Xenophon Costeas - Ξενοφών Κωστέας

μπαμπάς (= dad); thanks for visiting; “Duty Now For The Future” avatar; xenophon61{papaki}

[Xenophon Costeas - Ξενοφών Κωστέας @XCosteas]

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[Xenophon Costeas - Ξενοφών Κωστέας @XCosteas]

@x0dros @karaokecomputer More like a sleazy creep.

[Ronnie Chatah @thebeirutbanyan]

One of the most beautiful stories ever told. About everything we’re going through, both in Iran & Lebanon.

Rest in peace Marjane Satrapi
Author of Persepolis

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

In 1935, many Hollywood executives didn’t want audiences seeing Shirley Temple dancing hand-in-hand with Bill Robinson on screen. But during filming, Shirley reportedly grabbed his hand anyway, helping create one of the most iconic dance moments in movie history.

[FilmoteCanet Cinema @CanetCinema]

Andrei Tarkovsky directing Stalker (1979). Behind-the-scenes footage recorded by the crew of Mosfilm, the historic Soviet studio responsible for the film's production.

[Vassilis Moudilos @MoudilosV]

Υπάρχουν μουσικές που δεν τις ακούς...τις θυμάσαι #αντηχες_σκεψεις

[Fotoarchiwum_PAP @paparchfoto]

Bar mleczny przy ul. Nowy Świat 39. Warszawa, 1952 r.

[Xenophon Costeas - Ξενοφών Κωστέας @XCosteas]

A Man Who Has Lost All Dignity

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Truly morally sickening: that anyone should wish all of Ukraine to suffer the fate of Mariupol or Bucha. Russian occupation of Ukraine means random arrests, executions, concentration camps; the destruction of language and culture; mass kidnapping of children. All of these things have been documented in the occupied territories and continue to go on.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Truly morally sickening: that anyone should wish all of Ukraine to suffer the fate of Mariupol or Bucha. Russian occupation of Ukraine means random arrests, executions, concentration camps; the destruction of language and culture; mass kidnapping of children. All of these things have been documented in the occupied territories and continue to go on.

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

“There is much that a man should not see, should not know, and if he should see it, it is better for him to die.”

—Varlam Shalamov

[Carlos El-Tallawi, MD, FACC, FASE @HeartToProve]

@PWesslyMD @LucySafi @PriyaPanday27 @NadeenFaza @ASE360 @JournalASEcho @DavidWienerMD @iamritu @purviparwani @SIwa23288585 @boegel_kelly MAD is an epiphenomenon for arrhythmias, as opposed to a true trigger. True MAD reflects advanced myxomatous degeneration and MVP. MAD is a reflection of the prolapse severity/height and extent of pulling on the pap muscles, which eventually contributes to arrhythmias. #ASEchoJC

[Henk Heijmans @_Henk_Heijmans]

Café Lehmitz, Hamburg, 1970 - by Anders Petersen (1944), Swedish

[Nicholas A. Christakis @NAChristakis]

@paulg Upper limit of human lifespan, and its invariance over centuries, is an old topic! Are you familiar with the Olshansky-Austad Wager? https://t.co/KEMnHW78ek

[Ethan J. Weiss @ethanjweiss]

As a non-oncologist, i feel quite comfortable jumping on the bandwagon here. I can count the number of times I've seen unsolvable problems in medicine get solved in my lifetime. No, this is not a cure, but there has been no greater challenge than pancreatic cancer. Nothing worked. Now this...

These results are simply spectacular

Daraxonrasib or Chemotherapy in Previously Treated Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer | New England Journal of Medicine https://t.co/a52WwDQ2Ju

[Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy]

My favorite dialogue in all of classical history is in Xenophon’s Anabasis, when ten thousand Greek mercenaries are stranded on a hill a thousand miles away from Greece and surrounded by Persian troops, and a messenger from the Persian King approaches their leader Clearchus and their convo goes something like (paraphrasing):

Messenger: “The King demands you surrender your weapons.”

Clearchus: “Tell me then, are we to be friends or enemies?”

Messenger: “You have no hope of resisting. Surrender your weapons.”

Clearchus: “Because if we are to be friends, we shall be better friends with our weapons than without them. And if we are to be enemies, likewise we shall be better enemies with our weapons than without them. Tell this to your King.”

Messenger: “Very well. But the King has bidden me tell you one more thing: As long as you remain on this hill, there is to be a truce. But if you take one step off of it, there will be war. Which will it be?”

Clearchus: “Tell the King that we agree.”

Messenger: “What? Which do you choose? Will there be peace or war?”

Clearchus: “Peace if we stay, war if we leave.”

Those Greeks were smart.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Israeli strikes keep killing Gazans: This CCTV footage from central Gaza City shows the Israeli strike that killed Hamas commander, Mohammed Odeh. It shatters the myth of “clean,” surgical strikes, showcasing how many civilians get killed and maimed in the crossfire. Yes, Hamas is a fascist, violent organization responsible for immense suffering and must ultimately be dismantled. But it is reckless and indefensible to escalate operations and seize 70% of Gaza’s territory without giving civilians a real alternative to Hamas’s control. This is why the areas east of the “Yellow Line,” soon to comprise two‑thirds of the Strip under Israeli control, must be rapidly transformed into Hamas‑free zones where civilians can be safely and systematically relocated out of the dense red zone that Hamas still dominates. Without that, what you see in this video will continue: Israeli strikes killing and injuring civilians who could have been spared had they been offered a path out of Hamas’s grip.

The moment demands decisive action. Move Gaza’s civilians across the “Yellow Line” and into the green zone, now, before more innocent lives are lost.

[G-PA @IndianaGPA]

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In Qui Nhon, the helicopters never seemed to stop. One in, one out, blades constantly beating the air. Inside the evacuation hospital, that sound meant one thing-more wounded were coming.
Stretchers hit the floor fast. Some soldiers walked in. Others were carried. Some talked.
Some didn't.
And in the middle of it all was Army nurse
Sarah Constantine.
No pause. No reset. Just one patient after another needing help right then and there.
She moved.
Bandaging wounds. Stopping bleeding.
Holding a hand when that's all she could do.
Speaking calm so someone scared could hear one steady voice through the chaos.
I think about that.
We hear about those who carried rifles—and we should. But I have the utmost respect for combat nurses. They stood in the aftermath and faced it head-on, every single day.

She didn't choose when the helicopters came. Only what she did next.
And she stayed.
When it was over, the noise faded. But the memories didn't.
People talk about surviving war. Sometimes, it means helping someone else survive it tirst.
She never fired a shot.
But she carried more than most ever will. 🙏🇺🇸🙏

Photo courtesy of Vietnam War Veterans

[Xenophon Costeas - Ξενοφών Κωστέας @XCosteas]

@mezadeh @ftrae @javadm20 @fvassallomd @syamkumarmd Echoes the PVAC experience, IIRC.

[Daphne Tolis @daphnetoli]

On May 22, a group of around 30 far-left students stormed a hall at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and disrupted a conference on ancient Greek literature and history. The target was Israeli professor Margalit Finkelberg, who was speaking on “Personal Names in Homer”.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Finnish scientists trucked in real forest dirt and grass and laid it over the gravel at four daycare yards. They let the kids dig around in it for a month. The blood tests came back with changes the researchers hadn’t expected to see so fast or so clear.

The study ran at ten daycares in two Finnish cities with 75 kids aged three to five. Four of the yards got the forest treatment: about a tennis court worth of soil and grass laid over the gravel, plus planters and peat blocks the kids could dig and climb on. Three others stuck with their normal gravel yards. The last three were daycares where the kids were already visiting real forests every day.

After one month, the variety of bacteria living on the kids’ skin shot up, and the kind that helps train the skin’s immune defenses jumped the most. Their gut bacteria started to look like the gut bacteria of the forest-visiting kids. Their blood showed more of the immune cells whose job is to keep the body from freaking out at harmless stuff like pollen and peanuts, and overall inflammation dropped. The kids on the plain gravel yards showed none of this.

Childhood asthma in the US doubled between 1980 and 1995. Food allergies in kids jumped 50 percent between 1997 and 2011, then jumped another 50 percent between 2007 and 2021. And peanut allergies in one-year-olds tripled between 2001 and 2017.

The Finnish researchers think one of the reasons is simple: kids today don’t get dirty enough. 37 percent of American preschoolers now spend an hour or less outside on a normal weekday. Their immune systems are getting trained in environments stripped of the bacteria humans have always lived around.

Aki Sinkkonen, who led the study, put it in plain words: “It would be best if children could play in puddles and everyone could dig organic soil.” The Finnish government is now helping pay for daycares across the country to make the same changes.