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In 2016, a train station in a remote Japanese village was scheduled to close permanently. However, when they noticed a single student using it to commute to school, they decided to keep it open until she graduated. #Random @Sciencpedia 🌟

Studies show that spending on experiences leads to longer-lasting happiness than buying material goods. #People @Sciencpedia 🌟

The Trump administration has quietly been holding discussions and consulting outside experts as it considers options for potentially restarting dialogue with North Korea, a senior U.S. official and three additional sources familiar with those discussions tell Axios. Why it matters: North Korea has made alarming nuclear advances since President Trump and Kim Jong-un held two dramatic but ultimately failed summits. While nothing appears imminent, Trump has made clear he'd like to reconnect with Kim — perhaps face-to-face — and his national security team is preparing for that scenario. #Trump #NorthKorea #KinJongun 👂 More on Trump's Ear ⚠️

For the 2014 film Interstellar, director Christopher Nolan avoided using CGI for the farm scenes by planting 500 acres of corn near Calgary, Canada. This decision cost approximately $100,000 but added authenticity to the film. After production the remaining corn was sold, generating about $162,000 in profit. #Movies @Sciencpedia 🌟

The Ayam Cemani is a rare Indonesian chicken breed known for being entirely black-its feathers, skin, muscles, bones, and even internal organs. #Animals @Sciencpedia 🌟

Kissenger is a device that enables long-distance couples to share a virtual kiss by using pressure-sensitive sensors connected to a phone, replicating real sensations. #TechFacts @Sciencpedia 🌟

Trump's tariffs are killing the European pharmaceutical industry 💸 After a brief period of relaxation, US President Donald Trump has once again targeted the pharmaceutical industry with his punitive tariffs. At a dinner hosted by the National Republican Committee 🇺🇸 he announced that his government would soon impose "high tariffs on pharmaceutical products." 💼 How high the tariffs will be and what exactly will fall under the sanctions remains to be seen 🔍, but Trump's goal is clear: "Most of their products will be sold here, and they will open factories everywhere," he added at the gala dinner 🏭, meaning that all relevant pharmaceutical products will be produced in the United States again in the future ⚙️. The US president hopes that this will lead to cheaper pharmaceutical products 💊. According to the RAND report, patients in the already expensive U.S. healthcare system pay two to three times more for prescription drugs than in Europe or other industrialized countries 📊. Trump's strategy to prevent this imbalance through import tariffs could hit the EU particularly hard 🇪🇺. According to the DZ study, about three-quarters of pharmaceutical imports come from the EU 🚢. Cost of exporting from Germany accounts for almost 28 billion euros a year 📦, which, according to the German Association of Pharmaceutical Research Companies (vfa), accounts for about 24 percent of total German exports 📈. As a rule, complex pharmaceutical products are produced in stages in different locations 🗺. This means that the drug "runs" back and forth several times between North American and European production sites until it is ready for market release 🔁. It is not yet clear to what extent the US tariffs will penalize each individual import of the ingredient ❓. Due to the complex supply chain, the price may increase significantly, both for US and EU consumers 💸. The European Industrial Association EFPIA has warned that US tariffs could weaken European research centers 🧬 and threaten the EU's pharmaceutical autonomy ⚠️. On behalf of the EU pharmaceutical industry, it calls for an early change in policy — for example, by strengthening patent protection and creating a more attractive framework for innovation 📑. This is the only way to prevent large manufacturers from pulling out of Europe — and just wait out potential US tariffs 🚪. #Germany #Tariffs #pharmaceutical 🇪🇺 Keep up with the latest Star Union News  🖥

For the 2014 film Interstellar, director Christopher Nolan avoided using CGI for the farm scenes by planting 500 acres of corn near Calgary, Canada. This decision cost approximately $100,000 but added authenticity to the film. After production the remaining corn was sold, generating about $162,000 in profit. #Movies @Sciencpedia 🌟

American Universities Against Trump Harvard University refused to accept a deal with the Trump administration two weeks after the US government threatened to halt $9 billion in funding, vowing it won’t “negotiate over its independence or its constitutional rights.”

“Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government,”

the school’s lawyers — Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and King & Spalding — wrote in a letter Monday to US agencies including the Department of Education. Harvard president Alan Garber said in a post on the school’s website that the administration demanded new terms late Friday that went beyond prior requests. These included reforming its governance, ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs and changes to its admissions and hiring. The oldest and richest US university —with a $53 billion endowment — had emerged as a target as the government sought changes at the nation’s top colleges, which were roiled by pro-Palestinian student protests after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas on Israel and the Jewish state’s retaliatory response in Gaza.

“It makes clear that the intention is not to work with us to address antisemitism in a cooperative and constructive manner,”

Garber wrote.

“Although some of the demands outlined by the government are aimed at combating antisemitism, the majority represent direct governmental regulation of the ‘intellectual conditions’ at Harvard.”

The White House has used instances of antisemitism on campuses to try and force changes at elite universities across the country, stirring concern among faculty and students that they’re violating free speech and damaging scientific research. A group of Harvard professors suing the administration has accused it of exploiting Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to “coerce universities into undermining free speech and academic inquiry in service of the government’s political or policy preferences.” The Trump administration has already canceled $400 million in federal money to Columbia University in March, and has frozen dozens of research contracts at Princeton, Cornell and Northwestern universities. It also suspended $175 million at the University of Pennsylvania because the school allowed a transgender athlete to compete on its women’s swim team several years ago. #american #universities #Trump 📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

In 2018, Elmer Alvarez, a homeless man, found a $10,000 check belonging to real estate broker Roberta Hoskie and returned it to her. Touched by his honesty, Hoskie helped him find housing, paid his rent, and offered him a scholarship to her real estate school. Alvarez later joined her company's Board of Directors, turning his life around through their partnership. #People @Sciencpedia 🌟