Margaret radz

I’m just here for the comments

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

The rescue doggie Tsunami has officially found more than 350 people in Venezuela. He’s whipped. The exhaustion and
Tsunami’s effort are visible in his eyes. ❤️🇻🇪

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Coincidence? I don't think so.

For nearly 500 years, hundreds of millions of people looked at the most famous painting of God ever made, and none of them noticed what was hiding in plain sight.

Then, in 1990, a doctor looked up at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and realized that God is wrapped inside a human brain...

The painting is Michelangelo's Creation of Adam, finished around 1512. You know the image even if you don't know its name: God reaching out from the heavens, His finger almost touching Adam's, the spark of life about to leap across the gap.

But look at the shape around God, the swirling red cloak that holds Him and the angels aloft. For five centuries it was seen as just a billowing robe... but in 1990, a physician named Frank Lynn Meshberger published a paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association arguing that the red shroud is something else entirely: an anatomically precise cross-section of the human brain.

Once you see it, you cannot unsee it.

The outline of the cloak traces the outer curve of the brain. A fold in the fabric forms the Sylvian fissure, the deep groove that separates the brain's major lobes. The angel curled beneath God is positioned exactly where the brainstem would be, and the green scarf trailing down becomes the vertebral artery. Even the pituitary gland and the optic chiasm, where the nerves from the eyes cross, fall precisely into place.

This was not a man likely to invent such a thing by accident. Michelangelo had spent his youth secretly dissecting human corpses in a monastery in Florence, studying the body from the inside with an obsessiveness that, by one early account, exceeded that of professional anatomists...

So what did he mean by it?

Meshberger argued that the painting has been misnamed. He suggested it should be called not the Creation of Adam, but the Endowment of Adam. In the Bible, God gives Adam life. But in Michelangelo's fresco, Adam is already alive, his eyes open, his body lifted. What God is reaching across that famous gap to give him is not life. It is intellect. The divine spark of human thought itself, delivered, fittingly, from inside the very organ that produces it.

One of the most looked-at images in the history of the world may contain a message that took half a millennium to be read, hidden by a man who understood both the human body and the human soul better than almost anyone who has ever lived, and who seems to have decided to bury his deepest idea about us where only the most careful eye would ever find it...

[Reasonable Jay @JMMc42188272]

@NotHoodlum

[Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho]

She almost triggered BLM 2.0 just with her Index Finger

[🅶🅾🆁🅺 @Raclure03]

Ne jamais, jamais lâcher le zhumain ! !

[Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho]

🇪🇺 Meanwhile daily all across Europe

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[TaraBull @TaraBull]

Incredible video shows a miraculous rescue of a small child pulled alive from the rubble after the devastating earthquakes in Venezuela

[Anna 🇺🇸 @realAnn_29]

Two steps from the door... but he chose the deluxe bush package!! Lad’s sleeping in the greenery tonight! 🌿😂

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

During a FIFA World Cup match, a simple QR code transformed the entire stadium.

Fans scanned it, and within seconds, thousands of smartphone flashlights synchronized into one breathtaking light show across the stands.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

From a distance, this figure seems to be wearing a robe draped over his shoulders. Step closer, and you realize it is not a robe. It's his own skin...

This is the statue of Saint Bartholomew, carved in 1562 by the Lombard sculptor Marco d'Agrate, and it stands inside the Duomo of Milan.

Bartholomew was one of the twelve apostles of Christ, and according to tradition he was martyred in the cruelest way imaginable: he was flayed alive, his skin stripped from his body, and then beheaded.

D'Agrate chose to show him not in the moment of agony, but afterward, standing upright in defiance, his own flayed skin wrapped around him like a garment.

What makes the sculpture extraordinary is the precision beneath that skin: every muscle, every tendon, every vein and cord of the human body is exposed and rendered with such accuracy that anatomists have studied it.

This was the Renaissance at its most fearless, when the same curiosity that drove artists to dissect the human body in secret produced an image of a man turned inside out, his suffering transformed into a study of how a human being is actually made.

And the sculptor knew exactly how remarkable his achievement was. At the base of the statue he carved a line in Latin that has outlived him by nearly five centuries:

Non me Praxiteles, sed Marcus finxit Agrates.
"I was not made by Praxiteles, but by Marco d'Agrate."

He was comparing himself to the greatest sculptor of ancient Greece, and daring you to disagree...

I started this newsletter because the artists of the past were truly extraordinary, and fewer and fewer people are showing us what they were capable of. Every week I try to. If that is something you would like to be part of, you can join at the link below, and if you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible:

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Thanks for reading.

[Washingtons ghost @washghost1]

I’d like to think they’ll grow up together and be best friends

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

In July 2013, five-year-old Jocelyn Rojas vanished while playing near her home in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, triggering an urgent community search.

Among the volunteers were 15-year-old Temar Boggs and his friend Chris Garcia, who decided they couldn't just stand by.

The two teenagers grabbed their bicycles and joined the effort, riding through nearby streets while keeping an eye out for anything unusual.

Not long into their search, they noticed a young girl matching Jocelyn's description sitting inside a vehicle.

Convinced they had found her, the boys began pursuing the car on their bikes, staying behind it for roughly 15 minutes and refusing to give up despite being vastly outmatched.

Realizing he was being followed, the driver eventually stopped and let the little girl out of the vehicle before fleeing the scene.

Jocelyn was found unharmed and safely reunited with her family.

Police later arrested 73-year-old Troyer Robert Glass in connection with the abduction.

Temar Boggs' determination and quick thinking transformed an ordinary summer afternoon into an extraordinary act of courage, proving that sometimes heroes are simply teenagers who choose to act when others might hesitate.

[Iain Meiklejohn @meiklejohn21]

Home time. The USA have been fantastic hosts! We’ve loved the welcome from every city and state we’ve been in 🇺🇸

If you want to hate the world, watch the news. If you want to love the world, travel it. 🌎❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✈️🇺🇸 #scotland #fifaworldcup

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

This is Ousado, a Jaguar in Brazil who is famous for its unique hunting style of reverse ambushing Caimans from river banks.

That caiman was probably like WTF, did you just come out of the water? That’s MY thing, motherfu**er!

[Margaret radz @margradz]

@Rainmaker1973 Stunning, I could die right there!

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Fireflies lighting up a rural Pennsylvania field at dusk captured by video artist Diana Lehr.

[Margaret radz @margradz]

@Super70sSports I miss product 19

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

This Emmy winning Iowa news anchor quit because he has principles and morals and didn’t want to push the propaganda and lies.He deserves the best therefore I hope his future endeavors are successful.

[Paul Brown 🇬🇧 Browns fan🏈 London News 🎥Vlogger @PaulBrown_UK]

A couple of drinks in Cleveland watching that World Cup ended in chaos …

What a great city, great bar scene, great sunsets and totally underrated as a USA 🇺🇸 city ….

See you all in September

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A billionaire bought a logging company in the Amazon rainforest just to shut it down.

Swedish-British billionaire Johan Eliasch has taken a bold, hands-on approach to fighting climate change, shifting from business leadership to direct environmental action.

In 2005, he acquired a logging company in Brazil, gaining control of approximately 400,000 acres (1,600 km²) of Amazon rainforest, which he immediately dedicated to preservation by halting all logging operations. This decisive move transformed a potential deforestation site into a protected carbon sink, safeguarding biodiversity on a vast scale.

Eliasch's efforts extend far beyond this landmark purchase. He founded the Rainforest Trust, which has helped protect millions of acres worldwide, and co-founded Cool Earth in 2006—a charity that empowers indigenous communities to conserve endangered rainforests.

His influence reaches policy and sports: he advised the UK government on deforestation (authoring the influential Eliasch Review in 2008), and as president of the International Ski Federation (FIS) since 2021, he has driven sustainability initiatives, including committing to the Race to Zero campaign to halve winter sports emissions by 2030.

Eliasch exemplifies a rising movement among ultra-wealthy individuals who deploy private resources for immediate, impactful climate solutions—bypassing conventional channels to deliver tangible protection for the planet's vital ecosystems.