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John Grinnell retweeted
By 1776 the average American soldier stood nearly three inches taller than the redcoat sent to put him down.
They were the same people. Same villages, same surnames, same blood, separated by three or four generations and one ocean.
The Englishman had grown up on bread and the game laws. His deer belonged to the king, his rabbits to the squire, and his common had been fenced.
The American had grown up in a country with no lord, no keeper and no forest law. William Penn wrote the right to hunt and fish into Pennsylvania's founding charter. Vermont put it in its constitution.
Colonial Americans ate somewhere between 150 and 200lb of meat a year each. Emigrants wrote the same line home for 200 years: we have meat three times a day.
Height is what a childhood of meat looks like from the outside.
England proves it from the other direction. In 1800 a 14 year old cadet at Sandhurst, raised on beef and mutton, stood about eight inches taller than a 14 year old from the London slums recruited for the navy.
So the English ruling class knew perfectly well what meat does to a child. They had the evidence at their own dinner table.
They simply kept it there. The ones who got away grew three inches and then beat them in a war.
John Grinnell retweeted
Folks,this list isn’t a test. It’s an invitation.
You don’t have to become a new person overnight.
Just start with one line on this list tomorrow morning.
Water. Sunlight. A walk.
Save the list. Do one thing.
Then do it again the next day.
You are allowed to want a life that feels lighter.
John Grinnell retweeted
As some of you know, Bobby Kennedy @RobertKennedyJr is one of my oldest and best friends. I am so proud to know him. I was involved in his Presidential compaign and it's one of the high points of my life. I truly have seen him deliver over well over two hundred speeches, including one of the best I ever saw in Boston as he announced his run. I have lost many of what I thought were friends for supporting him, and tonight I truly do not care. His speech tonight laid it all out as purely and cleanly as anyone could will ever do. Where were are, and what we are up against, in a way no other former Democrat has been able, or has had the courage to say. Please, if you didn't see it. Watch it. I am so proud of this great American and so glad we all have him in our camp and on our side. All of us Democrats and Republicans.
John Grinnell retweeted
Diversity is a survival value. One strain of wheat in a field of wheat can be taken out by one disease. One diseased way of thinking can ruin humanity. #diversity #FreedomOfSpeech
John Grinnell retweeted
Google is preparing to launch one of the LARGEST open-air biological experiments in American HISTORY by releasing 64 MILLION bacteria-infected mosquitoes into Florida and California.
The EPA needs to REJECT Google's EXPERIMENTAL USE PERMIT.
John Grinnell retweeted
AI is going to make PI much more valuable. (Personal Interaction.)
When everyone can write the perfect email, the advantage will go to the person willing to walk across the room and introduce themselves.
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Saviez-vous qu’une cuillerée de miel suffit à maintenir une personne en vie pendant 24 heures
Saviez-vous qu’une des premières pièces de monnaie au monde portait le symbole d’une abeille
Saviez-vous que le miel contient des enzymes vivantes
La meilleure façon de manger du miel est avec une cuillère en bois; si vous n’en trouvez pas, utilisez une cuillère en plastique.
Saviez-vous que le miel contient une substance qui aide le cerveau à mieux fonctionner
Saviez-vous que le miel est l’un des rares aliments de la planète qui peut à lui seul soutenir la vie humaine
Saviez-vous que les abeilles ont sauvé des personnes de la faim en Afrique
Saviez-vous que le propolis produit par les abeilles est l’un des antibiotiques naturels les plus puissants
Saviez-vous que le miel n’a pas de date d’expiration
Saviez-vous que les corps de certains des plus grands empereurs étaient enterrés dans des objets en or et recouverts de miel pour éviter la décomposition
Saviez-vous que le terme « lune de miel » vient de la tradition des époux de consommer du miel pour la fertilité après le mariage
Saviez-vous qu’une abeille vit moins de 40 jours, visite au moins 1 000 fleurs et produit moins d’une cuillère à café de miel, mais pour elle c’est une vie de travail
Merci, précieuses abeilles...
John Grinnell retweeted
Listening is “paying” attention. It’s the currency of Trust, honesty and follower-ship is the exchange. Fundamental.
John Grinnell retweeted
The Atlantic just ran a piece called "The Age of Reading Is Over." We are literally losing the ability to read anything longer than an Instagram post. This is not good. Think about history for a second. During the slave trade, what was the one thing punishable by death? Teaching a slave to read. Why? Because tyrants have always known that literacy is the ultimate key to human freedom.
Less than half of American adults read a single book in 2022. It’s so bad that a staffer at Harvard actually complained that assigning books to students is "arbitrarily withholding information" because it forces them to use a "difficult medium." Let that sink in. IVY LEAGUE STUDENTS have a hard time reading something and then paraphrasing it.
If we stop reading, we go straight back to the dark ages. We'll be sitting around waiting for a government agency or an AI script to tell us what the Constitution means through a paraphrased post on X.
John Grinnell retweeted
The senate just confirmed that we live in a country where the elected public servants deliberately ignore the will of the people.
John Grinnell retweeted
Carlos Whittaker did a 7.5-week no-screen experiment and the results are wild.
No phone. No TV. No laptop. No watch. Nothing. He even got his brain scanned before and after by a neuroscientist.
The outcome? His cerebellum healed years worth of damage in just seven weeks. His cognitive memory score jumped from the 50th percentile to the 99th percentile of adult men in America. He said he felt like a completely different human, sharper, clearer, more alive.
This one stopped me in my tracks. I’ve been feeling the scroll fatigue hard lately, and hearing someone actually measure the difference with real brain scans is next-level motivating.
Our constant screen exposure might be doing more quiet damage to our brains than we realize. Sometimes the simplest reset (doing less) creates the biggest upgrade.
Have you ever done a serious digital detox? Would you try one this extreme?
John Grinnell retweeted
Did you know that if you put 100 black ants and 100 red ants together in a jar, they usually coexist peacefully? But if you shake the jar hard, they immediately turn on each other and start killing one another. The red ants see the black ants as enemies, and the black ants see the red ants as enemies. Yet the real enemy is the one shaking the jar.
The same thing happens in human society. Before we turn on each other, we should stop and ask ourselves: who is shaking the jar?
John Grinnell retweeted
The sub 2 hour marathon barrier has been broken in London
Sabastian Sawe: 1:59:30
Yomif Kejelcha: 1:59:41
4:34/mile for 26.2 miles... insane
John Grinnell retweeted
6 min of reading reduces stress by 68%, more than music or walking.
Book readers live 23% longer according to a 12 year Yale Study
Heres what reading does to your brain: 🧵
John Grinnell retweeted
“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”
-Benjamin Franklin, 1787
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Just read this on Fb. America take notes. 👇
Sweden Schools Ditch Screens to Revive Traditional Learning 📚✏️
Sweden is bringing back handwriting, paper, and printed textbooks in schools after years of heavy reliance on digital devices. Students are now learning core skills with books and pencils, with technology serving as a supportive tool rather than the focus.
The move comes after research showed that excessive screen time in classrooms can reduce reading comprehension, attention spans, and deep focus. Teachers also observed weaker handwriting and sustained reading skills among students. This shift prioritizes foundational learning while keeping digital tools in a supplementary role.
Sweden’s strategy is being hailed as an “analog revival,” setting an example for other nations on balancing modern technology with essential traditional skills in education.
References:
BBC News: Sweden Ends Digital Teaching to Bring Back Handwriting and Books
Reuters: Sweden Schools Return to Paper-Based Learning
John Grinnell retweeted
Parents, I’m begging you, read to your children. Get them books. Lots of books. Silly books. Fun books. Chapter books. Anything.
Get them to read consistently from 5-18 and they will be light years ahead of their peers when they get to college.
John Grinnell retweeted
Dr. Andrew Huberman just confirmed a “wild conspiracy theory” about incandescent lights and LED bulbs.
The long wavelengths found in incandescents increase your metabolism and “charge your mitochondria.”
Conversely, the LED bulbs that most of you have in your house are “causing disruptions in mitochondrial function.”
DR. ANDREW HUBERMAN: “Your mitochondria function better, you increase ATP production, your metabolism increases in the presence of red light, long wavelength light to the skin.”
“Shine long wavelength light on somebody, watch blood glucose levels in a blood glucose test, and it’s blunted.”
“Now, the LED lights that are commonly used now… that short wavelength light, in the absence of long wavelength light, has been shown to damage the mitochondria.”
“This used to be considered crazy. This was like chemtrail crazy, right?”
“But now we’re starting to see from animal studies and human studies, from Glenn Jeffreys and others, that people’s vision gets better when they get in front of an incandescent bulb once a day.”
“If they get sunlight, which also has long-wavelength light, your vision improves because of improvements in mitochondria.”
The Biden administration quietly pushed incandescents out of the market through aggressive energy regulations.
But you can still find them online today if you look hard enough.
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