Enormocast 321: Katie McKinstry Stylos – Reaching Further
In this episode, host Chris Galoos interviews Katie McKinstry‑Stylos, a pioneering figure in sport dry‑tooling—a discipline that uses ice‑climbing tools on rock without ice. Katie shares how she transitioned from a competitive three‑day eventing horse rider to a climber, describing the pivotal moment when she first experienced frozen waterfalls and how that sparked her passion for dry‑tooling. She recounts her rapid ascent in the sport, becoming the first American and North American woman to climb at the D15/D16 level, and explains the unique grading system and technical challenges of dry‑tooling. The conversation also touches on the broader climbing community, the niche’s growth, and the mental resilience required to excel in such an extreme, under‑represented arena.
How Dissolving Your Nonprofit Can Strengthen the Sector
The Opportunity Agenda, a two‑decade narrative‑strategy nonprofit, voted to dissolve in November 2025 after its leadership determined that a restricted‑grant‑heavy revenue model left no sustainable runway. A $4 million unrestricted grant in 2020 temporarily masked deeper funding diversification flaws, but by...
Morgan Evans Washes Through Memento Mori
Australian country singer‑songwriter Morgan Evans releases "Steel Town," an album that trades the genre’s usual swagger for introspective storytelling. The record blends pedal‑steel riffs, rustic strings, and eclectic influences ranging from Hawaiian guitar to British rock, while featuring harmony vocals...
Garmin-Style Running Metric Lands on Amazfit's Affordable Running Watches in Latest Update
Amazfit has rolled out software version 3.7.0.1 for its Active Max, adding lactate‑threshold tracking—a metric traditionally found on high‑end Garmin watches. The update also refines sleep‑stage tracking, enhancing both performance and recovery data. Priced at about $170, the Active Max...
Procrastination, Part II
In "Procrastination, Part II," James Fell extends his recent exploration of how procrastination shapes creative work. He links the sequel to yesterday’s fiction‑focused post, inviting readers to revisit the edited version. The author shares a candid snapshot of his own delay...
Aviation Materials and Sustainability: What Science Actually Shows
Aviation is rapidly embracing sustainable materials as regulators and airlines push for lower emissions. Advanced composites now make up more than half of the structure in modern jets such as the Boeing 787 and Airbus A350, delivering 15‑20% fuel savings...
Artemis Rockets at 28,000 Km/H—Mind‑blowing Speed
Literally every stat of the Artemis mission is mind blowing, because WHAT DO YOU MEAN they travel speeds of 28,000km/h. That’s incredible and terrifying #artemis #nasa #moon
You’re Not Alone: Community Beats Solo Weight‑Loss Journey
Founder Diaries Day 2 - About feeling less alone. Community. Something I feel very strongly about while building MYRESET — treatment alone is not enough. Especially for weight loss. It can be quite scary… injections, side effects, all the unknowns. Yes, doctor support matters. But honestly,...
B2B Merchandising Brand Fully Promoted Enters India, Plans Metro Expansion
Fully Promoted, the international B2B merchandising brand, launched its first Indian flagship store in Chennai, partnering with United Franchise Group. The franchise is headed by Suresh Raghuraj and Deepika Loganathan, who also manage the brand’s Australian operations. AI-driven platforms from...
'Pizza Movie' Directors Brian McElhaney & Nick Kocher (BriTANicK)
In this episode of IndieWire's Filmmaker Toolkit, Jim Hemphill chats with comedy duo Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher about their feature directorial debut, Hulu's Pizza Movie. The filmmakers trace the concept’s 20‑year evolution from a college‑room sketch to a full‑blown, Lord‑of‑the‑Rings‑style...
☕ Morning Briefing — Wednesday, April 2, 2026
NASA launched Artemis II on April 1, sending four astronauts on a ten‑day lunar flyby to test deep‑space systems, marking the first crewed mission beyond low‑Earth orbit since Apollo 17. The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing a challenge to a Trump‑era executive order...
Fine Particulate Air Pollution Raises Alzheimer's Risk
As a medical school professor, I teach students that Alzheimer's has many risk factors. But this one is invisible -- and almost nobody talks about it. A massive study of 27.8 million Medicare beneficiaries just found that fine particle air pollution...
Intelligence Hinders Action: Overthinking Stalls Progress
The older I get, the more I realize intelligence is overrated. Intelligent people are more likely to overthink, overplan, and overanalyze. They hide behind motion that doesn't create progress. They fear the judgment of others if they're proven wrong.
Thomas Merton: On the Solitary Life
Thomas Merton argues that genuine solitude is an inner abyss, not merely the absence of external noise. He suggests that true silence allows us to confront reality without the distortions of language. In this view, silence becomes a conduit for...
Leaders Scale by Hiring Experts, Not Doing Everything
You are not supposed to be the best at everything in your business. You are supposed to have the vision, set direction, build the environment And hire people who can execute better than you. That’s how you scale.
Travelling with Kids This Bank Holiday? This New Motorway Soft Play Guide Could Be the Simple Fix for Stressful Car...
Britannia Rescue has released a free "Road Trip Soft Play Guide" that lists ten UK soft‑play centres located near major motorways, aimed at easing Easter‑time car journeys with children. The guide was compiled by parenting influencers who anonymously tested each...
The Biggest Triathlon Pacing Mistakes (And How to Avoid Them)
The article outlines common triathlon pacing errors—from swimming too fast to neglecting nutrition—and offers concrete strategies to avoid them. Coaches recommend treating the swim as a warm‑up, riding the bike at 70‑75% of FTP, and adjusting power targets when temperatures...
What Are Stabilizer Muscles (and Do You Really Need to Train Them)?
Stabilizer muscles aren’t a separate set of fibers but a functional role muscles assume during movement, activating early to stiffen joints. Research shows that both free‑weight and machine exercises can recruit these muscles, provided the program includes varied motions such...
Misjudgment at Nuremberg
The 2026 film “Nuremberg” dramatizes the post‑World II trials, centering on prison psychiatrist Douglas Kelley (Rami Malek) and his uneasy rapport with Nazi leader Hermann Göring (Russell Crowe). Adapted from Jack El‑Hai’s book, the production aims for an epic thriller but ends up resembling a...
Living Through the Civil War
George Templeton Strong, a 19th‑century New York lawyer, leveraged his Wall Street connections to become a leading civic figure during the Civil War. In 1861 he was appointed treasurer of the United States Sanitary Commission, which raised roughly $25 million (about...
Caroline Davis Explores Endless Musical Possibilities
Caroline Davis releases *Fallows*, her first true solo album, recorded during a four‑week residency in Ucross, Wyoming. The project fuses her alto saxophone with a custom processing unit called an organelle and incorporates field recordings of snow, birds, and water....
Blood in the Game
Lee Clay Johnson’s *Bloodline* and Carl Hiaasen’s *Fever Beach* use dark humor to dissect America’s rising violence, corruption and environmental decay. Johnson follows a delusional ex‑car salesman in rural Tennessee who amputates his own hand to claim a mythic Confederate legacy, while Hiaasen...
The Throwaway Planet
The article traces plastic’s evolution from a wartime novelty to a global pollutant, noting that WWII accelerated synthetic polymer production for military gear. Today, plastics underpin a consumer culture that discards roughly one ton per person, accounting for over half...
Rachel Love :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
Rachel Love, a founding member of the pioneering all‑female trio Dolly Mixture, has launched a solo career more than forty years after her initial breakthrough. Indie label Slumberland is reissuing her recent solo LPs, including the tribute album *Lyra* to...
The Painter’s Shadow World
Morgan Meis’s three‑book *Three Paintings Trilogy*—covering Peter Paul Rubens, Franz Marc and Joan Mitchell—posits that a painting functions as a "second world" or shadow realm distinct from life and death. He argues that artists shift in and out of this existential space, using the...
A Devotee of Deception
Domenico Starnone, the celebrated Italian novelist, has published his latest work, *The Old Man by the Sea*, a reflective memoir of an aging writer who values distance and linguistic precision over passion. The narrative follows an ex‑teacher narrator confronting his...
ADHD Misunderstood: Overwhelm, Not Laziness, Drives Task Resistance
ADHD is not laziness. The resistance to starting or finishing a task is deeply rooted in overwhelm, lack of stimulation, or questioning a task's purpose.
‘To Share Is Our Duty’
The newly released volume “The Uncollected Letters of Virginia Woolf” adds over 1,400 previously unpublished letters to the author’s corpus, bringing the total to more than 5,000 pieces of correspondence. Edited by long‑time Woolf scholars Stephen Barkway and the late...
The Role of Nutrition and Counseling in Supporting Comprehensive Mind and Body Wellness
A growing body of research underscores the interdependence of nutrition and mental health, prompting providers to embed dietitians and counselors into holistic wellness programs. The article highlights how targeted dietary plans and evidence‑based counseling can improve mood, cognitive performance, and...
Trip Report Experiencing Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture in Pennsylvania By Saul Schwartz
Saul Schwartz and his family celebrated a 70th birthday weekend by touring Frank Lloyd Wright landmarks in southwestern Pennsylvania. They spent a morning at Fallingwater, the iconic 1936 cantilevered house, paying $42 per adult for a guided hour‑long tour and enjoying the...
A Brush with… Karen Archey, Head of Curatorial at Düsseldorf's K20 and K21 Museums
Karen Archey, head of curatorial at Düsseldorf’s K20 and K21 museums, highlighted the recent acquisition of Alice Neel’s politically charged 1965 painting “The Great Society.” She reflected on her 2007 “Grand Tour” of the Venice Biennale, Art Basel, Documenta, and Skulptur Projekte,...
Even Legends Doubt Themselves; Imposter Syndrome Is Universal
Neil Gaiman shares a brilliant story on imposter syndrome: “Some years ago, I was lucky enough invited to a gathering of great and good people: artists and scientists, writers and discoverers of things. And I felt that at any moment they...
Bovine Serum Albumin Crosslinked Hydrogels with Enhanced Mechanical Properties for Skin Bioelectronics
A new protein‑crosslinking method incorporates modified bovine serum albumin (BSA) into hydrogel networks, delivering ultra‑stretchable, strongly adhesive, and conductive gels. Dual physical‑chemical bonds and the protein’s spring‑like secondary structures dramatically improve mechanical strength and energy dissipation. The abundant functional groups...
Creatine Plus Probiotic Eases Depression via Gut‑brain Energy Boost
1/2) New placebo-controlled human randomized controlled trial finds creatine + a specific probiotic is effective in treating depression. The mechanism is fascinating, involving the probiotic increasing creatine transporters in the gut, leading to increased brain energy metabolism. If you're passionate about this...
Build a Solid Base Before a 16‑week Marathon Plan
Most online marathon plans are too short, and progress too quickly. If your marathon training block is truly only 16 weeks, I think you should be entering that plan with a solid base already. This generally means: - Being able to...
Archroma and ORTA Use Wool Waste Dyes in Denim
Archroma and Turkish denim maker ORTA are launching a new denim line dyed with colourants derived partially from wool waste. The fabrics will debut at the Kingpins Amsterdam trade show on April 15‑16, featuring Archroma’s FiberColors range. This initiative repurposes...
Just Start: Turn Dreams Into Action Today
People always ask me how they start on their dreams and I think the big secret is that you just start. Like on a random day you wake up and and just decide to do it
Patients Maintain Weight Loss After Discontinuing GLP‑1s, Epic Shows
Interesting data from Epic medical records - suggests that for many patients in the "real world", they are able to keep the weight off after stopping GLP1s... https://t.co/dHfYdG6rEX #EpicResearch
5 Shoulder Mobility Exercises to Improve Back Squat Form, Grip & Strength
The article outlines five targeted shoulder‑mobility drills designed to sharpen barbell back‑squat setup, grip comfort, and overall strength. It explains how external rotation, thoracic extension, lat and pec length, and scapular control create a stable “shelf” for the bar. A...
Vulnerability Unfolds in Three Stages: Powerlessness, Cause‑Seeking, Blame
Just as there a stages to grief, there are stages to vulnerability. First come our intense feelings of powerlessness and uncertainty. Second comes our search for a cause. Third comes our assignment of blame.
SpaceX Accuses Amazon of Unsafe High‑orbit Satellite Deployment
.@SpaceX @Starlink tells @FCC it was forced to perform 30 collision-avoidance maneuvers after @Amazonleo's Feb 12 launch w/ @Arianespace because sats were released at 480 km, 50-90 km higher than authorized, and did not warn other operators beforehand.
12 O’Clock Pushup Challenge: The Viral Bodyweight Workout for Chest, Core, and Full-Body Strength
Fitness influencer Senada Greca, who commands 6.6 million Instagram followers, popularized the 12 O’Clock Pushup Challenge—a bodyweight routine that arranges twelve weight plates in a clock‑face layout and requires a pushup on each. By using plates of varying depth, the exercise...
Explore Hawkshead: 21 Must‑Do Activities in the Lake District
A Visitor’s Guide to Hawkshead: 21 Best Things to Do in the Lake District’s Prettiest Village https://t.co/Rh45Cz9rhb
Artemis II Poised for Engine Burn, Mission on Track
All things considered the Artemis II mission seems to be going splendidly. Big moment for today comes this afternoon with the go/no go decision to burn Orion’s engines for the Moon.
Arpita Das: Who Does a LitFest Belong To?
India’s literature festival scene has exploded from metropolitan flagship events to dozens of small‑town gatherings. A recent Guardian headline change highlighted the debate over whether litfests are cultural boons or over‑hyped spectacles. While big festivals often showcase international writers in...
Andersen's Unrequited Love Birthed The Nightingale
The nightingale and the loneliness of unrequited love – how Hans Christian Andersen, born 221 years ago today, turned his heartbreak into one of the most beloved fairy tales of all time https://t.co/U5Pt4y6tOm
Dual-Purpose Small Room: Office Today, Blackout Nursery Tomorrow
This is why a *separate* Nursery room (with blackout shades) is really helpful … but it can be small, so that before the baby comes it can be an office A Baby Maybe room https://t.co/g8vejcKI2a
How to Master the Barbell Strict Press: Adam Collard’s 3 Step Fix
Fitness influencer Adam Collard shared a three‑step fix for the barbell strict press on Instagram, targeting common form errors. He advises keeping a neutral spine by bracing glutes, aligning the head under the bar to avoid a forward drift, and...
OneWeb
1st of 440 @Eutelsat OneWeb sats built by @AirbusSpace launch this yr on @SpaceX; the balance 2027-31 on @MaiaSpaceOff , debuting 2027. @defis_eu #Iris2 LEO constellation's 264 sats, likely from Airbus & @aerospacelab_ , to be interleaved somehow w/...
Why NASA Put a First Responder Knife in Every Spacesuit
Artemis II launched on April 1, 2026, marking NASA’s first crewed Moon flight since 1972 and testing systems for future lunar missions. Each Orion spacesuit now carries a Benchmade 916SBK‑ORG Triage, a folding rescue tool originally built for first responders. The knife’s large grip,...