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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Medicine has known how to treat type 2 diabetes for 230 years, got it right for 180 of them, and has spent the last 50 prescribing the cause.
1674: an Oxford physician tastes a diabetic's urine, finds it sweet, and names the disease for it.
1797: a British army surgeon puts a diabetic officer on meat and fat, nothing else. The sugar leaves his urine in days. He publishes the case.
1870: Paris is under siege and the bread runs out. The city's diabetics get better, and the doctor watching them writes it down and builds a career on it.
1870s: an Italian physician locks diabetics in a room with meat and water. They recover. Textbooks across Europe copy him.
1892: the most famous medical textbook in the English language prescribes meat, fat and green vegetables, and says starch is poison to the diabetic.
1916: the leading American diabetologist's own book lists carbohydrate at the bottom and fat at the top.
1921: insulin. A miracle for the child who makes none. And a tablet-shaped way out for everyone else.
1950s: the diet quietly loosens, because the drug can cover it.
1971: the American Diabetes Association recommends 45% of calories from carbohydrate.
1986: raised to 60%. For a disease whose diagnosis is a failure to handle carbohydrate.
2008: low-carbohydrate acknowledged, as an option, in a footnote.
2019: the same association admits low-carbohydrate eating has the most evidence of any diet for the condition.
2026: the diet sheet in the surgery still shows porridge, brown bread, potatoes and fruit.
For 180 years every doctor who looked at the disease fed it meat and fat and watched it go.
Then a drug arrived that let him stop looking, and the diet reversed, and the count has gone up every year since.
The oldest cure in the book is the one your doctor was never taught, and the book was his.
SORRY IF THIS OFFENDS RESTAURANT OWNERS, BUT THIS HAS GOT TO STOP.
I sat down at a table last night, and there were no physical menus.
Just a laminated QR code taped to the wood.
I had to pull out my phone, scan the code, navigate a laggy menu website, put in my own order, and type in my credit card details.
A runner brought the food to the table 20 minutes later.
Then the digital checkout screen defaulted to a 22% tip prompt.
FOR WHAT?
You eliminated the host, eliminated the server taking orders, forced me to use my own mobile device and cellular data, and then asked for a 22% tip for order entry I completed myself?
THAT IS NOT A HOSPITALITY EXPERIENCE.
THAT IS AN UNPAID CUSTOMER WORKFLOW WITH A FORCED TIP PROMPT ATTACHED.
Emma Thompson reveals the unbelievable story of how Donald Trump randomly called her trailer landline to ask her out on a date.
"I was in my little trailer, and it had a phone with a landline. It rang one day, and I picked it up, and it was Donald Trump."
"Hi, it's Donald Trump here. I'm ringing to ask you if you would like to come and stay in one of my lovely apartments and maybe we could have dinner."
"I thought someone was having a laugh, so I said, 'Oh, fuck off.'"
"I just didn't know what to say. How did he get my number? A number that I didn't have! So I just said I'd get back to him."
"In so many ways, I wish I had, because if I had gone out with him for dinner, I could have done that... and then we would all have known!"
Here it is, the whole thing, 33 years later.
First saw it in the theater with my eighth-grade Pop Warner team. When the street scene was still in it. All the lines from it lived on, and hold up.
Best sports movie ever.
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Joan asked her husband his favourite sexual position, and he said “next door.” She wrapped herself in Saran Wrap from The Joy of Sex, and he walked in going “Leftovers again.”
The woman was roasting her own marriage, her chest, ageing, and Bo Derek in the same five minutes, and the audience never recovered.
They really don’t make that fearless any more.