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@ChildersRadio I was super excited but then ticket prices came out and I got pissed off. I’ll watch games on tv, but way less excited than I planned to be

Is it me or is there just zero buzz for the World Cup? There were many that thought hosting in 2026 was going to create incredible momentum for soccer in the United States moving forward. It’s like only a few weeks away and I feel like absolutely nobody cares. #fifa #worldcup

@Demeter_Erinia My Dad gave directions or a map. I was just thinking how when I was a teen I would drive to a place once and would have the route locked in my brain after that.

Serious question… How did people get to places before GPS??

@EricCrossMLB My guess before looking at comments was Tony Gwynn

In MLB history, only six hitters have met the following three thresholds for their career... .400 OBP 200 HR 11% K rate or lower Five of the six are Ted Williams, Lou Gehrig, Rogers Hornsby, Stan Musial, and Mel Ott, who are all in the Hall of Fame. Who is the other player?

@ReddVencher @RangerApologist You are right, it was early 2000s. Somewhere in 2001-3.

@almost3am @RangerApologist Ben Sheets didn't play professionally in the 1990s.

Ranking MLB Fanbases by How Much They’ve Suffered

@BigRonInJersey I will never forget that hit. Definitely the most important to date.

Cecil Cooper hit 352 in 1980 with 25 HR and 122 RBIs. He has the most important hit in franchise history. His number isn’t retired. That’s the tweet. Debate.

@fmaddenNBA Good guess, my guess too

My best guess as to how next month plays out: 1) Bucks tell GA he’ll get the $275m extension in Oct 2) GA asks how they’re going to build contender 3) Bucks say they’re exploring all options but no promises 4) GA says he will wait until Oct 5) Bucks take that as a non-committal and trade him before draft 6) GA says he never asked for trade

@SamOlbur I was just thinking this last night when I looked at the standings. Crazy

Two 10 game win streaks and you're only 2.5 up on Milwaukee. It ain't gonna be easy.

Brazil is leading the way in sustainable road construction by repurposing sugarcane waste into high-performance asphalt. After sugar and ethanol are extracted from sugarcane, the leftover fibrous pulp (called bagasse) is typically burned to generate energy. This process produces around three million tons of bagasse ash every year. Instead of discarding this ash as waste, researchers have developed an innovative way to use it in road building. The ash is rich in silica and serves as an excellent replacement for traditional stone dust in asphalt mixtures. Studies show that adding 5% to 30% sugarcane bagasse ash creates pavements that are significantly stronger, more durable, and better able to withstand heavy traffic and Brazil’s challenging tropical climate. Early trials on highways have demonstrated that these eco-friendly roads perform better and last longer than conventional asphalt, while also reducing environmental impact by recycling agricultural waste. This pioneering approach not only helps manage massive amounts of industrial by-product but also offers a scalable, cost-effective solution for building more sustainable infrastructure.

@EricTeetsel This one I didn’t know about him. Nice

3. Taylor struggled to mount his horse, Old Whitey, because he had such short legs.

My daughter was assigned Zachary Taylor for her U.S. President report. She was bummed because “who knows anything about Zachary Taylor?!” I tried to explain that this is a good thing because now she’s one of the few who does. She’s unpersuaded. Nevertheless, here are 3 facts she taught me about Zachary Taylor:

@elkelk The only value is ensuring space near you for your carryon

Never understood why boarding a flight early is a “perk” Great, I get to sit for an extra 22 minutes in an uncomfortable seat while we don’t move

Marie Curie died in 1934, but her tomb is still radioactive. Marie Curie stands among the greatest scientists in history. She pioneered the field of radioactivity (a word she invented), isolated two new elements (polonium and radium), laid the groundwork for radiation-based cancer therapy, and became the only person ever to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences: physics in 1903 and chemistry in 1911. Yet her brilliance came at a devastating cost. For years she handled intensely radioactive substances with bare hands, often slipping vials of radium into her pocket or keeping glowing samples on her desk like luminous souvenirs. In that era, no one fully grasped how lethal radiation could be. She died in 1934 at age 66 from aplastic anemia, almost certainly caused by cumulative, massive exposure that destroyed her bone marrow. More than ninety years after her death, her personal effects remain dangerously radioactive. Her laboratory notebooks, clothing, furniture, and even her cookbook emit radiation at levels that require them to be preserved in lead-lined boxes at France’s Bibliothèque Nationale. Anyone granted access must sign a legal waiver and don protective suits. When she and her husband Pierre were reinterred in the Panthéon in 1995—an honor reserved for France’s most illustrious figures—their coffins were encased in lead nearly an inch thick, not as ceremony, but as containment. Curie did not merely advance science; she reshaped our understanding of the atom, opened the door to modern oncology and nuclear energy, and left a legacy that still glows—literally and figuratively—long after her death. Literally.

@JamesLucasIT I would say it’s the Oil of Olay she used obsessively

Why does Mary look younger than Jesus in Michelangelo's Pietà? The answer is one of the most beautiful in art history... Mary is holding the body of her 33 year old son, but she looks 20. Critics noticed it the moment the sculpture was unveiled in 1499. The mother of a man who has just been crucified would have been in her late forties or early fifties. Michelangelo had carved her as a girl. His own biographer, Ascanio Condivi, was the one who finally asked him why. The answer Michelangelo gave is preserved in Condivi's Life of Michelangelo and has been repeated for centuries: "Do you not know that chaste women stay fresh much more than those who are not chaste? How much more in the case of the Virgin, who had never experienced the least lascivious desire that might change her body?" Most modern critics treat this answer as a half-serious deflection. Michelangelo was famous for his sharp tongue and refused to explain himself to people he considered beneath his intellect. The deeper answer is older, and it lies inside one of the greatest poems ever written. In the final canto of Dante's Paradiso, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux begins his prayer to the Virgin with one of the most extraordinary lines in Italian literature: "Vergine madre, figlia del tuo figlio." "Virgin mother, daughter of your own son." Michelangelo, who knew Dante by heart, was carving that line into stone. Mary is younger than Jesus because Jesus is older than the universe... because she gave birth to her own creator. But there is another reading, simpler than either of those, and it is the one I find myself thinking of today. Every mother who has held her child has held them at every age at once. The infant is still inside the toddler. The toddler is still inside the teenager. The young man on her lap, even dead, is also the boy she nursed and the baby she first carried home. And maybe that's why Michelangelo did not carve Mary as the years had aged her. He carved her as love had kept her: outside of time, outside of grief, holding her son the way she had always held him... Happy Mother's Day. -- -- -- If you enjoyed this, I write a weekly newsletter read by over 50,000 people who love rediscovering the beauty of the past. You can join us here: James-lucas.com/welcome I write about beauty in all its forms. If you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible.

@anacaprana You have the attitude that makes me want to leave Illinois. Our leaders shouldn't be celebrating taxpayers leaving Illinois, they should try to find ways to bring them in.

JB Pritzker beat Ken Griffin’s handpicked candidate in the last Governor’s race and, after Ken pouted and took his toys to Miami, the Governor has lived rent free in his head ever since. Guy needs to touch some grass bc this is just sad at this point.

Maybe the best play of my childhood

@GPAIndiana My grama used these in her hair

Cleaning out my mother's things today and I hit the jackpot—a whole cache of what I can only assume are the tiniest spoons in existence. I've spent the last hour trying to figure out their purpose, and I'm genuinely baffled. 🤔

@cashmaniscucked @JeffPassan CC Sabathia was at the game. Stepped it up for him.

@JeffPassan why do pitchers step up velo against the yankees Jeff 🫩

Jacob Misiorowski’s fastballs so far against the Yankees 🤯