Neil deGrasse Tyson: “There’s an intellectual scientific vacuum that is descending upon the US and that has consequences. If you’re okay with the US losing its scientific leadership, you will get the country you voted for. That country is one where we will no longer innovate. We will be less secure, less healthy, and less wealthy because some community of people who influence what this country is do not see the value of science”
“It’s going to get worse before it gets better.” With wildfires spreading in Europe, environmentalist Bill McKibben warns that “this is the appetizer and we’re headed for… the main course over the next 12 months,” with the approach of El Niño.
.@KaitlanCollins on Trump's verbal attacks:
"It's really not about me, and I don't want it to be about my reaction. ... In those moments it's important to put the reminder back on the work, on the question, and on the non-answers that we get."
Un día como hoy, pero en 2012. Roger Federer 🇨🇭 jugaba su primer partido en los Juegos Olímpicos de Londres. Venció a su rival Alejandro Falla 6-3, 5-7 y 6-3.
Recuerdos Olímpicos🥹
CIA Director John Ratcliffe vowed to step up the agency’s efforts to deploy artificial intelligence and quantum computing, stressing that rapid developments in emerging technologies are changing the nature of geopolitics https://t.co/y57PTtpAPH
"I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do." James A. Baldwin, author
"This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore."
Hannah Arendt, German historian & philosopher 1906-1975
A tennis player walks past the Emmanuel Church of England that erected a sign in its garden reading 'God made Roger Federer', in Wimbledon. 💚💜Sunday, July 1, 2007. The church is located in the Wimbledon village and a 20 minute walk from the All England Lawn Tennis Club.
There has been criticism in the UK of awarding a singles wild card to Serena at #Wimbledon and thus depriving a young player of the opportunity. But any tournament in the world would have made the same choice. It raises the interest in the event, and she has earned it
https://t.co/FHXwgMVFuc
#getty #tennis
Serena Williams steps on court to play her first singles match in 1428 days at Wimbledon.
Almost 4 years have gone by.
But here she stands again.
Undoubtedly one of the greatest athlete of all time… the Queen is back.
Chills. 🥹👑
Jane Fonda pays tribute to her former husband, Ted Turner:
“He swept into my life, a gloriously handsome, deeply romantic, swashbuckling pirate and I’ve never been the same,” Fonda wrote on Instagram. “He needed me. No one had ever let me know they needed me, and this wasn’t your average human being that needed me, this was the creator of CNN, and Turner Classic Movies, who had won the America’s Cup as the world’s greatest sailor. He had a big life, a brilliant mind and a soaring sense of humor."
“He could also take care of me. That was new as well. To be needed and cared for simultaneously is transformative. Ted Turner helped me believe in myself. He gave me confidence. I think I did the same for him, but that’s what women are raised to do. Men like Ted aren’t supposed to express need and vulnerability. That was Ted’s greatest strength, I believe."
https://t.co/gcHcWQabGs
“I see a hollowing out of the Geneva Conventions,” warns @ICRC president Mirjana Spoljaric. “Civilians are systematically reduced to numbers and statistics. We are losing sight of humanity, which has to be put at the center of all of this.
“We cannot accept the levels of destruction. We cannot accept the levels of suffering anymore. The numbers of casualties and displaced people and the rhetoric – the rhetoric around this is most problematic because it lowers the barriers. It lowers the moral frontiers to doing the worst.”
new book from @MattCampbell coming this summer.
the evil Indiana Jones behind the Khmer artifacts that fill the world's museums. i've read it and it kicks ass.
get your pre-orders in, book him on your podcasts, put him in your celebrity book club, etc
It was great talking to Stephen and the inspiring young people we’ve worked with at the @ObamaFoundation on the @ColbertLateShow.
When the Obama Presidential Center opens this June 19, my hope is that this will be a place where people can come together to meet, learn, and work with each other to create change in their communities. Learn more at https://t.co/ahkDMKalIn.