Derek Thorne

Man of God, Husband, Father, Award-Winning Graphic Designer, Illustrator, & Cycling Enthusiast.

[Tomas Mones-Cazon @tomas_mones]

Your interior life of prayer is the one thing in your day that nobody will ever protect for you, which is exactly why most Catholic men lose it without ever deciding to.

Nobody wakes up and chooses to abandon prayer. It goes the way everything goes. One late night, one extra episode, one morning where the snooze wins because you were running on five hours. Then the exception becomes the pattern and six months later you are a man who used to pray.

This is why the tempter almost never comes at your faith directly. Screwtape's whole strategy was gentle slope, soft underfoot, no sudden turnings. He does not need you to deny Christ. He only needs you tired at the wrong hour.

Which means the fight for your morning prayer is actually won the night before. The discipline is not setting an alarm. It is closing the laptop at nine when nothing is stopping you except your own appetite for one more thing. Every hour you burn after dark is drawn directly from the account you were meant to spend on God at dawn.

And the morning matters most because it is the only part of the day you are certain to receive. You are not promised tonight. You are not promised the drive home. Give God the first thing while you still have it in your hands, then let the rest of the day come as it will.

[Andrew Zywiec, M.D. @AndrewZywiecMD]

As a straight A, intense biology and chemistry undergraduate, I believed in evolution. There was so much data, so much information, so much theory.

I am now a 17 year, extremely well educated, highly accomplished and intellectually experienced medical doctor and scientist.

Evolution is like many things. On the surface, it has a luster. But deeper examination exposes pyrite.

Fool's gold.

The first sip from the glass of secular science is atheistic, but God is at the bottom of the glass. (Paraphrased)

[Derek Thorne @ThorneDesignCo]

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[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

we are living in a future that our grandparents could only dream of

absolutely insane footage

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@xxjskinnerxx One of my favorite fights of all time

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@stoolpresidente Straight outta the Will Smith playbook

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@fasc1nate

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@fasc1nate I drew this for a bar in Dallas, named after this exact story!

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@MaryBowdenMD Preordered !

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

This is a single human cell. The white tubes are microtubules. The colored beads are ribosomes. You have 37 trillion of these.

Every cell in your body is a manufacturing plant running 24/7 without supervision.

Each ribosome (the colored beads) is assembling a protein right now. A single ribosome chains together about 20 amino acids per second. A typical mammalian cell contains millions of ribosomes. Every cell in your body is forming hundreds of millions of peptide bonds per second. Continuously.

The white worm-like tubes are microtubules, the cell's internal highway system. Motor proteins called kinesin walk along them on two protein legs, carrying cargo from one end of the cell to the other at around 800 nanometers per second. Each cell has thousands of these tracks with thousands of motor proteins walking on them simultaneously.

The blue mesh on the outside is the actin cortex. It holds the cell shape against pressure. It's also being torn down and rebuilt constantly. Every cell rewrites its own structural skeleton every few minutes.

Now scale that.

37 trillion cells. Each running millions of ribosomes. Each running hundreds of mitochondria producing ATP at roughly 100 million molecules per second. Your total daily ATP turnover is around your full body weight. You synthesize and consume your bodyweight in ATP every 24 hours.

The DNA in a single cell stretches 2 meters uncoiled. End to end across all 37 trillion cells, that's enough to reach the sun and back 250 times.

None of this is voluntary. None of it stops. It started when you were one cell and hasn't paused since.

[NHL @NHL]

Jason Robertson hits the spin-o-rama to score his second of the night! 😮‍💨

[Pete Blackburn @PeteBlackburn]

I mean this is absurd

[USA Hockey @usahockey]

THE GOAL HEARD AROUND THE WORLD 🥇🥇 #WINTEROLYMPICS

[jordy @jordymaui]

https://t.co/zFf6OgdaHX

[Sean @SeanODowd15]

If you read the other AI article, you need to read this one

Ex-OpenAI employees wrote it a year ago, and they predicted we’ll know how AI ends by 2027

Thus far, they’ve been remarkably accurate in their predictions

https://t.co/UwT4jDLO2T

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

This is a really good article. AI is going to wipe out millions of jobs. It’s happening now. Everything is changing. The avalanche is already here. Most of what we’re currently arguing about will be irrelevant very soon.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Andrew Huberman shared something beautiful with Theo Von:
“I’m a scientist… and I pray every day. On my knees. Morning, night, even quietly in the bathroom before coming here.”

He talked about how reading the Bible and learning animals can see light we can’t (UV, infrared) made faith feel natural—not separate from science, but part of what makes it all more wondrous.

Theo smiled: “Sometimes an idea comes through and I think… that wasn’t just me. I’m just trying to be a good antenna.”

This 2-minute moment is gentle, honest, and deeply human.
If you’ve ever felt there might be more to life than what we can measure—this one’s for you.

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