Sunday, March 2
Risk factors that ruin health and reduce longevity
Meet the centenarian professor
Meet the centenarian professor who is a living example of health, fitness and everything good. Popularly known as the nutrition professor, Dr. John Scharffenberg was born on December 15, 1923 in China. A Harvard University alumnus, Dr. Scharffenberg's interview on longevity and leading a healthy life is very popular on social media.
Saturday, March 1
Walking is one of the most underrated forms of exercise, yet it provides incredible health benefits when done correctly. While gym trainers often push high-intensity workouts and complex gym routines, they rarely highlight the true power of walking. If done strategically, walking can help you burn fat, improve cardiovascular health, tone muscles, and even boost mental well-being.
At A Glance
Bookkeeping
> $19: The cost of a single strawberry flown from Japan and sold in the US.
> At least 15%: The percentage of immigrants and children of immigrants who make up the current US Congress.
Browse
> The world's 100 best coffee shops.
> ... and the 50 greatest all-time luxury cars.
> Interior design pros reveal nine of the biggest and best kitchen trends.
> America's states reimagined by population size.
> China's puppy-shaped mountain becomes tourist sensation.
Listen
> A US Fish and Wildlife Service agent meets a self-proclaimed butterfly smuggler, then spends three years undercover to catch him in the act.
Watch
> The weird history of London's public toilets. (via Instagram)
> How to ask for help when you're overwhelmed.
> The absurd Google interview question everyone gets wrong.
Long Read
> A missing $25 gift card rocks the Hamptons, leads to over $25K in arbitration fees, and derails a school principal’s career.
> Why interjections like "um," "huh," and "mmhmm" are valuable in conversations.
> The cryptocurrency scam that turned a small town against itself.
Most Clicked This Week: Where college-educated Americans are moving.
Eman Al Farran - Artist
Life is too busy and rarely we have a chance to stop and look inside ourselves. But during the pandemic, we were forced to stop and look to see there are many things in life other than work. And , here I discovered my talent and starting painting none stop. I love oil , paster and charcoal painting, I love painting portrait and horses. Recently start painting on bags. the learning journey is limitless and each day , I try to learn something new. I can't define my self with one type of painting as my passion to painting grows everyday and everywhere.
In The NEWS
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Social media influencer Andrew Tate and his brother, who face rape and human trafficking charges in Romania, return to the US after Romanian authorities lifted travel restrictions on the duo (More)
> Katy Perry, Gayle King, and Lauren Sánchez among six women tapped for first-ever all-woman space crew aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard spacecraft (More)
> NFL considering rule changes including changes to regular season overtime rules and electronic measurements for first downs (More) | Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce confirms he'll return for 2025 season amid retirement speculation (More)
Science & Technology
> Amazon unveils quantum computing chip, available for Amazon Web Services customers; device brings the company in line with competitors Google and Microsoft (More) | How does quantum computing work, anyway? (1440 Topics)
> New AI algorithm helps doctors analyze and predict health outcomes based on a series of medical images; approach may have use in diagnosing diseases ranging from cancer to Alzheimer's (More)
> Intuitive Machines successfully launches second lunar lander; payload includes a Nokia-built 4G wireless system, which would establish the first Wi-Fi network on the moon (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets fall (S&P 500 -1.6%, Dow -0.5%, Nasdaq -2.8%) as tech stocks slide following Nvidia's (-8.5%) earnings report and President Donald Trump affirms coming tariffs (More)
> YouTube influencer MrBeast planning investment round that could value his company at $5B (More) | Payments giant Stripe's valuation rises to nearly $92B in latest tender offer (More) | Tender offers 101 (More)
> US pending home sales index falls to record low of 4.6% year over year in January, likely due to high mortgage rates, record-high home prices (More) | US jobless claims rise to 242,000 for week ending Feb. 22, the year's highest level (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> President Donald Trump says 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada to go into effect Tuesday, plans to double existing 10% tariffs on China (More) | Mexico begins releasing nearly 30 drug cartel operatives into US custody (More)
> Justice Department releases flight logs and names of people related to deceased sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein (More) | US military services have 30 days to develop plan to identify transgender members and another 30 days to remove them from the force (More)
> Israeli military releases first report from investigation into the military and intelligence failures surrounding Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack; findings include officers underestimating Hamas' capabilities, misinterpreting early warnings (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
March 2025
We begin March 2025 and as each day unfolds and moves onto the next, that previous day will never be seen again...
Why is this important?
Well... for East TN residents, March marks that month where winter has lost its momentum and it is just a matter of days before the mild weather of spring arrives...
What does this mean?
Preparing the land for crops to be planted in the near future. The first frost free planting date is April 16.
Most people would not make this prediction until the Ides of March or the middle of the month, but I am a bit more optimistic with the southern weather.
East TN has been support weather in the high 50s low 60s for a week now and will continue to do so for another week. Yes... this is a good sign and yes... it will get cold again but will not last more than a couple of days.
March begins our transition into SPRING...
Misreading a Major Law of Physics
When Isaac Newton inscribed onto parchment his now-famed laws of motion in 1687, he could have only hoped we'd be discussing them three centuries later.
Writing in Latin, Newton outlined three universal principles describing how the motion of objects is governed in our Universe, which have been translated, transcribed, discussed and debated at length.
But according to a philosopher of language and mathematics, we might have been interpreting Newton's precise wording of his first law of motion slightly wrong all along.
Virginia Tech philosopher Daniel Hoek wanted to "set the record straight" after discovering what he describes as a "clumsy mistranslation" in the original 1729 English translation of Newton's Latin Principia. READ MORE...
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