Manel Rovira

Paciència (en hores baixes), perseverança i perspectiva. Dignitat innegociable. Defensor de la recuperació de l’ensenyament de qualitat.

[Paul Halpern @phalpern]

Is the end of theoretical physics in sight?

How Richard Feynman, in response to a comment by Stephen Hawking, addressed that question in 1987.

(From Superstrings: A Theory of Everything? edited by Paul Davies)

[Seguim la Méteo @SeguimlaMeteo]

Penseu que fins ara era "impensable" que a l'Observatori Fabra i altres punts del litoral central es fessin rècords sense vent de ponent. Els grans registres al Fabra fins ara eren amb aquest vent, que arriba reescalfat. Avui no ha bufat ponent. Ni ha calgut. Això és el més fort.

[Puppies & Positivity @Puppieslover]

Steve Irwin and his Son Robert feeding the same Crocodile 15 years apart

[Trànsit @transit]

🔴 Un #accident entre tres turismes i un camió a l'AP-7, a Vilobí d'Onyar en sentit Barcelona, talla dos carrils i provoca retencions

[Protecció civil @emergenciescat]

‼️ Es manté el confiament de 7 municipis per #IFBisbaldempordà:

✔️ Calonge i St Antoni
✔️ Castell Aro, Platja Aro i s'Agaró
✔️Cruïlles, Monells i St Sadurní de l'Heura
✔️Forallac
✔️ La Bisbal d'Empordà
✔️ Llagostera
✔️ Santa Cristina d'Aro

Afecta unes 12.000 persones

#INFOCAT

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

Fifteen-year-old Will Roberts continues to face unimaginable challenges in his courageous battle against Stage 4 osteosarcoma.

After exhausting nearly every available treatment option, Will traveled to California to receive an experimental therapy. But over the past week, his condition has taken a heartbreaking turn.

A fracture has developed in his spine where radiation previously targeted the cancer, and severe inflammation has left him largely confined to bed. His pain has become so intense that even fentanyl patches and Dilaudid are no longer providing enough relief.

Today, another frightening complication forced Will's family to rush him to the hospital after he began urinating blood. They had planned to return the following day because of his spinal fracture, but the unexpected bleeding required immediate medical attention.

Adding to the concern, Will's platelet count has dropped significantly, preventing him from receiving his DeltaRex-G treatment. For someone battling aggressive osteosarcoma, every missed treatment is critical.

Despite everything, Will's family continues to find strength through the kindness of those around them. When his father could no longer carry him downstairs alone, a Marine staying at the family's host home stepped in to help. Before they left for the hospital, their host embraced Will's mother and reminded her that they would face this battle together.

Please keep Will and his family in your thoughts and prayers. Pray that doctors find the source of the bleeding, that his pain can be brought under control, that his platelet count recovers, and that he can resume the treatment he desperately needs. 🙏

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

A firefighter lost his job after refusing to leave a burning house until he found the family dog.

A house fire broke out in Los Angeles, and by the time firefighters arrived, flames had already spread through most of the home. Everyone inside had been evacuated. Except the dog.

Firefighters searched as long as they could, but the house was getting worse by the minute, and the chief finally gave the order for everyone to pull back before the structure collapsed. One firefighter didn’t leave.

He kept searching through the smoke until he found the dog hiding behind the bathtub, coughing, scared, and barely breathing. He carried him outside, placed an oxygen mask over his face, but the dog went limp, he had to perform CPR.

For a moment, everyone thought it was too late. However, paramedics were able to step in and use emergency equipment, and miraculously brought the dog back.

But days later, the firefighter was fired for disobeying orders and risking not only his own life, but the lives of the crew who might have had to go back in for him.

The story spread fast, and his fellow firefighters didn’t stay quiet. They stood by him, saying he made a dangerous choice, but not a heartless one.

Two weeks later, with the help of public pressure and the support from his crew, he was reinstated, compensated for the time he missed, and allowed to return to duty.

[😉Controladores Aéreos 🇪🇸 @controladores]

⚠️ Problemas importantes de cizalladura en el aeropuerto de #Palma. Muchas frustradas y esperas. Varias tripulaciones deciden desviarse a aeropuertos alternativos por seguridad.
#SafetyFirst

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is real footage from 126 years ago.

What you are watching is the trottoir roulant, the moving sidewalk, built for the great World's Fair in Paris in 1900.

More than a century ago, three years before the Wright brothers would make the first airplane flight, the city built an electric street that carried you across itself while you simply stood there...

It ran in a loop of around three and a half kilometres, raised on a viaduct above the fairgrounds, with nine stations where you could step on and off.

And it had a clever design: two moving platforms side by side, one going at walking pace and one faster, so you could step onto the slow one first, then onto the quick one, and ride the whole circuit in about twenty-six minutes without taking a single step.

Nearly fifty million people came to that fair, and for most of them it was the first time they had ever moved through a place without taking a step.

The very first moving walkway had appeared seven years earlier, at the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893, built by the same designers. But the Paris version was longer, faster, and far more sophisticated, and it was here that the world truly fell in love with the idea.

It astonished people. The thought that the ground itself could carry you felt like magic, like something out of a dream of the future. They even called it the Rue de l'Avenir: the Street of the Future.

Thomas Edison sent a crew to film it, which is why we can still watch it today...

[Àlex Van der Laan @alexmegapc]

Bon dia!!! Nit torradora i xafogosa, calor prèmium que no hi ha manera que afluixi una mica sobretot a la costa, tot i que avui al centre del dia a la meitat nord les temperatures baixaran, i tindrem tempestes de caràcter molt inconnex, Pirineu i sobretot comarques nord de Barcelona i Girona, observeu la convergència marcada de vents agafant com epicentre la zona del Montseny on és molt probable que caigui alguna tempesta acompanyada de calamarsa o pedra. Dimarts continuarem amb calor i algunes tempestes. #meteo

[Víctor Riverola i Morera @riverolavic]

Que podem dir d’ aquestes imatges?
@Hanan71443742

[Paul Halpern @phalpern]

Manchester, England, UK

A city of extraordinary scientific advances, including where the atomic nucleus was first identified by Ernest Rutherford and his team.

#Manchester #Science #Physics #Rutherford

[Àlex Van der Laan @alexmegapc]

Bon dia!!! Lo caloret faller mode on, arranquem un cap de setmana i una setmana vinent plenament estival amb temperatures que oscil·laran entre 3/5 graus per sobre la mitjana climàtica, per tant, calor, de fet avui ja es poden rascar els 35 per ponent i demà els 37, avui dissabte sense precipitacions, serà diumenge al vespre que apareixeran els primers ruixats al Pirineu, i serà dilluns també tarda/vespre que augmentaran encara més les precipitacions sobretot meitat nord per l'arribada d'una línia inestabilitat. Aquesta serà la tònica de la setmana vinent calor amb alguns ruixats de tarda a la serralada pirinenca. #meteo

[B.Palop @bpalop]

Los protagonistas que están poniendo toda su energía en que las mates se entiendan más y mejor, en que gusten más, en que la hora de mates se espere con ganas... pero sin unicornios, ni abrazando árboles, ni con ocurrencias: desde la formación sólida y la co-construcción.

[Efemèrides d'Arquitectura @efemarq]

175,5 metres, redéu! 😭
País de pandereta, tot de personalitats signant un document que comença fotent la pota:

la creu que corona la basílica de la Sagrada Família no és a "172 metres i mig sobre la ciutat de Barcelona"...

...és a 175,5 metres!
Apreneu a mesurar edificis! 📐

[@elgranPerich @elgranPerich]

¿La otra vida del Papa?

[C3RG (Grup Recerca Cronicitat Catalunya Central) @C3RGcat]

“Transformar l’atenció en clau integrada no és una opció, és una necessitat. Implica donar a la ciutadania la resposta que necessita, oferir als professionals l’entorn de treball que es mereixen i avançar cap a un sistema sostenible”: https://t.co/RmbHB1ZG2S

[Efemèrides d'Arquitectura @efemarq]

"Un poble no es pot matar; es poden ofegar veus, tancar vàlvules, però llavors la pressió augmenta i creix el perill d'explosió. I si tantes vàlvules es tanquen l'explosió és inevitable."
—Gaudí

El Vaticà s'obre ara a incloure el català.
La pressió de les xarxes ha funcionat!
✊

[Anti-radar Catalunya @antiradarcatala]

Accident a la C-25 a l'altura de Santa Coloma de Farners sentit Girona. La via està tallada per un camió que ha bolcat.

[Anti-radar Catalunya @antiradarcatala]

Imatges de l'incendi d'una empresa de ceres d'Òrrius on hi treballen 20 dotacions de @bomberscat per evitar la propagació de les flames cap als boscos que hi ha al voltant.