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One of the best ways to get a good night’s sleep is to establish a regular bedtime routine. Switching off screens, stretching, having a warm bath, and reading for pleasure for a few minutes are all excellent ways to wind down, release tension and let go of the concerns of the day. Of these, reading for pleasure is good for you! Reading for pleasure for just 30 minutes a week is associated with increased life satisfaction, self-esteem, better sleep, creativity and happiness, perhaps because it reminds us of our common humanity and reconnects us everything we are.

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Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility, which falls each year on the 31st March. The day exists to help raise awareness and also celebrate the lives of trans people and draw attention to the discrimination, violence and poverty trans people face as a result of prejudice, ignorance and misinformation.

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We’ve received so many lovely global messages of goodwill in languages as diverse as the designs taken from our collection of books from across the world. There’s still the whole of the rest of Global Week to look forward to, including the ever spectacular Festival of Cultures on Thursday.

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In times past, neurodiversity was considered a developmental disorder and these labels were handed out as diagnoses that indicated some form of incapability. Attitudes are now changing. As I have argued in previous blog posts, people who are physically or neurologically different tend to be disabled by society, as opposed to being disabled in and of themselves.

Several neurodiverse conditions often arise in the same person and are more common among LGBTQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, Queer, etc.) people. For example, dyslexia is common among people with some form of ADHD and/or dyslexia, and sometimes other selective challenges in language learning.  Once a person’s brain starts on the journey to being diverse, it seems it often becomes diverse in myriad ways.

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Happy Neurodiversity Awareness Week!

Everyone is unique, has a different set of strengths and weaknesses, and works best on their own, and works best in their own but because sufficiently many people are Neurodiversity, also sometimes known as neurodivergence, describes a range of ways in which some people think and process sensory stimuli differently from most people.

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Have you ever wondered which are the common parts of place names and how they are distributed across the country? It is something fascinating to explore.

Type in a place name or part of a place name, like ham, ford or ton and see how that name is distributed across placenames on a map of Britain using this fascinating linguistic mapping tool released by the National Library of Scotland based on a dataset compiled by own own Geography Department, among others.

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