Kevin L. Freeman

Author | Editor | Developer | Craftsman
AI Tutor @SpaceXAI
Views expressed are my own.
The truth shall prevail.

[Kevin L. Freeman @FreemanWriting]

About me:
https://t.co/R2MDWei0Ty

[Kevin L. Freeman @FreemanWriting]

Nicely explained!

[ooaes @21xooaes]

A NASA fellow claims 5 equations explain 99 percent of the physics that actually runs your world. Understand them deeply and you are set for life. His words.

And the way he does it is what makes the video worth it.

He does not teach the five as a list. He tells them as one story, where each equation is born from the one before it. F equals ma leads into gravity. Gravity rhymes with the law of electric charge, the exact same shape. That connects to magnetism. Magnetism folds into the wave. And the wave quietly opens the door to relativity and quantum physics.

By the end, all of physics feels like a single sentence written by one hand, not a pile of formulas you were forced to memorize.

The move that stays with you comes first. He says F equals ma is written the wrong way around, and rewrites it. One tiny flip, and the most famous equation on Earth suddenly means something school never told you.

His point for why this matters now: in the age of AI, the people who understand reality itself stay in demand. Everyone else is just memorizing.

Five equations. One thread. It is in the video.

[The Knowledge Archivist @KnowledgeArchiv]

"Both religion and science require a belief in God. For believers, God is in the beginning, and for physicists He is at the end of all considerations… To the former He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the edifice of every generalized world view."

— Max Planck

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Changing your opinion after learning new information is a mark of true intelligence.

[The Knowledge Archivist @KnowledgeArchiv]

“I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

https://t.co/h8Z1HstwP0

[Kevin L. Freeman @FreemanWriting]

@jordanbpeterson These problems must be acknowledged and addressed as swiftly as possible; the longer they stagnate, the worse the consequences will be, and they have already piled up to an extreme level of severity. How does a society effectively and beneficially correct such a condition?

[The Knowledge Archivist @KnowledgeArchiv]

“There are truths, that are beyond us, transcendent truths, about beauty, truth, honour, etc. There are truths that man knows exist, but they cannot be seen — they are immaterial, but no less real, to us.”

—J.R.R. Tolkien

[De Christian Life @DeChristianLife]

Building your child's confidence

[Kevin L. Freeman @FreemanWriting]

@mk_manifesto Interesting question. Alter ego?

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

One of the most important (and overlooked) scenes in the Odyssey is the encounter with the Lotus-eaters.

After nine days at sea, Odysseus and his men finally reach dry land. They go ashore to collect water, and Odysseus sends three men to go explore.

When his men don't return, Odysseus begins to worry.

The men had met some of the islanders (the Lotus-eaters), "who did them no hurt, but gave them to eat of the lotus, which was so delicious that those who ate of it left off caring about home, and did not even want to go back".

Odysseus ends up having to drag his men back to the ships and quickly sail away.

One must understand the symbolic power of the lotus. Its danger is not in any physical threat. The lotus is so deadly because it overloads you with pleasure, taking away all sense of urgency.

In this state of pleasure and relaxation, you forget your mission and your purpose. The men who ate the lotus flowers completely forgot about everything of value in their lives: their homes, their families, etc.

It's easy to think the monsters and beasts are the most terrifying threats you face. But because they're so obviously dangerous and remind you that death is a real possibility, they alert you to the value of life, and remind you of why you're fighting. But the real danger is a life so comfortable that you forget what you were trying to do in the first place.

Statistically speaking, it's unlikely you'll ever go to war or die of famine. But it is certainly possible that an addiction to your phone will derail you from your mission. Abundance of food and entertainment is far more likely to destroy you than most physical threats.

Yes, you will encounter plenty of Sirens and Cyclopes in life. But the real threat, which you must fend off every single day, is that of the lotus flower: a delicious indulgence that brings you immediate satisfaction, and makes you forget what you were fighting for.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Harvard professor Arthur C. Brooks laid out the four daily habits of the happiest people:

1. Faith or philosophical life (transcending yourself)

2. Serious family commitment

3. Real friendships (not just deal friends)

4. Work that earns success while serving others

These are your “happiness pension plan” deposits.

Simple, but they add up.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Before this year ends, Grok Imagine will make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer

[Kevin L. Freeman @FreemanWriting]

We need more news like this

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: A 14-year-old boy is being praised as a HERO after he used his LASSO to SAVE A DROWNING MAN AND DRAG HIM TO SHORE...

...ON HIS FIRST THROW!!!

His name is Jory Thomas, he's a 14-year-old from Montana.

On July 5, he was camping with his family near Greycliff when a raft and paddleboard slammed into a bridge pillar and threw four people into the river.

Three made it out... but one man did not.

He kept drifting downstream, clinging to a cooler, the current pulling him away fast.

"We all heard, 'Help, help'… and he wasn't saying anything."

Jory didn't wait. He emptied his pockets, ran through a waist-deep channel, and sprinted down the riverbank to catch up to him.

And this year, for the very first time, he'd brought his lariat.

His grandmother Sandy said they've camped at that spot for years and he had NEVER, EVER brought his rope before.

"And that day he did."

Jory took his 12-foot lariat, aimed at a drowning stranger, and threw.

"Luckily, I caught him first try."

FIRST throw!!!

He roped him and hen he pulled that man through chest-deep water all the way to shore and held on until first responders arrived.

His dad and his brothers are on the local fire department. Jory knew waiting wasn't an option.

"God was basically putting me in the place of all this."

His grandma wasn't even surprised.

"His first instinct always is to help other people. He's always been that way."

A 14-year-old spent all year roping a practice dummy in his backyard because he loved it…

…and it made him the reason a man is alive today.

GOD BLESS Jory Thomas and GOD BLESS the family raising a boy like this.

THIS IS THE AMERICA I KNOW!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Cleo Abram @cleoabram]

There’s a new way to see inside your body that could replace MRIs, and it only uses water and sound.

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

Every Sunday I read Seneca...

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

I have been to Mission Hospital in Orange County, California and observed the groundbreaking Histotripsy procedure. It uses focused ultrasound waves to create tiny cavitation bubbles that mechanically liquefy and destroy targeted tumors. Royal Raymond Rife observed this in 1930.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I'm in love with this sentence:

“Forgive yourself for not knowing earlier what only time could teach.”

[Psyche Wizard @PsycheWizard]

Epictetus was right when he said:

[Kevin L. Freeman @FreemanWriting]

True

[Eva Vlaardingerbroek @EvaVlaar]

Not only has @elonmusk saved X, but he has also saved freedom of speech in Europe.

We are lucky to have a giant like him on our side. No ifs, no buts.

He could be doing a LOT of other things with his time, energy and money.

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