Chris Zeheralis

For a minute there, I lost myself

[Christopher Nolan Archives @NolanAnalyst]

Christopher Nolan says The Odyssey is ultimately about the idea that a society can only function through respect for strangers. He believes that, despite 3,000 years passing since Homer, that fundamental truth about human nature hasn’t changed.

[Sam Neill @TwoPaddocks]

When the world seems close to pear shaped,
When leaders fill you with despair
When things look dark and dreary
And love seems far too rare -
CUDDLE A DUCK
[ It works ...]

[John-Barry @JohnBWaldron]

RIP Sam Neill. What a fella and what a quote

#samneill #RIP

[Erling Haaland @Erling]

Well well well 😂

[Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger]

Some still look to us. Let us be worthy of it.

[Joseph 🕊️ @CaudilloXIV]

This beer is dedicated to the brave freedom fighters of Cape Verde

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

League news: The NBA will hold the NBA Cup championship game at Butler's Hinkle Fieldhouse on Dec. 11 next season, sources tell ESPN.

[Jason R. Williams, MD, DABR @jasonwilliamsmd]

23 years old and free of the disease he was born with.

CRISPR switched his own cells back to making the hemoglobin he made as a baby, the kind that does not sickle. No more pain crises. No more transfusions.

As a doctor I stay careful with big words, but moments like this are exactly why I went into medicine.

[Human☮🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸🌊 @4HumanUnity]

🚨🚨🚨A standing ovation for the Washington Post, @wapo . 👏👏👏

You spent a full year investigating whether America's Director of National Intelligence, the woman with access to every classified secret this country has, was being directed by a cult leader who got busted for pyramid schemes in multiple countries.

And you held it until she resigned?

This same cult leader, Chris Butler, has his sect directly tied to QI Group (QNET), a Hong Kong-based company with operations across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

So the real question: Which countries now have access to our national intelligence? Which of our spy names are compromised?

And let's not forget, this is the same Tulsi Gabbard who used her position to do a coordinated hit job on Dr. Fauci, a man who spent his entire life saving Americans.

Imagine if this story dropped while she still had her hands on our nation's secrets.

Our press and mainstream media are failing us at every level.

https://t.co/XHlqQZnSNx

[amir @blumenfeld]

Good! Tanking this year has been shameful.

Franchises should learn how to build a winner like the Spurs and Thunder: By tanking 4-6 years ago!

[Justin Steele @J_Steele21]

Well; this is obviously frustrating on many levels. It’s hard to put into words the emotions and mental state that something like this can leave you in. Nor do I want to really.

I just know I have given 100% and have done everything that’s been asked of me and at the end of the day that’s all I can do. But somethings just can’t be explained. For a lack of a better term; “shit just happens sometimes”

In the same breathe; I also know I am one of the best pitchers on this planet. And I will get back to that and even better. There has never been a backup plan. It’s always been baseball. And it will remain that way.

God hasn’t dealt me anything I can’t handle. God saves his toughest battles for his strongest soldiers. God; and his son Jesus Christ have my back and at the end of the day that’s all I need.

I also want to say thank you to everyone who has shown their concern and has reached out. It really means more than you know. Truly a blessing to have the support.

Miss being with the guys everyday. Miss all of it. And I will get back to it.

- #35

[Big Kahuna @TheMSeries1]

No amount of words can convey how far behind this country will be in every avenue for a number of years because of this administration and everyone associated with them with stuff like this happening.

[Bob Golen @BobGolen]

The speed at which a virus spreads depends on:

1. How dense the population is

2. How dense the population is

[Joe Cunningham @JoeCunninghamSC]

If you’re mad about Virginia, support a national gerrymandering ban.

If you’re not willing to take map-drawing away from politicians in every state, you’re not mad about gerrymandering. You’re mad your side lost this round.

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

George Washington believed that vaccinating his troops against smallpox was the key to winning the Revolutionary War and our independence. A founding father from 250 years ago had a better understanding of science and military readiness than Pete Hegseth.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page.

It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection.

Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do.

Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades.

The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water.

It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left.

The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero.

When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

[Sulman Aziz Mirza, MD? | TheKicksShrink @sulmoney]

Your doctor hates Big Pharma and Big Insurance and Big Hospital more than you do

[Butler Basketball @ButlerMBB]

Ready to write the next chapter 🗣️

[Winnie M Li @winniemli]

18 yrs ago, I was violently assaulted & raped while walking alone. Every year on the anniversary of that day, I go on a solo hike to remind myself that there is still beauty in this world & I can enjoy it. This yr, I pushed myself & did a few days of the Southwest Coast Path…

[MLB Hall of Pretty Good @hallofgoodpod]

Seven seasons of Derrek Lee and Aramis Ramirez on the Cubs together wasn’t enough