Robert C. Thornett

Educator & Writer

[Robert C. Thornett @robert_thornett]

@SPoratelli @Quillette Well said, thanks for reading 👍

[Quillette @Quillette]

Homer is having a moment. Nolan's Odyssey has taken more than $650m worldwide.

@robert_thornett argues that classical education gives students what the modern world strips away: attention, disciplined argument, and the patience to sit with hard questions. Far from elitist dogma, it is booming among ordinary families and consistently outperforms.

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[Robert C. Thornett @robert_thornett]

"Only people... who can distinguish the work of education or medicine from the institution known as 'school' or 'hospital' are really capable of teaching in a school or healing in a hospital."

Stellar piece in @AcademicRenewal

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[Televisão Argentina @tvargentina_]

A BEIRA DO INFARTO: Pablo Giralt, da Telefe, enlouquecendo narrando o gol da virada da Argentina em cima da Inglaterra!

[Robert C. Thornett @robert_thornett]

Very important 2025 study showing rosemarinic acid seems to break up AGES, advanced glycation end products - one of the primary causes of heart disease and Alzheimer's https://t.co/F3vDNdEevc

[Messi World @M10GOAT]

تعليق المعلق الأرجنتيني بابلو غيرالت على هدف التعادل من الأسطورة ليو ميسي 😍🐐 https://t.co/Wysh7WYYnp

[FOX Sports @FOXSports]

EGYPT STUNS ARGENTINA IN THE 15TH MINUTE 😱

Yasser Ibrahim with a fantastic header for the lead!

[Jota. @jota_snchez]

Una psiquiatra de Stanford avisa: la gente está más deprimida y ansiosa que hace 30 años porque vivimos enganchados al placer fácil.

8 consejos para resetear tu dopamina de forma natural:

1/ No tocar el móvil la primera hora del día.

[海外の万国反応記 @all_nations2]

定期的に見たくなる日本代表vs小学生100人

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

True

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Eureka!! Hope you all are enjoying the World Cup

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[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Jordan Peterson on why writing is the most powerful skill you can learn:

1. writing and thinking are the same thing. there is no difference between them. when you learn to write clearly you are not learning to express thoughts you already have. you are learning to have the thoughts in the first place.

2. universities never tell students why they are writing. the answer they get is you need the grade. the real answer is you need to learn to think. because thinking is what makes you act effectively in the world and win the battles you choose to fight.

3. if you can think, speak, and write you are absolutely dangerous. people give you money. they give you opportunities. you have influence. peterson says nothing can get in your way. that is what you are at university for.

4. the most articulate person in the room always wins the argument. peterson has watched staggeringly successful people his whole life. the common thread: you do not want to argue with them. not because they are aggressive. because their points are organized and yours probably aren't.

5. someone who cannot write has done almost everything wrong before they start. wrong words, wrong sentences, wrong paragraph order, wrong structure, wrong conclusion. peterson says marking a bad essay is agony because the answer to what did i do wrong is essentially everything.

[Robert C. Thornett @robert_thornett]

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[Camus @newstart_2024]

David Sinclair says he’s been reversing plaque in his arteries with nattokinase.

On Peter Diamandis’ podcast, Sinclair shared that he’s been taking it for years and mentioned a Chinese study with 1,086 people that showed up to 95% plaque reduction in one year at sufficient doses (at least 12 fibrinolytic units daily). He also checks his own carotid arteries with ultrasound and says there’s no buildup.

Nattokinase is an enzyme from fermented soybeans that breaks down fibrin. Some human studies show it can help reduce arterial plaque and improve blood flow, but results vary. Larger, high-quality trials are still limited, so it’s considered promising but not definitive.

Cardiovascular disease is still the #1 killer. If there are accessible tools that support artery health beyond statins and lifestyle, it’s worth paying attention.

Have you heard about nattokinase or tried anything similar for heart health?

[Spencer A. Klavan @SpencerKlavan]

As I frequently tell my own students @uaustinorg, the job market is about to be saturated with people like this: people who have been cheated out of their own minds for the stupidest possible reasons. People whose teachers didn’t want to be a burden or a bad guy or worst of all, an elitist, so they just gave up in advance on literature the old fashioned way.

Sure, they made up a cock-and-bull story about how obsolete the classics were, how outmoded the old ways of teaching were, how impractical it was to sit with a pen and paper and run through verb conjugations or just puzzle over words. But the truth is they were scared of being that most valuable of beings, the kindly but stern authority figure. And then when the machines came for the books, they had not a leg to stand on.

The result is that maybe no other skill will be more valuable in years to come, or more rare, than the ability to sit alone in a room and follow a train of thought from beginning to end. All those drills and disciplines they told you were “useless”? Reading, rhetoric, contemplation? Poetry, philosophy, fine art? Turns out they’re the only training that can mold you into the scarcest resource on earth, which is a functional adult human being.

And to beat it all, that’s now just about the one kind of training that can make you proof against the disruptions of the AI economy. Forget who said it but it’s true: “learn to code” was crap advice. Learn to ode.

[あいひん @BABYLONBU5TER]

ハーバード大学の認知心理学者・言語学者スティーブン・ピンカー教授は学術論文について「学者同士が互いに楽しむためだけに書かれている」と指摘。

「頭のいい研究者が山ほどいるのに、なぜ納税者の金で研究しながら世界に伝えようとしないのか？ 同じ段落を5〜6回読まないと理解できない文章は誤解を生み、喜びも奪う。本当に腹が立つ」と学術論文の難解さ・冗長さを痛烈に批判。

研究成果は、誰もが理解できる明確な文章で公開されるべきだと主張。

[Jota. @jota_snchez]

Robert Greene ha vendido +20M de libros estudiando una sola cosa:

por qué unas pocas personas encuentran su propósito y la mayoría muere sin descubrirlo.

Tuvo una charla de 3 horas con Huberman sobre propósito.

Te lo resumo en 7 pasos:

1. Vuelve a tu infancia