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16/06/2026

15/06/2026

China has just cut more than 12,000 university degree programmes it considers outdated.

This is not a small education reform.

It is a signal of where the world is heading.

Between 2021 and 2025, Chinese universities reportedly removed or suspended around 12,200 undergraduate programmes, while adding about 10,200 new ones.

The reason?

China is trying to rebuild parts of its education system for the AI era.

Instead of keeping thousands of courses that may no longer lead to strong jobs, universities are shifting toward subjects linked to artificial intelligence, robotics, semiconductors, advanced manufacturing, digital technology, big data and other industries China sees as critical for the future.

Some of the biggest cuts have reportedly hit areas like arts, humanities, foreign languages and management, while more tech-focused degrees are being introduced.

Whether people agree with it or not, the message is clear:

China believes the job market of the next 20 years will look very different from the one universities were built for.

And while many countries are still arguing about whether AI will change education, China is already changing what millions of students are being trained to study.

This is the real AI race.

Not just who builds the best chatbot.

Who trains the next generation for the world that is coming.

12/06/2026

Magnesium does not cross the intestine by mass action, where more in the lumen means more in the blood. It crosses through TRPM6, a channel fused to a kinase that sits in the lining of your colon and kidney and pulls magnesium across one ion at a time. That channel has a ceiling.

Fine and colleagues measured exactly where the ceiling sits. They fed normal subjects a standard meal spiked with escalating doses of magnesium, from nothing up to 80 mEq, and tracked what actually entered the body. The total amount absorbed kept climbing with every increment, so a bigger dose is never wasted in the sense of giving you zero. But the fraction absorbed collapsed, from 65 percent at the lowest intake to 11 percent at the highest.

The absorption curve was not a straight line. It bent, and it bent in a way their math captured almost perfectly: one saturable mechanism that maxes out, sitting on top of a second mechanism that passively absorbs a fixed 7 percent of whatever you swallow no matter how large the dose. Past the point where TRPM6 saturates, you are running on the 7 percent. Everything else stays in the gut lumen, where unabsorbed magnesium is osmotically active and pulls water in behind it. That is the loose stool. It is not a side effect to push through. It is the visible signal that you have exceeded what the gate can move, and the excess is on its way out.

What you absorb then has to get into cells, and that is a second channel entirely. TRPM7 is the ubiquitous one, expressed across nearly every tissue, and it governs the intracellular magnesium pool that stabilizes ATP, runs DNA repair enzymes, and gates nerve signaling. TRPM6 and TRPM7 are the only two of the eight TRPM channels highly permeable to magnesium, and they are not interchangeable. One is the border crossing at the gut. The other is the door into the cell. Neither responds to brute force.

The Pardo systematic review reached the dosing point from a different direction, pooling fourteen human bioavailability studies and concluding that the percentage absorbed is dose dependent, the same curve Fine described. It also found a real difference between forms, with inorganic magnesium appearing less bioavailable than organic, which matters but is a smaller lever than the marketing on a single bottle suggests. Fine's own data made a related point decades earlier in a way nobody selling capsules likes to repeat: magnesium from almonds was just as bioavailable as from a soluble magnesium salt, and commercial enteric-coated magnesium was absorbed far worse than the uncoated form. The coating that sounds sophisticated lowered the number that matters.

None of this means magnesium supplementation does not work. It means the dosing strategy printed on most bottles is built backward. Smaller amounts, taken more than once across the day, with food, is how you stay on the steep part of the curve where most of what you take actually crosses. One large dose at bedtime is the worst version: it saturates TRPM6, hands the rest to the 7 percent passive route, and sends the remainder through your colon. The biology here is not new and it is not contested. It is settled human pharmacology from 1991 that the supplement aisle has spent thirty years not mentioning, because "take more" sells better than "take less, more often."

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Pardo et al., Nutrition, 2021. doi:10.1016/j.nut.2021.111294
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Madlmayr et al., Life Sci Alliance, 2026.

11/06/2026

Recent testing of rice sold in grocery stores across the United States has found arsenic in every sample and cadmium in nearly all of them, along with other heavy metals such as lead and mercury. A report by the nonprofit Healthy Babies Bright Futures analyzed more than 140 samples of rice from over a hundred brands collected in cities nationwide. Arsenic tended to be the most abundant of the detected contaminants, and cadmium was the second most common. One in four samples even exceeded the federal limit set for inorganic arsenic in infant rice cereal — even though no official limit currently exists for ordinary rice itself.

Rice plants absorb heavy metals from soil and water more readily than many other crops, and brown rice generally accumulates higher levels than white rice. Some kinds and growing regions showed higher contamination, while varieties such as California-grown rice, Thai jasmine and Indian basmati tended to have lower levels.

Because arsenic and cadmium are linked with long-term health concerns, including cancer and neurological effects during development, researchers and consumer groups emphasize that methods such as rinsing and cooking rice in excess water and choosing lower-contaminant varieties can help reduce exposure.

SOURCE: Arsenic-in-Rice-Report_May2025_R5

09/06/2026

Your blood and your neurons hold very different amounts of vitamin C.

Vitamin C cannot cross the blood-brain barrier on its own. The barrier is sealed tight and has no transporter for it. So the body pumps it in.

A protein called SVCT2 does the pumping, in two steps. First it carries vitamin C from blood into the cerebrospinal fluid, raising the level about 4 times. Then a second SVCT2 pump, sitting on the neuron itself, pulls it inside again. The neuron ends up holding roughly 200 times what is in the blood.
The cells that surround neurons, the glia, mostly do not have the pump. They sit in the same fluid, bathed in the same vitamin C, and hold only a fraction of what the neuron holds.

A neuron spends sodium and energy to do this against a steep gradient. It pays that cost for three reasons. It runs about 10 times the oxidative load of the cells around it, and vitamin C mops up the wreckage. It uses vitamin C as its single biggest antioxidant supply, bigger than glutathione, and uses it to recharge vitamin E. And it needs vitamin C as a one-electron donor to run the enzymes that build norepinephrine, collagen, and myelin.

The brain protects this pool harder than almost any tissue in the body. In scurvy, the liver runs dry while the brain still holds about a quarter of its normal vitamin C. The flip side is the part the marketing skips: you cannot flood it. Oral vitamin C raises brain levels by about 20 percent at most. The brain decides how much it keeps, not the bottle.

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May JM, Qu ZC, Meredith ME. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2012