For a groundbreaking investigation, retired navy commander Joseph Dituri was required to submerge himself for more than three months. Researchers sought to understand the impact of submerged life in a pressurised environment on the human body. And guess what? After spending more than three months submerged in the Atlantic Ocean, scientists were astounded to discover that Dituri had become “ten years younger” when he emerged from his little pod.
Following diagnostic evaluations, it was discovered that Dituri’s telomeres—the DNA caps at the ends of chromosomes that normally shorten with age—had grown 20% longer than they had three months prior.
In addition, his stem cell count had increased and his general health had undergone a dramatic metamorphosis. Dituri also reported better-quality sleep. His inflammatory indicators decreased by half, and his cholesterol plummeted by 72 points. According to medical professionals, the underwater pressure—which is recognized to have several health benefits—caused these alterations. Dituri subsequently discussed the need for these kinds of encounters.
“One of these locations that are isolated from outside activities is what you need. The British newspaper Daily Mirror cited him as stating, “Send people down here for a two-week vacation, where they can get their feet scrubbed, relax, and experience the benefit of hyperbaric medicine.” He said that his metabolism had also significantly improved.
Rare new form of beneficial pressure discovered
old timey doctors sending you to the seaside for your health were so, so close.
There are many benefits to being a marine biologist.
I’m sorry, have I misunderstood telemores this entire time or did we just hack human genetics with pressure
-he looked straight up dead when he turned 100 and voted early cos he was straight up dead and now he’s actually dead dead
-was president during the three mile island reactor partial meltdown incident and because he had worked on nuclear subs before he knew that shit was fine and went over there to be like lalala i ❤ reactors while the media were shitting their britches over a teeny tiny amount of radiation
look at this shit he was deader than prince philip was
look at him swagged out in nothing but yellow booties to protect him this man knows his nuclear reactors and he doesn’t gaf about this supposed dangerous radiation the only thing dangerous here is the mud which might dirty his shoes
Okay so I realize you’re being lighthearted here and I don’t mean to take away from that (he would appreciate you noting both his civic duty and his education in nuclear energy), but I will never turn down an excuse to talk about why I love my man Jimmy Carter.
–personally brokered multiple peace agreements as a mediator between other countries–basically he was the guy who kept things calm and civil so stuff could get signed, both during and after his presidency. This included the Camp David Accords, widely considered the most important peace document in the Middle East
–not actually a very good president BECAUSE HE WAS TOO HONEST
–was a peanut farmer and got a ton of flak for it because “lol poor peanut farmer” but it was his family’s farm and he was genuinely proud, not ashamed, of his work
–Married to his wife Rosalynn for 77 years and they were so deeply in love that when she died I said “he won’t last a year now” and I was right, they were really two halves of one very incredible whole
–worked for Habitat for Humanity after his presidency, and not as an admin, either; there are lots of people out there who can say Jimmy Carter helped build their house
–he and Rosalynn fought for DECADES to eradicate Guinea worm, which is an extremely painful and disabling parasite, AND THEY ALL BUT SUCCEEDED. When they began their work in 1986 in tandem with the WHO, over three and a half million people were infected every year. In 2023 there were twelve. To be clear: not twelve million, not twelve thousand, not twelve hundred. TWELVE. One-two with no zeroes after it. As of today, his death date, the 2024 case count is seven. One digit. If we can hit zero in 2025 and 2026 it will be only the second disease in all of human history to be eradicated completely by humans (the first was smallpox)
–there is increasing evidence that he actually did solve the Iran hostage crisis and Reagan bribed the Iranian government to not release the hostages until after the election in order to make Carter look weak and boost his own chances
–left the Baptist church because while he considered himself a devout Christian he absolutely could not abide their views re: women, and said women should be full equals with men
–established the Department of Education
And finally:
–during his reelection campaign, he met my uncle. My uncle is mentally disabled. Carter was visiting his workplace. My uncle biked right past the Secret Service, which they took about as well as you’d expect, held out a hand, and said “hello, Mr. Carter, my name is David Lastname and I sure am glad to meet you.” Carter would have been perfectly within his rights to have my uncle arrested as a security risk, and in 1980 basically nobody would have come to my uncle’s defense. Instead he waved off the Secret Service, shook my uncle’s hand, and said “hello, Mr. Lastname, my name is Jimmy Carter and I sure am glad to meet you.” I don’t know if he intuited that mirroring is one way we help my uncle to understand stuff or if it was a natural habit of his, and I don’t care. What I care about is that more than a decade before the ACA he made a conscious decision to take the time to treat a mentally-disabled man with courtesy, kindness, and dignity, with no idea whether that man could even vote.
Jimmy Carter was not a great president, but he was a great man. There’s a saying in Christian circles that if you have lived well G-d will greet you at the gates of heaven with “well done, thou good and faithful servant,” and let me tell you, if heaven exists but that isn’t standard procedure then G-d damn well better have made an exception today. He was a good and faithful servant, to all of us.
May his memory be for a blessing.
Jimmy Carter was more skilled at diplomacy after he left office. He was the first former president to visit North Korea (1994) and then Cuba (2002) for diplomatic purposes.
He was a humanitarian that did amazing work with Habitat for Humanity, which he volunteered with for 36 years. His involvement helped Habitat for Humanity spread to 14 countries and build more than 4,400 homes.
Jimmy Carter may not be famous for it, but he is the only president to publicly and vocally denounce the Republican theft of Christianity.
By Virginia Canter, chief anticorruption counsel, State Democracy Defenders Fund, Richard W. Painter, MSNBC Columnist and Gabe Lezra, policy director for State Democracy Defenders Fund
The so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” is officially a mere advisory commission. But DOGE is nevertheless poised to help restructure the federal government and perhaps upend decades of regulation of everything from vehicle safety to space exploration. Co-chair Elon Musk is one of the most politically powerful private citizens in the country, as evidenced by his role in the recent budget crisis in Washington. Through his wealth and his ownership of X, he has enormous influence over President-elect Donald Trump, lawmakers in Congress and the national narrative.
In announcing the creation of DOGE, Trump wrote that the commission would pave the way for his administration to “dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies.” Musk’s companies receive billions of dollars in government contracts. DOGE’s broad mandate could give Musk vast sway over the very same agencies that administer those contracts, as well as agencies investigating his companies.
Most recently, Musk reportedly failed to secure from the Air Force “high-level security access” due to “potential security risks,” and he and SpaceX reportedly “triggered” at least three federal reviews for noncompliance with federal reporting protocols in place to ensure the protection of state secrets.
The second Trump administration is already setting itself up to be more corrupt than Tammany Hall was a century ago. And DOGE appears to be the icing on the Trump corruption cake.
Musk alone has an absurd level of conflicts of interest, which in any other presidential administration would be disqualifying.
That Musk also couldn’t get “high-level security access” from the Air Force is another reason why Musk was an awful choice to co-chair DOGE.
The sardonic, reductionist headline here could be “Scientists finally figured out why you get more colds in winter: bEcAuSe iT’s CoLd!”—but the actual science involved here is both interesting, and potentially very relevant to everyday life and especially the immunocompromised:
It turns out the cold air itself damages the immune response occurring in the nose. […] In fact, reducing the temperature inside the nose by as little as 9 degrees Fahrenheit (5 degrees Celsius) kills nearly 50% of the billions of virus and bacteria-fighting cells in the nostrils, according to the study published Tuesday in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
“Cold air is associated with increased viral infection because you’ve essentially lost half of your immunity just by that small drop in temperature,” said rhinologist Dr. Benjamin Bleier, director of otolaryngology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School in Boston.
Want to avoid catching or spreading respiratory viruses like CoVid-19, RSV, influenza, or a common cold? Mask up, please, but also bundle up! Wrap up in a scarf, wear a balaclava, and just generally keep your face warm. There’s no single magic solution, but that’s not a reason to do nothing. Rather, it’s a reason to take several simple precautions that help avoid the spread of disease and protect those around you. (I can’t tell you how much “this isn’t 100% effective so I shouldn’t do it at all” frustrates me.)
Oh this is so cool! Fun fact, I used to wear fabric masks in winter even before the pandemic, simply because my nose was cold. So not only does wearing a mask help because it’s a physical barrier, it can help by providing a warm insulation that saves your cells! Neat!
This gown is made from a very special fabric which was woven à la disposition to fit the shape and dimensions of the skirt so that the butterflies flutter upward from the hem and, being graduated in size, seem to disappear in the distance.
once I was at the only gay bar in town and one of my students caught me there and they were like “so this is what you’re doing instead of grading our papers” and man what do I even say to that
pro-abortion. pro-divorce. i believe we have the god-given right to give up
when people go after no-fault divorce or abortion what they’re really doing is trying to enshrine the sunk cost fallacy into law
it sounds like a joke but this is a genuine political belief of mine. you should be able to leave a situation you don’t like. the government has no business trapping you in a relationship.
me: “have they tried not being fucking ignorant religious bigots?”
article: “I suspect that a bit of the steam has gone out of the LGBT thing,” Backman told the right-wing outlet, staying ahead of the issue. “There may be the odd protester, but if they have got armies of PR people laser-focused on that then I suspect it may be OK.”
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