The Canada geese in our park lakes are flying off. Wishing them well on their long journeys.
Jenny Edwards CBE
@jennyedwards.bsky.social
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Personal capacity. Chair People's Health Trust, Trustee Affinity Trust. Fellow Fac Public Health. Mental Health, Arts, Learning Disability, Health Inequalities, Mindfulness, Peace, Nature Connection, Swans. Studied Archaeology & Anthropology. Typos galore
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So much TV drama recycles old plots, is gratuitously violent & gives little time to character development. Old series or European drama series are more interesting. Watching Families like Ours which has an interesting scenario.
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I feel so lucky to have been prescribed them for diabetes. They worked quickly on blood sugars then impacted on many health areas that T2 is linked to. I hope they become more widely available through the NHS. Best hope of prevention until we change the commercial food environment .
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Extraordinary. Back to the dark ages. "Think what I think or else'. People with no education or culture, working to spread their own ignorance to young people.
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A fascinating journey through creating a performance of Verdi's great opera La Traviata. Alison Langer"s Violetta brings the rich emotional life of this dying woman to the fore as well as her mobility of soul in the face of society's contempt for a "fallen woman" #OHPTraviata #opera #Verdi
How to Play - Verdi's La Traviata with Opera Holland Park - BBC Sounds
Musicians invite us to eavesdrop on rehearsals for one of Verdi's most popular operas.
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There will be no West? Just North, South and East. Hmm.
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A gift from the last day of summer #ponds #watellilies
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🌍 Climate extremes hit poorest hardest
A new study finds low-income countries face the greatest future exposure to floods, heatwaves, droughts, and hot-dry extremes, driven largely by rapid population growth.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm #ClimateJustice 🧪
Inequality in human exposure to future climate extremes - Nature Communications
Climate extremes are expected to worsen global population exposure, but disparities across income groups remain unclear. This study shows low-income countries face greater exposure to future floods, h...
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Michael Rosen’s guide to having a happier day: listen to music, get a good night’s sleep ... and add raisins to ice-cream
Michael Rosen’s guide to having a happier day: listen to music, get a good night’s sleep ... and add raisins to ice-cream
Philip Larkin wrote that ‘days are where we live’. Even in the bleakest of times, there are things you can do to improve yours. Former children’s laureate Rosen has some suggestions …
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Got your life purpose sorted out yet? #HealNature #EndPoverty #SocialJustice #FeedtheWorld #JustbeKind #RandomActsofKindness #BuildPeace #DoSomething
🧠 Life purpose protects brain health
A study of 13,765 US adults found those with a stronger sense of life purpose had a 28% lower risk of cognitive impairment and delayed onset, even with genetic dementia risk.
🔗 www.ajgponline.org/article/S106...
#SciComm #Dementia 🧪
Life Purpose Lowers Risk for Cognitive Impairment in a United States Population-Based Cohort
The global increase in longevity has led to a rise in age-related neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and related dementia. Notably, overt symptoms of cognitive impairment are p...
