Without any mention of funding or support - imagine what she can achieve after this success, or if she learns anything relevant from tertiary education.
Not sure she needs it, except for ticking checkboxes - but the funding along with her intelligence...
A high school girl in Mexico just won a gold medal for putting out fires with a speaker. It plays one deep, low hum and the flames die in about 5 seconds.
DARPA tried the same idea back in 2012 with a rig so big and clunky they never took it any further, and hers runs on a 12-volt battery and a speaker she can carry around.
Sound is just air being pushed back and forth. A low note at 30 hertz means the air around the flame is flipping direction 30 times every second.
Flames only exist in a thin layer where fuel vapor mixes with oxygen. Shake that layer hard enough and it keeps getting stretched thinner, the heat gets pulled away faster than the flame can make more, and eventually the flame rips right off the fuel. Whatever tears off is too cool to keep burning, so it just goes out.
DARPA's report put a number on how little it takes. Once the air at the flame is moving about half a meter per second, which is barely a breeze, the flame goes out, and pretty much any pitch can get there if you crank the power high enough.
Low notes just get you there way cheaper, because a speaker moves a lot more air on each push when the pitch is low. Two engineering students at George Mason figured this out by trial and error in 2015. They started with super high pitches, 20,000 to 30,000 hertz, and all the flames did was shiver. It only worked once they dropped down to 30 to 60 hertz, which is basically the bass on a hip-hop track.
Ángela Karime's build is a 12-volt battery, a frequency generator, an amplifier and a speaker, tuned to 30 hertz. She named it Vortex Tech and talks about it shooting out little rings of air, and that's real physics. When loud, low sound gets pushed through a narrow opening, the air curls up into rings like a smoke ring, and those rings carry a puff of air way farther than the sound would get on its own. In her tests it put out small flames from about 2 meters away.
She went through five prototypes and over 100 tests in about a year, and she says it's put out burning wood, flammable liquids, electronics and cooking oil.
The cooking oil one is a big deal. Throw water on a grease fire and it flashes into steam and flings burning oil all over your kitchen, which is exactly the kind of fire where you'd want something that doesn't put anything into the pan.
Now, sound can't cool anything down, so a big fire sitting on red-hot fuel can come right back the second the speaker shuts off. The George Mason guys worried about the same thing in 2015, and it's why this is still a prototype for small flames and the red extinguisher under your sink isn't going anywhere yet.
Space might end up being where this matters first. Up there water floats off in blobs, while sound works the same with or without gravity, and acoustics researchers have already published experiments on fighting fires with sound on spacecraft.
She's still in high school, and she's already working on a version that spots a fire and puts it out by itself. The gold in Indonesia also came with a special award that gets her into another international competition.
Paul Williams retweeted
一个美国同性恋花三周精读古兰经，直接被吓到失眠。
他不看网上的转述，自己买了一本回来看。
整整三周。
他对比不同版本的英译本，翻看穆罕默德的生平，对照历史背景。
全书 114 章，他才刚读完第 2 章。
就读不下去，晚上开始失眠了。
在当下的欧美社会，这原本被塑造成一个理所当然的政治同盟。
大学校园和街头游行里，各种旗帜经常并排举在一起。
很多人想当然地觉得，只要同样属于少数群体，大家就能在多元包容的旗帜下和平共处。
按他自己的说法，开始读之前，他完全没想到自己会越读越恐惧。
直到他真的翻开文本。
古兰经第 2 章是全书最长的一章。
里面巨细靡遗地写了律法、圣战，以及对不信道者的处置规定。
它讲的完全无关个体心灵慰藉，讲的是一整套具体的社会治理与司法刑名。
里面不仅没有世俗多元主义的位置，更没有同性恋的容身之地。
他在视频里把自己的恐惧讲了出来。
他说，普通穆斯林可能大多只是过日子的平民。
但根本不需要所有人都是极端派。
只要有 5% 到 10% 的原教旨群体，坚持按照经文字面推进诉求，现有的世俗民主就很难招架。
先借助西方社会的宽容与和平口号落脚，利用民主机制参选、扩大规模，最终推行伊斯兰律法。
他对着镜头说：
我是个同性恋。
如果那套律法真的推行开来，我连活着的权利都没有。
视频发出后，引发了大量讨论。
评论区里有一条高赞回复，同样来自一位西方同性恋。
他说自己也花时间研读过古兰经和穆罕默德生平。
他现在的遗憾，是丢掉了过去那种无知的幸福。
因为当他把这些事实讲给身边的白人自由派朋友听时，朋友们指责他伊斯兰恐惧症，直接和他绝交了。
还有一位伊朗基督徒在下面留言：
很多人不知道，中东许多穆斯林国家曾经都是基督教地区，后来在征服中改变了面貌。
许多现代人习惯了用温情脉脉的包容，去套用所有的文化和宗教。
但那些早在一千多年前就写在文本里的律法，从来不会因为外部社会的善良愿望，就自动改变它的原意。
全书一百一十四章，他才读了前两章。
有些写在律法里的现实冲突，闭上眼睛也躲不过去。
Paul Williams retweeted
You see folks, this is the difference between an uneducated delusional “Palestinian” propagandist, and actual historical facts…
In 1948 Jordan’s Arab Legion captured Samaria and Judea, including East Jerusalem, and later annexed the territory. Jewish residents of the Old City’s Jewish Quarter, Gush Etzion, and other communities were expelled. Their homes and property were seized, and the Jewish Quarter was largely emptied and damaged. These events are documented in contemporary accounts, military and historical records. It wasn’t the “zios” that took anything. It was the Arabs who stole it all from the Jews.
And what’s even more striking is that in the 19 years Jordan held the territory, they didn’t create a Palestinian state, and no Arabs ever asked for one… because there has never in all of history been a Palestinian people. That came after the KGB and Arafat the Egyptian manufactured it so that 60 years later, bullshit propagandists like Susan here can cry and tell you a fake sob story.
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FACT
No Palestinian land was stolen
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The Arab leadership testified to both the Hope Simpson Commission 1930 & the Peel Commission 1937 that all land in the geography known today as Israel , formerly Palestine had been legally purchased . The buyers were individuals & Jewish & Zionist organisations
There were 5 classes of land Mulk , Miri , Waqf , Metruke or Mewat . Mulk was freehold , Miri leasehold . Waqf was land under the protection of religious authorities & Metruke & Mewat was state land and wasteland owned ONLY by the state . These two categories accounted for approx 80 percent of the total geography & desert , forest , swamps , roads etc were all part of these 2 categories & this land was designated under international legally binding agreements to form part of the Jewish Homeland
Mulk or freehold accounted for a total of just 1% of land ownership & all Mulk land was acquired legally . Miri or leasehold formed approximately 17 percent of the total land and in order to retain title the fellahin peasant farmers had to prove 3 consecutive years of agricultural production and pay land taxes . As a result of malaria and drought , the fellahin could not achieve the productivity levels required nor could they afford the punitive taxes . Moreover Arab ruling families and Bedouin clans realising the land price rises as a result of the Zionist zeal for land ownership drove the fellahin from their farms . Millions of dunams of Miri land was legally acquired from Syrian , Lebanese & Ottoman ruling families and clans and all documented. Moreover the leases were then extended from 3 years to 50 years for the Zionist farming collectives to achieve their agricultural production objectives.
One of the reasons for the mass immigration into the geography during this period of land purchasing was simply non resident Arabs leveraging up on the economic benefits and improved living standards created by the Zionists skill in agricultural development . Sir Winston Churchill made several references to this in Parliament as did numerous Arab politicians . The Encyclopaedia Brittanica even recorded this mass Arab immigration 1911
The Lebanese Sarsaq , El - Salam families & Anthony & Michel El - Tynan from Syria are examples of those who sold millions of dunams to Jewish buyers . The Fellahin owned no land according to land registry records
No ‘ Palestinian ‘ land was stolen .
FACT 2
Both Gaza and the West Bank are within Israeli sovereign territory
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The legally defined sovereign territory of Israel includes and has always included Gaza and the West Bank ( Judea and Samaria)
Golan which is not included but occupied , which Israel under international law has a right to do because Syria is officially still at war with Israel . Until such time as Syria reverses this decision Israel under international law can still occupy the Golan
Anyone using the description of illegal occupation when referring to either Gaza or the West Bank is promoting a false narrative. The arrangements of Israel leaving Gaza and dividing the West Bank into Palestinian controlled areas are purely political and not based on the defined immutability of international law
The League of Nations Mandate 1922 ( includes the San Remo Treaty ) ratified & endorsed by the 1945 UN Charter Article 80 (among others & the legally binding principles of Acquired Rights & Estoppel ( both codified in the 1969 Vienna Convention Law of Treaties Article 70(1)(b) ) confirm Israel’s sovereign territory to include the West Bank & Gaza
The last international ruling upholding this was the ruling of the 3rd Chamber Court of Versailles 2013
That is the legal situation
No UN Resolution has the power to amend nor create other precedent as the UN by its Charter is not a legislative body & the courts under UN jurisdiction similarly cannot change binding law
Paradoxically the word ‘ Resolution ‘ does not appear in the UN’s Charter
Paul Williams retweeted
Justice Andrew Muller's appalling decision is made worse by ignorance of Bhutanese social customs and morality.
This is not a third-world shithole, it is a remarkable place with strong culture and values.
No Bhutanese person could honestly claim that they thought rape was OK.
Judge Andrew Muller is a complete fuckwit.
A simple web search would have demonstrated that rape, and sex crimes involving minors, are extremely serious offences in Bhutan.
duckduckgo.com/?q=bhutan+rap…
Paul Williams retweeted
Do you still doubt that ISIS represents mainstream Islam and that Islam is inherently radical? They themselves admit it.
1. “Our prayers are radical because we pray for Allah to kill all the infidels and grant us victory over them.”
2. “Jihad is warfare against non-Muslims and the goal is to kill and subjugate them. It is obligatory for every Muslim and is considered the deed with the highest reward in Islam.”
3. “Every Muslim believes that the Islamic caliphate must be reestablished and must rule the entire world by force.”
They are already confident enough to tell the truth to everyone’s face.
Paul Williams retweeted
今度からイスラム教徒が『土葬墓地作れ！』って言ってきたら…
『代わりにお前の母国に火葬場と養豚場を作ってくれ』と返しましょう。
自分ができないことを他人に要求する。
ムスリムは自分勝手すぎる。
I remember they were saying this around Oct 8 years ago - until they realised just how badly it showed their genocidal history against Jews. One century or 14, muslims have been trying to kill all Jews.
Submissive to the islamist, satanic death cult. Their laws now transcend parliament, taking the UK back to the dark ages.
Stephen Gray gave nearly 30 years to Cleveland Police. He and his wife foster children. At 65 he has a criminal record because he reposted a meme.
The post said: “Fun facts about bacon! People who eat bacon have a lower chance of marrying a 9-year-old!”
He told the court it was satire, pointed at the traditional account of Muhammad’s marriage to Aisha, and meant to start an argument about child marriage. A district judge called it “grossly offensive,” said the jokey tone meant it could not be a serious point, and fined him a bit over £1,000.
The Crown Prosecution Service first said there was no case. A neighbour he was already rowing with over a sewage pipe asked for a review. Then there was a case.
England abolished blasphemy in 2008. It has not abolished the habit. A man who spent his working life enforcing the law can now be branded a criminal for a Facebook repost that hundreds of other people shared and walked away from.
That is not public order.
That is a state that has decided some facts are too awkward to joke about, and some people are too ordinary to protect. Stephen Gray is appealing.
He should not have to. We now live in a totalitarian state.
Paul Williams retweeted
Sex slavery is sanctioned in the Quran in 15 different verses. The expression “ma malakat aymanukum” meaning “those whom your right hand possess” is a Quranic innovation that codifies and regulates sex slavery in Islam through those 15 verses and among Muslims. Having sex slaves was never considered an immoral act in Islam and that is why the vile practice persists in the 21st century in Islamic countries.
This needed to be said every single fscking day - and failing to say it for years made it a muslim problem, just just a single-sect problem.
Respect the sincerity - but too little, too late, to undo the years of silent complicity along with the vast support.
Stand by this daily
A Statement of Conscience on October 7
I will not start by saying ‘as a Muslim’ or ‘as an imam’, but as a human being.
On October 7, over 1,200 innocent people were killed in a single day. Families were shot in their homes. Young people out dancing were hunted across open fields. Over 250 people, including children and the elderly, were dragged into Gaza as hostages. I think of a mother hiding in a safe room with her baby’s mouth covered. I think of a father listening as the line went quiet. I think of families who waited month after month for someone to come home, only to receive a coffin. I didn’t need my faith to recognize the evil of what happened. My heart told me first.
But I’m a Muslim and an imam, and I owe the world one honest sentence: what was done that day was a crime against God. God teaches that whoever kills one innocent soul, it is as if he had killed all humanity.
This day has an author: Yahya Sinwar. He planned it, ordered it, and knew what would follow. Every death of that day and war he started rests on him and Hamas leaders who sat in tunnels and foreign hotels and called slaughter a victory. It rests on every Palestinian leader who cheered, excused, handed out sweets, or said nothing. They chose this. They own it.
But Sinwar did not invent himself. He was the fruit of a tree planted almost a century ago by the Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas named itself in its founding charter as the Brotherhood’s branch in Palestine. The Brotherhood’s poison is slow. It arrives through study circles, youth camps, charity boxes, and kind words to lonely young men. Drop by drop, it teaches him that his religion is a political party, his neighbour is his enemy, the Jew is the cause of his sorrow, and God is pleased by rage. By the time the gun arrives, the soul is already taken.
I have seen this poison in mosques where sermons became rallies and young men could recite slogans but not sit still for a verse on mercy. Every people that let the Brotherhood in has paid in blood and ruined generations. It has never built anything it did not first set on fire.
Behind Hamas stands another hand: the IRGC. It was the IRGC’s money, weapons, and training that turned a hateful idea into an army. One calls itself Sunni and the other Shia, and they may curse each other’s creeds, but they are united in what they worship. It is not God. It is power. The same IRGC that armed the killers of October 7 shoots Iranian girls for showing their hair, hangs young men for asking to be free, and has left graves from Tehran to Damascus to Beirut. They speak in God’s name. So did Pharaoh speak in the name of heaven.
So let me say this clearly. Hamas and the IRGC are not merely enemies of Islam. That would be too small a charge, as if their crime were only against us. They are enemies of God. God is the Giver of life, yet they deal in death. God calls Himself the Most Merciful, yet they have made cruelty a sacrament. God honoured the children of Adam, yet they look at a child and see a target or a shield. To murder what God created and sign His name to it is the oldest blasphemy.
And we Muslims have been too quiet. Some of us were afraid. Some told ourselves it was not our business. Some, God forgive them, felt something other than horror that morning and never confessed it. Silence was the soil this poison grew in. I will not add to it.
So on this anniversary, let us say plainly what our scripture already says. The Jews are not our enemies. They are our cousins in Abraham, and their dead were created by the same God who created us. Today belongs to them: the murdered, the hostages, and families who still set a place at the table. To them I say: I am sorry for what was done to you by men who used the words of my prayers. You’re not alone in your grief or remembrance.
The enemies of God are those who murder in His name. We know their names. It is time we said them from our own pulpits, in our own voices, before they speak for us again.
Imam Tawhidi
Paul Williams retweeted
Ich hatte immer wieder vorgerechnet, dass die #Hamas-Zahl von ca. 73.000 in #Gaza getöteten falsch ist und das mit Quellen und Fakten ausführlich belegt. Ich kam damals auf eine reale Zahl von 50.000 Getöteten (abgezogen waren die auf natürlichem Wege gestorbenen Personen).
Sofort kamen die Israelhasser und drehten durch.
Die Zahl der getöteten Zivilisten habe ich auf in etwa 25.000 bis maximal 30.000 beziffert. Eine Quote von 1:1 von Terrorist zu Zivilist, was in einem urbanen Krieg dieser Art eine unglaubliche niedrige Quote ist. 1:7 bis 1:19 sind je nach Kriegsgebiet leider normal.
Meine Rechnung belegt also, dass #Israel die Zivilisten schützt und nur die Terrorgruppe angreift.
Ich habe ebenso klar gesagt, dass die Behauptung, die Mehrheit der durch Israel Getöteten seien Frauen und Kinder, eine dreiste antisemitische Lüge ist.
Nun hat die Hamas selbst Zahlen veröffentlicht und diese Zahlen bestätigen erschreckend perfekt, dass ich mit JEDEM Wort und mit JEDER Zahl Recht hatte.
- Die echte Zahl der Getöteten (Terroristen + Zivilisten) liegt aktuell bei ca. 53.000.
- Die Mehrheit der Getöteten sind Männer im wehrfähigen Alter
- Es gibt nahezu keine Hungertoten
- Die Quote Terrorist zu Zivilist ist 1:1
Dies sind keine Zahlen Israels. Das sind die offiziellen Zahlen des Hamas-Gesundheitsministeriums mit detaillierter Aufschlüsselung aller Todesursachen und Beschreibung der Opfer.
Paul Williams retweeted
Israel has NOT committed genocide in Gaza. There is NO genocide and no genocidal intent.
(As of 30 September 2026, 22:48 BST)
No ICJ ruling has found genocide—only provisional measures noting a possible risk. Former ICJ President Joan Donoghue confirmed the Court did not decide the claim of genocide was even “plausible.” Merits case years away (SA Reply Nov 2027; Israel Rejoinder May 2029).
UN COI reports and NGO claims (including Amnesty’s) are non-binding/politicised outputs that ignore specific intent (dolus specialis) and IDF mitigation. Amnesty’s 15 “civilian-only” showcase strikes: at least five later shown to have killed Hamas/PIJ commanders. Hamas/PIJ obituaries have since identified combatants in hundreds of incidents first reported as civilian-only (including journalists and medical staff). Under ICJ/ICTY standards (Bosnia v Serbia; Tolimir; Sikirica), genocidal intent must be the only reasonable inference and the part destroyed must be substantial — neither is met here (~3% after nearly three years, with clear alternative explanations: human shields, tunnels, aid diversion).
Data collapse the narrative: OCHA cites MoH identified fatalities (31 Dec 2025) showing women + children only 45.2% (not ~70%), adult men heavily over-represented—consistent with high combatant ratio. Total reported ~74,030 (roughly 3–4% of pre-war population after prolonged urban war). Food deliveries exceeded needs before and after the 2025 ceasefire. 2026 UNICEF-led SMART survey shows child acute malnutrition (WHZ GAM) at 0.5% (0.2–1.0% range; combined ~1.3%)—one of the lowest in the region; stunting ~12.2%, half the regional average—below/near pre-war levels. No famine. UN acknowledges Hamas interference with aid. Gaza MoH’s 2025 all-cause mortality report: 24,650 registered deaths, of which ~5,780 non-violent—similar to pre-war years—and 50,227 live births. No recorded excess natural-cause die-off in 2025. Deaths 73.4% male.
IDF used precision munitions, multi-source intel, rigorous checks, roof-knocking, Arabic SMS/calls/leaflets and safe corridors. Civilian-to-combatant ratios lower than Mosul/Raqqah/Fallujah despite systematic human shields, tunnels under hospitals/schools and blocked evacuations. Extensive real-time video of targets and embedded military assets. John Spencer (embedded multiple times, reviewed orders, interviewed commanders/soldiers) reaches same conclusion from direct observation.
Extraordinary measures—continuous water via Israeli pipelines, fuel/power for desalination, patient evacuations, mission cancellations when children present, polio campaign >1 million doses with fighting pauses—demonstrate opposite of intent to destroy Palestinians as such. Many “journalist/medical” claims later collapsed when Hamas/IJ claimed them as combatants. Hospitals repeatedly used as military sites.
Israel facilitated massive aid, issued repeated warnings/evacuations and conducted targeted operations against Hamas fighters/infrastructure embedded among civilians. Facts incompatible with genocidal intent.
Objective is lawful destruction of Hamas—the organisation that launched the war with the 7 October massacres and hostage-taking—not extermination of Palestinians. The allegation is political propaganda, not a supported legal or factual conclusion.
Paul Williams retweeted
The claim is false. Islamic-motivated violence predates 1948 by centuries. The Nizari Assassins (1090s-1270s) conducted systematic religious assassinations. Barbary corsairs justified Christian enslavement via Quran, as their envoy told Jefferson in 1786. 1920-1939 Palestine saw massacres of Jews by Arab groups under Mufti Husseini using jihad rhetoric. Muslim Brotherhood assassinated Egyptian officials in the 1940s. Modern groups draw from the same doctrinal sources on jihad; they were not created by Israel or the West.
Paul Williams retweeted
Islam has slaughtered more than 669 million non-Muslims since the year 622.
According to estimated figures, more than 80 million Christians were killed by Muslims over a period of 500 years in the Levant, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, the Balkans, Spain, Italy, the rest of Europe, and the Caucasus.
In India, the Hindu population was also reduced from 600 million to 200 million at one point. In the same period, entire Buddhist populations were wiped out in Afghanistan, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
Indeed, no ideology has been as genocidal as Islam.
Paul Williams retweeted
Netflix refused to stream the NOVA documentary about the October 7 massacre because it was too political.
The documentary reconstructs the massacre using footage captured by the victims and the Hamas terrorists themselves.
More than 360 people were murdered at the festival and dozens were taken hostage.
Netflix looked at footage documenting exactly what Hamas did that day and decided its viewers should not see it.
Calling the massacre of Jews too political to show tells you exactly where Netflix stands.
Probably not, but it's nice to see there's someone on the left who isn't drinking the terrorist kool-aid.
Paul Williams retweeted
Quand les musulmans commencent une guerre, ils l’appellent le jihâd. Quand ils la perdent, ils l’appellent génocide 😂
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Israel is committing genocide in Gaza?
Well, that must be why, from September 1–12, 2024, Israel agreed to pause its fighting for nine hours a day, sector by sector, so Gaza’s children could be vaccinated against polio.
Nearly 560,000 children under 10 were vaccinated — about 95% coverage.
If your theory is that Israel’s objective was to destroy Gaza’s population, you have a rather enormous fact to explain: Israel literally paused its war to keep Gaza’s children alive and healthy.