We were absolutely floored by the millions of you that watched us make silly water sillouettes on our driveway last summer. We are starting out the summer the only way we know how, and this time it’s all about movies! What else do you want to see? We have a whole summer ahead, a driveway and a hose. The possibilities are endless!!!
Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.
They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.
France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend
NHS KNEW HEAD INJURIES CAUSE SUICIDE. THEY DIDN'T TELL PATIENTS.
Joanna Lane lost her son Chris in 2008. He was 31. He'd had a serious head injury aged 7, fell from a tree, fractured his skull, spent a week in a coma. The doctors sent the family home.
Nobody mentioned that his pituitary gland might be damaged. Nobody mentioned that this could make him suicidal. Nobody mentioned there was a test, and a treatment.
Chris spent his adult life depressed, struggling with impotence, unable to cope with stress. The family had no idea why. After he died, Joanna pieced it together herself.
Here are two facts the NHS should have told them decades ago.
Fact one: head injury raises your risk of suicide by three to four times.
Fact two: around a quarter of head injuries damage the pituitary gland. The most common result is growth hormone deficiency. Growth hormone deficiency causes depression, fatigue, weight gain, loss of libido, heart disease, osteoporosis. It can make people suicidal. It can be tested for. It can be treated.
Joanna has campaigned on this for 16 years. She ran into obstruction after obstruction. NICE's guidelines were silent on it for years. Legal aid was refused. A nurse mentioned the pituitary risk in passing as the family left hospital, and then the system said nothing more for the rest of Chris's life.
She's written it all down in "Mother of a Suicide," published by Hachette. She names names.
If you have fatigue, unexplained weight gain, depression, loss of libido, or heart problems after a head injury, ask your GP about pituitary function testing. Push for a proper test. The standard NHS one misses more than half of cases.
Source: Joanna Lane - LinkedIn | Christopher Lane Trust: christopherlanetrust org uk
Love isn't all about roses or grand gestures. At our Nursery in Kenya, it looks like a Keeper dragging a mattress onto the lawn so a sleepy (yet playful!) orphaned infant elephant can enjoy a rest. With over 300 orphans successfully raised to date, discover how we raise orphans with love (and lots of milk) so they can return to the wild: https://t.co/ELpBAGndch
The arguments behind every landmark Supreme Court ruling have never been freely available to the public… until now.
Thanks to a gift from the Wolf Law Library at William & Mary Law School, more than 125,000 #SCOTUS records & briefs are now freely freely available on the Internet Archive, spanning 1830 through 2019. The arguments that shaped America, including Brown v. Board of Education. Loving v. Virginia.
Read the full announcement ⤵️
https://t.co/yhjqSBVDOa
@WMLawSchool #SupremeCourt #DemocracysLibrary
The goal is for the new DSM to more holistically capture the variability in presentations among patients with psychiatric symptoms and address the comorbidity that currently characterizes many psychiatric patients across diagnoses. https://t.co/IGAnJsd9fm
Only one chance in this lifetime…
Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.
I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.
An MLB player tosses a ball to a kid wearing his jersey.
The kid makes the catch… then hands it to his little sister and gives her a hug. How can you not love baseball
For decades, the search for the biological roots of severe depression has largely focused on looking for physical changes in the brain's shape or size.
However, major new research is fundamentally changing how we view the condition, revealing that the true key lies in how the brain operates in real-time.
Scientists utilizing advanced imaging techniques have discovered that depression is strongly characterized by localized drops in cerebral blood flow. This reduced blood flow creates a domino effect, preventing neighboring clusters of brain cells from communicating and synchronizing properly. Essentially, these specific regions are not receiving the optimal energy and oxygen required to maintain healthy neural connections.
This discovery is a significant leap forward for mental health science. By focusing on active blood flow and neural synchronization rather than physical structural scans, researchers have found a highly precise biological indicator that directly mirrors the intensity of a person's symptoms.
This deeper understanding paves the way for a new era of targeted, objective measurements and treatments focused on restoring healthy brain activity.
Journal Cite: Kochunov P, Adhikari BM, Keator D, et al. Functional vs Structural Cortical Deficit Pattern Biomarkers for Major Depressive Disorder. JAMA Psychiatry. 2025;82(6):582–590. DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2025.0192
Oklahoma 2013: Barbara Garcia survived an EF5 tornado that destroyed her home.
While grieving her missing dog during an interview this happened live on camera 🥹