Heidi Graci

Peeing out the back window at 60 miles an hour. Check out the next clip, "UPS", at youtu.be/hZvQysk_uX4

Garrett Stubbs hit a 3-run homer in his first at-bat back with the Iron Pigs

Justin Crawford has reached base in all five games he's played in 😤 His .412 batting average is best in the @Phillies lineup.

These kids weren’t born this way. We did this to them. We handed them devices during the darkest days of the pandemic and told them it was “education.” We normalized constant connectivity as “engagement.” And now we are shocked that they cannot sit through a 50 to 90-minute class without phantom vibrations pulsing in their pockets. I am begging you, please, for the love of God and these kids, let us return to what actually worked. Give them paper textbooks again. Real books with spines that crack when you open them, pages that smell like 1997, margins where they can scribble their thoughts and doodles in pencil. Let them underline, circle, argue in the white space. Let them feel the weight of knowledge in their hands instead of the weightless scroll of a screen. Hand them pencils, actual wooden pencils, and watch their handwriting slow down long enough for their brains to catch up. The research is clear, but more than that, my daily experience is undeniable… when the screens go away, something in them wakes up. They remember more. They argue more passionately. They sit longer with hard ideas. They endure. And for the love of everything holy in education, institute a complete, bell-to-bell ban on cell phones. Not “in your bag on silent.” Not “face down on the desk.” Not “only for emergencies.” Banned. Collected at the door, locked away until the final bell. Because every single time that tiny rectangle vibrates in a pocket, it rips another thread from the fragile fabric of their attention. We are not preparing them for the “real world” by letting them live in their pockets; we are training them to be terrible humans, distracted, shallow, unable to listen, unable to wait, unable to be present. They deserve better. They deserve to be here, fully, with us. I am not anti-technology. I am pro-child. I am pro-future. And right now our students are being robbed of the ability to think deeply, to read deeply, to feel deeply. Their eyes are tired. Their spirits are restless. Their minds are starving for something real in a world that keeps feeding them pixels. Please. Let us give them back the classroom they deserve. Let us give them paper, pencils, and the quiet dignity of undivided attention. Let us save them from the very devices we once thought would save them. Because if we don’t act now, we won’t just lose their focus. We will lose them.

SOSA. CRAWFORD. FRANZKE.

Justin Crawford caps off the @Phillies comeback in extras!

What an incredible photo from the Phillies with the walkoff celebration, Kyle Schwarber drenching Justin Crawford and JT Realmuto jumping up to congratulate him  📸 Phillies

Just Incredible

JUSTIN CRAWFORD WALKS IT OFF!!!!!

Andrew Painter exits to a standing ovation after a stellar MLB debut 👏

Couldn't paint a better picture

Less than three years after undergoing brain surgery, Gary Woodland wins on the PGA Tour. What a moment.

You have your mother's cells in your brain right now. If she ever carried you, yours are in hers. Scientists looked at the brains of 59 women after they died, ages 32 to 101. In 63% of them, they found their sons' DNA scattered across different brain regions. The cells had traveled from the womb, through the blood, past the wall that normally keeps foreign material out of the brain, and settled in. The oldest woman still carrying her son's cells in her brain was 94. In mice, those cells became functional brain cells. The transfer starts as early as 7 weeks into pregnancy. Your cells slip through the placenta into your mother's body. Hers slips into yours. One study found a mother still had her son's cells in her blood 27 years after giving birth. After delivery, between 50 and 75% of women carry their child's cells. During pregnancy, up to 6% of a woman's blood DNA comes from the baby. When a mother's heart gets damaged during or after pregnancy, the baby's cells travel to the injury, latch on, and turn into beating heart cells, blood vessel lining, and muscle. Heart failure tied to pregnancy has a 50% spontaneous recovery rate, better than every other kind. The Mount Sinai team behind the research thinks the baby's cells are fixing the mother's heart from the inside. The cancer data caught me off guard. A study compared healthy women to women with breast cancer. 85% of the healthy group still carried their children's cells. Only 64% of the breast cancer group did. That works out to about 4x lower odds of getting breast cancer if you kept those cells. The working theory is that they patrol the body and catch cancer cells before they grow. A 2022 study found that in developing mouse brains, a mother's cells controlled the brain's immune cells, preventing them from cutting too many connections between brain cells. Your mom's cells helped wire your brain before you were born. And it stacks across generations. A woman can carry cells from her kids, from her own mother, and even from pregnancies her mother had before her. Three generations of cells from different people, living inside one body.

An Oklahoma girls' basketball team appealed their victory after their coach discovered they didn't actually win the game, and now, they're being honored for their character. @SteveHartmanCBS is On the Road.

Go to that baseball game alone. Treat yourself to that good seat with the perfect view. Make friends with the strangers around you. You won’t regret it. Life is too short to wait for others to do things that will make you happy.

.@stephenasmith: You’re down in Texas and as a right-winger, you're about to go left because of what you're seeing? Voter: I'm gonna vote for Mr. Talarico, man, 100%. I haven't voted Democratic since I was 20 years old. I am absolutely disgusted with the way things are going. James Talarico is a different deal. He speaks from the heart. I know some of the people he knows. The guy is the real deal, man.

Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts, with a fresh cut, spent some great time with Special Olympics Pennsylvania yesterday at the Unified Combine at the Eagles training facility. Eagles linebacker Zack Baun also helped the athletes with the clinic. Jalen frequently gives his time to Special Olympians

Today would’ve been dad’s 90th birthday ❤️ I’m honored to have performed our National Anthem at the Phillies home opener today for the 11th straight year Only too perfect ⚾️ 🇺🇸 🐜 🪴

Bohm goes the dynamite 💥

THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE BOHM!