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Source for Mr Rogers quote:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100125201022/https://www.pbs.o...

‘Fred Rogers often told this story about when he was a boy and would see scary things on the news: "My mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.' To this day, especially in times of 'disaster,' I remember my mother's words, and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers-so many caring people in this world."’

ATP, also known as “Accidental Tech Podcast”.

Small but important correction: the actual quote is “Soylent Green _is_ people!”. Agree with your broader point about the Torment Nexus being a McGuffin, but we do actually know how Soylent Green is people in the film - it’s explicitly revealed that it’s made from processed corpses due to overpopulation.

Interview from year 2000, replayed on ABC Radio National in Australia (listen from 22m:35s):

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/musicshow/tom-lehrer-...

Worth adding that there are a bunch of paid-for apps offering 'couch to 5k', but the 2012 podcast version by the NHS was such an elegant and effective idea—essentially, a free audio coaching program of progressive run-walk training.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nhs-couch-to-5k/id3943...

https://www.nhs.uk/better-health/get-active/get-running-with...

From https://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/austheir.html:

'Singular "their" etc., was an accepted part of the English language before the 18th-century grammarians started making arbitrary judgements as to what is "good English" and "bad English", based on a kind of pseudo-"logic" deduced from the Latin language, that has nothing whatever to do with English... And even after the old-line grammarians put it under their ban, this anathematized singular "their" construction never stopped being used by English-speakers, both orally and by serious literary writers.'