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@stevemagness Doesn’t seem to have Kindle version 😢

Runners: Go get this book. I don't say this lightly. But Marius Bakken has released a game changer of a book on training. It's fantastic. A book I wish I had decades ago. It just came out. Grab your copy today: amzn.to/4dFV1AU

Richard Feynman’s savage takedown of pseudo-science still burns in 2026: “Social science is an example of a science which is not a science. They follow the forms… but they don’t get any laws. They haven’t found out anything.” He goes harder: Experts who “sit at a typewriter and make up” claims — “organic food is better,” “this diet cures everything” — as if it’s settled science, when no rigorous experiments or checks have been done. Feynman: “I know what it means to really know something. How careful you have to be. How easy it is to fool yourself. I see how they get their information… and I can’t believe that they know.” The Nobel physicist calls it straight: most of what passes for “expert” opinion is noise dressed up as knowledge. In an age drowning in TikTok “science,” influencers, and clickbait studies — Feynman’s 1:52 rant feels more relevant than ever. Who’s the biggest pseudo-expert that grinds your gears right now? Clip is timeless fire — watch it and feel the clarity.

A 20-year study found women who regularly cleaned their homes lost lung function equivalent to smoking 20 cigarettes a day. Yes — 20 cigarettes a day worth of damage, and only in women. Men showed no comparable decline. Why the huge gender gap? Women use far more cleaning sprays, disinfectants, air fresheners, scented detergents, candles, and fragrance-loaded products — all containing volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and irritants that aerosolize and get inhaled deeply into the lungs. Science nugget: The study (published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2018, based on the long-running European Community Respiratory Health Survey) tracked lung function (FEV1 and FVC) over 20 years in thousands of participants. Women who cleaned regularly (weekly or more) had accelerated lung function decline comparable to ~20 pack-years of smoking. No similar effect was seen in men, likely due to lower exposure to household cleaning chemicals. The fix is simple and cheap: Switch to non-toxic alternatives — vinegar + water, baking soda, castile soap, hydrogen peroxide. Ditch the scented sprays, "fresh linen" plug-ins, and harsh chemical cleaners. Your lungs don’t regenerate like your liver. Damage accumulates for life. You wouldn’t smoke a pack a day. Why clean like you do? Who’s switching their cleaning routine after this?

They all want to make it complicated. It’s not. Change your eating habits to prioritize protein and vegetables and real food. Add resistance training. Move more outside of the gym. Those three things done consistently will lead to staggering results for most people.

I sat through two hours of lunacy this afternoon. And watched 15 minutes of this guy just now. The difference is night and day. If you want to understand the long-term damage Donald Trump is doing to our country, it’s worth your time.

@RealSwissColony @British_Airways Don’t fall for the @British_Airways “just file a case with us” line. It’s the most Kafkaesque customer service experience. You waste lots of time explaining what happened, providing receipts etc. then hear nothing back, and there are NO cust serv people you can ever talk to. Ugh.

Why is it impossible to contact @British_Airways on a Sunday evening? Chatbot, advertised as open until 22:00 is offline. No phone numbers listed are answered, several are not even in service!

We’ve reached a point where any mix of solutions to our nation’s economic problems is going to involve the wealthiest Americans contributing more. nytimes.com/2025/12/19/opi…

Note to economists who think firms are smart. It took 30 years to figure out that 3 point shots are worth 50% more than 2s.

@BBGreatMoments I believe he also said “Predictions are hard, especially about the future.”

BEST YOGI BERRA QUOTES: 1. “It ain’t over till it’s over.” 2. “It’s deja vu all over again.” 3. “I usually take a two-hour nap from 1 to 4.” 4. “Never answer an anonymous letter.” 5. “We made too many wrong mistakes.” 6. “You can observe a lot by watching.” 7. “The future ain’t what it used to be.” 8. “If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.” 9. “It gets late early out here.” 10. “If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them.” 11. “Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.” 12. “Pair up in threes.” 13. “Why buy good luggage, you only use it when you travel.” 14. “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.” 15. “All pitchers are liars or crybabies.” 16. “A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.” 17. “Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.” 18. “He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious.” 19. “I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.” 20. “I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won 25 games. What I don’t understand is how he lost five.” Modal Trigger Joe DiMaggio and Yogi Berra in 1955. 21. “I don’t know (if they were men or women fans running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads.” 22. “I’m a lucky guy and I’m happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.” 23. “I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.” 24. “In baseball, you don’t know nothing.” 25. “I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?” 26. “I never said most of the things I said.” 27. “It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility.” 28. “I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.” 29. “I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I’d never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, and he never walked off the field.” 30. “So I’m ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face.” 31. “Take it with a grin of salt.” 32. (On the 1973 Mets) “We were overwhelming underdogs.” 33. “The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.” 34. “You should always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise, they won’t come to yours.” 35. “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” (Sources: Los Angeles Times, Baseball Almanac, Baseball Digest, Catcher in the Wry (Bob Uecker), Sports Illustrated)

@ItsGrahamParker Thanks! Just ordered mine …

Book review 😎here… bigtakeover.com/books/graham-p…

@Philipywang He’s on a roll

A statement from the DC sandwich man Sean Dunn who was just acquitted.

You don’t do good things because you are a good person. You become a good person by doing good things. So just get started.

PASSION - A strong liking, desire, or devotion to an activity. When I started playing tennis at 8 years old, it was just a game. Then it became my passion. My dream was to one day became a professional tennis player. I know that as an athlete, people like to think they know when it’s time for your to stop. People believe that when you get older ,when you don’t play at the same level , don’t have the same ranking or same result , you should stop. As much as I’m a competitor, As much as I love to win, It’s not always about that. Passion is not always about the results - it’s about pushing your limits. I’m ok not to win a Grand Slam anymore. I’m ok with not being top 10 anymore. But I love the process of always pushing my own limits. I know the end of my career will come one day , but until then , I will always give my best fight. To all the fans around the world who support me, To the fans in Basel this week - THANK YOU ❤️🙏🏻🌎🇨🇭🫶🏻 It means the world to me. That’s why I keep pushing myself

@martinmbauer Great explanation, thanks!

The Nobel laureates were the first to show this effect for systems containing billions of Cooper pairs. 'Macroscopic' objects described by a collective wavefucntion. Their work laid the foundations of today’s superconducting qubits and quantum technologies They also showed other properties of quantum systems like energy quantisation 7/7

Short explanation of the physics Nobel Prize 2025 In classical mechanics you can know where a particle is and its momentum at the same time. In Quantum mechanics you can't. All information is in the wavefunction. Even if a particle is trapped, part of the wavefunction.. 🧵1/7

My thoughts on the Riyadh Comedy Festival. officialdavidcross.com/blogs/press/my…

@WilliamKelly1 Hey Bill - Great job in Chicago last week! I’d won our AG for a couple years, but I def need to up my game. Seeing how well you do in all 3 at our age is inspiring. Keep it up!

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This is how real Presidents behave. With class, dignity and intelligence! Something Trump will never have!

"Mr. President Trump, you stood there like a little white noodle, like a fanboy," - said Arnold Schwarzenegger about Trump's meeting with Putin. Source: Arnold Schwarzenegger/YouTube

@QuoteNietzsche It’s very good. Less passionate than his other books I’ve read, it’s more unemotional, almost like a textbook

Today, Los Angeles and the Bay Area will see 130 flights in both directions, equivalent to a plane departing every 6.5 minutes for 18 hours a day. Hard to argue it's not a perfect candidate for fast trains.