Brest, Belarus. The riot police have started using gas and brutally detaining peaceful protesters.
Police are chasing protesters and detaining them one by one.
Brutal detentions continue. Police detain and beat random people in Minsk downtown. People are trying to run away. More than one hundred detainees identified already. The real number can be much higher.
Op #EqualPayDay zong het weer rond: vrouwen verdienen veel minder dan mannen en zijn ondervertegenwoordigd in hoge posities. Maar klopt dat allemaal wel? En zo ja, wat is hier aan de hand? Een (lange) draad met cijfers.
De cijfers over het verschil in inkomens zijn duidelijk. Het inkomen van werkende vrouwen is 38% lager dan van werkende mannen en vrouwen werken ook nog eens minder vaak. Ze zijn dus minder economisch zelfstandig en financieel kwetsbaar bij een scheiding cbs.nl/nl-nl/nieuws/2…
Dat vrouwen minder verdienen komt vooral doordat ze minder uren werken en banen hebben in bedrijfstakken met minder hoge lonen. Ook geven ze minder vaak leiding over anderen, hebben minder ervaring, enzovoort.
The oil crisis is worse than anything in modern history.
Nobody is panicking.
That’s the problem. 🧵
The world uses 100 million barrels of oil per day.
Right now, 15–20 million of them are missing.
That gap is larger than the entire daily oil consumption of the United States.
And you haven’t felt it yet. Here’s why 👇
Every country has been burning through emergency stockpiles to mask the shortage.
JP Morgan & Kpler data shows the last Gulf shipments reached their destinations between April 8–19.
That window is now closed.
The buffer is gone. The real shock starts now.
With the US now on the verge of achieving pure idiocracy and a brand new form of government that can only be described in terms of coconuts and bananas, I’ve decided to expand my guide to what is arguably the most cartoonishly stupid administration known to modern man. 🧵
Married to an obscenely rich man whose children were already having children by the time she was born, and often seen wearing oversized crosses to differentiate herself from her North Korean counterpart, Karoline Leavitt is currently serving as White House Press Secretary.
Famous for having gone bald and aged some 37 years by the time he entered high school, point at which he had already picked up what was to be a lifelong passion for racial purity, Stephen "Reichskommissar" Miller is the current White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy.
It is my birthday today, so I allowed myself a completely self‑indulgent data analysis.
I have had the “what is the hardest endurance sport” argument in so many changing rooms and cafes that I lost count years ago. Swimming feels psychologically hardest for me. Cycling feels highest risk. Running just feels brutally honest.
So this time I tried to answer it with data.
I pulled nearly a million sessions across nine endurance sports and looked at what each one does to the cardiovascular system, both per minute and per session.
Here is what I found:
- Every sport has a distinct heart‑rate “fingerprint”. Running is a tight, right‑shifted bell around 145 bpm. Walking and ski touring sit broader and lower. Downhill skiing is all peaks and troughs.
- Running really is hard on the heart. It has the highest session average, peak HR, and sustained intensity ratio.
- Walking’s “high” intensity ratio is a statistical trick. Low average, low peak, very flat sessions that only look hard on paper.
- Downhill skiing has the biggest swings. Peaks rival outdoor cycling, but average HR sits near walking. That 47 bpm gap matches the feeling of short bursts and a lot of standing around.
- Cross‑country skiing behaves like running at the top end and like cycling on average. Huge peaks, long gliding recoveries.
- Indoor cycling is the purest steady effort after running. The sustained profile is similar in relative terms, but the absolute load is lower because seated cycling simply costs less than weight‑bearing running.
Within the same person, running still wins. Among 1,480 people who both run and ride outside, 93% hit a higher fraction of their personal max HR when they run. Same body, same heart, different biomechanical demand.
Then I changed the question. Because intensity is only part of the story and I recently cycled for 35 hours at a low Heart Rate, but it certainly felt pretty hard!
Do you want to reward time on feet, or time in the red zone?