Jeanne B. Ackman

Mother 🫂 | Doctor 🩺 | Thoracic Radiologist 🩻 | Athlete 🎾 | Gardener 🌻 🍆 | Nature Lover 🌳

[𝕏 Travels, Hotels and Resorts @em3dia]

If you want to experience the true variety of the US, you need to drive through Arizona, Utah, and Colorado. Mapped out are the perfect 11-stop route that takes you from alien desert slot canyons to soaring alpine mountain peaks:

Stop 1: Page, Arizona; The ultimate desert hub. Home to the swirling sandstone walls of Antelope Canyon and the massive bend of Horseshoe Bend.

Stop 2: Zion National Park, Utah; Hike between towering 2,000-foot red sandstone monoliths and wade through the Virgin River in The Narrows.

Stop 3: Kanarra Falls, Utah; Squeeze through a hidden canyon to climb a rustic wooden ladder right next to a rushing waterfall.

Stop 4: Bryce Canyon, Utah; Stand at the rim to marvel at the world’s largest collection of crimson-colored rock "hoodoos."

Stop 5: Bentonite Hills, Utah; An otherworldly landscape that looks exactly like Mars, featuring rolling hills of technicolor, striped clay.

Stop 6: Canyonlands, Utah; Gaze out over a massive, rugged wilderness of deep canyons carved out by the Colorado River.

Stop 7: Monument Valley, Arizona; The classic heart of the American West, featuring giant, isolated red sandstone buttes towering over the highway.

Stop 8: Durango, Colorado; Cross into the Rockies! Board a historic 1880s coal-fired steam train through the wild Animas River gorge.

Stop 9: Million Dollar Highway, Colorado; One of the most breathtaking, thrilling drives in the world, snaking through sheer, guardrail-free mountain cliffs.

Stop 10: Ouray, Colorado; Nicknamed the "Switzerland of America," this historic mining town is nestled deep inside a jagged alpine bowl.

Stop 11: Breckenridge, Colorado; End your journey in a vibrant, high-altitude mountain village packed with historic charm and endless hiking trails.

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[Only In Boston @OnlyInBOS]

ALERT: A herd of 100 life-size elephants have arrived in Boston overnight.

The stunning sculptures will line Comm Ave Mall as part of a FREE mile-long outdoor art exhibit now through September 13.

🤎

[Swish 🍒 Tennis @Zwxsh]

This edit showing the elegance of the Roger Federer backhand is pure art 🎨

[Tennis TV @TennisTV]

The greatest showman 🎭

We haven't seen this one yet 🤣

@Gael_Monfils #NBO26

[Paroles d'auteurs @Paroles_auteurs]

"À la naissance, on monte dans le train et on rencontre nos parents. Et on croit qu’ils voyageront toujours avec nous.
Pourtant, à une station, nos parents descendront du train, nous laissant seuls continuer le voyage…
Au fur et à mesure que le temps passe, d’autres personnes montent dans le train.
Et elles seront importantes : notre fratrie, nos amis, nos enfants, même l’amour de notre vie.
Beaucoup démissionneront (même éventuellement l’amour de notre vie), et laisseront un vide plus ou moins grand.
D’autres seront si discrets qu’on ne réalisera pas qu’ils ont quitté leurs sièges.
Ce voyage en train sera plein de joies, de peines, d’attentes, de bonjours, d’aurevoirs et d’adieux.
Le succès est d’avoir de bonnes relations avec tous les passagers pourvu qu’on donne le meilleur de nous-mêmes.
On ne sait pas à quelle station nous descendrons, donc vivons heureux, aimons et pardonnons.
Il est important de le faire car lorsque nous descendrons du train, nous ne devrons laisser que de beaux souvenirs à ceux qui continueront leur voyage.
Soyons heureux avec ce que nous avons et remercions le ciel de ce voyage fantastique. Aussi, merci d’être un des passagers de mon train.
Et si je dois descendre à la prochaine station, je suis content d’avoir fait un bout de chemin avec vous."
Jean d'Ormesson, L'enfant qui attendait un train

[The Associated Press @AP]

Bob Walls, a 103-year-old man from Omaha, discovered a passion for golf late in life and still chases birdies and beats pals.

#Golf #BobWalls

[The Best @TheBestqueenx]

A father said to his son:

“You graduated with honors. Here’s a Volkswagen Beetle I bought many years ago… It’s over 50 years old, but before I give it to you, take it to a downtown dealership and ask them how much they’ll offer you.
”The son went to the dealership, came back and said:
“They offered me $10,000 because it looks very worn out.”

The father replied:
“Now take it to a pawn shop.”
The son went to the pawn shop, returned and said:
“They only offered me $1,000 because they said it’s too old.”

Finally, the father told him to take the car to a classic car club.
The son did so, came back and said:
“People at the club offered me $100,000! They said it’s a very rare and highly sought-after car among the members.”

The father then said to his son:
“I wanted you to understand that the right place will value you the right way.
If they don’t appreciate you, don’t get angry... it simply means you’re not in the right place. Those who truly know your worth are the ones who truly value you.
Never stay somewhere that doesn’t recognize your value!”

[NBA @NBA]

These handles at his age are not normal 🤯

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[The Curious Tales @thecurioustales]

There's an entire criminal industry built around removing pollen from honey.

Why?

Because honey is one of the few foods on Earth that never spoils.

Archaeologists have opened sealed jars in Egyptian tombs after more than 3,000 years and found the honey inside still edible. No refrigeration. No preservatives. No packaging technology. Just a substance so hostile to decay that time itself can't break it down.

The reason connects directly to what's happening in that jar when the bubbles and pollen drift upward.

Honey is a supersaturated sugar solution holding only around 17 to 18 percent water. That tiny water content is the whole story. Bacteria and microbes need available water to survive, and honey is so dense with sugar that it physically pulls moisture out of any cell that touches it through osmosis. A bacterium landing in honey doesn't get infected by it. It gets dehydrated to death. On top of that, bees add an enzyme called glucose oxidase that slowly releases tiny amounts of hydrogen peroxide, and the whole substance sits at an acidic pH around 3.9. It's a chemical fortress disguised as breakfast.

Now look at what that density does to the clarification itself.

Honey is roughly 1.4 times heavier than water and absurdly viscous. When wax flecks, air bubbles, and pollen grains rise to the surface, that's not a small thing happening in a thin liquid. Those particles are clawing their way up through a medium so thick it barely flows. They rise because they're lighter than the honey around them, and the honey is so resistant to mixing that once they reach the top, they stay there in a clean layer the beekeeper can simply skim. The same property that makes honey immortal is the property that lets it filter itself. Density does the work that machinery would otherwise have to do.

This is why traditional beekeepers prize settling over forced filtration, and the distinction matters more than most people realize.

When honey clarifies naturally by rising and settling, the pollen comes up gently and can be skimmed without destroying the rest of what's in there. The honey keeps its enzymes, its aromatic compounds, its trace minerals, the living fingerprint of the flowers the bees actually visited. Heat it and force it through industrial micro-filters and you strip all of that out to make it look glassy and uniform on a supermarket shelf.

That stripping has a darker consequence almost nobody talks about.

Pollen is the only way to identify where honey actually came from. Every region's flowers leave a distinct pollen signature, and a trained melissopalynologist can look at the pollen in a jar and tell you the country, sometimes the very valley, it was harvested in. When commercial processors ultra-filter honey to remove every trace of pollen, they're not just changing the texture. They're erasing the honey's birth certificate.

This created an entire shadow industry called honey laundering. Cheap, often adulterated honey from countries facing import tariffs gets ultra-filtered until it's untraceable, then re-labeled as originating somewhere else entirely and sold at a premium. The pollen removal isn't a quality decision. It's an evidence-destroying one. Investigations have found that a startling share of honey on grocery shelves has had its pollen completely removed, which means there is no way to verify it's honey at all, or where it came from.

So the humble act of letting a jar sit while the bubbles rise is quietly the most honest thing that can happen to honey. The slow upward drift of pollen is the honey telling the truth about itself. Filtration, done violently, is how that truth gets deleted.

There's one more layer that makes this almost poetic.

Every gram of that honey represents bees visiting somewhere around 1,500 flowers, and a single worker bee will produce about one twelfth of a teaspoon in her entire lifetime. The pollen rising to the surface is the physical residue of millions of those flower visits. When you skim it gently and keep the honey whole, you're preserving a record of an ecosystem. When you blast it through a filter to make it pretty, you throw that record away.

A spoonful of raw honey isn't just sugar.

It's a sealed, self-preserving, self-clarifying archive of a landscape, written in pollen, built by insects, and capable of outlasting empires.

[Jeanne B. Ackman @jeanne_ackman]

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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Wow

[Jack Conklin @UpstateChaser]

Flying into Boston, MA was absolutely otherworldly. Incredibly thick, dense wildfire smoke created views that looked like Mars! #mawx @NWSBoston

[Weather Monitor @WeatherMonitors]

An apocalyptic scene unfolded on Highway 11 in Northwestern Ontario, Canada, this evening as the sky turned deep red and nearly black.

[NBC10 Boston @NBC10Boston]

The tall ships brought out huge crowds in Boston on Saturday, and people young and old told us that the fun of Sail Boston wasn't just seeing the majestic vessels, it was also experiencing cultures come together.

[Patricia Cornwell @1pcornwell]

Old Glory going by in the Boston Harbor 🇺🇸

[NBC10 Boston @NBC10Boston]

A Sail Boston sunrise. Tall ships participating in today’s Sail Boston extravaganza are seen with various stages of this mornings sunrise, starting with a Massachusetts state police helicopter doing a quick scan of the area and then lots of colors. 📸@pictureboston

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

Nature at its most awesome.

The glass frog is no bigger than a thumbnail, and it’s the make that sits and guards the eggs. It’s so small that it’s prey for just about anything.

When the wasp comes to hunt for frog eggs, this tiny father does some pretty cool things to protect them. And the little hatchlings have their own defenses too.

A really interesting and colorful piece of footage about one of the smaller creatures on our planet.

Narrated by Sir David Attenborough only adds to the story of this tiny frog.

[まだ面白い @madaomoshiroi]

周波数432Hzの鳴き声を持つ小鳥
この音はセロトニンなどの幸せホルモンの放出を助け、血圧や心拍数を自然に整えてくれる効果があるらしい...

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Jensen Huang just made the case that the smartest person in the room is now the most replaceable person on earth.

Huang: “The definition of smart is somebody who’s intelligent, solve problems, technical. But I find that that’s a commodity. And we’re about to prove that artificial intelligence is able to handle that part easiest.”

The skill you built your entire identity around was the first thing the machine replicated.

Not the hardest part. The easiest.

Huang: “People who are able to see around corners are truly, truly smart. And their value is incredible. To be able to preempt problems before they show up, just because you feel the vibe.”

Huang: “That vibe came from a combination of data, analysis, first principle, life experience, wisdom, sensing other people.”

The vibe is not intuition. It is decades of failed bets, human friction, and first-principles thinking compressed into a single read no model can replicate.

You cannot prompt your way to it. You earn it by surviving things that had no instructions.

Huang: “I think long term the definition of smart is someone who sits at that intersection of being technically astute, but human empathy and having the ability to infer the unspoken, around the corners, the unknowables.”

Every institution you ever passed through graded you on the one thing the machine now does for free.

The thing they never tested you on is the only thing that still matters.

Huang: “And that person might actually score horribly on the SAT.”

The SAT did not measure intelligence. It measured obedience to structure.

The future does not reward what you can solve inside a framework someone handed you. It rewards what you can see when no framework exists.

The machine did not replace human intelligence.

It revealed that what we spent a century calling intelligence was never intelligence at all.

The people who memorized the answers are about to work for the people who sensed the questions before anyone thought to ask.