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The internet these days is full of three-toed sloths and how they'll, one day, take over the world. Should we be afraid?
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Several new stadiums are emerging in different cities in India, but how safe are they really for women travelling to and from late-night games?
@swaris16 looks at a subject that rarely gets the attention it deserves.
Read here 👉 wisden.com/cricket-news/i-do…
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Kumara, you chose the wrong airline. They are the tuk-tuks of Europe; even their CEO behaves the same everywhere.
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My son was devastated when Bale left. Erik Lamela was doing a meet and greet fans at Harlow Spurs store. He didn’t turn up and some kid called @HKane did. My son was devastated and wanted to leave but told him you never know how these kids turn out. We stayed. 2013. #BallonDor
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I took a year off to travel a few years ago and ended up getting bit by a dog at the top of a mountain in Albania. While it wasn’t a bad bite, it drew blood and the dog was wild, so I knew I had to get rabies vaccinations.
It took me about 36 hours to get the first shot (because Albania doesn’t have any rabies vaccines, surprise!) and I ended up back in Montenegro. If you know anything about rabies, you know that (1) if you get it, you die, and (2) the vaccine sequence is quite long (you need shots on day 0, 3, 7, 14, and 28).
After about day 14, I was tired of my rabies vaccine tour of the Balkans and wanted to come home. I called Stanford to see if I could finish my course back in the US, and was essentially told that the vaccine I was receiving in Europe was not FDA-approved and I’d have to restart the entire sequence (at the cost of $10,000).
I stayed in Europe and jetted back home the day after receiving my last shot in Romania.
Obviously a very different situation from Max’s, but it was my first experience with how strange the gaps between medical systems can be. I was lucky that I could afford to extend my trip and finish the treatment abroad. It seems ridiculous that this was the easier option.
In January 2025 my mom’s lung cancer spread to her brain. The drug with the best chance of helping her was approved in China but not here.
A doctor told me, almost as an aside, that if she were Chinese she could buy it at a pharmacy.
So I flew to Shanghai and came home with 26 boxes in my luggage. That was 19 months ago. My mom is still here, still working, and in her words has had an amazing three years.
The drug was approved in China in 2023. The FDA approved it in July 2025. It still is not for sale here. I know of at least 30 Americans who have made the same trip.
I have been scared to tell this story because I worried it could cost my mom access to the medicine keeping her alive. But the problem matters more than my silence. These drugs need to be developed and available here, and that means FDA reform.
Art Allen at KFF Health News told our story this week. It also ran in The Washington Post.
kffhealthnews.org/health-ind…
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In January 2025 my mom’s lung cancer spread to her brain. The drug with the best chance of helping her was approved in China but not here.
A doctor told me, almost as an aside, that if she were Chinese she could buy it at a pharmacy.
So I flew to Shanghai and came home with 26 boxes in my luggage. That was 19 months ago. My mom is still here, still working, and in her words has had an amazing three years.
The drug was approved in China in 2023. The FDA approved it in July 2025. It still is not for sale here. I know of at least 30 Americans who have made the same trip.
I have been scared to tell this story because I worried it could cost my mom access to the medicine keeping her alive. But the problem matters more than my silence. These drugs need to be developed and available here, and that means FDA reform.
Art Allen at KFF Health News told our story this week. It also ran in The Washington Post.
kffhealthnews.org/health-ind…
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I don’t understand why people are so obsessed with the idea of shortening tennis games Does it have to do with the shortened attention-span of society over the last few years Maybe Probably actually But that’s a problem on an individual basis to fix Not my fault you can’t focus!
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A tyrant must appear deeply religious. People are less likely to fear injustice from a ruler they believe is pious. They are also less likely to rebel because they think God is on his side. ~ Aristotle
#WATCH | Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends 'Bhajan Clubbing' at Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Park in Delhi, on the occasion of Bharatiya Jana Sangh leader Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya's birth anniversary.
(Source: DD News)
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One of the problems is that ODIs are swept together with T20 in the facile descriptor “While Ball Cricket”. In fact the two formats are utterly different. The 50 over game is infinitely superior - proper cricket.
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If I say, "ketchup is the worst," that's just an opinion.
If I say, "people who like ketchup are idiots," that's bullying.
If I say, "because I don't like ketchup, no one should be allowed to have it," that's oppression.
If I say, "people who eat ketchup are dangerous and must be controlled," that's racism, bigotry, and fascism.
If I say, "anyone who defends ketchup should be silenced or locked up," that's the destruction of free speech and democracy.