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That little box that this man is holding is the nuclear core to Fat Man.
This was soon going to become the bomb that destroyed Nagasaki.
Paul McCartney buying a newspaper from St John's Wood station.
On the day after John Lennon was killed. Taken by Linda from their car.
#TheBeatles #Beatles
In 1975, a Senate investigation revealed that the CIA had developed a silent, battery-powered gun that fired a dart containing shellfish toxin.
The dart would almost painlessly penetrate its target, causing a fatal heart attack within minutes, all while leaving no trace behind.
In 1967, at 51 Dick Proenneke quit his job, built a cabin on Alaska's Twin Lakes.
He lived there alone for 30 years no running water or electricity. He braved brutal winters, stored food underground, and left behind more than 250 diaries and films documenting his journey.
All Alone
A Soviet soldier returns home only to find his family killed, and his house burned down. Dedilovo, 1942.
Polio Vaccine
Jonas Salk creates the first vaccine against poliomyelitis, 1955. Salk didn’t patent his vaccine, saving millions of lives as result.
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Jason Sudeikis gets choked up just picturing Tina Fey taking over SNL from Lorne Michaels.
Seth Meyers has said Lorne has probably already decided who's next. Asked if it's Tina, Sudeikis says he'd love it, and that being almost near tears about it is usually a good sign. He thinks the show can survive without Lorne, since it barely got through the five years he was gone, and he thinks Seth could do a really good job with it too.
Tina or Seth? Feels like everybody has an answer to that one.
ft: @TalkEasyPod Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso on youtube
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There are 12,331 nuclear warheads in the world.
🇺🇸 The United States holds 5,277 of them.
🇮🇱 Israel has 90.
🇮🇷 Iran has ZERO.
And they try to convince you Iran is the threat to the world.
Vision Quest, wrestling coach is named Coach Ratta in a singlet.
Wrestled for years and not once did I ever see a coach in a singlet.
Unless. . .
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Neil deGrasse Tyson has a message for all the flat-earthers in NFL locker rooms @pepsi
Well done doggo.
As ballots are processed across Los Angeles, specially trained detection dogs are helping provide an extra layer of security at election facilities. The dogs are trained to sniff out explosives and dangerous chemicals, helping screen for potential threats and protect the workers handling and counting ballots.
Despite being larger and generally dominant apex predators, orcas often turn, swim away from pilot whale groups. Research shows that orcas experience strong avoidance responses—even just hearing pilot whale calls makes them double their swimming speed and leave the area.
Whale watchers with Davey’s Locker & Newport Landing Whale Watching in Newport Beach were just five miles offshore on Tuesday when Captain Erica Page was the first to spot a large pod of approximately 70 short-finned pilot whales. ktla.com/news/california/doz…
There was a time a 6'5 guard was unheard of.
In the 1970s the average height for an #NBA point guard hovered around 6 feet 2 inches, and shooting guards averaged about 6 feet 3.5 inches, making guards in the 6'4"–6'5" range notably big for their position.
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one of my fav scenes in TV. but I always like to point out that if u read the actual "first" Bible, it doesn't say homosexuality is a sin. pedophilia is. but no one whats to have THAT convo.
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During Bill Nye's 10-year college reunion in 1987, he went to great lengths to meet with Carl Sagan at Cornell. Sagan's assistant told Nye, "Okay, you can talk to him for five minutes."
In their meeting at the space sciences building, Nye explained that he was interested in developing a science television program. "I mentioned how I planned to talk about bridges and bicycles and so on—stuff that, as an engineer, I'd been interested in—and [Sagan] said, 'Focus on pure science. Kids resonate to pure science rather than technology.' And that turned out to be great advice."
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For those who say it’s time for universal care. I am all for it. It would be nice if we could find a way to reduce the cost of care and make it available to everyone, for anything.
But it will take work to get there. Other countries with Universal Care make “Most Things available to All People”. It’s not perfect.
In our country, we make “Everything available to Most People”.
The question for this country, unlike others, is how we can make the best possible care and therapies, regardless of cost, to everyone ?
Read @AbdulElSayed ‘s book on Medicare for All. He wisely had more questions than answers. Medicare for All ? Global Budgets ? Or something else ?
It’s a difficult path from where we are to “E4E” Healthcare. ?Everything for Everyone)
My hope is that we can put together a Simpson Bowles type, Blue Ribbon Commission. One that includes representatives of all stakeholders. From all different type of patients. Including rare disease parents. Rural and Urban Hospitals. The most expensive hospitals that offer unique care. Pharma companies that offer everything from genetics to Cell and Gene Therapies. You get the point
Some people think we can just tell all those working in the healthcare system what to do.
That’s the fastest way for this to fail. We need to be as close as we can to being on the same page. And we need to figure out a non partisan manner of running our American version of Universal Care.
No reason we can’t start now
The only person who can lead the States of America back to the UNITED States of America.
#Merica!
#USA! #Midterms2026
Nithya Raman is pulling away from Mayor Karen Bass.
Add #NewYork Mayor Zohran Mamdani to the mix and it's something only Bollywood could've come up with.
Even #Vegas didn't have #NewYork and #LosAngeles electing mayors with Indian ancestry.
