Been at ESPN a long time - this one was an all timer. Before social media, it was as viral as a story can be. I watched it on a tape in the news room. I couldn’t stop watching his teammates.
On Valentine’s Day 36 years ago, Carl Sagan requested NASA to turn Voyager 1's camera back toward home for one last look.
From 3.7 billion miles away, Voyager captured this image.
Here is how Carl Sagan described it:
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
Prayers up for the family and loved ones of James Van Der Beek who passed away at 48 after a battle with stage 3 colorectal cancer.
He was more than Dawson’s Creek or Varsity Blues.
He was a father to 6 kids, husband, son and Man of God.
His message is worth 3 min of your time
Deep in ancient Mesopotamia, Babylonian scholars were doing geometry with a level of precision that still feels startling today. Around 1770 BCE, they inscribed a tablet known as IM 67118 with a geometric challenge: find the side lengths of a rectangle when you already know its area and its diagonal. Their method directly uses the relationship we write as a² + b² = c², solved with confidence and clarity using their powerful base‑60 (sexagesimal) number system.
That number system is not some forgotten curiosity, either. It is still embedded in modern life every time you read a clock or measure an angle. Our 60‑minute hours, 60‑second minutes, and 360‑degree circles echo the Babylonian way of thinking, showing how ancient calculation quietly shaped the daily architecture of time and space.
Even older is the famous Plimpton 322 tablet (around 1800 BCE), which lists multiple Pythagorean triples like 3‑4‑5. What makes it extraordinary is that these triples do not seem random. They appear systematically generated, suggesting the Babylonians weren’t just stumbling onto special cases, they were building a repeatable framework for producing them, possibly for training scribes or supporting practical work.
And that practicality mattered. This wasn’t abstract philosophy scribbled for fun. These techniques could be used for surveying land, constructing buildings, and tracking the sky with reliable geometry. The tablets reveal a tradition where mathematics was a working tool, essential for administration, engineering, and astronomy in the earliest urban civilizations.
The deeper message is humbling: the story of math doesn’t begin with a single Greek genius. It stretches back through civilizations that measured, solved, and systematized long before later scholars inherited the spotlight. If Babylonians were already using these relationships with such sophistication, what other “modern” ideas might still be waiting in the clay archives, buried under the dust of time?
"I'm just so grateful, it was the best time of my life" 🥹🧤
@FSUSoccer goalkeeper Kate Ockene joined Morning Footy to talk THAT save, winning a National Championship & going viral on social media 🏆
@Brett_McMurphy@on3 Come on Brett, you know this whole committee thing is a sham. They're going to put in whomever they want. Bama had to be in and someone had to be cut.
LIFE UPDATE: Very proud to publicly announce that I’ll be joining Nemours Children’s Hospital (Orlando) as an attending pediatric neurosurgeon!! With a clinical focus of cerebrovascular disease, brain tumors, and spinal dysraphism/fetal surgery! The team at Nemours is truly exceptional and delivers quality medicine so I’m excited about being home in Orlando to take care of patients. And, personally, to help raise my young family too! Can’t wait to start this part of our medical journey. Let’s gooooo!!! @nemours #twopercentway #WellBeyondMedicine #Orlando #Florida #PedsNeurosurgery #KidBrains #KidSpines
When a large employer pays so little that their full time employees qualify for Medicaid , (or any public assistance ) we the taxpayers are effectively subsidizing that big company. That’s wrong