whyGod, why??!!! @LPeszynski

"We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces." - Carl Sagan

“The protection of minorities is vitally important; and even the most orthodox of us may find himself in a minority some day, so that we all have an interest in restraining the tyranny of majorities. Nothing except public opinion can solve this problem.” — Bertrand Russell

I would really love to see middle and high schools bring back sewing classes. I really enjoyed learning to sew as a youngster. Here are some great sewing tips that you might want to bookmark and practice at home. I’m definitely going to review these stitches myself 🧵

He struggled to get through his eulogy for Lindsey Graham--which he was clearly seeing for the first time--and openly disagreed with it while reading, insisting that not everyone liked Mr. Graham. While walking by it, he casually rapped his knuckles on Mr. Graham's casket like a waiter who's just taken your order on fifty-cent wings night at TGI Fridays. He fell asleep during the other eulogies for Mr. Graham, five feet away in the box, even as the other eulogists took the opportunity to kiss Trump's ass while he nodded off. Just think, Trump loyalists: this is as good as it gets for how you'll be remembered someday. This is the peak.

July 29, 1983: Friday Night Videos debuted on NBC. #80s Ran until 2002 though studio production stopped in 1994.

A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT. He knows his time is running out. So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour. He died 5 months later. This is that lecture. The most important hour you'll watch this week. Bookmark it for later!

failed to bomb Iran into submission, Trump is now trying to tweet the world into believing his fantasies.

The works of Austen, Dickens & Shakespeare were written to be enjoyed by ordinary, working-class people, and the idea that they can only truly be read and understood by elites is profoundly bad for society.

Bookmark it and practice 🙌🏼

At a Japanese aquarium, these baby otters have an end-of-day routine: clean up the toys with grandpa, then collect their well-earned ice cube reward.

The 1992 Barcelona Olympics torch lighting remains one of the most unforgettable moments in Olympic history. [📹 Olympics]

A brilliant birdcage design

“Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.” — Epictetus

"People think of education as something they can finish." - Isaac Asimov

Instead of hiding his daughter with Down syndrome, Charles de Gaulle raised her proudly and she became the heart of his life.... When Charles de Gaulle died in 1970, he made a quiet request that surprised many. He did not want a grand state funeral in Paris. He asked to be buried in the small village of Colombey les Deux Églises, beside his daughter Anne. For him, that resting place mattered more than any monument. Anne was born on New Year’s Day in 1928, youngest of three children. She had Down syndrome, a condition surrounded by fear and misinformation at the time. Doctors and society often blamed parents and urged families to hide children like her from public view. For families of power and status, sending such children away was considered normal. Charles and his wife Yvonne refused. They raised Anne at home with her brother Philippe and sister Élisabeth. There was no secrecy, no shame, no separation. She was simply their daughter. To the world, de Gaulle was distant and unyielding. A leader shaped by war, discipline, and command. But inside his home, Anne revealed a side few ever saw. With her, he laughed freely. He sang songs, told stories, and played games. Friends noticed that the man who rarely showed emotion softened completely in her presence. He called her my joy. Anne asked nothing of him except love, and in that simplicity, he found peace. She was never treated as fragile or inferior. She was respected fully, included always, and loved without condition. That love did not end within the family. After the war, Charles and Yvonne founded the Fondation Anne de Gaulle. They turned a château into a home for young women with intellectual disabilities, many of whom had been abandoned. At a time when support barely existed, they chose action over silence. Anne’s life was short. She died of pneumonia in 1948, just after turning twenty, in her father’s arms. In his grief, de Gaulle whispered that now she was like the others, finally free from the limits the world had placed on her. After her death, he carried her photograph everywhere. He believed her presence protected him, even during an assassination attempt years later. Whether faith or fate, he never doubted her importance in his life. Charles de Gaulle found his deepest calm not in leadership or victory, but in loving a child the world did not understand. His family showed that dignity is not about ability. It is about how fiercely we choose to care. © Soul Whisper #drthehistories

Education is not the learning of facts but the training of the mind to think. - Albert Einstein

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” — Margaret Mead

“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.” — Robert Frost

“We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.” ― Carl Sagan