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The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed. Charlotte Bronte
As a 19-year-old sophomore at Stanford, Elizabeth Holmes decided to transform diagnostic medicine so she dropped out of college and used her tuition money to start her own company, Theranos. Ten years later, Holmes, pictured here holding a micro-vial, is on the cutting edge of medical technology — her new blood testing method allows hundreds of tests to be run using only a few drops of blood. And, Holmes’ methods are cheaper, faster, more accurate, and less invasive than conventional methods which often require a separate vial of blood for every test.
As Holmes told Wired.com earlier this year, “I started this company because I wanted to spend my life changing our health care system. When someone you love gets really sick, most of the time when you find out, it’s too late to be able to do something about it. It’s heartbreaking… We wanted to make actionable health information accessible to people everywhere at the time it matters most. That means two things: being able to detect conditions in time to do something about them and providing access to information that can empower people to improve their lives.”
She is featured as Forbes’ youngest self-made woman billionaire.
Her tests will revolutionize the public health world as we know it; Making diagnostic testing accessible and affordable for more people (and potentially saving Medicare and Medicaid ~$100 billion each over the next decade). (x)
She is a coauthor on 82 US and 189 foreign patent applications. (x)
Her fear of needles served as a motivator for launching Theranos. (x)
Some wacky illustrations for a short dissertation I wrote for my Masters, exploring the relationship between medieval illuminations, marginalia, and online ads.
Prosecutors are investigating attempted murder after a 65-year-old was kicked in the head and seriously wounded in an alleged Islamist, anti
German prosecutors are investigating an alleged attempted murder with a suspected anti-Israel motive after a 65-year-old man wearing an Israeli flag pin was severely beaten in southern Germany, authorities said.
The attack occurred overnight Monday in Höchberg, a market town near Würzburg in Bavaria.
According to local police, the victim, a member of the Germany-Israel Friendship Association, was standing beside a young Syrian man at a traffic light when the suspect noticed the Israeli flag pin on his clothing and asked about it, initiating a conversation about the Middle East.
Before the victim could respond, the suspect allegedly punched him in the face.
Police said the victim attempted to flee, but the attacker chased him, knocked him to the ground and repeatedly kicked him in the head and upper body. The assault ended only after police arrived at the scene.
The victim, whose nationality and religion have not been publicly confirmed, suffered a fractured vertebra and remained hospitalized in intensive care.
The suspect was arrested and remains in custody. According to local prosecutors, the same man had been detained the previous evening at a market in Höchberg after allegedly harassing passersby.
Prosecutors said they are investigating the case as an attempted murder with indications of anti-Israeli violence motivated by Islamist ideology.
The attack comes amid heightened concern over rising antisemitic incidents in Germany since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war following Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel. German authorities have reported a sharp increase in antisemitic crimes, many linked to the conflict in the Middle East.
Volker Beck, president of the Germany-Israel Friendship Association, condemned the attack and argued that increasingly hostile rhetoric toward Israel has contributed to an atmosphere in which such violence occurs.
"Enough is enough," Beck said. "Anyone who demonizes Israel through accusations of genocide and apartheid creates the climate for attacks like this. No one in Germany fears for their personal safety when displaying Palestinian symbols, but anyone wearing an Israeli symbol is no longer safe in public."
Josef Schuster, president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said the assault reflected a broader rise in antisemitic violence.
"This brutal outbreak of violence did not happen in a vacuum," Schuster said. "All relevant statistics document a record increase in antisemitic incidents, in most cases connected to Israel. The normalization of this hatred paves the way for violent acts like this latest attack."
Martin Heilig, mayor of Würzburg, whose district includes Höchberg, described the assault as an attack on Germany's democratic values.
"When a citizen is attacked simply for wearing an Israeli pin, it is an unacceptable attack on the foundations of our democratic values," Heilig said. "For our city, this is a clear and unequivocal case of antisemitism, hatred and violence that has no place in Würzburg or our district."
Israel's Embassy in Germany also condemned the attack in a post on X. "How many Palestinian flags do you see on an average day in any city? Dozens. You can display them openly everywhere. And that despite the fact that all the antisemites, despots, and terror sympathizers of the world gather behind it," the embassy wrote.
"But a single, tiny Israeli flag puts one in mortal danger. In the year 2026. In Germany. The perpetrators are not interested in any kind of peace. It's not about Palestine, let alone about Palestinians. For the perpetrators, it's about hate. It was an attack on all three: Germany, Israel, and our democratic society."
everyone needs to hear about the situation in india right now. the youth of this nation are going through hell and back to protect the foundations that our country was built on in the first place, while the adults who are supposed to actually be in charge try to silence our voices.
NEET, which is an exam taken by millions of students per year and is the ONLY gateway for medical admissions across the country, had its papers leaked. so many took their lives because this exam meant everything for their future. and NTA, the agency who conducts this exam, was not held accountable.
there was national backlash. cockroach janta party (initially a satirical political party formed by abhijeet dipke in retaliation to the remarks of the chief justice of india calling the youth "cockroaches" and "parasites of society") started protests at jantar mantar, demanding the resignation of the union education minister, dharmendra pradhan. the movement also asked for ten million inr (~100,000 usd) in compensation for the families of students who died by suicide and wanted NTA be held accountable.
sonam wangchuk, a climate activist and education reformer, also went on a hunger strike at jantar mantar to protest against this corruption in india's higher education system. his fast began on june 28, demanding the resignation of the union education minister. his fast lasted for 20 days until delhi police FORCIBLY removed him and admitted him to safdarjung hospital on july 18.
because of this, cockroach janta party announced "chalo sansad," a march to the parliament beginning on june 20th, 9:00 am ist. but the police seems to be responding with water cannons, mobile jammers, and baton charge. all of this, because of a peaceful protest led by people no older than 30.
and yet there has been absolutely no indian media coverage about a movement that spans the entirety of this nation. so, please, if you see this, keep talking about us. we will not let those old bastards stoop any lower than they've already had. we will not let them ruin our country any further. we will not be silenced
Please look it up. Students have been beaten bloody. They’re using electrified batons. They’re using batons with nails hammered in. They’re dragging people off and locking them up for no reason. People are being beaten, assaulted, and even molested by the police.
The government is doing everything it can except for actually having an honest dialogue with the protestors.
It’s important to note that despite all the police brutality, despite how the government has had extra forces airlifted to Delhi to help quash the protest, this has deterred no one.
Not only is the protest in Delhi going strong, the government closed down every metro station in Central Delhi in an effort to stop them and it still hasn’t.
There’s protests in most major cities in India in solidarity. Palakkad, Chennai, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Kochi, and probably more besides. There has been a protest in the UK as well in solidarity.
People who aren’t at the protest are donating so much food that the organisers have had to ask them to stop doing so because there’s more than enough. In lieu of that people are donating money for medicine, lawyers, cleanup, and umbrellas.
Most crucially, hopes aren’t broken. Spirits aren’t broken. People with bruises and broken bones are still showing up. People are showing up cosplaying as freedom fighters and super heroes and a dinosaur. People are doxxing goons who show up trying to incite violence. People are making reels. People in Mumbai literally opened a moving police detainment van to allow arrested students to escape.
*all links lead to Instagram posts or reels showing the same. Almost every major Indian news network has been bought and either ignores the protests or depicts them unfairly. All honest news comes from people on the ground and smaller independent news outlets.
The only thing that’d be more potentially embarrassing than my internet history would be my calculator history, a chronicle of all the painfully simple math I couldn’t manage to do in my head.
whenever i look into a historical monarch who doesn’t get talked about much and is just kind of a blank spot in my understanding of the historical narrative, 95% of the time what i find is pure white hot blistering capability. a pencil pusher for the ages. a 39 year reign with no more than three hours of sleep a night. there aren’t any good stories from his reign because he systematically caught and stopped all catastrophic good stories before they could start. you shrimply must respect it
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