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A Kennedy march is a long-distance march of 50 miles (80 km), named after former American president John F. Kennedy.

John F. Kennedy came into the Presidential office with a goal of improving the health of the nation as part of his New Frontier. As President-elect, he wrote and had published an article in Sports Illustrated, December 26, 1960, called The Soft American which warned against the negative aspects becoming unfit in a changing world where automation and increased leisure time replaced the benefits of exercise and hard work.

The idea of the march developed from Kennedy's discovery in late 1962 of an executive order from Theodore Roosevelt challenging U.S. Marine officers to finish 50 miles (80 km) in twenty hours.

The Kennedy march became a fad in the UK shortly after American people took up Kennedy's challenge. After Dutch television showed images of the Kennedy march craze, some Dutch people decided to make an attempt at finishing the 80 kilometers within 20 hours.

The documented health benefits from hot peppers continues to grow at a break-neck speed, similar to the increasing popularity of consuming hot foods in various forms. The heat and health benefits comes from a chemical called capsaicin.

Over the last twenty years, smartphones gradually replaced many earlier digital tools such as PDAs, cameras and music players. Today these objects are regarded as obsolete: they may hold some esthetic or nostalgic appeal but they do not fit in a modern, zerofriction, cloud-first workflow. Yet these devices still have desirable qualities that smartphones lack: a singular focus on a specific use case; hardware buttons and physical connectors; multi-day battery life.

Even their lack of connectivity can be seen as an asset from a resilience, privacy and security standpoint. Actually using decades-old tech today is challenging, in spite of its apparent simplicity. The friction of physical media-based workflows now feels unacceptable. But much like classic cars can be fitted with an EV motor, it is possible to retrofit older devices in order to make them usable again in a connected world.

https://computingwithinlimits.org/2025/papers/limits2025-lafrechoux-retrofitting.pdf

The country has a time-honoured tradition of using the sounds of bees buzzing to relax everyone from firefighters to school children, acting as an alleviant for anxiety and stress.

In our high-stress, modern society, there’s luckily no shortage of relaxation aids: bedtime story audio apps, phone-free offices, or ASMR, hypnotic YouTube videos of people whispering or crinkling wrapping paper into a microphone to help people drift to sleep.

But in Slovenia, there’s one relaxation technique that may actually shock some people, especially entomophobes: lying down in a room filled with cages of thousands of buzzing bees.

Related topic:

Apitherapy is a branch of alternative medicine that uses honey bee products including honey, pollen, bee bread, propolis, royal jelly and bee venom.

https://infogalactic.com/info/Apitherapy

edit: there are some vids online where you can listen to bees buzzing, not sure if it has some benefits to listen to such audio compared to listening to actual bees

A Zettelkasten is a personal tool for thinking and writing. It has hypertextual features to make a web of thoughts possible. The difference to other systems is that you create a web of thoughts instead of notes of arbitrary size and form, and emphasize connection, not a collection.

Just stumbled upon this, I probably won't use it because I have my own system, but I thought it was something interesting for maybe someone else or discussion, or that I might find some things in it I like that I could adapt

Page 334, link should go directly to it.

I feel like this espouses a different mindset, perhaps worth pondering and discussing. Greed seems like one of those sins that escapes censure in the modern world; certainly things like theft, proceeding from greed, are condemned, but often not the tendency towards endless accumulation (even if it were to harm no one else).

This booklet reveals the simplest secret of holiness and happiness ever. It shows us how to pray without ceasing and the great power of the Holy Name of Jesus. This little booklet can easily be the key to obtaining incredible graces and favors from Him both for our­selves and for others.

A personal note that the original booklet is traditionally approved; I saw a footnote I might disregard, so mild caution might be advised with any revisions made to the original text. Otherwise the original text has some interesting ideas.

https://archive.org/details/wonders-of-the-holy-name

https://opus.ing/posts/what-are-cd-longboxes-what-happened-to-them

When compact discs first began to appear in the retail stores, the longbox packaging served a transitional purpose, allowing shops to file new compact discs in the same bins originally used for vinyl records. Longboxes were 12 inches (30 cm) tall (the same length as the standard 33⅓ LP), and capable of containing two separate discs when necessary. Most longboxes were full color, with details about the compact disc on the back, and artwork that was frequently taken from the original square album cover art, reworked for the new shape and size. There were generic white longboxes with windows that would display the compact disc cover, as well as clear plastic versions that were an inexpensive substitute for a printed longbox.

Saw a CD release with this packaging format, felt like sharing

A bill (SB 46) banning intentional atmospheric chemical releases for weather modification ("chemtrails") passed the Louisiana House (58-33) and returns to the Senate for final approval after amendments.

Precious Plastic exists to reduce plastic waste. Sometimes we do it through boosting recycling. Sometimes through new biodegradable materials. Some other time by adopting zero waste lifestyles. Whatever works.

I've thought this to be an interesting project in reusing plastics, I imagine they'll figure out their organizational issues

Days of prayer, and formerly also of fasting, instituted by the Church to appease God's anger at man's transgressions, to ask protection in calamities, and to obtain a good and bountiful harvest...

The Rogation Days are the 25th of April, called Major, and the three days before the feast of the Ascension, called Minor.

The order to be observed in the procession of the Major and Minor Rogation is given in the Roman Ritual, title X, ch. iv. After the antiphon "Exurge Domine", the Litany of the Saints is chanted and each verse and response is said twice. After the verse "Sancta Maria" the procession begins to move. If necessary, the litany may be repeated, or some of the Penitential or Gradual Psalms added.

Catholic encyclopedia on "Rogation Days": https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13110b.htm

Based on this, I've sometimes thought people might observe the days at times by fasting, and by praying a Litany of the Saints and / or the Penitential Psalms.

Litany of the Saints: https://www.dailycatholic.org/litanyst.htm

About the Prayer: https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09291a.htm

Penitential Psalms: https://traditionalcatholicprayers.com/2020/09/26/the-seven-penitential-psalms/

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