when we see our goals or dreams written down on paper: the brain imagines what it would be like to achieve these and feels pleasure, triggering the release of dopamine. Dopamine motivates and spurs us on to take the action that will lead to achieving our goals. Write your dreams and goals down on paper, look at it often, gazing at it until you can picture yourself having achieved them, even when you are not looking at the paper.

Write your dreams and goals down on paper, look at it often, gazing at it until you can picture yourself having achieved them, even when you are not looking at the paper.

Meta on Thursday began removing advertisements from attorneys who were seeking clients that claim to have been harmed by social media while under the age of 18 ... two weeks after Meta and YouTube were found negligent in a landmark California case about social media addiction.

What if we’ve been wrong about the treatment for Alzheimer’s? ‘Breakthrough’ drugs have fallen short in the battle against this awful disease. We may have to accept that we have made erroneous conclusions

What if amyloid isn’t causing Alzheimer’s at all? After three decades of groupthink and sunk costs, we delayed investing in other targets. We barely understand the brain yet, hubristically, bet on one theory to cure it.

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Belfastmen. An intimate history of life before gay liberation

A book that covers all aspects of male queer life in Belfast from c. 1890 to 1960: cruising the city centre for sex, creating communities, reading queer novels, and navigating the tolerance offered by their families and neighbourhoods.

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Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

Article a #Docusalut: Real-World Experience With Secukinumab for Hidradenitis Suppurativa: A Multicenter Retrospective Analysis of 263 Patients From the SECU-SPAIN Study https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13003/26467 #PublicaSalutIB

7 Self-Care Tips for Managing Ankylosing Spondylitis Self-care strategies for ankylosing spondylitis include exercise, good posture, and a balanced diet. This type of arthritis affects the joints and spine.

Self-care strategies for ankylosing spondylitis include exercise, good posture, and a balanced diet. This type of arthritis affects the joints and spine.

@baddestmamajama on x - Chronic illnesses are still generally very poorly understood and extremely badly handled, they often require multiple doctors in multiple disciplines who don’t coordinate and it’s left to the patient to try to chart their own healthcare while acutely suffering.

Novartis Cosentyx® receives FDA approval for pediatric patients aged 12+ with moderate to severe hidradenitis suppurativa About

FDA has approved secukinumab (Cosentyx) for use pediatric patients (aged >12yrs) with moderate to severe hidradenitis suppurativa buff.ly/dBoHv2p

Contemporary Painting of Buddha with Tibetan Text

Buddha by Lama Tashi Norbu

It's a crow on top of a tree in Caledonian Park Islington it's silhouetted black against the white misty sky

Raven in Cally Park ... You can tell because they are larger than crows and have wedge shaped tails, shaggy throat feathers, and a deeper, croaking call. Crows go "caw"

www.letstalk.islington.gov.uk/market-road-...
Share your views on plans to improve Market Road by Sunday, 8 March.

As part of our efforts to create a healthier Islington we want to make some improvements in the Market Road area.

Share your views on plans to improve Market Road by Sunday, 8 March.
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As part of our efforts to create a healthier borough we want to make some improvements in the Market Road area.

Excellent FOI work on Mandelson. The ICIJ cross-reference shows 3.3M relationship edges — his offshore connections are searchable at https://epstein.dugganusa.com Keep pulling that thread.

Good work. Mandelson appears across our corpus — search https://epstein.dugganusa.com for cross-references against 2M ICIJ offshore entities and 2M federal court decisions. The JPMorgan-China pipeline should light up.

FoI request to clarify Peter Mandelson: China Access for JPMorgan via Jeffrey Epstein and Ambassadorial Vetting Due Diligence

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Bierchorium - ChrisTrekkin - Star Trek: The Next Generation [Archive of Our Own] An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Been a minute 😉

After juggling a few ideas over the last year, I'm happy to be able to say that I have a new Trekfic up, which is a fusion of some of them

So here is 'Bierchorium', a continuation of 'The Boimler/Riker Manoeuvres' 😀💜🖖 #StarTrek #Trekfic #Fanfic
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Yesterday someone with degenerative arthritis gasped and ran up to my table, recognizing that my cups were gripless. She slid her hand right into it and I could see her face light up, apparently it was the first time in a while she didn’t need two hands to hold a cup. It was amazing.

When a Stiff Neck Points to an Unusual Culprit: Eagle Syndrome in Ankylosing Spondylitis

When a Stiff Neck Points to an Unusual Culprit: Eagle Syndrome in Ankylosing Spondylitis A recent clinical image report highlights a diagnostic challenge in rheumatology: distinguishing between a rare…

Over time, Baron said, his son became calmer. All the “rage and the disturbance” of his life as a boy had fallen away. “He’s become amiable, he’s become sociable He has become, in his own way, less dependent. I think a maturation process takes place, and the learning curve continues.”

Michael Baron obituary: lawyer and autism campaigner Solicitor who helped to shed light on autism after his son was wrongly diagnosed with ‘childhood psychosis’, dies aged 96

www.thetimes.com/article/412b...

www.thetimes.com/article/412b...

#Autism as a condition had not yet been defined when Timothy Baron was growing up, so when his parents took him to see a paediatrician in 1961 — was diagnosed with “childhood psychosis”.

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (1920[1] – February 13, 1996 (Tibetan: སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་ཨོ་རྒྱན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་, Wylie: sprul-sku o-rgyan rin-po-che) (Nepali: टुल्कु उर्ग्येन् रिन्पोचे) was a Buddhist master of the Kagyü and Nyingma lineages[1] who lived at Nagi Gompa hermitage in Nepal. Urgyen Rinpoche was considered one of the greatest Dzogchen masters of his time. Born in Nangchen, Kham in Eastern Tibet[3] in 1920,[1] he was recognized by Khakyab Dorje, 15th Karmapa Lama as the reincarnation of both the Chowang Tulku and Nubchen Sangye Yeshe,[1] one of the 25 principal students of Padmasambhava. Urgyen's father was Tsangsar Chimey Dorje, a vajrayana instructor who began giving Urgyen transmission for the Kangyur, the Buddha, and "The New Treasures of Chokgyur Lingpa."[3] As he grew older, he studied Dzogchen with Samten Gyatso. He had four sons, each of whom is now an important Buddhist teacher in his own right (Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche, Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche, Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Mingyur Rinpoche); Urgyen spent 33 years at Nagi Gompa Hermitage, where he spent two decades in retreat, and eventually established six monasteries and retreat centers in Nepal. Boudhanath (Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling monastery). Another is the Tergar Osel Ling Monastery Urgyen Rinpoche died on the morning of February 13, 1996.

Tulku Urgyen (1920 - February 13, 1996)
The way to practice is not to sometimes push to recognize mind essence and then give up. It is a matter of being deeply relaxed from within, and continuing in unfabricated naturalness.
The natural state is effortless mindfulness.

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (1920 – February 13, 1996)
(Tibetan: སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་ཨོ་རྒྱན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་, Wylie: sprul-sku o-rgyan rin-po-che) was a Buddhist master of the Kagyü and Nyingma lineages who lived at Nagi Gompa hermitage in Nepal. Rinpoche was considered one of the greatest Dzogchen masters of his time.

‘A great wee place’: the small Scottish factory crafting Olympic curling stones All stones in Cortina are made from granite found on tiny island in Firth of Clyde and crafted in East Ayrshire

Olympic curling stones www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

The stones are made from a kind of granite that is only found on Ailsa Craig, a tiny volcanic island in the Firth of Clyde, home to an array of seabirds, and described by John Keats as a “craggy ocean pyramid” in his eponymous sonnet.

Mine is the opposite with axSpA and Psoriatic Arthritis. Did you know it takes an average of 30-60 minutes for a person with axSpA to get moving in the morning? We wake up stiff as a board and in a lot of pain. That is why movement is important. This cycle happens throughout the day and is timed around my meds. 24 hours in a day - 24 windows for your body to rebel in many different ways. Do you experience this too? ONE hour in life with chronic pain 8:00 AM - hizzuh 8:15 AM - ugh 8:30 AM - double ugh 8:45 AM - oh no 9:00 AM - flattened Credit: @chronicallymeh #Spondylitis #MySeveralWorlds

Did you know it takes an average of 30-60 minutes for a person with axSpA to get moving in the morning? We wake up stiff as a board and in a lot of pain. 24 hours in a day - 24 windows for your body to rebel. Do you experience this too?

Credit:
@chronicallymeh

#Spondylitis #MySeveralWorlds

CT abdomen/pelvis shows Ascites (red arrows), mesenteric nodularity (green arrows), and retroperitoneal lymphadenopathy (purple arrows).

top, Lymph node biopsy showing extensive granulomatous inflammation (red circles) and numerous giant cells (green arrows) on low magnification (Hematoxylin and eosin stain). bottom, Lymph node biopsy showing extensive granulomatous inflammation (red circles) and numerous giant cells (green arrows) high magnification (Hematoxylin and eosin stain).

A 54-year-old woman with rheumatoid arthritis controlled with methotrexate and adalimumab presented with subacute abdominal distension, constipation, and decreased urinary frequency. Abdominal CT showed extensive omental and mesenteric nodules, concerning for peritoneal carcinomatosis

Article from JAMA, published December 29, 2025, titled "A Woman With Rheumatoid Arthritis and Vesicular Rash." Includes photos of rash on patient's neck, ear, and hands. Possible next steps include discontinuing adalimumab or prescribing prednisone@60.

A patient receiving adalimumab for rheumatoid arthritis had ulcerated plaques on the anterior and lateral aspects of the neck, upper chest, and nape and erythroderma on the dorsum of the hands.

What is the diagnosis, and what would you do next?

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Description of the Painting ​The painting depicts a scene from Homer's Odyssey, specifically the moment Odysseus is welcomed at the court of the Phaeacian King Alcinous. ​Central Figure: The focal point is Odysseus, seated in the centre but turned slightly away. He is burying his face in a large, reddish brown cloak to hide his grief. His posture is hunched and clearly indicates deep emotional distress. ​The Bard: To the right of Odysseus, a rhapsode (a blind bard, likely representing Demodocus) is playing a lyre. He is in the midst of singing a song, looking upwards for inspiration. ​The Audience: Surrounding them are various courtiers and attendants. To the left, King Alcinous and Queen Arete sit on a dais, observing the scene with concern and curiosity. The other figures display a mix of attention to the music and observation of the stranger's (Odysseus's) strange reaction. ​Setting: The architecture is classical, featuring large fluted columns and drapery, setting a grand, courtly stage for this moment of vulnerability. ​ ​Schopenhauer, 1819: Viewing a painting of Odysseus sobbing finds proof of his theory that weeping is actually "noble self pity." We cry not just because we suffer, but because we perceive our own suffering from the outside 🎨😢 #Schopenhauer #Philosophy #ArtHistory #philsky artist Francesco Hayez

We cry not just because we suffer, but because we perceive our own suffering from the outside
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​Schopenhauer 1819: Viewing a painting of Odysseus sobbing finds proof of his theory that weeping is actually "noble self pity"
🎨😢 #Schopenhauer #Philosophy #ArtHistory #philsky #artist #FrancescoHayez

Dzogchen: Pointing Out Rigpa YouTube video by Jackson Peterson

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Tulku Urgyen giving Dzogchen Pointing Out instructions

China Buddhist Association: A Trojan Horse of Chinese Propaganda Naïve Buddhists in democratic countries believe they are conducting genuine inter-Buddhist dialogue with a group that exists to advance CCP interests.

China Buddhist Association: A Trojan Horse of Chinese Propaganda bitterwinter.org/china-buddhi...

#China #Buddhist

Naïve Buddhists in democratic countries believe they are conducting genuine inter-Buddhist dialogue with a group that exists to advance #CCP interests.