By Stephen Garland, Senior Lecturer, Sports Physiology, Malmö University
Avid runners are often chasing speed. Whether that’s improving their 5K or shaving seconds off their marathon time to nail a personal best. The idea that exercise should involve pushing further, harder or faster has long been embedded in fitness culture.
But against this backdrop, some people have adopted the almost counter-cultural belief that the key to fitness is to take things slow.
The growing popularity of the “slow jogging” trend online counters a lot of what we’ve been taught about fitness. Rather than striving for speed, the slow jogging trend encourages people…
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By Michael Craig, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Filling every spare moment with a podcast, message or social-media scroll may deny the brain a useful window for consolidating new memories.
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By Joan Fitzpatrick, Reader in Renaissance Literature, Loughborough University
Humans have spent thousands of years searching for a hangover cure – yet the ultimate price of heavy drinking remains unchanged.
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By Hannah Cloke, Regius Professor of Meteorology and Climate Science, University of Reading
We have built the system to shed much of the surplus rather than keep it. We allow a wet winter to rush away, then ration what remains through a dry summer.
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By Siddharth Gumber, Post Doctoral Research Associate at St. Edmund's College, University of Cambridge; British Antarctic Survey
Around half of the glacier ice in the Himalayas (equivalent to about two billion Olympic swimming pools) could melt by the end of this century.
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By Edward D. Melillo, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of History and Environmental Studies, Amherst College
A century ago, Americans barely ate soy. Now it’s everywhere in people’s diets, even in places they don’t look or expect.
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By Anna Walker, Senior Arts + Culture Editor, The Conversation
Practical Magic is still bewitching
Every generation of women has its witch. For my grandmother, it was the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz, with her striped stockings and flying monkeys. For my mother, a child of the sixties, it was the villainous Witchiepoo from H.R. Pufnstuf, who zoomed around on a rocket-powered broom.
My own witches were far less frightening. The Owens sisters of Practical Magic (played by Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman) weren’t green and warty, nor cackling and cruel. They were stylish and free-spirited. The film follows the sister…
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By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor, The Conversation
The Burnham government has announced it will sanction all trade in goods and services from illegal settlements in the West Bank.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image The Supreme Court of Pakistan in Islamabad, Pakistan, June 20, 2022. © 2022 Anjum Naveed/AP Photo (New York) – The Punjab provincial assembly in Pakistan on August 31, 2026, passed a bill that would threaten the right to a fair trial in counterterrorism proceedings, Human Rights Watch said today. The provincial governor should return the bill to the assembly, which should develop rights-respecting protections for such proceedings, subject to independent oversight.The Anti-Terrorism (Punjab Amendment) Bill 2026 authorizes unspecified government officials…
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By Michael Noetel, Associate Professor of Psychology, The University of Queensland
Earlier this week, researcher Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic, saying the firm and its competitors are “gambling with our lives”. “We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans,” added current Anthropic researcher Evan Hubinger in a post on X.
Coxon isn’t the first to down tools over fears of AI doom. The idea that AI could wipe out humanity, advanced in Nick Bostrom’s 2014 book
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