Father, husband, hobby farmer, architect and advocate for #ecological #rewilding, #rurallife #treechange - just lurking and watching the world go by...
Cost of sacking Liam Rosenior: £24m
Cost of buying Sheffield Wednesday: £20m
When sacking a manager costs more than a club in the Championship, it's probably time to start addressing those financial oblivion questions in football.
🏴✨ 138 years ago today, the English football league was formed! ✅
The 12 founding clubs:
• Accrington FC
• Aston Villa
• Blackburn Rovers
• Bolton Wanderers
• Burnley
• Derby
• Everton
• Notts County
• Preston North End
• Stoke City
• West Brom
• Wolves
Alzheimer’s may be linked to gum bacteria, new research shows.
Scientists have repeatedly found Porphyromonas gingivalis—the chief bacterium that causes periodontitis—inside the brains of people who died with Alzheimer’s.
When researchers deliberately infected mice with this oral bacterium, the animals rapidly developed key Alzheimer’s pathology, including the buildup of amyloid-beta plaques.
Perhaps most alarming, the bacteria’s toxic enzymes have been detected in the brains of people showing early Alzheimer’s changes years before memory loss or other symptoms appear, suggesting the infection may quietly initiate damage long in advance.
These discoveries have sparked serious interest in new treatment approaches. An experimental drug called COR388 (from the company Cortexyme) has already succeeded in lowering both bacterial load and amyloid-beta levels in preclinical models. Although large human trials are still needed, the evidence is mounting that at least some cases of Alzheimer’s may have an infectious trigger rather than being purely degenerative.
[Dominy, S. S., et al. "Porphyromonas gingivalis in Alzheimer’s disease brains: Evidence for disease causation and treatment with small-molecule inhibitors", Science Advances, 5(1), eaau3333]
Will Still managed 16 games for Southampton, winning just 4 games.
Southampton U21’s manager Tonda Eckert then took charge.
In his first 30 games, he’s won 19 games.
They now haven’t lost in 16 games.
Eckert is just 33 years old…👏👀
Sky News Australia host gets completely dismantled in a surreal interview.
They accidentally bring on the wrong guest an anti war academic and it backfires instantly.
Former U.S. Army Colonel and State Department official Anne Wright flips the script and absolutely roasts the host on air.
🇩🇪Absolute masterclass in road discipline on the German Autobahn!
When traffic comes to a standstill, drivers instantly shift left and right to create a Rettungsgasse, a crystal-clear emergency corridor right down the middle, so ambulances, fire trucks, and rescue vehicles can fly through at full speed. It’s the law in Germany and Austria, and it literally saves lives. This is how you do it!
🇧🇷🗣️ Roberto Carlos:
“I will never forget what I did with my first salary. I didn’t buy clothes, watches, or anything for myself. I went straight to buy my mother a washing machine. She used to wash clothes by hand, on wooden boards, on the farms in our village. And when I gave her the machine, she hugged me so tightly that I understood what sacrifice truly meant.
That day I felt like I was starting to give back a little of everything my parents had done for me. I also bought my father a bicycle — not a car, a bicycle — because in our home we always valued the gesture more than luxury.
That’s why, even though I reached the biggest stadiums in the world, I never forgot where I came from: a humble home, where love was measured through effort.”
Sixteen years ago, one man stood alone on a grassy hill at a music festival in Washington State, USA, and started dancing by himself. People glanced over and looked away. Some laughed. His roommate leaned in and warned him people were filming him.
He did not stop.
Then one stranger got up and joined him.
Then another.
Then the hillside tipped. Within minutes, hundreds of people were sprinting from across the field to be part of something that, thirty seconds earlier, had been one man being laughed at in a field.
Someone filming from higher up the hill said quietly: "See what one man can do. One man can change the world."
The clip spread across the internet in 2009. Entrepreneur Derek Sivers played it at a TED conference to explain how movements actually begin. Not with the first person brave enough to start, he argued, but with the first person willing to join them.
Collin Wynter, the man dancing alone, later said he had no idea he had done anything special. He was just tired of watching everyone sit still.
🚨 BREAKING:
Iran didn't respond to US bombs with missiles.
They responded with GAME THEORY.
And in doing so, they may have just fired the most dangerous shot at the US dollar in 52 years.
Here's the move most people completely missed: 🧵
(Read this slowly. Share it widely.)
Zambia 🇿🇲
A beautiful video shows Zambian national team player and Saudi Arabia–based soccer star, Fashion Sakala Jnr, stopping in the middle of the road to greet an old friend from his village. You can tell they were not faking the friendship