we overheard our hot gay flight attendant telling his colleague about the guy he’s seeing who’s 5’6 and (he said repeatedly) “built like a brick shithouse.” then when the plane landed he said on the loudspeaker “Thank you for flying Delta. I mean United!!!”
Hey Oscars producers, if you have time for a lengthy Bridesmaids bit and dumb filler presenter intros, you have time to let the winners give their thanks. It’s the best part of the show. Cutting off the mic after one person speaks (esp that Golden speech) is so, so cold. #oscars
Nutrition science buried its most embarrassing finding for 20 years because it contradicted every dietary guideline they’d ever written.
Harvard tracked 190,000+ people across three studies starting in 1986. Half a cup of ice cream per day was associated with a 20% lower risk of type 2 diabetes. A doctoral student named Ardisson Korat later found the same half-cup daily was linked to lower cardiovascular disease risk in diabetics too.
The researchers tried to kill the finding. They ran every statistical test they could think of to make it disappear. Controlled for reverse causation. Stripped out data from people who changed diets after health diagnoses. The effect shrank but stayed statistically significant.
Multiple independent scientists confirmed the ice cream signal was as strong as, or stronger than, the yogurt signal. Yogurt got published and promoted. Ice cream got buried. Same data quality, same cohorts, opposite treatment by the field.
Food diaries expose that nutrition science operates on vibes and then reverse-engineers the statistics to match. When the data cooperates, you get a landmark study. When it doesn’t, you get a buried dissertation.
Ice cream’s glycemic index is lower than brown rice. That single fact should tell you how much of what you’ve been told about “healthy eating” is evidence-based versus reputation-based.
This is one of the most beautiful moments you will ever witness.
Sir Nicholas Winton helped 669 children — most of them Jewish — escape the Holocaust.
His humanitarian accomplishments would remain unknown and unnoticed by the world for nearly 50 years.
Then in 1988 he was invited to the BBC TV show That's Life!.
There he sat — unknowingly — as part of the studio audience, surrounded by the children he had rescued. They were now adults.
Then they surprised him with one of the greatest gifts of all time. Their presence.
They were there, all alive — because of him.
Not only was he reunited with dozens of children he had saved, but he was also introduced to many of their children and grandchildren.
Please remember Sir Nicholas Winton, for his humanitarian operation known as the Czech Kindertransport.
Sir Nicholas George Winton, a British stockbroker, and a gift to this planet, left us on July 1, 2015, at the age of 106.
May his memory forever be a blessing and inspiration to all.
Please share. International Holocaust Day cannot be forgotten. But many are working to make that happen.���️♥️
A timely Soviet joke:
A man comes to a newsstand every day, scans the front page, and leaves disappointed.
One day the vendor asks what he's looking for. The man says an obituary.
"But, Comrade, the obituaries are at the back." The man replies, "Not the one I’m looking for."
One of the funniest videos of all time.
- Slips like a cartoon character on a banana peel
- Professional photographer there
- Woman literally jumping for joy
- So embarrassed he runs runs away
- Raucous cheers for the top embarrassing moment of his life