Entreprenör inom medicinteknik och bioteknik. Ph.D. in medical and physiological chemistry. I tweet my own opinions about various subjects in Swedish or English
Everytime you go to a Restaurant, Hotel or a bar for your Xmas festivities, take a look and remember this picture. They do everything to make and serve you good food, and sometimes only have 5 minutes to eat themselves. Be kind to chefs, bartenders and waiters guys and girls.
Back in 1964 a writer & producer named Gene Roddenberry was trying to sell a pilot for his TV show, "Star Trek" He got turned down several times but someone eventually believed in him. She bought the rights and produced it under her own production company. She was Lucille Ball.
This picture was taken in April 1945, by Major Benjamin and shows a train of Jewish prisoners that had been intercepted by Allied Forces.
This is the moment they learned that the train would not be heading to a concentration camp and they had been liberated.
Historic photographs
This is former Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World Vitali Klitschko, from Ukraine. Mayor of Kyiv.
He is worth millions, with capabilities of being anywhere in the world.
He is currently armed and ready to defend his country at all costs.
Prince Philip decided to prank his wife as dressing as part of the household guard, unbeknown to her Majesty. So as she’s inspecting the guard, he holds the pose, not cracking a smile. But she couldn’t! She cracks up and you can see the mischievous happiness he brought her.
One of the best things in awhile. They use the same pink dye that is attached to stolen bank notes. This makes the ivory unsellable and it cannot be consumed. The animals are not harmed and it is saving their lives.
A puppy was brought to the shelter, paralyzed with fear. A sweet lonely pup Lucy took to her immediately. The shelter decided to only adopt the two of them together as a pair. Happily, one of the volunteers at the shelter fell in love with them both and is taking them home today.
These lovely people are Hindu and don't celebrate Christmas. What a true inspiration ....
Meet & Deep News, a family-run newsagents in Twickenham, which will open its doors on December 25 – the one day of the year when newspapers don’t print.
Rhea Bullos (age 11) in the Philippines couldn't afford running shoes to compete at a local inter-school athletics meet.
She covered her feet with tape and drew a Nike swoosh on them. She went on to win three gold medals (400m, 800m, and 1500m).
The George Peabody Library in Baltimore, Maryland. Completed in 1878. Regarded as one of the most beautiful libraries in the world.
Photography via
@oldamericanarchitecture
Perhaps the most-terrifying space photograph around.
Astronaut Bruce McCandless II floats untethered away from the safety of the space shuttle, with nothing but his Manned Maneuvering Unit keeping him alive. The first person in history to do so.
Credit: NASA
On this day in 1971, each of the four ex-Beatles has a solo single on the UK chart:
John Lennon - "Power to the People"
Paul McCartney - "Another Day"
Ringo Starr - "It Don't Come Easy"
George Harrison - "My Sweet Lord"
Olena Zelenska - First Lady, wife of the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
She is a Ukrainian architect and screenwriter. She is advocating for gender equality, and in diplomatic work to expand her country’s reach in the global arena of representation.
"I was supposed to play an exhibition match with Boris Becker. 30 min before he cancels. 'You will play a 14 - year - old boy'. I go on court ready to make him win some games, so he won't start crying. I lose in straight sets, and I ask him his name: Rafael Nadal" - Pat Cash
One of the most beautiful photos of over 73 years of life together. In 2003, Prince Philip wearing the Queen's Guard uniform. She walks past him and busts out laughing.
The Albatross is the largest bird that can go years without landing. They spend their first 6 years of life flying over the ocean before coming to the land to mate. It is capable of traveling more than 10,000 miles in a single journey and circumnavigating the globe in 46 days.
Donald Trump is cleared by a group of spineless, brown nosed republicans. The world is watching. Shame on you. Something happened in the way the world is looking at the US today. You let the criminal Donald Trump completely destroy your party. Cowards.
@SaltYPockets
@morgfair
In order to look more intimidating, himalayan griffon vultures have adapted a set of false eyes which are actually just its plumage arranged in a certain way, with what looks like bald spots making up the “eyes” and the bridge of the false nose that is actually the neck.
"At school I had a teacher that didn't like me and I didn't like him. At the end of the year he decided to fail me. The ironic thing is that the topic was chemistry.
I am the only Nobel Prize Chemistry Laureate who failed the topic in high school!" - Tomas Lindahl, 83 today!
I’m leaving Twitter. Now if I publish something informative about animals from a veterinary standpoint, I get attacked by hostile loudmouths who know nothing. Every day I get messages from 20 year old girls explaining what we should do on the beach… Not for me. Bye friends. 😎
He is 85 years old and insists on taking his wife by the hand wherever he goes.. ”she has Alzheimer's".
So I asked him, "Will your wife worry if you let go of her hand?" He answered: ”she doesn't remember, she doesn't know who I am, she hasn't recognized me for years".
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