Martin Huecker, MD

Academic ER doctor with a Wellness practice |

[Martin Huecker, MD @HueckerM]

Check out my book, The Phoenix Club: Stories of Addiction and Redemption.
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[LindyMan @PaulSkallas]

What's nice about calithsenics is that progress is slow. Some movements take months and years to accomplish because tendons, joints and connective tissue adapt much slower than muscle. It takes time to integrate the system.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

This needs to be turned into a Hollywood film

[Guitar Gods Unleashed @gguworld]

This is Mary Clayton's vocal on “Gimme Shelter” stripped completely naked. No music. Just her.

That crack in her voice was not planned. It was real. The Stones kept it.

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

Claude Mellan's Face of Christ, also known as The Sudarium of Saint Veronica (1649), is one of the most technically extraordinary works in art history...

The entire portrait is rendered using a single, continuous spiralling line that begins at the tip of Christ's nose and expands outward to the edges of the cloth.

Mellan achieved the illusion of depth, shadow, and facial features without any cross-hatching or traditional shading. Instead, he precisely varied the thickness and pressure of the burin (his engraving tool) as he rotated the copper plate, creating "swelling" lines that darken the image where needed.

The spiralling line is estimated to be approximately 150m (about 500ft) long if it were stretched out.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video.

Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments.

The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times.

Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it.

Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone.

The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

This is actually kinda insane

In 1996, a 14-year-old kid watched Jaws and got obsessed with Quint’s WWII monologue.

He then began researching the 1945 sinking of the USS Indianapolis, interviewed around 150 survivors, and reviewed 800 documents. His research focused on the role of the ship’s captain, Charles B. McVay III, who had been court-martialed after the incident. He came to believe that Captain Charles Butler McVay III, who had been blamed for the tragedy, was innocent.

The 14-year-old, Hunter Scott, presented his findings to the United States Congress at age 14. In 2000, Congress passed a resolution clearing Captain McVay’s name, and the U.S. Navy later formally exonerated him.

[Undiscovered History @HistoryUnd]

Tom Brown, a retired engineer, dedicated 25 years to preserving approximately 1,200 apple varieties from extinction.

[🧬Maxpein🧬 @maximumpain333]

YOUR ORGANS WHEN YOU FAST FOR 36 HOURS.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Petrichor is the earthy scent released when rain falls on dry soil

The word itself was coined in 1964 by two Australian scientists who blended the Greek words for stone (petra) and the fluid that flows through the veins of gods (ichor)

The smell comes from a compound called geosmin released by soil bacteria plus an oil that plants secrete during drought as a kind of survival mechanism that gets trapped in rock and dirt

Humans are wired to love it because our ancestors relied on rain to survive meaning your brain is essentially having an ancient primeval emotional reaction every time a storm rolls

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I love this “The Work-Worth-Doing Test” by Jonathan Goodman.

[AmericanPapaBear™ @AmericaPapaBear]

Top 100 movie one liners.

Which one is the best?

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

What mindset built the Old World?

This mindset:

[Anticommie @QueenAnticommie]

What happened to the kid on the orange shirt @grok ?

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

This is the best hurricane footage I’ve ever seen

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

POWERFUL: #Giants quarterback Jameis Winston has gone viral for walking around NYC and attempting to spread positivity to random New Yorkers.

🙏🙏🙏

Jameis is the best. This video is a must watch.

(🎥@Jaboowins)
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[Martin Huecker, MD @HueckerM]

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[Martin Huecker, MD @HueckerM]

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[Mickamious @MickamiousG]

This is Charlie Gee

One of the world’s most respected and renowned stonemason

His work in performing restoration works on Cathedrals throughout Europe is some of the best

A skill set that is becoming rarer to find and master in a more modern world

He’s only 23 years old

[Martin Huecker, MD @HueckerM]

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[Out Of Context Barça @ContextfreeFCB_]

The day Nike planned to spend the whole day filming an advertisement… But Ronaldinho got there and got it right on the first take. 🪄