How do you differentiate a real cultural shift from a manufactured one? Cyber ethnographer Ruby Justice Thelot studies culture through TikToks. He scores thousands of them by category and sentiment to measure what people do versus what they post. In this conversation with a16z's Elena Burger, they point that method at the wellness boom: why Silicon Valley gets credit for a peptide trend it did not start, what 400 years of thinness reveals about what we value, why the people who quantified everything are turning to energy healing and acupuncture, and why the body is the last thing left to optimize once AI handles the rest. 00:00 Intro 01:45 How to spot a fake trend 04:55 Silicon Valley did not invent peptides 10:15 The ten-to-one rule of trends 12:12 Why you know Ozempic and not the company 14:00 How to determine a trend's life stage 16:31 Why watching something feels like doing something 19:22 How thin became a sign of intelligence 23:08 How a beauty standard goes mass market 25:10 The body ideal follows the economy 26:46 Why biohacking went mainstream 29:28 When the Bay Area decides something is bad 33:14 Two signs a trend has peaked 36:38 Your tracker can make you feel worse 39:15 Sleeping four hours and feeling rested YouTube: @being_on_line @VirtualElena

A physician gently rotated silver needles and inserted them successively into the acupoints. Egyptian physiotherapist Wala, who had long suffered from hypertension accompanied by frequent headaches, dizziness, and neck stiffness, experienced a significant relief of tension in her head and neck after personally receiving acupuncture therapy in Jinan, and she was full of praise for TCM techniques. Recently, more than 30 medical practitioners from eight countries, including #Algeria#, #Egypt#, and #Morocco#, visited the Affiliated Hospital of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. During the visit, they practiced and learned hands-on techniques in acupuncture, tuina (massage), and cupping—all traditional TCM physiotherapy methods. It is said that acupuncture is the most distinctive TCM approach and is widely welcomed by people around the world. Many countries and regions have already incorporated acupuncture into their treatment practices, and in many European and American countries, acupuncture has also been covered by local health insurance schemes.

30 Years Strong: Leading Critical Care into the Era of Smart, Sustainable, Safe Practice The 30th Annual Asia Pacific Symposium on Critical Care and Emergency Medicine is taking place July 31st-August 2nd, 2026 in Kuta, Bali, Indonesia. IMA President and Chief Medical Officer Dr. @joevaron, IMA Head of Medical & Scientific Affairs Dr. Ryan Cole (@DoctorCole), IMA Senior Fellow, Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine Dr. Adylle Varon, and IMA Senior Director of Communications and International Fellowship Program @LynneKristensen will join an incredible lineup of speakers from around the globe. Learn more or register today - link below. 🔽

steve jobs built the most valuable company on earth while making choices about his own mortality and his own family that the official narrative still struggles to explain: october 2003. diagnosed with a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor. rare, treatable, operable. he delayed surgery for 9 months while trying a fruitarian diet, acupuncture, and herbal remedies. he later told walter isaacson he believed the delay let the cancer spread… his biological father was abdulfattah jandali, a syrian graduate student in wisconsin. jandali later ran a reno restaurant where jobs dined multiple times without either of them knowing. he met his biological sister, novelist mona simpson, for the first time at age 30 paternity of his first daughter lisa was established in a 1980 court case with a 94.1% DNA match. jobs publicly denied for years that she was his. then named the apple lisa computer after her while still denying it he was fired from the company he founded in september 1985 at age 30. the CEO he had personally recruited from pepsi with the line "do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life" cast the decisive vote june 12 2005 at stanford he gave the commencement address. opened by announcing he had cancer. closed with "stay hungry, stay foolish." delivered 14 months after his first surgery. he never sounded sick march 21 2009. liver transplant at methodist university hospital in memphis. he waited in tennessee for a donor match because its transplant list was shorter than california's he parked his silver mercedes in handicapped spaces at the apple campus and drove without a license plate. leased an identical car every 6 months to exploit a california rule that gave new vehicles 6 months before plates were required he dropped out of reed college after one semester in 1972 but kept auditing classes. a calligraphy class he sat in on, years later, became every proportional-spaced font the macintosh shipped october 5 2011, palo alto. respiratory arrest, age 56. his sister mona simpson's eulogy reported his final words: "oh wow. oh wow. oh wow." the man who convinced a generation that design was how something worked made some of the most consequential choices of his own life against his own best interests. and the company he built kept going anyway. which steve jobs story still surprises you?

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