A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.
He knows his time is running out.
So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.
He died 5 months later.
This is that lecture.
The most important hour you'll watch this week.
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Show a horse your angry face once. Hours later, after you return with a calm expression, it will still be more guarded around you. Researchers at the Universities of Sussex and Portsmouth published this in Current Biology in 2018. Horses have a memory for emotion.
This likely evolved because horses are prey animals. Knowing how the humans around them were feeling, calm or furious, told them whether to stay or run.
A 2016 Biology Letters study from Sussex found that horses looking at angry faces show a left-eye gaze bias, where they look at threats through their left eye first. That eye sends signals to the brain's right hemisphere, the one that handles danger. Heart rates go up. This happened just from a flat photograph of a stranger. No movement, no sound, no smell. Just a two-dimensional image of a frown.
Sound is tracked separately. A 2018 Hokkaido University study found horses read both faces and voice tone at the same time, the way humans do. Show a horse a happy face paired with an angry voice and it notices the mismatch and stares. They expect what they see and hear to match.
Then there is smell. In January 2026, French researchers, publishing in PLOS One, had people watch horror films while wearing cotton pads under their armpits. Those pads, no human present, were placed near horses. The horses startled more easily, kept more distance, showed higher heart rates, all without ever being near the frightened person. Their sweat alone was enough.
A horse's heart weighs about 9 pounds. A human heart weighs just over half a pound. After five days of horse therapy, veterans in a Rutgers University study showed measurable reductions in both heart rate and PTSD symptoms. Oxytocin, the bonding hormone, rises in horses when a human stands near them or reaches out to touch them.
When that horse pressed against the person in this video, it had already read the face, tracked the tone, smelled the sweat. The warmth was not accidental.
🧐😭For those mourning the ghoul.
The fall of the regime in Iran was predetermined on the day when a father was publicly hanged in front of his daughter for a post on social media.
In his final moments, the father kept smiling while looking into his daughter’s eyes, so that her courage would not break.
Who does not remember that scene — and hundreds of similar scenes that shook the hearts of people all over the world?
In a place where women have their hair cut off for not wearing a burqa, where they are paraded naked and beaten so brutally that they die in hospital in agony…
A culture and a system of values that treat women and children with such contempt and exploit them are doomed to destruction.
FATHER DOLINDO RUOTOLO
A Prophet of our Time
Father Don Dolindo Ruotolo was a Neapolitan priest stigmatized miracle worker and “mouthpiece of the Holy Spirit”.
Father Ruotolo had extraordinary communications with Jesus throughout his heroic life, a life that was totally devoted to God and Holy Mother Mary. He referred to himself as “the Madonna’s little old man” and the Rosary was his constant companion.
Much of what our Lord wants flies in the face of normal human inclination and reason. We can only rise to this level of thinking through the grace of God and the help of the Holy Spirit.
We must let go of our problems, stop worrying, and trying to resolve them ourselves. We must believe, trust, and allow our Lord to rescue us from ourselves and supply our wants, needs and resolve our problems as only He can.
Jesus, You take care of it, should be the first words that come to mind and flow from our lips. After all, we have tried to do things our way and look where it has got us.
Just do as the prayer says, open our hearts and minds in love and close our eyes in trust, and ask Jesus to take care of it. He will.
On November 19, 1970 ,Don (Fr) Dolindo Ruotolo died at the age of 88. Padre Pio once said of this priest from Naples, Italy, The whole of paradise is in your soul. His name “Dolindo” means “Pain” and his life was rich with this pain. As a child, a teenager, a seminarian and a priest, he experienced humiliation, which was the realization of the prophetic words of a bishop who said You will be a martyr, but in your heart, not with your blood.
In his profound humility, he was able to hear the words of God. Even with his hidden life, he was one of the greatest prophets of the last century. He wrote to Bishop Hnilica in 1965 that a new John will rise out of Poland with heroic steps to break the chains beyond the boundaries imposed by the communist tyranny. On this postcard, he wrote words of consolation for Poland and all the countries suffering under the communist regime. This prophecy was realized in the papacy of John Paul II.
In his tremendous suffering, Dolindo became more and more a child who lived his self-offering to the Divine Father. I am totally poor, a poor nothing. My strength is my prayer. My leader is the will of God, which I let take me by the hand. My security over the uneven path is the heavenly mother Mary.
One of the treasures from the words that Jesus spoke to Dolindo was the teaching about total abandonment to God. In this novena, Jesus is talking to Don Dolindo and also to you.
THE SURRENDER NOVENA
Given by Jesus to Fr. Dolindo Ruotolo
O Jesus, I surrender myself to you, take care of everything! (10 times)
Heavenly Father,
in the Name of Jesus Christ, Your beloved Son,
and through the power of the Holy Spirit,
we place our family under Your loving protection.
Lord Jesus Christ,
cover our home with Your Precious Blood.
Let Your holy Cross stand at every door,
every window,
every room,
and every heart within this family.
We renounce Satan and all his works.
We renounce every spirit of fear,
division,
hatred,
anger,
unforgiveness,
lust,
addiction,
depression,
violence,
and every evil influence.
In the Name of Jesus Christ,
we command every unclean spirit that may be troubling this family
to depart and never return.
By the authority of Christ,
we break every curse,
every generational bondage,
every occult influence,
and every attack of the enemy.
Saint Michael the Archangel,
defend us in battle.
Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
Cast into hell Satan and all evil spirits
who prowl throughout the world
seeking the ruin of souls.
Blessed Virgin Mary,
Mother of God and our Mother,
spread your mantle over this family.
Crush the head of the serpent
and lead us always to your Son, Jesus.
Holy Angels and Saints,
pray for us and guard our home.
Lord,
fill this house with Your peace,
Your light,
and Your love.
May our family live in faith,
hope,
and charity.
May we forgive one another,
serve one another,
and remain united in Your grace.
Protect us from all evil,
from sickness,
from accidents,
from temptation,
and from every spiritual attack.
Let our home be a place of prayer,
holiness,
joy,
and mercy.
We consecrate our family to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
and to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Jesus,
reign in our hearts forever.
Amen. 🙏🏼
Scott-Vincent Borba, co-founder of the multi-billion dollar cosmetics brand e.l.f., donated his entire fortune to charity and will be ordained a Catholic priest this month.
"I have never been happier. I have never been more full of joy. With everything the world can give me, I would give it back a million times over to be united to Jesus."
PRAYER FOR AN IMPOSSIBLE REQUEST
Almighty God,
You who split seas, raised the dead, and called light out of nothing,
I come to You with a request that humanly speaking is already dead.I ask for the impossible!
Not because I doubt Your power, but because I have run out of every other door.This thing before me is sealed, finished, laughed at, declared irreversible.
Men say it cannot be.
Time says it’s too late.
Logic says it’s absurd.But You are not bound by any of those courts.
So I stand here, small, bruised, probably foolish,
and I ask You to do what only You can do:
override reality as men know it,
break the decree that has already been written,
and give me this one thing I dare not even speak aloud to most people.
Not for my glory.
Not so I can say I was right.
Only because without this, a part of me or someone I love, will lose it.
Lord of the eleventh hour, God of the closed tomb,
King who answers before we call,
do it anyway.
Do the thing that cannot be done!
Show Yourself strong where every expert has already walked away.
I have every reason to trust You can.
In the name of Jesus Christ,
who turned “impossible” into His favorite word,
I ask.
I wait.
I trust.And I know You heard me.
Amen.
It took 9 years and 3 billion miles to get this shot.
Pluto’s icy Mountains.
But how exactly did we get it? A story of one of NASA’s greatest missions:
The Eucharistic Miracle of Legnica, Poland (2013)
On Christmas Day 2013, at St. Hyacinth’s Shrine in Legnica, a consecrated Host fell to the floor during Communion. It was placed in holy water to dissolve per Church custom.
After about two weeks, the Host had not fully dissolved. A red spot appeared on its surface, later identified as human heart muscle tissue showing signs of agony. DNA tests confirmed it was human.
In 2016, Bishop Zbigniew Kiernikowski officially recognized it as a Eucharistic miracle with “the hallmarks” of a supernatural event. The relic is now venerated in a golden monstrance at the shrine, drawing pilgrims worldwide.
It is seen as a sign affirming the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.
People don't realize that Neil Armstrong's first footprint is still there.
Untouched. Unmoved. Exactly where he left it in 1969.
No wind to erase it. No rain to wash it away. No life to disturb it.
It will outlast you, your country, your language, and possibly your species.
If you went to the Moon tomorrow, you could place your boot inside his.
No one, presently, sees the Moon rotate like this.
That's because the Earth's moon is tidally locked to the Earth, showing us only one side.
However, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has this view: a full Moon rotation.
Grabe si Justice Carpio. He could have had an easy life as a retired SC justice, just lecturing or sitting on boards of the largest corporations in the Philippines, yet here he is, going to Pag-asa Island, not because he's paid to do so but because he's very much committed to this advocacy. My favorite law grandpa. 👴🏻
Muslim: We serve the same God.
Me: Does Allah have a Son?
Muslim: No… he doesn’t.
Me: Okay… can Allah be called Father?
Muslim: Uh… no, we don’t call him Father.
Me: Alright, is your relationship with Allah like a father and child?
Muslim: No… we are slaves, he’s the master.
Me: Does Allah love unconditionally? Loves you first before you love him?
Muslim: No… you have to love him first. His love is conditional.
Me: Has Allah ever appeared to any of his prophets?
Muslim: No, he doesn’t appear.
Me: Has Allah ever spoken directly to any of his prophets?
Muslim: No… he’s too great to speak to anyone.
Me: Does Allah have a visible image?
Muslim: No, he’s nothing like his creation.
Me: Then whose image did he claim
humans were made in?
Muslim: …
Me: Does Allah have a visible image?
Muslim: No…
Me: Perfect. Thanks for clarifying. So based on your own answers, we don’t serve the same God. My God is not limited, He allows us to call Him Father, He has a Son, He appeared, and He speaks. Allah can’t do any of that. So no, we do not worship the same God.
Muslim: …We know this we just want to argue blindly.
Three Latin phrases you need to know for the crusade ahead:
1) Deus vult – “God wills it.”
2) Christus regnat – “Christ is King.”
3) Non nobis, domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam – “Not to us, O Lord, but to your name be the glory.”
30,000 hours of footage, equivalent to 3 years and 7 months, were filmed to capture the blooming of 77 types of flowers, and the result is spectacular.
As a Muslim, I learned that dogs are filthy and may not be kept as pets.
Muhammad himself ordered the mass killing of dogs and then further demonized black dogs.
Today, I know that dogs are better than anything Islam has to offer.