Professor, Podcaster, Peace-maker. Perpetual learner, Purveyor of Polyglot Pedagogy, Precious Pugilist. Dean at agora.edu
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I have several affiliations and represent several organizations. My tweets are a reflection of my personal interests. Those other institutions have their own Twitter accounts.
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I’m realizing that I like soccer more than the post-Kobe era NBA.
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Did the Euphrates Originally Empty into the Mediterranean? biblicalarchaeology.org/dail…
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The Ancient Roman Code of Manliness and Virtue theepochtimes.com/bright/the… via @epochtimes
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Michael Wingert 𒀯 🏴☠️ retweeted
I love the fraternal bond between HH Mar Awa III, Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, and HH Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church.
May God bless and protect both of our church fathers.
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Michael Wingert 𒀯 🏴☠️ retweeted
Amid (modern-day Diyarbakır) was an Assyrian city. These 2 Assyrian monuments discovered in Amid are now displayed in the British Museum. Amid was also an important center of the Church of the East and I believe served as the patriarchal seat during certain periods of its history
Diyarbakir more commonly known as Amed is a Kurdish city located in Northern Kurdistan not turkey🦃
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Michael Wingert 𒀯 🏴☠️ retweeted
The Classical Syriac word for “pen” is qanyā (ܩܢܝܐ), a direct descendant of the Akkadian qanû (“reed”). However, in modern Assyrian, the more common word is qalama, which is cognate with Arabic qalam. Both ultimately derive from the Greek kalamos, meaning “reed” or “reed pen.”
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This is what it’s like to be married to an Assyrian woman!
Anna Faris learned the hard way 😏
This is a repost from years ago. Oldie but still one of my favorites for the ladies 🤪
Come see me on tour to hear the full joke uncensored!
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I'm so on it. Now if they can a way to fix my back and all these ruptured muscles, I can TRT it the rest of the way on my own.
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our knee can heal itself. It just needed Germany to hand it the blueprint.
Doctors in Stuttgart did something quietly radical. They built a gel that lets damaged joint cartilage rebuild itself, no implants, no metal, no major reconstruction.
It's called ChondroFiller liquid.
Here's how it works.
A surgeon injects the liquid into the damaged spot during a single minimally invasive arthroscopic procedure. Within 3 to 5 minutes, it hardens into a stable matrix, molding perfectly to the exact shape of the lesion.
Then the real magic starts.
That matrix becomes a scaffold. Your own repair cells migrate in from the surrounding tissue, multiply, and slowly transform into chondrocytes, the cells that actually build cartilage. Over the following months, your body replaces the gel with brand-new tissue grown from you.
No fibrin glue. No drilling into the bone.
This isn't a fringe experiment, either.
The device is made by Meidrix Biomedicals, developed alongside scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology in Stuttgart. It's been CE-certified since its market launch in 2013 and has already been implanted in more than 20,000 patients worldwide.
The numbers back it up.
In one study of 26 patients with hip cartilage defects larger than 2 cm², 81% achieved good or excellent results. MRI scans confirmed significant healing in over 90% of cases.
One important caveat: it's built for small, focal cartilage defects, not advanced arthritis. Patients with severe osteoarthritis saw weaker results.
But for the right injury, this flips the script entirely.
Instead of replacing the joint, you give it the tools to repair itself.
Source: Meidrix Biomedicals / Fraunhofer Institute IGB, Stuttgart; clinical data via Kazinform News Agency
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