🆔 Richard Nathan || Vaccinated 💉 🦠🐶🐕☕⚾😷🐾

Infectious Diseases Specialist, FIDSA, FACP
#ClinicalResearchPI #COVID19 #ClostridioidesDifficile #Vaccines #IDTwitter

[Misha Turtle Island, CTO 🐢 @MishaTurtleX]

@elmo you picked the wrong side

[Let’s Talk Knicks (LTK) @LetsTalkKnicks_]

“It’s the biggest thing in the world… so get on board or get lost!”

FACTS THE KNICKS ARE CHAMPS LETS KEEP TALKING ABOUT IT 😂😂😂

(via @peachfuzzpapi on IG)

[DS | Wild Bloom 🌿 @DSWildBloom86]

This is the funniest thing you’ll see today. Watch this possum see his image in the mirror and see what happens.

[Gitmo (Health is a Wealth) 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Gitmo99]

Mary Tyler Moore is telling a funny joke about her old Hollywood partner and thinks it's the funniest joke in the world.

[Robert A. George @RobGeorge]

Excellent breakdown of Brunson scoring spree in Game 5 — especially his move on Wembanyama. It’s quite clear that Brunson got whole team involved to isolate and embarrass Wemby on this play. Brilliant! #knicks

[Rafael Sirera @ProfSirera]

Today we are going to solve one of the great mysteries of modern medicine.

Why is the operating theatre green?
And why, in some hospitals, is green now being replaced by blue?

The colour of the operating theatre is a beautiful example of how physiology, perception and clinical practice meet.

The key problem is blood.

Surgery exposes the visual system to intense, repetitive red. Red blood, red tissues, red vessels, red-stained gauze. After staring at red for a long time, the cone cells in the retina that detect red become partially fatigued. The brain then begins to compensate.

And here comes the fascinating part.

Green sits opposite red in the opponent-colour system of human vision. When the eye is overstimulated by red, looking at a green surface helps rebalance visual perception. It reduces red after-images and improves contrast discrimination. In practical terms, it helps surgeons see tissue planes, bleeding points and subtle anatomical details more clearly.

So no, green is not used because it is “more sterile”. Sterility has nothing to do with colour. A green theatre can be contaminated, and a white one can be perfectly sterile. Nor is green used because it “kills bacteria” or because it has some intrinsic antiseptic property. That is a myth.

Historically, operating rooms were often white, because white symbolised cleanliness. But under powerful surgical lights, white became visually exhausting. It reflected glare, intensified visual fatigue and made red after-images more disturbing. Green solved that problem.

And what about blue?

Blue works through a similar logic. It is also visually calming, reduces glare and contrasts well with blood and tissue. In many modern surgical environments, blue is preferred because it performs well under LED illumination, video-assisted surgery and digital imaging systems. It also provides a clean visual field for monitors, cameras and minimally invasive procedures.

Blue also makes yellowish structures — fat, bile-stained fluid or some tissue planes — visually conspicuous, but that is not the origin of the colour code.

The green or blue operating theatre is not about aesthetics.
It is about protecting the surgeon’s visual system from the biology of blood.

[Daniel Wortel-London @dlondonwortel]

Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will

[Knicks Memes @KnicksMemes]

The final 3:30 of the Knicks' miracle win

Uncut

Shoutout to the NBA for posting this. This is awesome.

[KnicksMuse @KnicksMuse]

This is the clip.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Never mentioned his name but we all know who he is talking about.

[New York Basketball @NBA_NewYork]

"Wemby's international…they play dirty overseas…If I watch film & see Wemby throw somebody on my team, next game I'm gonna pop him so hard…After y'all watch film what he did to Jalen Brunson…you better make sure you put that knife in his neck…next game"

– Stephon Marbury

[SNY Knicks @sny_knicks]

Mike Brown is not happy with the officiating after Game 3:

"I never thought I'd be in the NBA Finals and see a team get 24 free throw attempts in the second half to another team's eight."

[justin serb-ert 🇷🇸🍉 @markocantdunk]

Just finished reading Hemingway’s FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS and I had to stop and take a picture when I got to the famous line about the United States:

[Optimistic Lizard 🌊proud to be a LIBERAL @rex197878]

New Yorkers outside trump tower

"NEW YORK HATES YOU"

[Dame Sickof-BloodyLies 🌻🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺🤬GOP @MumOf2RatBags]

@rex197878 Could I put a request in for the crowd to do this one from Brighton UK in 2017. By the way…I ❤️NY

[Skip Sayless 🇹🇹🇭🇹♒️🗽 @travbryanmusic]

My God. This is a hell of an answer 🔥

[Boston Smalls @smalls2672]

Screwworm is to cattle what maga is to america.

Parasites.

[Slightly Rational Knicks Fan @RationalKnickFn]

Orange and Blue from the skies #NewYorkKnicks