Penny Sawell

This is a healing grid by Japanese artist Ryota Kanai. If you stare at the center, the irregularities start to heal themselves because your brain strongly prefers to see regular patterns.

Regret rate, you say? Oh let’s go there…

This systematic review concluded that there was “no difference in effectiveness of physiotherapy versus control interventions at short term, medium term, and long term.” Here’s 5️⃣ reasons why we shouldn’t be too worried 🧵

@kofidereVT Fry a tin of tuna with grated cheese, (quite a bit of cheese - I like cheddar but have made with Parmesan too) and eat with pasta. Delicious, filling, nutritious

if it’s okay to ask, what are your favourite struggle meals…? i’m talking less than 15 minutes to prep and cook. i don’t mind if it’s not the best nutritionally, i’m just looking for a way to eat more than late night take-out. life is hard atm, the least i can do is eat 🙇‍♀️

Now I wasn’t expecting that 🔥 🙌

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” —Charles Dickens

The definition of irony 😅

@ChrisKindaReads Killer Angels

i have so many books that picking the next book is kinda hard. RECOMMEND ME ANYTHING. literally anything good

A recent study has demonstrated that continuous exposure to rose essential oil through inhalation can lead to measurable increases in gray matter volume in the human brain. In this randomized controlled intervention, 50 healthy women participated: 28 in the experimental group applied rose essential oil to their clothing daily for one month, while 22 in the control group used plain water. Before and after the period, researchers used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to assess changes in brain structure. The results indicated a significant increase in gray matter volume (GMV) across the whole brain, with a particularly notable effect in the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC)—a region involved in memory processing, self-referential thinking, and emotional regulation. No significant changes occurred in areas like the amygdala or orbitofrontal cortex. The olfactory pathway likely explains this effect: aromatic compounds from the rose oil travel directly to the limbic system, providing sustained stimulation that may promote neuroplasticity and help counteract age-related brain atrophy. The authors suggest this could have implications for dementia prevention, as the PCC is among the regions affected early in conditions like Alzheimer's disease. This appears to be the first evidence that prolonged scent inhalation can induce structural changes in the adult human brain. [Kokubun, K., et al. (2024). Continuous inhalation of essential oil increases gray matter volume. Brain Research Bulletin, 208, 110896. DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2024.110896]

Stop saying every screen version of Wuthering Heights is terrible, there is a perfect adaptation and it was made by Monty Python.

@AuthorKcfoster Yes yes and yes

Does anyone else have the problem of writing on one level and speaking on another? My husband looked at my work and said, "I had no idea you thought like this. Why don't you speak like this?" -- Honestly? Everything gets caught or jumbled before it comes out. Suggestions?

I thought chiropractors were a waste of money, but i stand corrected.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin – William Shakespeare/Art by the fabulous Jenifer Lommers

To be, or not to be, that is the question. Is this a Banksy in King’s Lynn? This appeared overnight close to the Globe, just down from the UK’s oldest working theatre & the only theatre left that can credibly claim to have hosted William Shakespeare - @StGGuildhall

I've told my cat a million times to stop opening interdimensional portals in my house.

@ChrisKindaReads I waited till my 50s to read it cos I thought it would be wishy washy romance but it is absolutely superb, not sure I ever related to a character as much! Great plot, too. The Hitchcock film is very faithful to the atmosphere and is on Youtube I think

“one more chapter” it’s 2am and i can’t put this down

The worst thing about trying to parallel park are the witnesses.

📰 Single gene behind almost all Alzheimer's cases ✅ New research suggests that eliminating the effect of one gene could prevent a large number of Alzheimer's and dementia cases.

🏃 Five extra minutes of walking per day could avert up to 10% of early deaths, exercise-tracking data from over 135,000 UK Biobank participants suggest. The results infer that even very small increases in activity could make a difference, particularly for less-active people.