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[Pray The Rosary @PrayTheRosary]

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: A 28-year-old confirms he has spent the last 10 YEARS of his life interviewing World War II combat veterans to keep their stories alive...

...in fact, for the last 10 years, he has interviewed World War 2 veterans EVERY SINGLE DAY

He started as a teenager, ditching school to ride his BIKE to the local retirement home, walking up to the front desk and asking to, "meet some World War II heroes."

His name is Rishi Sharma.

He's crossed all 50 states and half the world.

He's slept in his car and lived on gas-station food to afford it.

He asks these men for hours of their memories, and then he hands the entire recording to their families...

...FOR FREE

So that 200 years from now, a great-great-grandchild will know not just their hero's name, but how he laughed, how he cried, and what he sacrificed.

Rishi has no military family, his parents immigrated here from India.

He does it out of pure gratitude.

In his words:

"My parents were given the opportunity to immigrate and raise a family because of veterans like these. It's a debt of love I'll spend my entire life trying to repay..."

As one 100-year-old Marine who stormed Iwo Jima told him, remembering the flag going up:

"The hair on my arms still stands up when I think about how beautiful it was."

THAT is America.

250 years of ordinary people doing extraordinary things...

God bless our veterans. 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

The big lesson of the last 12 months for me is that some people are irreplaceable. First we lost Charlie and then Scott. No one filled the void because no one else could. Become more like Charlie and Scoot. Every day aspire to live so that your death is felt and also remembered.

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

I'm a cardiologist. If you've ever been told "your calcium score is zero — you're fine," I need you to read this carefully.

A new study just changed how I think about the most popular heart scan in preventive cardiology.

The NATURE-CT study — published in the Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography in 2026 — tracked 205 low-risk, untreated adults with two detailed coronary CT angiograms roughly five years apart. No diabetes. No statins. No prior heart attacks. Average LDL around 112 mg/dL — what most labs still call "normal." Over half had a calcium score of exactly zero at baseline.

What happened over five years with no treatment:

Total plaque volume roughly doubled. From about 30 cubic millimeters to 59.

And here's the finding that should change how every patient and every physician thinks about the calcium score:

Nearly all the growth was non-calcified soft plaque — the lipid-rich, inflamed kind most linked to heart attacks. Soft plaque grew from 27.5 to 53.5 cubic millimeters. Calcified plaque barely moved — from 0.3 to 3.2.

The most dangerous subtype — low-attenuation plaque, the very soft, rupture-prone lesions that cause sudden cardiac events — was present in 9% of patients at baseline. Five years later: 23%. More than doubled.

Even among patients with a true zero calcium score at baseline, non-calcified plaque was often already present and grew substantially. Silently. Without symptoms.

Let me explain why this matters so much — because I've been ordering calcium scores for twenty years and I need you to understand what they can and cannot tell you.

A calcium score measures calcified plaque. Calcium in your arteries is essentially scar tissue — the healed residue of old inflammation. Think of it as a smoke detector that only detects fires that already burned out.

A zero score means: no old scarring detected. It predicts very low short-term event risk — typically a "warranty period" of 5-15 years depending on your other risk factors. That's genuinely reassuring and I still order this test regularly.

But a zero score does NOT mean zero plaque.

It means the scan is blind to the plaque that's most likely to kill you — the soft, active, lipid-rich plaque that's growing right now inside your artery walls. The plaque that ruptures without warning and causes the heart attack nobody saw coming.

This is why I've had patients on my cath lab table who said: "But my calcium score was zero two years ago."

It was zero. And the soft plaque that was already there — invisible to the calcium scan — kept growing until it ruptured.

A coronary CT angiogram with AI-enhanced plaque composition analysis is the difference between seeing old scars and seeing the active fire. It visualizes your arteries in 3D with contrast, quantifies total plaque burden, and — critically — tells me how much is soft and dangerous versus calcified and stable.

The NATURE-CT study used exactly this technology — Cleerly's AI plaque analysis — and it revealed what the calcium score alone would have completely missed: a near-doubling of dangerous plaque in "healthy" people with "normal" cholesterol over just five years.

Here's what this means for you:

If your calcium score is zero — celebrate it. It's genuinely good news. You have time. Use that time wisely.

Do not interpret it as "I'm fine forever." Plaque is building. In most adults over 40, it's already there — just in a form the calcium scan can't see.

Know your ApoB. This counts every atherogenic particle penetrating your artery walls. LDL of 112 — the average in this study — looks "normal" on a standard panel. But those particles were building plaque year after year in every single patient tracked. ApoB tells you the real particle burden. Most people have never had it checked.

Know your Lp(a). Test it once in your lifetime. 1 in 5 Americans are elevated. Completely genetic. Triples risk independently. Diet and exercise cannot lower it.

If you have risk factors — family history, elevated ApoB or Lp(a), metabolic syndrome, autoimmune disease — push for a full coronary CT angiogram with plaque analysis, not just a calcium score. The difference is the difference between seeing the scars and seeing the disease.

If soft plaque is found early, we can stabilize it. Statins don't just lower LDL — they stabilize plaque, making soft lesions harder and less likely to rupture. PCSK9 inhibitors drive LDL even lower. Lifestyle — Mediterranean diet, resistance training, sleep, stress management — reduces the inflammation that makes plaque vulnerable.

The goal of prevention isn't perfection. It's slowing the slope so dramatically that you never have an event. And the NATURE-CT data proves that the slope is steeper than we thought — even in people who look "low-risk" by every standard measure.

I've written on this platform about inflammation as the fire behind heart disease. About AI detecting inflamed arteries years before symptoms. About advanced lipid testing that catches what standard panels miss. This study ties all of it together into one devastating conclusion:

The standard playbook — check calcium score, if zero you're fine, see you in five years — is not enough.

It was never enough.

We were looking for old fires and missing the ones still burning.

Zero calcium buys you time. It buys you peace of mind. But what you do with that time — the ApoB you check, the lifestyle you build, the advanced imaging you pursue when risk factors warrant it — is what determines whether you stay healthy or become one of the patients on my table who says "but my score was zero."

Prevention works best before the calcium rises. Before the symptoms appear. Before the event that didn't have to happen.

Measure what matters. Act early. Stay ahead.

Your arteries will thank you for decades.

[𝖬𝖺𝗍𝗍 𝖲𝗍𝖺𝗆𝗉𝖾𝗋 🐍 @Sneketoshi]

I want to introduce you to Steve. He’s 83. His wife died a few months ago and he comes to this lodge in Spring Mill, Indiana and draws. He taught art in Terre Haute, IN his whole life. He also did courtroom sketches in court cases. In the comments I’ll share some pics from his sketchbook. He was excited when I said I was going to share his sketches with the world.

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

[Kevin W. @Brink_Thinker]

The Doctor saved his life from cancer… and showed up to celebrate his high school graduation 🥹

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

40 years of age is midlife in absolute terms based on actuarial tables.

Because of how we experience time, it’s more like 60-70% of life is gone.

Each year moves faster.

That’s why I keep reminding people. You’re not young. You don’t have time. Gotta getting moving.

[Augustus @AugustusDelano]

Underrated life hacks:
- pray first thing every morning, last thing every night
- always keep an open notebook and pen within sight
- halve the amount time you allot yourself to read books & do your work
- extend your vision out by 5-10 years, then reverse engineer to present
- every time you catch yourself worrying, immediately surrender it to God
- never stop learning, ever, no matter what
- recognize no one is stopping you more than yourself

[HustleBitch @HustleBitch_]

🚨 A MAN SPENT 6 YEARS WATCHING 2,000 EPISODES OF WHEEL OF FORTUNE TO TRACK WHICH HUSBANDS GOT DIVORCED — AND THE RESULTS ARE BREAKING PEOPLE’S BRAINS

A man is going viral after revealing he spent SIX YEARS building what may be one of the most unhinged relationship studies the internet has ever seen.

His mission?

Figure out whether husbands who publicly praise their wives stay married longer.

So he:
• watched nearly 2,000 episodes of Wheel of Fortune
• logged how male contestants introduced their wives
• separated “my beautiful wife” guys from the men who just said “my wife”
• then spent years tracking divorce records afterward

And according to his findings:

• husbands using complimentary adjectives had dramatically LOWER divorce rates
• men with nothing nice to say divorced at nearly 3X the rate within five years
• and the “audacious dudes” apparently got “kicked to the curb” at shocking rates

He even broke down:
• big money winners
• long-term marriage outcomes
• contestant demographics
• and “confirmed divorces” after airing dates

The internet is absolutely melting down over:
• the dedication
• the spreadsheet insanity
• and the fact someone sacrificed 6 years of their life to become the world’s leading Wheel of Fortune marriage analyst

Now the comments are exploding:

• “This is what happens when autism gains access to Excel.”
• “Bro created a relationship prediction model from game show footage.”
• “This is either genius or mental illness.”
• “The wife carried the family while he became the Rain Man of Wheel of Fortune.”
• “This man saw a pattern and REFUSED to let it go.”

Does the way someone publicly talks about their partner secretly reveal EVERYTHING about the relationship… or is this the most insane use of free time the internet has ever witnessed?

📹: TikTok/joeytoks

[BowTiedOx | SOF Athlete/Bodybuilder @BowTiedOx]

I found the cure to depression:

Do a bunch of hard work all day, go lift, then sit in the sauna for 30 minutes.

[Sulekha Tripathi @sulekhat95]

A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.

He knows his time is running out.

So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.

He died 5 months later.

This is that lecture.

The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇
Bookmark it for later

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Japanese neuroscientists spent years working out how to put a crying baby to sleep. They wired 21 babies to heart monitors, tested different ways of being held, and landed on a 13-minute routine. The grandma in this video has been doing it for three generations.

Three labs working independently arrived at the same answer from different angles. The first piece came from a pediatrician named Harvey Karp who published it in 2002 after years of studying how parents around the world calm their babies. Babies are born with a built-in calming switch in their brain. The switch flips on whenever something mimics the womb: warmth, snug pressure, gentle movement, a steady whooshing sound. Once it flips, fussing stops and sleep takes over. Karp called it the calming reflex. Every parent has set it off dozens of times without knowing it has a name.

The second piece comes from a sleep lab in Geneva. In 2019, researchers there put adults on a bed that rocked gently, about one sway every four seconds, and watched their brains all night. People fell asleep faster. They also dropped into deeper sleep, the kind where the brain locks in memories from the day. The part of your inner ear that senses motion is wired directly into the parts of your brain that handle sleep. Rocking syncs your brain waves.

The third piece is the most direct. A 2022 study put tiny heart monitors on 28 babies at home and watched how their bodies reacted to different kinds of touch. Only four kinds of touch worked: rocking, patting, bouncing, and stroking. Each one triggered the calming response within seconds. Heart rate dropped. The body shifted into rest mode.

The 13 minutes came from a team at RIKEN, one of Japan's biggest research institutes. They tracked how different ways of holding babies affected their heart rates and figured out the exact recipe. Walk around with the baby in your arms for five minutes. Then sit, still holding them, for another five to eight minutes. Only then put them down. The wait was the surprise finding. Put the baby down too early and they wake up. Give them eight full minutes of held sleep first, and they stay asleep.

All of this lived inside grandmothers' arms for thousands of years before anyone hooked a baby up to a sensor. Passed quietly from mother to daughter to granddaughter. The neuroscience just caught up.

What you're watching is roughly the same protocol a Japanese lab might publish in 2026. Grandma already knew. The citations are optional.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

10-year-old Victory Blinker who set the Guinness World Record for the youngest opera singer in the world, sings Mozart’s 'Der Holle Rache,’ considered one of the most difficult arias to sing.

[David Sun @arcticinstincts]

POV: It is 2026 in USA. You are a couple who both carry the recessive DINK gene mutation for preferring traveling over having kids. You have 100 GBs of selfies in mid tourist destinations but 0 children. You are about to experience natural selection.

[Matthew LaBosco @matthew_labosco]

Robert Sapolsky is a Stanford neuroscientist who proved chronic stress is the silent killer doctors ignore.

On Chris Williamson's podcast, he revealed 10 "normal" habits you do every day that wreck your sleep, mood, and nervous system:

1) Replay conversations in your head

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A kid drew himself sleeping in bed between mom and dad and labeled it 'safe.'

In Japan, this exact sleeping arrangement has a name. They call it 'the river.' Mother is one bank. Father is the other. The child between them is the water. Roughly 70% of Japanese mothers sleep this way with their kids, sometimes through the teenage years. The Western model of putting a kid alone in their own bedroom is barely 200 years old. For most of human history, in most cultures still alive today, kids slept beside their parents.

James McKenna runs the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab at Notre Dame. He spent decades watching what happens when parents and kids share a bed. The bodies sync up. Heart rates align with the parent's, breathing falls into the same rhythm, and by morning even sleep stages have started matching. The parent's body, in McKenna's words, acts as a kind of biological jumper cable for the child's.

In 2013, researchers in the Netherlands tracked 193 babies through the first year of life. They measured cortisol, the brain's main stress hormone. Babies who had spent more weeks co-sleeping in the first six months produced less cortisol under stress at 12 months. Sleeping near a parent had rewired the kid's stress system to be calmer under pressure.

Inside the kid's brain at night, the amygdala, the fear alarm, gets more sensitive as the body gets tired. Darkness makes it worse. A 2021 paper in PLoS One from Australian researchers showed that light directly suppresses amygdala activity. Lights off, alarm louder. The whole brain is wired to read 'alone in a dark room' as a threat.

Now add a parent's body to that bed. The kid's nervous system reads warm body, breathing nearby, familiar smell. The threat alarm dials down. Two parents on either side dial it down twice. The drawing is the kid's brain calculating maximum safety: I am surrounded by the people who keep me alive, and nothing can reach me without going through them first.

The arrangement in this drawing is what most of human history called 'sleeping.' Sleeping the kid alone in another room is a 200-year-old Western invention that we forgot was an invention. Every kid who has ever padded into your room at 3am and crawled into the middle of the bed is just trying to redraw the picture.

[AlphaFox @alphafox]

Man perfectly explains the reason for the worlds declining birth rate: 💯

[Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate]

Along these lines this CS Lewis quote is great.

[Jack @jackunheard]

A dad breaks down in tears as he watched his son pitch in his first MLB game, and throw his first career strikeout.

His son’s childhood dream coming true right in front of him.

Incredible.

This is what every father lives for, seeing his children succeed.

Powerful moment.

Video: ESPN