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“Ain’t no shame ladies, do your thing / Just make sure you ahead of the game.”

Plus a thank you for joining me this month ❤️

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Leonie Mercedes
October 31, 2025

Good morning, lovelies. Here’s your three-part nudge for the day:

a prompt

Write on the following for 5–10 minutes:

When is the last time you reached a goal, overcame an obstacle, or surprised yourself by something you achieved? How could you make that into a story?

a thought

“Girls, girls, get that cash / If it’s 9 to 5 or shakin’ your ass / Ain’t no shame ladies, do your thing / Just make sure you ahead of the game.” – Missy Elliott

farewell

Ruth A. Lawrence, paediatrician and breastfeeding advocate (1924–2025)

“Assuming she was just a wife along for the trip, the Pope [John Paul II] thanked her husband for his work on breastfeeding.

“‘In her typical grace, she simply smiled and thanked him,’ Dr Lawrence’s daughter, Joan Lawrence, said in an email. ‘Proper credit for the work was not important to her; the global cause for breastfeeding was.’”

Thanks for joining me this month!

This is the last edition for now, while I think about what I’m going to do next.

In the meantime, I’ll be sharing 10 things I didn’t know seven days ago in my weekly newsletter Science, Please.

(Here’s a recent edition covering how a mini-Ice Age affected the sound of Stradivarius violins, why the dawn chorus started in the middle of the day on 8 April 2024, and Isabella Rossellini’s series of short docs about sexual behaviour in the animal kingdom.)

Maybe see you there? Have the best Friday x