Final image on my show tonight—this drone footage over the Indian Ocean of a grieving mother bottlenose dolphin refusing to let go of the dead body her newborn calf. Sorrow & yearning are not unique to humans.
Rest well, baby 🐬💔
Hello @Faheem_uh, thank you for sharing this. My PhD defence is just a couple of weeks away, so this couldn’t have come at a better time. It’s a thoughtful reminder that defending a thesis isn’t just about knowing your research, but also about communicating it with clarity, confidence and preparing to answer these important questions you’ve shared. I genuinely found this very helpful.
Her name is Subhasini Mistry.
She was married at the age of twelve. By the time she was around twenty-three, her husband Sadhan Chandra, a vegetable vendor near Kolkata, had died from a treatable illness.
The family could not afford medical care.
She was left with four children, no formal education and almost no money.
In the months that followed, the family slipped into extreme poverty. At one point, she had to place her eldest son in an orphanage because she could not feed him.
After her husband’s death, she made a promise to herself.
No one else in her village would die because they were too poor to afford treatment.
For a woman who could not read or write, it seemed impossible.
But she started anyway.
She worked as a domestic servant. She worked as a farm labourer. She sold vegetables on the roadside, the same work her husband had done.
For nearly twenty years, she saved whatever she could.
Part of that money went toward educating her son Ajoy. He eventually became a doctor.
With her savings, she bought a small plot of land in Hanspukur.
In the 1990s, with her son treating patients and villagers contributing whatever they could, she opened a small medical centre there.
They called it Humanity Hospital.
It began in a single room.
Today, it has dozens of beds and treats hundreds of patients every week, many of them free of charge.
In 2018, the woman who had never received a formal education was awarded the Padma Shri by the President of India.
She could not save her husband.
So she spent the next four decades helping thousands of other families save theirs.
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This is probably a long shot, but if anybody happens to be in DC this weekend and plans on visiting Arlington, I would love to see a fresh photo of my husband’s grave in Section 60.
SSG Alan W. Shaw
Section 60, Grave 8451
B Co 1/12 Cav, 1st Cavalry Division
November 10, 1975 - February 9, 2007
There’s just something about knowing people still stop by, still say his name, still remember. 🇺🇸⭐🇺🇸
A pregnant, homeless woman approached a police officer and said: "I'm pregnant. I'm homeless, I'm a drug addict, and I'm done." She wanted help getting to a treatment centre on Gizen High Street but had no way to get there.
The officer immediately let her sit in his patrol car, followed procedure by checking her pockets, and asked if she was hungry. She was. On the way, they stopped for food—he bought her cheeseburgers and made it a full meal. He offered her the choice to eat outside with him or in the car, treating her with respect and dignity.
After the meal, he drove her straight to the treatment facility and handed her off safely. She thanked him warmly.
Type 2 diabetes does not always progress inevitably.
31 March 2026: HbA1c — 9.3%
03 May 2026: HbA1c — 7.3%
If I wanted to keep Type 2 diabetes in remission without medication, these are the 8 things I would focus on every single day:
1) Create sustained fat loss.
संख्या सिद्धांत और विश्लेषण को नई दिशा देने वाले, महान गणितज्ञ श्रीनिवास रामानुजन जी की जयंती पर, उन्हें कोटिशः नमन। उनका जीवन और कार्य आने वाली पीढ़ियों को सदैव प्रेरित करता रहेगा। सभी को राष्ट्रीय गणित दिवस की हार्दिक बधाई।
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Incredible.
A café employs people with Down syndrome to affirm their humanity and break societal stigmas.
An extra chromosome does not determine a person’s worth or humanity.
We need more of this.