@FoxNews Fun fact:
Did you know, Philippe Petit, the Frenchman who successfully walked the tightrope between the World Trade Centers in 1974, did so without breaking a sweat, while everyone watching below lost their minds. This is because what goes up, must calm down.
Or so I was told.
Children from fatherless homes are:
75% of all teenage murderers
71% of high school dropouts
70% of incarcerated youth
60% of convicted rapists
Demographics of fatherless youth:
Black children: 64%
Latino children: 42%
White children: 24%
Asian children: 16%
This is the real crisis, not "white racism"
The Hoover Dam was completed in 1936.
Its concrete is still curing.
Concrete doesn't "dry." It undergoes a chemical reaction called hydration — calcium silicate crystals grow and interlock over decades.
In thin pours, hydration completes in weeks.
In mass concrete — pours measured in thousands of cubic yards — the reaction continues for centuries.
The Hoover Dam contains 3.3 million cubic yards of concrete.
The deepest internal sections have never fully hydrated.
Engineers knew this when they built it.
They designed around it — using cooling pipes, joint systems, and a pour sequence that let each section partially cure before the next was added.
The dam gets marginally stronger every year.
It will reach peak strength sometime around the year 2500.
Something built by humans in 1936 will still be actively becoming what it was designed to be in 2500.
That's what engineering for permanence looks like.
WATCH: “We made an enormous mistake allowing the ed tech industry to come in and give every kid a computer, a tablet, an iPad, a Chromebook… and the results are devastating and we need to stop.” @JonHaidt via @andersoncooper@AC360
I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."