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The much anticipated The Boy and The Heron is out, and I got a chance to watch it this past Sunday. The film is the first in ten years from Hayao Miyazaki since 2013’s The Wind Rises, causing many to wonder if it’ll be Miyazaki’s last. Like Scorsese is to American cinema, Miyazaki is a master in the world of animation and anime, having worked in the industry since the 1960s.

Transcript with audio and relevant external links, recorded on 6 Feb 2024 Eric Topol (00:05): Hello, this is Eric Topol with Ground Truths, and I have a remarkable guest with me today, Professor Michelle Monje, who is from Stanford, a physician-scientist there and is really a leader in neuro-oncology, the big field of cancer neuroscience, neuroinflammation, and she has just been rocking it recently with major papers on these fields, no less her work that's been on a particular cancer, brain cancer in kids that we'll talk about.

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With the news that Germany may be heading for significant change as regards its total acceptance of commercial sexual exploitation, I am sharing this article I published on Unherd last November: https://unherd.com/2022/11/germany-europes-bordello/ Germany is known as the bordello of Europe. It is a hard-won title. With more than 3,000 brothels across the country, and 500 in Berlin alone, its sex trade is worth more than £11 billion per year. Prostitution, in all its forms, is legal in Germany, and has been since the end of the Second World War.

Last month I was able to hang out with a production team for First We Feast shooting an episode of The Burger Show, hosted by George Motz and Alvin Caillan. The crew visited The Meers Store, Sid’s Diner and Johnny’s Charcoal Broiler for a series of episodes focused on regional burger customs. The four-episode mini-series ended in Oklahoma where the guys stopped in Meers for the myth, Johnnie’s for the secret sauce, and Sid’s for the real deal fried-onion burgers.

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Every Monday, I write a newsletter breaking down the business in golf. Welcome to the 14 new Perfect Putt members who have joined us since last Monday. Join 6,997 intelligent and curious golfers by subscribing below Today At A Glance: The U.S. Women’s Open provided a record first-place prize in this year's event. Today’s newsletter breaks down LPGA Tour earnings and expenses. And dives into the money it takes to play on the Epson Tour.

Friday’s road trip destination was Wellston for an Oklahoma barbeque classic. So who better to join me than my friend and editor of the Curbside Chronicle, Nathan Poppe, who is a bit of an Oklahoma classic himself. For many Oklahomans, The Butcher BBQ Stand is the state’s best and it’s hard to argue that take. I could give you a list of worthy competitors, but pound-for-pound The Butcher might be Oklahoma’s top barbeque restaurant when it comes to consistency across the board.

HI! This is the CABINET, the ultra-premium, triple-filtered version the SPIRITS. Each fortnight or so, I’ll tell you about a cocktail ingredient I like: bit of history, bit of mystery, and a few so things you can do with it should you decide to add it to your cocktail cabinet. At the very bottom, you will see what the ingredient for next time is. Do tell your friends, etc!