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John Lenaghan
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Thinking is the deliberate transition in a spit eigenstate that transfers energy along the neuron. Losing or gaining energy as photons is mental illness. ©2018
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🤦 There's still too much stigma surrounding mental illness.

But you can trust us to give you reliable advice and information.

Get the facts about mental illness on our website 👉 bit.ly/3wUi6g6
October 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Congratulations to Co-operative MP Lucy Powell on her election as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.
October 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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#OnThisDay 80 years ago, the United Nations Charter came into effect. The ideals that led to the UN's foundation – a human yearning for peace and unity – remain as critical as ever. And as humanists on #UnitedNationsDay, it is these ideals we uphold.
October 24, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Ranked below 10k contributor!
October 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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October 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Today is World Mental Health Day. It’s a day that should be every day of the year. You are worthwhile, and you deserve to be here.

#WorldMentalHealthDay #WMHD25 #MentalHealth
October 10, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Mental illness is not a trend.

A reminder that just because more people are speaking up doesn’t mean it’s fashionable.
September 23, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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more entries in my two-figure log tables!
11 1.04 [121 is about 120]
12 1.08
13 1.12 [169 is about 170]
14 1.15
15 1.18
16 1.20
17 1.23 [17^5 is about 1,400,000]
18 1.26 [log 9 was rounded down]
19 1.28 [361 is about 360]
Please, just don't ask why.
August 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I don't know why my mind has been gripped with the invention of short base 10 logarithms for the single digit integers:
2 0.30
3 0.48
4 0.60
5 0.70
6 0.78
7 0.85 [49 is about 50]
8 0.90
9 0.96 [81 is about 80]
August 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Welp, we made it girls
August 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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We are saddened by the recent passing of Jim Lovell, a four-time spaceflight veteran, commander of Apollo 13, and a pioneer of space exploration whose legacy continues to inspire so many to this day.
August 11, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Ask a bunch of physicists to explain a quantum experiment and you’re unlikely to get the same description twice

go.nature.com/4lSDTJz
Physicists should revel in the diversity of ways to understand quantum mechanics
Nature survey shows that disagreement about the meaning of quantum physics remains strong, even 100 years in. And that’s OK.
go.nature.com
July 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Congratulations to Professor Michele Dougherty FRS, who has become the first woman appointed as Astronomer Royal in the post's 350-year history.
#WomenInSTEM

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK gets first female Astronomer Royal in 350 years
Prof Michele Dougherty is the first woman to be appointed to the influential post.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 30, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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This is what happens when 14 zettajoules of excess heat go into oceans every year. Here’s what that number looks like:

14,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

That’s what fossil fuel does to oceans.
E&E News: ‘Unprecedented’ ocean heat waves suggest climate tipping point
Researchers say average sea temperatures may be reset higher and some ecosystems may not recover.
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July 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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🚨 It's National hashtag#Schizophrenia Awareness Day!

Share this post to help us change public perceptions of this hugely stigmatised and misunderstood condition.

It’s time to see the whole person rather than preconceptions of the diagnosis 👉 bit.ly/3zViRHh

#NSAD2025
July 25, 2025 at 8:13 AM
A chat with ChatGPT:-

'🚨 Implication (Hypothetical but Serious):

If someone managed to start the engines via the ground panel and took off without setting cockpit controls properly, the engines could shut down shortly after takeoff.
July 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I don't know when some people will leave the politicking to Elon and choose BlueSky instead?
July 6, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Brian K. Kobilka – Biographical - NobelPrize.org
www.nobelprize.org
July 6, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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We are living through a moment of extraordinary change – one that future generations will look back on as either the moment we transformed our energy system, or chose not to.

Our new report with @lcef.bsky.social says it clearly: now is the time for community power, in every sense of the word.
June 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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The golden ratio is a mathematical formula that appears in nature and may have inspired great works of art and architecture. Some believe it defines facial beauty - but is it all a myth? Our new video with BBC Ideas explores: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCax...
The mathematical formula for a beautiful face? | The Royal Society
YouTube video by The Royal Society
www.youtube.com
June 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Static electricity in action!
June 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM