Why do clubs keep hiring Frank Lampard? 😂

In 1960, Ormond Gigli turned a doomed row of New York brownstones into something unforgettable. With no budget, he gathered 43 women, gave them full creative freedom, and placed them in empty windows just hours before demolition. Shot from a fire escape, the result wasn’t just a photo—it was a fleeting moment of beauty, frozen seconds before it vanished forever. © History Pictures #archaeohistories

Marathon finishing time distribution proves one of my biggest leadership lessons: Deadlines work! … even if they are somewhat arbitrary

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild. A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute. Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home. So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room. The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely. The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running. Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

The In Memoriam at the 2026 #ActorsAwards

this is some excellent journalism. @shaunwalker7 theguardian.com/world/ng-int…

Dance doubles were on hand for the piano scene from BIG (1988) but Tom Hanks and Robert Loggia nailed it, allowing for those incredible wide shots.

IT’S WILD THAT THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO SAVE SOMETHING AS A PDF IS TO LIE TO YOUR COMPUTER THAT YOU’RE ABOUT TO PRINT IT 😭😭😭

It's that time of year again! The Volta Foundation battery report is out, and it' bigger and badder than ever before. I read through all 769 slides so you don't have to, and distilled the learnings into one thread. Here we go: 🧵

A letter from today’s ⁦@thetimes⁩ with some fine courtroom humour…

This is something that is utterly inexplicable. In Portugal, all your prescriptions are on on your national ID card, together with your medical records. In Ireland, we have idiots who object to the concept of any kind of national ID card.

The math on this image is insane. New Horizons transmitted at 2,000 bits per second from 3 billion miles away. Slower than a 1990s dial-up modem. It took 16 months to download all the flyby data. The spacecraft had to hit a target box 100km wide, arriving within 150 seconds of schedule, after 9 years of flight. Miss it and the preloaded observation commands point at empty space. Ten days before arrival, the spacecraft crashed and went into safe mode. Engineers had 72 hours to restore everything. The probe is now 5 billion miles out, still whispering data back to Earth. We got 50 gigabits of Pluto photos using technology slower than your phone’s bluetooth.

this is just so clever

Dickie Bird's magnificent knock has come to an end. He was so good. And so eccentric. He is completely synonymous with English cricket in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Can't think of another official, in any sport, who was genuinely as famous as the players. Raise your bat, Dickie.

just brilliant. take some time to watch it

the person who came up with the name for the new AI weather centre in UCD deserves a raise AIMSIR...(AI for Meteorological Services, Innovation and Research) Centre ….rte.ie/news/2025/0919/153420…

Football should be a place where every player feels celebrated - especially when they’re signing their first professional contract. Sadly, Kilmarnock’s announcement for Skye Stout had to be taken down and what should have been one of the happiest days of her life has been overshadowed by online abuse. This is not football culture. This is not passion for the game. This is just cruelty, and it has no place in our sport. To Skye: your talent, hard work, and achievement speak louder than any of their words ever could. We, and the true football community, are right behind you. Keep shining. 💛 #HerGameToo @KilmarnockWFC

"Hang that one in the Louvre!" 🖼 Ben Healy launched his solo attack from 42km and reaps the rewards as he claims his first-ever Tour de France stage victory 🙌

Marty and John Mullane calling the last few mins on RTÉ Radio One is just superb

"The Chinese simply can’t believe their luck... OBBB 'virtually guarantees that China will own the future of solar, wind power and electric cars and trucks, as well as autonomous vehicles' 'And why? Because Rs view those as “liberal” energy sources' nytimes.com/2025/07/03/opini…