Roy Ratkov

[Roy Ratkov @royratkov]

"They donate a million dollars to the fish&chips foundation
so we could go to school for free.
It's called fish&chips college"
https://t.co/59OQR2tMhH

[Erik Schreiber @ErikSchreiber5]

More than half of the country’s 50 largest school districts are either making budget cuts, have already implemented them, or are confronting reported deficits, according to a Chalkbeat analysis published at the end of May. #Teachersof𝕏 #Educación https://t.co/6c89nAFv4T

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

"Crown Shyness" is a natural phenomenon where the uppermost branches of certain tree species completely refuse to touch one another, creating a perfectly defined, puzzle-like canopy.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

A 9,000-year-old skeleton discovered in a cave near Cheddar, England, became known as “Cheddar Man.” When scientists analyzed his DNA, they found an astonishing connection: a living descendant was working as a history teacher less than half a mile from where the ancient remains were uncovered, linking nearly 300 generations across nine millennia.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Bees aren’t the only pollinators keeping plants alive.

[✏️ Hashem Al-Ghaili]

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Japan’s Shinkansen bullet trains have operated for over 60 years with a perfect safety record: zero passenger fatalities from crashes or derailments.

Since the first line opened in 1964, the network has carried more than 10 billion passengers while traveling at speeds of up to 200 mph (320 km/h). This makes it one of the safest high-speed transportation systems in history.

The remarkable safety stems from deliberate design choices: dedicated, grade-separated tracks that eliminate crossings with other trains, roads, or freight; advanced automated control systems; real-time earthquake detection that can stop trains within seconds; and rigorous, continuous maintenance and staff training.

The system is equally renowned for its punctuality. In fiscal year 2023, the average delay across the network was just 1.6 minutes per train, even when including disruptions from earthquakes, typhoons, and other natural events.

On the busiest Tokaido Shinkansen line (Tokyo–Osaka), around 432,000 passengers ride daily, with trains departing every few minutes. Few transportation systems worldwide match this combination of speed, scale, safety, and reliability.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Fun fact

The city of Chengdu, China, plants vines underneath overpasses.

[Philosophy Quotes @philosophors]

“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”

— Ernest Hemingway

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Most MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES actually would disappear when bills are paid, rent is secure, and the fridge is full. Peace is expensive. Pretending money doesn't affect MENTAL HEALTH is privilege.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The Pizza Wallet, a popular type street food in Naples

[🍕 signorapizza]

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

1947 Cadillac Series 62 Sedanette fastback

[Noirchick In Old Hollywood @Noirchick1]

Do you prefer Miss Bettie Page in white or in black?

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

Exercise is associated with reduced levels of internet addiction and reduced anxiety, stress and depression, according to a study published in Addictive Behaviors.

[Noirchick In Old Hollywood @Noirchick1]

Glamour, guts, and just enough sin to keep the censors sweating..... Do you watch Pre-Code film?

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals.”

— George Orwell

[Prof. Carl Sagan @ProfCarlSagan]

Desert teaches you more about water than the ocean ever could.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“I’m an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be, otherwise he’d shoot himself.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“I saw that hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated and this was an immutable law.”

— James Baldwin

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This 1953 Messerschmitt Kabinenroller is a three wheeled microcar inspired by aircraft engineering and remains one of the most collectible microcars ever built.

[📹 carola_daimler_cars]