garethnelsonuk

My story - how I came to realise i'm transgender (and an FAQ) - part 1

My story Hi all, as promised in earlier posts I thought i'd write about my story in more depth as well as provide a brief FAQ about what it means to be transgen...

Introducing a Gwen

Re-introducing myself Hi all, this is actually my second introduction post here on steemit, i've had an account for a couple of years now - but I felt like it m...

A couple of ideas for improving steemit

Improving steemit Hi all, before I proceed with my usual posts i've had some ideas both old (had years ago back when I was a regular and while I was working at ...

I intend to return to steemit soon

I'm only giving a few details here because I don't have time to write the longer post until later. Anyway, I have some stuff to write about a recent major life ...

Staying away from steemit for a while

Hi all followers This is just a quick note to say i'll be away from steemit a while (other than logging in to claim funds from my ongoing power down). Some of y...

The devil you say... a real Satanist commenting on "The satanic temple"

This post is going to be a bit different from my usual and is likely to surprise some people and not be all that  surprising at all to others. Let's just g...

Test - ignore this

Or feel free to upvote it loads, this is just a test post...

Let's Put An End To Aging Together

----- Lets Put An End To Aging Together Mark Zuckerberg and his wife are also on a quest to end aging and disease. They just invested 3 billion dollars in resea...

You are a number - a cryptographic argument for cryonics

You are a number, a really big number Imagine if we could scan your entire body (including your brain) and store it in a computer in perfect resolution down to ...

Brief review: 1 week of metformin

I posted previously about metformin here: https://steemit.com/health/@garethnelsonuk/something-the-mainstream-media-is-not-covering-could-save-your-life Put sim...

My Personal TRIBUTE to Laura Lemons - a Steemian, friend, artist, & Bright Mind

The above painting is by Laura Lemons. I fell in love with it immediately and bought it. Laura lemons was my friend. We talked about funny, silly, and incredibl...

Homeopathy doesn't work

After my recent post on the antivax movement I thought i'd comment on a pet peeve of mine: homeopathy. What is homeopathy? First of all, homeopathy is NOT the s...

Vaccines are a good thing: refuting antivaxxer arguments

Hi all, i've seen a disturbing number of antivax types on steemit and thought it wise to refute some common arguments. Of course, antivaxxers have every right t...

Unfriendly optimisers: The unfriendly AI problem for cryptocurrency users

This is going to be a bit of a darker post than my normal ones, but it's something that must be said, and said without the cliche terminator pics. I'll try to e...

How to Set Up a STEEM Exchange Node in 60 minutes or less

https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2016/09/15/18/28/update-16723461280.png To make it easier for exchanges to adopt and run STEEM, we've updated this documentation w...

Something the mainstream media is not covering could save your life

I'm not joking with that title, right now there is an ongoing clinical trial for a drug that could save your life - literally YOUR life, the person reading this...

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Ignore this...

God is an american: the use of music to inspire plot

Anyone who knows me will know that i'm a huge fan of the way some writers make use of songs by David Bowie and others in inspiring their work. A classic example...

Ending of battlestar galactica

Watch it on Viewly end-preview Ending of the series, complete with showing the cylons rising on earth....

Practical transhumanism: enhancing willpower to overcome akrasia

Hi all, this is another entry in my "Practical transhumanism" series that personally I think is the most difficult to implement a lot of the time. Put simply, "...