🚨 A VACCINE TO STOP LUNG CANCER BEFORE IT STARTS? Scientists are preparing to test a groundbreaking vaccine designed to train the immune system to destroy cells that could become lung cancer. Early research looks promising, raising hopes for a future where cancer is prevented before it even begins. If successful, this could become one of the biggest medical breakthroughs of our time. Source:
National Cancer Institute. Lung cancer prevention research

🧠 A new Alzheimer’s treatment uses 40 Hz light and sound pulses to trigger the brain’s natural waste-disposal system and flush out toxic proteins. Recent breakthroughs in neuroscience have revealed that exposing the brain to light and sound flashing exactly 40 times per second—a method known as 40 Hz gamma stimulation—can significantly boost natural brain waves associated with memory, attention, and cognitive processing. In numerous animal studies, this rhythmic sensory stimulation successfully prompted the brain to clear away amyloid and tau, the hallmark proteins driving Alzheimer's disease. Rather than relying on traditional pharmaceuticals to target these plaques, this cutting-edge approach activates the glymphatic system—the brain's internal 'plumbing'—to naturally flush out harmful waste and preserve connections between neurons. The therapy's promise is already extending to human clinical trials. Patients with Alzheimer's who underwent regular 40 Hz sensory stimulation showed slower rates of brain shrinkage and notable cognitive improvements compared to untreated control groups. While researchers emphasize that this experimental technique is not a cure and a large-scale Phase III nationwide trial is currently underway to prove its definitive clinical efficacy, the paradigm shift is profound. By harnessing the brain's own rhythms to trigger self-repair, scientists hope this non-invasive approach might eventually be adapted to treat other complex neurological conditions, including Parkinson's disease, stroke, and multiple sclerosis. source: Orenstein, D. Evidence that 40Hz gamma stimulation promotes brain health is expanding. MIT News.

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13 June 1967: #President Lyndon Johnson (D) nominates Thurgood #Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Court after Justice Tom Clark retires. He becomes the first African-American U.S. Supreme Court justice when the #Senate confirmed him by a vote of 69-11 on August 30, 1967. #History #OTD #ad amzn.to/2Aoeeam

One of the best movies ever.

It was 1970, and this was the first time Elton John played “Tiny Dancer” for his lyricist, Bernie Taupin, and his future wife, Maxine.

🚨: Scientists just deleted the extra chromosome that causes Down syndrome using CRISPR

As Alanis Morissette was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame on June 11, the artist and mom to three kids with husband Mario "Souleye" Treadway, told E! News why being a mom will always come before being a writer.

This is the most emotional thing you’ll see today. The bond between a soldier and his dog is unbreakable, even in death. 🙏🇺🇸❤💚

My life, my love, my lady is the sea.

The Schoolteacher Who Shot the Rabbits, 1934 This story may not totally have happened in reality but the spirit of the day rings true “bunny beware” April 21, 1934. Dalhart, Texas. Jackrabbit invasion. Millions. Ate fence posts. Dust took crops. Rabbits took what was left. Agnes “Miss Aggie” McClure, 35, schoolteacher, had 30 kids. No lunch. State said: “Kill rabbits. 3 cents bounty.” Men were gone. Working WPA. She took school .22 rifles. Taught 5th grade girls to shoot. “Math lesson: 1 rabbit = 2 meals. 20 rabbits = ?” Girls killed 400 rabbits in one week. Cooked stew on school stove. Fed whole town. School board fired her. “Guns in school.” Kids wrote letters. She got job back. She had a .22 and a class. The town got stew.

Meet Madam Jeanne Louise Calment, who had the longest confirmed human lifespan: 122 years, 164 days. Apparently, fate strongly approved of the way she lived her life. She was born in Arles, France, on February 21, 1875. The Eiffel Tower was built when she was 14 years old. It was at this time she met Vincent van Gogh. "He was dirty, badly dressed, and disagreeable," she recalled in an interview given in 1988. When she was 85, she took up fencing, and still rode her bike when she reached 100. At the age of 114, she starred in a film about her life, at age 115 she had an operation on her hip, and at age 117 she gave up smoking, having started at the age of 21 in 1896. She didn't give it up for health reasons; her reason was that she didn't like having to ask someone to help her light a cigarette once she was nearly blind. In 1965, Jeanne was 90 years old and had no heirs. She signed a deal to sell her apartment to a 47-year-old lawyer called André-François Raffray. He agreed to pay her a monthly sum of 2,500 francs on the condition he would inherit her apartment after she died. However, Raffray not only ended up paying Jeanne for 30 years, but then died before she did at the age of 77. His widow was legally obliged to continue paying Madam Calment until the end of her days. Jeanne retained sharp mental faculties. When she was asked on her 120th birthday what kind of future she expected to have. Her reply, "A very short one." Here are the Rules of Life from Jeanne Louise Calment: "I'm in love with wine." "All babies are beautiful." "I think I will die of laughter." "I've been forgotten by our Good Lord." "I've got only one wrinkle, and I'm sitting on it." "I never wear mascara; I laugh until I cry often." "If you can't change something, don't worry about it." "Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life." "I see badly, I hear badly, and I feel bad, but everything's fine." "I have a huge desire to live and a big appetite, especially for sweets." "I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit." "I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky." “Being young is a state of mind, it doesn’t depend on one’s body. I’m actually still a young girl, it's just that I haven't looked so good for the past 70 years." At the end of one interview, the journalist said, "Madame, I hope we will meet again sometime next year." To which Jeanne replied, "Why not? You're not that old; you'll still be here!” The image with the wings is a piece of art by L. Lichtenfells

Gene Shalit, longtime and iconic film critic, has passed away at 100. R.I.P. How many of you remember him?

OTD in 1864: 100,000 men vanished overnight, and the greatest general of the age had no idea where they went. This might be the most underrated move of the Civil War. Context: Grant had just spent ten days locked in trench warfare at Cold Harbor, Virginia, after a frontal assault on June 3 that cost him thousands of men in under an hour. He admitted it was the worst mistake of his career. The armies were so close that soldiers could not lift their heads above the dirt in daylight. Everyone, including Lee, expected Grant to do what every Union commander before him did after a bloody repulse: retreat north and regroup. Instead, on the night of June 12, Grant did something audacious. He pulled the entire Army of the Potomac out of trenches that were in some places only yards from Confederate lines. No bugles, no fires, wheels muffled. By morning the Union trenches were empty and Lee's scouts found nothing but abandoned earthworks. The army marched south, away from Richmond, which made no sense to Confederate observers. Then Union engineers did something almost nobody thought possible: they threw a pontoon bridge across the James River, roughly 2,100 feet of it, over water up to 85 feet deep with a four-foot tidal swing. They built it in about eight hours. It was one of the longest floating bridges in military history. For three full days Lee was effectively blind, unsure whether Grant was north or south of the James. By the time the picture cleared, Grant's army was across the river attacking Petersburg, the rail hub that fed Richmond. The siege that followed lasted nine months and ended with Lee's surrender at Appomattox. Everyone remembers Cold Harbor as Grant's worst day. Almost nobody remembers that one week later he pulled off the maneuver that won the war.

Happy birthday to Chick Corea, born on this day in 1941!

Happy Birthday to Irwin Allen (RIP). The Master of Disaster was born on this date in 1916.

On this date in 1987, United States President Ronald Reagan said, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." 6-12-1987

-- William Felton Russell: The biggest winner in the entire History of American Sports -- BACK2BACK NCAA Titles at USF - A Gold Medal from the '56 Olympic Games at Melbourne, Australia and 11 NBA Championships in his 13 NBA seasons, the last 2 (1968 and '69) as Player-Coach --

People said Minnesota was crazy for having Jaden McDaniels untouchable in the Rudy Gobert trade Now they’re saying the same thing about 19-year-old Joan Beringer Minnesota has something potentially special there, and they know it

We are 93 days from the Vikings season opener.