much but we can’t risk losing this wonderful friendship!
I’m no good for you – he is cute – he suits you – you look cute together!
Let me see (grab hand) see, your good girl line is very long.. and look at this long bad boy line – we could never be a couple!Shit! A poisonous snake bit me in the testicles – you got to help me suck out the poison – now!
Can I kiss your belly button from the inside?
Look! (Point and stick a finger in her belly)
(Bump her) OMG you’re so drunk you can’t walk!
You are trying to resist me but forget it – I’m irresistible!
Girls wait in line to be with me!
Why do you think I’m so sexy? But you look at me like a priest looking at an alter boy!
Its hard to be a sex symbol!
Won’t you get too aroused if I sit this close?
My friends are jealous because mine is bigger!
OMG I think I love me!
I’m hard – are you wet?
My bedroom has a very interesting ceiling!
You could be the president.. of my fan club!
OMG you are so nice! Wait – there is a stain on your halo (pretend to rub her halo).. there – now you are a perfect little halo girl!Hey – no matter how drunk you get me, you can’t have my body tonight! I’m not that cheap!
Hey – stop looking at me like a piece of meat – I’m a human being.. I have feelings!
You can come but no sex! I’m tired of being treated like a piece of meat – I’m a human being.. I have feelings!
Stop looking at me like a fat kid looking at a cheese burger!
You can have my number, but that doesn’t automatically mean I’ll sleep with you!2.2 DLV
I’m shy.
I’m a virgin.
My dick is extremely small!
I’m an unemployed loser – I live with my mom.
I’m so lonely – no friends – tonight I’ll cry myself to sleep.
I’m an anal sex addict.
I’m no good! I cheat, lie and dump girls on valentine’s day.
(Phone rings) What? I don’t have friends! Ah its mom!
(During #close) I got phone phobia – is it ok if I make my mom call you?2.3 Guessing
Guess!
I’m an angel – one more good deed and I’ll get my wings!
I’m a traveling underwear inspector!
I’m a freelance gynecologist – how long is it since your last check?
I’m a gigolo.. but relax – friendship is free!
I’m an orgasmologist!
I’m 16 – 16 and unkissed!
You are.. 60! Hehe just kidding! Hey I was only kidding! You are.. 16 – sweet 16! 17 18 19! I refuse to believe you are older than 19!
Aww I cant bee with X year olds.. only X-1 and X+1 year olds!
Can’t tell you all my secrets yet – I just met you!
Its a secret! I don’t know you well enough yet!
Blabla.. OMG I said too much!2.4 Breaks
Aaawww.. you got an X.. no – don’t show me that!
Mmmm you got so cute eyes.. no.. don’t look at me! Its a bad idea! Stop giving me these feelings!
Mmmm it feels so good.. I’m so relaxed.. No! We got to stop! This is a bad idea – we can’t have these feelings!
Stop tempting me to kiss you!
Aww that smell is so good! No! Don’t let me smell that! We can’t do this!
It can never work between us.. shit your skin is so soft!
Wow.. wait.. what are you doing to me!?
OMG I’m so attracted to you.. but I’m scared and shy.. I got to go now!***
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Of course, he said yes to coming back to the series, which eventually required him to live in Italy for a few months for filming.
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During production, White revealed to Gries that Greg is “very sinister.” That became rather irrefutable by the season’s climax, which saw Tanya’s demise orchestrated by her now-husband.
Come Season 3, Gries had to rewrite Greg’s backstory again, this time drawing from some unlikely sources for inspiration, like HBO docuseries “The Jinx,” about late convicted killer Robert Durst, and the case involving the man who came to be known as the Tinder Swindler.
Gries said he was struck by Durst’s “kind of seemingly even keel personality,” which served as a model for where Greg was headed, someone “who doesn’t really show a great deal of emotion, doesn’t seem to get too angry, just gets a little bit irritated and is dangerous.”
“There’s a bridled rage underneath. And those kind of people I find – at least with respect to Gary, Greg, Gary – fascinating,” he said.
And yet, while searching for an empathetic way back to portraying his character, Gries kept wondering if there was anything still redeeming about Greg.
An important “wake up moment” came during a decisive conversation he had with White just before filming in Thailand, in which the show’s creator said of Greg, in no uncertain terms: “He’s a psychopath.”
“And that was it. It was like, ‘back to the drawing board.’ And it really did help me,” Gries said.
The penultimate episode of the series will air on Sunday, an evening that thanks to “Lotus” and other shows has again become a night of appointment viewing amid a general move away from binge watching. Gries said he appreciates the shift.
“We’re a society that in a weird way doesn’t understand the beauty of waiting. The beauty of the space between the notes,” he shared. “If I binged (‘White Lotus’) I’d feel like I just ate too many chocolates. It just wouldn’t be the same. You need to process this.”
“The White Lotus” airs Sundays at 9 p.m. EDT on HBO, with the episode available to stream on Max. HBO and Max, like CNN, are owned by the same parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery.
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Returning samples from Mars
The European Space Agency plans to launch its ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover to the red planet in 2028, and the robotic explorer will carry a complementary instrument to SAM. The rover LS6 will have the capability to drill up to 6.5 feet (2 meters) beneath the Martian surface — and perhaps find larger and better-preserved organic molecules.
While Curiosity’s samples can’t be studied on Earth, the Perseverance rover has actively been collecting samples from Jezero Crater, the site of an ancient lake and river delta, all with the intention of returning them to Earth in the 2030s via a complicated symphony of missions called Mars Sample Return.
Both rovers have detected a variety of organic carbon molecules in different regions on Mars, suggesting that organic carbon is common on the red planet, Williams said.
While Curiosity and Perseverance have proven they can detect organic matter, their instruments can’t definitively determine all the answers about their origins, said Dr. Ashley Murphy, postdoctoral research scientist at the Planetary Science Institute. Murphy, who along with Williams previously studied organics identified by Perseverance, was not involved in the new research.
“To appropriately probe the biosignature question, these samples require high-resolution and high-sensitivity analyses in terrestrial labs, which can be facilitated by the return of these samples to Earth,” Murphy said.
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European aerospace giant Airbus has revealed a new design for its upcoming fully electric, hydrogen-powered ZEROe aircraft. powered by hydrogen fuel cells.
The single-aisle plane now has four engines, rather than six, each powered by their own fuel cell stack.
The reworked design comes after the news that the ZEROe will be in our skies later than Airbus hoped.
The plan was to launch a zero-emission aircraft by 2035, but now the next-generation single-aisle aircraft is slated to enter service in the second half of the 2030s.
Over in Asia, the Himalayan country of Bhutan is building a gloriously Zen-like new airport befitting a nation with its very own happiness index.
Gelephu International is designed to serve a brand new “mindfulness city,” planned for southern Bhutan, near its border with India.
In rail travel, Japan has just built the world’s first 3D-printed train station, which took just two and a half hours to construct, according to The Japan Times. That’s even shorter than the whizzy six hours it was projected to take.
France’s high-speed TGV rail service has revealed its next generation of trains, which will be capable of reaching speeds of up to 320 kilometers an hour (nearly 200 mph).
The stylish interiors have been causing a stir online, as has the double-decker dining car.
Finally, work is underway in London on turning a mile-long series of secret World War II tunnels under a tube station into a major new tourist attraction. CNN took a look inside.
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When Season 3 of “The White Lotus” premiered last month, the shock was palpable when returning character Belinda recognized a familiar face at the resort in Thailand: Greg Hunt, the wily suitor of the late Tanya McQuoid.
As the season has unfolded, Greg (played by Jon Gries) has emerged as an antagonist, particularly after Belinda dove into the investigation surrounding Tanya’s death and learned that Greg, who now goes by Gary, evaded questioning by authorities.
On a show famous for reinventing itself, the same has been asked of the actor, who says that playing the ever-shifting character has been a welcome challenge and, like “White Lotus” itself, full of twists.
“In the beginning, I totally played him for a guy who was, you know, on his last legs,” Gries said in a recent interview with CNN, referencing Greg’s very apparent ill health in the first season of “White Lotus,” which premiered to rave reviews in summer 2021. He added: “When you play a character, you want to find his empathetic side, and you want to understand where they came from, and what got them to where they are.”
But when he was contacted by creator Mike White about appearing in Season 2, Gries realized he would have to adjust his framing of Greg, despite having previously imagined a “comprehensive history” for him on his own.
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Whether or not you’re actively searching for wellness advice, it’s nearly impossible to avoid hearing about the latest health craze making bold guarantees of transformation.
As you wonder if these claims hold any truth, you might also question why people often feel motivated to dive into intense challenges — when seemingly simple habits, such as getting enough sleep or eating more vegetables, often feel much harder to tackle.
Many of us are drawn to these extreme challenges because we’re craving radical change, hoping it will help prove something to ourselves or to others, experts say.
“We always see these kinds of challenges as opportunities for growth, particularly if we’re in a phase of our life where we’ve let ourselves go,” said Dr. Thomas Curran, associate professor of psychology at the London School of Economics and Political Science and an expert on perfectionism. “Maybe we feel that we need to be healthier, or we just had a breakup or (major) life event.”
With social media amplifying these movements, it’s easy to see why people are increasingly drawn to the idea of achieving the “perfect” version of themselves. But before jumping into a new wellness challenge, it’s important to take a moment, reflect on your goals, and consider where you’re starting from.
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While seeing others’ achievements can be motivating, it can also be discouraging if your progress doesn’t match theirs.
Each person is chasing the perfect version of themselves — whether it’s a body or a lifestyle — which is dangerous because this is typically an impossible or dangerous version to achieve, Curran said. He added that this type of comparison creates a dangerous cycle in which people constantly feel dissatisfied with their own progress.
“It’s a fantasy in many ways, and once you start chasing after it, you constantly find yourself embroiled in a sense of doubt and deficit,” he said.
Curran also noted that wellness challenges can be particularly damaging for women who struggle with perfectionism, as they tend to be bombarded with impossible beauty standards and societal expectations.
Renee McGregor, a UK-based dietitian who specializes in eating disorders and athlete performance, encourages people to approach wellness trends with curiosity and skepticism. That’s because some influencers and celebrities could be promoting products because there’s a financial benefit for them.
“The thing to ask yourself about the person you’re taking advice from is what do they gain from it?” McGregor said. “If they are going to gain financially, then you know that they (could be willing) to sell you a lie.”
Whether you want to try a new challenge or product that promises amazing results, McGregor suggests doing your research and seeking diverse perspectives, including consulting with doctors when possible.
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Lightning is a dramatic display of electrical power, but it is also sporadic and unpredictable. Even on a volatile Earth billions of years ago, lightning may have been too infrequent to produce amino acids in quantities sufficient for life — a fact that has cast doubt on such theories in the past, Zare said.
Water spray, however, would have been more common than lightning. A more likely scenario is that mist-generated microlightning constantly zapped amino acids into existence from pools and puddles, where the molecules could accumulate and form more complex molecules, eventually leading to the evolution of life.
“Microdischarges between obviously charged water microdroplets make all the organic molecules observed previously in the Miller-Urey experiment,” Zare said. “We propose that this is a new mechanism for the prebiotic synthesis of molecules that constitute the building blocks of life.”
However, even with the new findings about microlightning, questions remain about life’s origins, he added. While some scientists support the notion of electrically charged beginnings for life’s earliest building blocks, an alternative abiogenesis hypothesis proposes that Earth’s first amino acids were cooked up around hydrothermal vents on the seafloor, produced by a combination of seawater, hydrogen-rich fluids and extreme pressure.
Researchers identified salt minerals in the Bennu samples that were deposited as a result of brine evaporation from the asteroid’s parent body. In particular, they found a number of sodium salts, such as the needles of hydrated sodium carbonate highlighted in purple in this false-colored image – salts that could easily have been compromised if the samples had been exposed to water in Earth’s atmosphere.
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Yet another hypothesis suggests that organic molecules didn’t originate on Earth at all. Rather, they formed in space and were carried here by comets or fragments of asteroids, a process known as panspermia.
“We still don’t know the answer to this question,” Zare said. “But I think we’re closer to understanding something more about what could have happened.”
Though the details of life’s origins on Earth may never be fully explained, “this study provides another avenue for the formation of molecules crucial to the origin of life,” Williams said. “Water is a ubiquitous aspect of our world, giving rise to the moniker ‘Blue Marble’ to describe the Earth from space. Perhaps the falling of water, the most crucial element that sustains us, also played a greater role in the origin of life on Earth than we previously recognized.”
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In travel news this week: Bhutan’s spectacular new airport, the world’s first 3D-printed train station has been built in Japan, plus new designs for Airbus’ zero-emission aircraft and France’s next-generation high-speed trains.
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European aerospace giant Airbus has revealed a new design for its upcoming fully electric, hydrogen-powered ZEROe aircraft. powered by hydrogen fuel cells.
The single-aisle plane now has four engines, rather than six, each powered by their own fuel cell stack.
The reworked design comes after the news that the ZEROe will be in our skies later than Airbus hoped.
The plan was to launch a zero-emission aircraft by 2035, but now the next-generation single-aisle aircraft is slated to enter service in the second half of the 2030s.
Over in Asia, the Himalayan country of Bhutan is building a gloriously Zen-like new airport befitting a nation with its very own happiness index.
Gelephu International is designed to serve a brand new “mindfulness city,” planned for southern Bhutan, near its border with India.
In rail travel, Japan has just built the world’s first 3D-printed train station, which took just two and a half hours to construct, according to The Japan Times. That’s even shorter than the whizzy six hours it was projected to take.
France’s high-speed TGV rail service has revealed its next generation of trains, which will be capable of reaching speeds of up to 320 kilometers an hour (nearly 200 mph).
The stylish interiors have been causing a stir online, as has the double-decker dining car.
Finally, work is underway in London on turning a mile-long series of secret World War II tunnels under a tube station into a major new tourist attraction. CNN took a look inside.
A federal judge on Tuesday afternoon temporarily blocked part of the Trump administration’s plans to freeze all federal aid, a policy that unleashed confusion and worry from charities and educators even as the White House said it was not as sweeping an order as it appeared.
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That could change, come 11:59 p.m. ET on Saturday — the deadline Trump set for when he says he will slap 25% tariffs on all Mexican and Canadian goods and a 10% tariff on all Chinese goods.
The tariffs, he said, will be imposed as a way of punishing the three nations, which Trump claims are responsible for helping people enter the country illegally and supplying fentanyl consumed in the US.
Speaking to reporters from the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump said he meant business, especially with his tariff threats on Mexico and Canada. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt also confirmed on Friday that Trump will levy the 10% tariff on China on Saturday.
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The threat of blanket tariffs is likely being overstated, Ross said in an interview with CNN. “There probably will be exclusions, because there are some goods that just are not made here, will not be made here, and therefore, there’s no particular point putting tariffs on.”
Ross, who was one of a handful of initial cabinet members in Trump’s first administration who kept their position for the entire four-year term, said he advocated for such exclusions when he advised Trump on tariff policies.
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Tired of “long commutes and never enough money” in the US, the Bowens say they love their new Ecuadorian life. “We hope that maybe we’ll have grandkids here one day.”
Erik and Erin Eagleman moved to Switzerland from Wisconsin with their three children in 2023.
“It feels safe here,” they tell CNN of their new outdoorsy lifestyle in Basel, close to the borders with France and Germany. Their youngest daughter even walks to elementary school by herself.
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Starry, starry nights
For close to 100 years, Michelin stars have been a sign of culinary excellence, awarded only to the great and good.
Georges Blanc, the world’s longest-standing Michelin-starred restaurant, has boasted a three-star rating since 1981, but this month the Michelin guide announced that the restaurant in eastern France was losing a star.
More culinary reputations were enhanced this week, when Asia’s 50 best restaurants for 2025 were revealed. The winner was a Bangkok restaurant which is no stranger to garlands, while second and third place went to two Hong Kong eateries.
You don’t need to go to a heaving metropolis for excellent food, however. A 200-year-old cottage on a remote stretch of Ireland’s Atlantic coast has been given a Michelin star. At the time of awarding, Michelin called it “surely the most rural” of its newest winners.
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If you’re the type of person who thrives on challenges and pushing your limits, this doesn’t mean you need to shy away from wellness challenges altogether. But before diving in, take a step back and ask yourself if you’re pursuing the challenge for the right reasons, McGregor said.
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Some people want to try these challenges because they believe something is missing from their life, and they’re looking to attain “worth” or receive validation, McGregor noted.
A good way to assess your motivation is by considering whether the challenge will benefit your health or if it’s about showcasing your accomplishments on social media or some other reason.
Before trying any new trend, make sure you have the foundation to handle it and be aware of any potential risks, McGregor said.
For casual runners, this might mean signing up for a 5K but building your endurance gradually while incorporating other strength training exercises into your routine. For more intense challenges, such as a marathon, McGregor encourages people to consult with professionals or a coach who can monitor your progress and condition along the way.
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Both McGregor and Curran emphasize the importance of fostering sustainable health habits before embarking on more extreme challenges.
Rather than chasing the idea of being “healthy,” McGregor suggests focusing on actual healthful behaviors and starting small.
If you’re a highly sedentary person and want to add more movement to your day, try doing lunges while brushing your teeth or taking short walks throughout your typical routine.
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In the 1931 movie “Frankenstein,” Dr. Henry Frankenstein howling his triumph was an electrifying moment in more ways than one. As massive bolts of lightning and energy crackled, Frankenstein’s monster stirred on a laboratory table, its corpse brought to life by the power of electricity.
Electrical energy may also have sparked the beginnings of life on Earth billions of years ago, though with a bit less scenery-chewing than that classic film scene.
Earth is around 4.5 billion years old, and the oldest direct fossil evidence of ancient life — stromatolites, or microscopic organisms preserved in layers known as microbial mats — is about 3.5 billion years old. However, some scientists suspect life originated even earlier, emerging from accumulated organic molecules in primitive bodies of water, a mixture sometimes referred to as primordial soup.
But where did that organic material come from in the first place? Researchers decades ago proposed that lightning caused chemical reactions in ancient Earth’s oceans and spontaneously produced the organic molecules.
Now, new research published March 14 in the journal Science Advances suggests that fizzes of barely visible “microlightning,” generated between charged droplets of water mist, could have been potent enough to cook up amino acids from inorganic material. Amino acids — organic molecules that combine to form proteins — are life’s most basic building blocks and would have been the first step toward the evolution of life.
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Guyana’s destiny changed in 2015. US fossil fuel giant Exxon discovered nearly 11 billion barrels of oil in the deep water off the coast of this tiny, rainforested country.
It was one of the most spectacular oil discoveries of recent decades. By 2019, Exxon and its partners, US oil company Hess and China-headquartered CNOOC, had started producing the fossil fuel.? They now pump around 650,000 barrels of oil a day, with plans to more than double this to 1.3 million by 2027.
Guyana now has the world’s highest expected oil production growth through 2035.
This country — sandwiched between Brazil, Venezuela and Suriname — has been hailed as a climate champion for the lush, well-preserved forests that carpet nearly 90% of its land. It is on the path to becoming a petrostate at the same time as the impacts of the fossil fuel-driven climate crisis escalate.
While the government says environmental protection and an oil industry can go hand-in-hand, and low-income countries must be allowed to exploit their own resources, critics say it’s a dangerous path in a warming world, and the benefits may ultimately skew toward Exxon — not Guyana.
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To recreate a scenario that may have produced Earth’s first organic molecules, researchers built upon experiments from 1953 when American chemists Stanley Miller and Harold Urey concocted a gas mixture mimicking the atmosphere of ancient Earth. Miller and Urey combined ammonia (NH3), methane (CH4), hydrogen (H2) and water, enclosed their “atmosphere” inside a glass sphere and jolted it with electricity, producing simple amino acids containing carbon and nitrogen. The Miller-Urey experiment, as it is now known, supported the scientific theory of abiogenesis: that life could emerge from nonliving molecules.
For the new study, scientists revisited the 1953 experiments but directed their attention toward electrical activity on a smaller scale, said senior study author Dr. Richard Zare, the Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor of Natural Science and professor of chemistry at Stanford University in California. Zare and his colleagues looked at electricity exchange between charged water droplets measuring between 1 micron and 20 microns in diameter. (The width of a human hair is 100 microns.)
“The big droplets are positively charged. The little droplets are negatively charged,” Zare told CNN. “When droplets that have opposite charges are close together, electrons can jump from the negatively charged droplet to the positively charged droplet.”
The researchers mixed ammonia, carbon dioxide, methane and nitrogen in a glass bulb, then sprayed the gases with water mist, using a high-speed camera to capture faint flashes of microlightning in the vapor. When they examined the bulb’s contents, they found organic molecules with carbon-nitrogen bonds. These included the amino acid glycine and uracil, a nucleotide base in RNA.
“We discovered no new chemistry; we have actually reproduced all the chemistry that Miller and Urey did in 1953,” Zare said. Nor did the team discover new physics, he added — the experiments were based on known principles of electrostatics.
“What we have done, for the first time, is we have seen that little droplets, when they’re formed from water, actually emit light and get this spark,” Zare said. “That’s new. And that spark causes all types of chemical transformations.”
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Josh Giddey hit a game-winning, halfcourt buzzer-beater over LeBron James as the Chicago Bulls stunned the Los Angeles Lakers in one of the wildest endings to an NBA game you are ever likely to see.
Trailing 115-110 with 12.6 seconds remaining, Giddey’s inbound pass found Nikola Vucevic, who pushed the ball to a wide-open Patrick Williams for a corner three-pointer.
James then fluffed the Lakers inbound pass from the baseline, allowing Giddey to steal the ball and find Coby White for a second Bulls triple in quick succession to put Chicago up 116-115 with 6.1 seconds remaining.
Austin Reaves then made a driving layup to put the Lakers ahead 117-116 with 3.3 seconds left, but the game wasn’t done yet.
With no timeouts remaining, Giddey inbounded the ball to Williams from the baseline, got the pass back, took one dribble and launched a shot from beyond halfcourt.
Supporters in the stands seemed frozen in anticipation as the ball sailed through the air, and the United Center then erupted as it fell through the net. After the dramatic win, Giddey found himself being swarmed by his teammates.
“Special moment to do it with these guys, this team,” Giddey said, per ESPN. “We’ve shown over the last month to six weeks that we can beat anybody. The way we play the game, I think it wears people down.
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The ending capped an incredible couple of games for the Lakers, who had themselves won their last game against the Indiana Pacers on Wednesday with a buzzer-beating tip-in from James.
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Guyana’s destiny changed in 2015. US fossil fuel giant Exxon discovered nearly 11 billion barrels of oil in the deep water off the coast of this tiny, rainforested country.
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Guyana now has the world’s highest expected oil production growth through 2035.
This country — sandwiched between Brazil, Venezuela and Suriname — has been hailed as a climate champion for the lush, well-preserved forests that carpet nearly 90% of its land. It is on the path to becoming a petrostate at the same time as the impacts of the fossil fuel-driven climate crisis escalate.
While the government says environmental protection and an oil industry can go hand-in-hand, and low-income countries must be allowed to exploit their own resources, critics say it’s a dangerous path in a warming world, and the benefits may ultimately skew toward Exxon — not Guyana.
Since Exxon’s transformative discovery, Guyana’s government has tightly embraced oil as a route to prosperity. In December 2019, then-President David Granger said in a speech, “petroleum resources will be utilized to provide the good life for all … Every Guyanese will benefit.”
It’s a narrative that has continued under current President Mohamed Irfaan Ali, who says new oil wealth will allow Guyana to develop better infrastructure, healthcare and climate adaptation.
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“You have a government that is reckless about what is going to happen to Guyana,” said Melinda Janki, an international lawyer in Guyana who is handling several lawsuits against Exxon. It’s pursuing “a supposed course of development that is actually backward and destructive,” she told CNN.
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And while plenty of Guyanese people welcome the new oil industry, some say Guyana’s startling economic statistics do not reflect a real-world prosperity for ordinary people, many of whom are struggling with the higher prices accompanying the oil boom. Inflation rose 6.6% in 2023, with prices of some foods shooting up much more rapidly.
“Since the oil extraction began in Guyana, we have noticed that our cost of living has gone sky high,” said Wintress White, of Red Thread, a non-profit that focuses on improving living conditions for Guyanese women. “The money is not trickling down to the masses,” she told CNN.
CNN contacted President Ali, the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Ministry of Finance for comment but received no response.
Guyana, a former Dutch then British colony which gained independence in 1966, is one of only a handful of countries that is a “carbon sink,” meaning it stores more planet-heating pollution than it produces. This is due to its vast rainforest; trees remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as they grow.
The country has protected its biodiversity where others have destroyed theirs, President Ali said in a BBC interview last year. In 2009, the country signed an agreement with Norway, which promised Guyana more than $250 million to preserve its 18.5 million hectares, or nearly 46 million acres, of forests.
Ali insists the country can balance climate leadership and fossil fuel exploitation. The new oil wealth will allow Guayana to develop, including building climate adaptations such as sea walls, he has said. He has also pointed to the continued failures of wealthy countries, already grown rich on their own fossil fuels, to help poorer countries with climate finance.
But there are concerns Guyana could fall victim to the “resource curse,” in which vast, new wealth ?can actually make life worse for those who live there.
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“Liberation Day” gave way to Capitulation Day last night.
President Donald Trump pulled back yesterday on a series of harsh tariffs targeting friends and foes alike in an audacious bid to remake the global economic order.
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Trump’s early afternoon announcement followed a harrowing week in which Republican lawmakers and confidants privately warned him that the tariffs could wreck the economy. His own aides had quietly raised alarms about the financial markets before he suspended a tariff regime that he had unveiled with a flourish just one week earlier in a Rose Garden ceremony.
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The stock market rose immediately after the about-face, ending days of losses that have forced older Americans who’ve been sinking their savings into 401(k)s to rethink their retirement plans.
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China’s foreign ministry calls the U.S. a ’21st century barbarian’
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China’s public language on its trade war with the U.S. has become increasingly bellicose and took a new turn today when Beijing’s foreign ministry said the Trump administration’s tariffs have made the U.S. a “barbarian of the 21st century.”
Trump’s tariffs will “never America great again” ministry of foreign affairs spokesperson Huang Jingrui, wrote in an open letter today in Hong Kong’s newspaper South China Morning Post.
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“A tariff-wielding barbarian who attempts to force countries to call and beg for mercy can never expect that call from China,” Huang said, adding that the U.S. is “obsessed with the art of bullying and blackmailing the entire world.”
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The EU President Ursula von der Leyen said today that the region welcomes Trump’s announcement to pause tariffs for 90 days.
Von der Leyen said the EU remains “committed to constructive negotiations” with the U.S., according to a statement from her office.
Meanwhile, Europe continues to focus on diversifying their trade partnerships, engaging with countries that account for 87% of global trade, she said.
Trump’s tariffs have shown that the European internal market is the region’s “anchor of stability and resilience” in times of uncertainty, von der Leyen added.
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Irregular trade including smuggling will most likely rise amid the U.S.’ and China’s tit-for-tat tariffs, an economist warns.
The cost of tariffs has become “prohibitive to almost every company,” Tianchen Xu, senior economist at Economist Intelligence Unit.
“As a result, trade flows in both directions will tumble, and irregular trade will proliferate, including smuggling, transshipment and systemic under-reporting of trade value during customs clearance,” Xu said in a note.
Xu said trade negotiations and a partial de-escalation in the ongoing trade war may ensue in the coming months, but those tensions are likely to worsen in the short term between the world’s two largest economies.
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Although Russia’s FSB did not confirm that figure, it said Karelina’s donation “was subsequently used to purchase tactical medical supplies, equipment, weapons, and ammunition for the Ukrainian armed forces.”
She was sentenced in August to 12 years in a penal colony for “high treason,” having “fully admitted her guilt” at a closed trial in the southwestern Russian city of Yekaterinberg, Sverdlovsky Region Court said in a news release at the time.
The sentence came against the backdrop of Russia’s 3-year-long war with Ukraine during which President Vladimir Putin’s government has cracked down on dissent. Any perceived criticism of the military is banned.
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