Something nice for a Sunday morning

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'Doctor, I have a problem. Every night, when I’m in bed, I feel like someone is hiding underneath. So I get up to look under the bed, and, of course, there’s no one there. I get back into bed, but after a while, I start thinking maybe I didn’t check properly. So I get up to check again, but again, nothing. No matter how much I tell myself it’s silly, I always feel the need to make sure no one is hiding under the bed. Doctor, this is ruining my life. Can you do something ?'

'Hmm… I see… obsessive-compulsive… One year of psychotherapy, three sessions per week, and I can cure your obsession.'

'Uh… how much will that cost, Doctor ?'

'60 euros per session. So, 180 euros per week, 720 euros per month, and a total of 8,700 euros.'

'Uh… I think I’ll think about it…'

Six months later, the psychiatrist runs into the woman on the street by chance:

'So? Why didn’t you ever come back to see me ?'

'8,700 euros! My pizza delivery guy solved my problem for only 30 euros !'

'Your pizza delivery guy ? Really ? How did he do it ?'

'He advised me to saw off the legs of my bed !'

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This iconic photograph marks the final chapter in the career of bullfighter Álvaro Munero.

During a bullfight, something unexpected happened. In the midst of the arena, Munero suddenly froze and sat down at the edge, overwhelmed by a profound sense of remorse.

In a later interview, he explained:

“At that moment, I stopped seeing horns. I saw the eyes of the bull. It stood before me, calm, observing without aggression. There was a pure innocence in its gaze, a silent plea for mercy. It was as if the bull was speaking to me the same way one prays to God: ‘I haven’t wronged you. I don’t want to fight. If you wish, you may kill me, but I beg you to let me live.’”

Looking into those eyes, Munero was struck by a deep shame. He could no longer continue the fight. From that day on, he renounced bullfighting and adopted a vegetarian lifestyle.

Published in 2012, this story traveled across thousands of media outlets worldwide. Millions learned of Munero’s transformation, and this photograph has since become one of the most memorable and powerful images against bullfighting.

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A footballer’s wife filed for divorce three years after their marriage and demanded half of the player’s property.

Unfortunately for her, she was shocked to learn that he actually had no property in his name, because the court informed her that her millionaire husband owned nothing, as all his assets were registered under his mother’s name.

The footballer earns 1 million euros per month, and all the money is deposited into his mother’s bank account.

The house, land, cars, jewellery, clothes — everything that Hakimi purchased — is in his mother’s name.

An incredible move and a clever one to protect himself from a money grabbing bitch who marry, fuck you, have a kid and then dig their claws into you for the next few decades leeching every penny thay can from you. Divorce is the beginning of the money grab and well done on this guy for planning ahead.

JB COMMENTS: I have heard and witnessed this SO MANY TIMES where wives end up in the big house with the car and the kds while hubby struggles in a bed sit with no car and no money while she lives like a Queen - and even has a new live in lover while husband pays for it all. Thank God I am gay and single.

We should all know the name Cecilia Payne.

“Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered the composition of the universe hasn’t even been given a commemorative plaque. Newspapers, in their obituaries, didn’t mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, Charles Darwin discovered evolution, Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of the universe, textbooks simply state that the most abundant atom is hydrogen. And no one asks how we know this.”

Jeremy Knowles, on the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne still receives for her revolutionary discovery.

Oh, wait—let me tell you about Cecilia Payne.

Her mother refused to fund her college education? No matter—she earned a scholarship to Cambridge.

She excelled in her studies? Cambridge refused to award her a degree because, at the time, women had little place there. So rather than let that stop her, she left everything behind and moved to the United States to work at Harvard.

She became the first person to earn a PhD in astronomy from Radcliffe College, with a thesis described by Otto Struve as “the most brilliant doctoral thesis ever written in astronomy.”

Cecilia Payne didn’t just discover what the universe is made of—she also discovered the composition of the Sun. Yet, Henry Norris Russell is often credited with this discovery… even though he arrived at the same conclusions four years later, after advising her not to publish her results.

Cecilia Payne is the reason we know almost everything we know today about variable stars—those stars whose brightness changes when observed from Earth. Every subsequent study on the subject builds on her work.

She was the first woman to be promoted to full professor at Harvard, breaking the glass ceiling in the university’s science department and paving the way for generations of women scientists.

Cecilia Payne was a pioneer, a revolutionary, a brilliant scientist.

And everyone should know her name.

Photo credit: Schlesinger Library.

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