Friends, this holiday season, try to reach out to those who have little of no friends, no family, and no reason to cheer. They may be involuntarily stuck in a state of loneliness. They don't need your money; they don't need your gifts. Maybe just a little bit of attention.

“Focusing is about saying no.” ~ Steve Jobs

Assaf Bar-Moshe, Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic. An Introductory Textbook, 2024. (Open Access) uclpress.co.uk/book/baghdadi-…

When journos classify "billionaires" they miss that: 1- It is paper valuation. If they were able to liquidate, they may no longer be billionaires, as prices are sensitive to a large supply. 2- If they managed to sell, they will owe capital gains taxes. 3- Sometimes, as with PE

Greece is increasing the bonds with the Levantine Rum community. The Greek PM Mitsotakis is in Beirut today visiting Metropolitan Audi in the presence of His Holiness the Patriarch of Antioch. Note the visible reconciliation between Metr. Audi and John X.

New from Empire Podcast We are proud to present the first episode of our Christmas mini-series- WHO WERE THE THREE WISE MEN?

Back in early 2015, Assad was approached to convince him to de-escalate the conflict by putting a stop to barrel bombs. Such a crude military tactic by Damascus was putting significant public and diplomatic pressure on Western governments to intervene directly in the Syrian

An economic integration w/Turkey is desirable, even unavoidable. Simply, it is growing, merging w/the booming Central Asia. EUROPE IS DYING. For those who don't get it, economic integration does not imply political submission, although for Syria it wd be s. adult supervision.

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It's so over.

“It’s impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously you might as well not have lived at all.” ~J.K. Rowling

"Without Mohammed, Charlemagne would have been inconceivable." This quote describes Pirenne's thesis that Antiquity—the period when economic activity concentrated in the Mediterranean—ended because the rise of Islam destroyed the flow of trade across it.

I'm in Kyiv to interview President Zelenskyy, trying to do my small part in pushing for peace. This photo is of me visiting Babi Yar yesterday, a place where many in my family were slaughtered by Nazi forces in 1941. They were ordered to gather with valuables with the promise

“Confidence comes from preparation.” ~ Kobe Bryant

I met PM Modi several times w/the same discussion: What India needs is make failure honorable; smart people tend to go to prestigious employment in a bureaucratic system instead of building startups. He said that in Gujarat people who failed wore a literal badge of honor.

Jeff Bezos on why the United States has more entrepreneurial success than other countries:

“The word 'apartheid' is exactly accurate…they are absolutely and totally separated." I will remember Jimmy Carter as one of the only US Presidents to speak honestly about Palestine.

How old they’ll be in 2025: 𝕏/Twitter: 19 years Facebook: 21 years Tesla: 22 years SpaceX: 23 years Google: 27 years Netflix: 28 years Amazon: 31 years Apple: 49 years Microsoft: 50 years Sony: 79 years Samsung: 87 years Disney: 102 years Nintendo: 136 years Nokia: 160 years

1 reason exercise gives you energy: a circuit from your motor cortex to your adrenals causes release of epinephrine, which activates specific vagal circuits which excites brain areas that release norepinephrine/alertness. A brain-to-body-to-brain “arousal loop”. Movement= energy.

Getting a lot of questions about the use of different wavelengths of light for health. And sunlight for health. Not just morning sunlight. This will get you started on what the day say. Times stamped for ease. hubermanlab.com/episode/using-…