The man who invented the operation that saves babies born with blue-baby syndrome had no medical degree, no college degree, and was listed on the payroll as a JANITOR.
He guided the first operation from a stool behind the surgeon's shoulder, telling him where to cut.
Vivien Thomas. He had been saving to study medicine when the 1929 crash wiped out his savings and the bank holding them.
He took a job as a lab assistant at Vanderbilt for a janitor's wage, because that was the classification available.
Within a couple of years he was running experimental surgery — developing techniques, performing operations on his own, training surgeons.
He moved to Johns Hopkins with Alfred Blalock in 1941, where he was still paid as a janitor and had to enter through a back door.
He was the only Black man in that building not carrying a mop.
He worked out the surgical fix for tetralogy of Fallot — the condition killing infants who turned blue and died — and built the instruments for it.
The first operation on a child was in 1944. Blalock, who had never done the procedure, asked Thomas to stand behind him and talk him through it.
The surgeons on the paper became world famous. Thomas was not credited.
Hopkins hung his portrait in 1971 and gave him an honorary doctorate in 1976. Generations of surgeons he personally trained insisted on it.
He was paid as a cleaner while inventing heart surgery.
@GuntherEagleman "He wouldn't interact with us."
Why would any sane person interact with women who CAN "get over the fact that Lindsey Clancy viciously killed her children."
@Crusader_HU@lattice_theory@ExpatTimo@OzarkWaffen Mensa member here. Jonathan Farley is a mathematician who has solved over a dozen open problems in his field. You need better arguments than to pretend that he has a low IQ.
"WHO'S GOING TO SPAR WITH YOU?" 😭
Khabib Nurmagomedov takes gym hygiene seriously, saying he always cuts his nails, showers, brushes his teeth, wears a clean T-shirt and puts on cologne before training.
He says he prepares for the gym “like I’m going to someone’s wedding,” emphasizing that fighters need to think about their sparring partners too, because no one wants to train with someone who smells bad.
( via @WillHarrisAOAF )
🚨MAJOR BREAKING: The Surgeon General of Florida just announced ALL VACCINE MANDATES IN FLORIDA will be ENDED, and the room erupted.
All. Not just COVID. ALL.
JOSEPH LADAPO: "Every last one is wrong and DRIPS with disdain and slavery! Who am I, or anyone else, to tell YOU what you should put in your body? Who am I to tell you what your CHILD should put in their body? I don't have that right. Your body is a gift from God. What you put into your body is because of your relationship with your Body and God."
"Pretty much every state has them. It's WRONG."
Do you firmly support this decision?
A. Huge Yes
B. No
IF Yes, Give me a THUMBS-UP👍!!
MAKE THIS GO VIRAL ON 𝕏. LET’S GO 👏
Michael Jordan says losing is not the opposite of winning, it is just another part of winning
“I hate losing. It’s not even a question. But I have to respect losing…”
“Because losing is a part of winning. You never just win. You’ve got to lose to win.”
“Losing is going to hurt… To a point where you look at… How can I do things different? How can I change? How can I make this team better?”
“Before you can look at someone else… You’ve got to look at yourself in the mirror. That’s how things get started. You’ve got to be willing to change.”
Stephen A. Smith publicly APOLOGIZES to Kyrie Irving after calling him "selfish" for refusing the COVID jab.
"Hindsight-wise, it didn’t make him stubborn or selfish. It made him BRAVE."
"I watched Dr. Fauci on Capitol Hill yesterday, and the person I thought about most was Kyrie Irving."
“Kyrie Irving stood out in my mind because of the heat that he was taking... He refused the vaccine. New York City's mandate made him ineligible for home games, and he linked his stance to people losing jobs over vaccine mandates."
“In my opinion, particularly hindsight-wise, it didn't make him stubborn or selfish. It made him brave. His willingness to stand up and say, ‘Nah, I'm not doing that.’
“It's just a time for reflection — to look at things differently.”
Kyrie gave up $11,400,000 in game checks during the 21-22 NBA season and a $100,000,000 extension with the Nets to be unvaccinated.
That cements his holdout as the largest financial sacrifice any athlete has ever made over an issue in history.
🇮🇱🇵🇸🇱🇧 If this isn't genocide, I don't know what is...
Israeli Defense Minister Katz, earlier:
"24 Lebanese villages, hundreds of years old, we destroyed all the buildings, not house by house, but entire villages.
Their destruction has been completed. You need to understand: 15,000 to 20,000 homes across all 24 villages have been destroyed."
In the same interview:
"In Gaza, we destroy not only what is underground but also all the houses.
Today, nearly 70% of Gaza has been destroyed."
Writers: Samuel, Michael
Piers Morgan invited Max Blumenthal on to discuss his Iran reporting and the illegal seizure of his devices by the US govt, but spent much of his time questioning Blumenthal's "impartiality"
"I'm absolutely not impartial," Blumenthal explained. "I am not objective, and the concept of objectivity, as we understand it, is set out by the corporate media according to the parameters devised for them by their militant Zionist ruling class owners, who literally own the networks that you appear on."
Blumenthal then illustrated how Morgan manufactured consent for the US-Israeli war on Iran by promoting inflated death tolls and a false narrative of the Israeli and US-sponsored regime change riots that rocked Iran in January
DIOS MÍO, QUÉ ES ESTA GENIALIDAD DE VIDEO 😮💨😮💨
MAÑANA VOLVEMOS A JUGAR UNA FINAL DE LA COPA DEL MUNDO.
🇦🇷 Somos Argentina contra el mundo, literalmente.
Lionel Messi in 2025/26 so far:
46 starts
45 goals
32 assists
77 G/A
30 MOTM
MLS Cup winner + MVP (6G+7A in 6 games)
World Cup finalist + POTT (8G+4A in 7 games*)
39 years old still doing at the top level like never seen before. 🍷
🇦🇷 Lionel Messi’s 2026 World Cup is now better than his 2022 World Cup 😳
📊 2022 World Cup:
👕 7 games
⚽️ 7 goals
🎯 3 assists
😮 21 chances created
😳 7 big chances created
💨 15 successful dribbles
📊 2026 World Cup:
👕 7 games
⚽️ 8 goals
🎯 4 assists
😮 26 chances created
😳 8 big chances created
💨 24 successful dribbles
39 years old! 🐐