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Are NHS-recommended mental health apps actually doing any good?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are NHS-recommended mental health apps actually doing any good?

...manage the symptoms of depression and anxiety. They are frequently described as helping users to do things like control stress, improve well-being and beat depression. Yet only four of these apps currently provide any hard evidence of results reported by real-world users. And just two make use of NHS-accredited ways of measuring the effectiveness of mental health...
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How India reacted to Sundar Pichai's new role at Google - and what will he do?
Science, Maths & Technology

How India reacted to Sundar Pichai's new role at Google - and what will he do?

...management of Google Chrome, Chrome OS and Google Drive. Transcript In a video interview with Pichai on the Verge from June, the interviewer asks him how he feels about “Google trying to give everybody a supercomputer in their pocket”, Pichai replies: [..] The thing that attracted me to Google and the Internet in general is that it is a great equalizer and so to me...
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Wheelchair basketball player Yasmin on coaching, classification and the cost of disability sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Wheelchair basketball player Yasmin on coaching, classification and the cost of disability sport

...managed by the people around the new player though - the chances of getting to Paralympic level are very slim!" The Tokyo Paralympics “The success of the 2021 Paralympic games will certainly be a much-needed boost for disability sport. I’ll look forward to more people trying to get involved and people finding something that they really enjoy, gaining new friends and...
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More than carbon sinks: Other ways forests can fight climate change
Nature & Environment

More than carbon sinks: Other ways forests can fight climate change

...management expert. His explanation gave me an insight into how the minds of scientists work. “Scientists were working on the macro-system or global model at first because of the ‘symptoms’ that they saw—global warming, more violent storms, changing seasons. The answer to why these phenomena, was boiled down to excessive carbon in the atmosphere, which can be...
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How bad are things at the Great Barrier Reef?
Nature & Environment

How bad are things at the Great Barrier Reef?

...management community will continue to gather data on the bleaching event as it slowly unfolds. The initial stage focused on mapping the footprint of the event, and now we are analysing how many bleached corals died or recovered over the past 8-9 months. Over the coming months and for the next year or two we expect to see longer-term impacts on northern corals, including...
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The why and how of green social prescribing in aid of health ageing
Health, Sports & Psychology

The why and how of green social prescribing in aid of health ageing

...management tasks, contributing to better habitats across the city. They keep active all day, chat together, share lunch, learn new skills and give something back to their community. Look out for advertised volunteer roles and community tasks with The Parks Trust, or contact your parish council for similar opportunities. As prevention is better than cure, don’t wait for...
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Strange job: being Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest reigning monarch
Society, Politics & Law

Strange job: being Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest reigning monarch

...managed to keep her job for so long?...Queen Elizabeth II has now reigned Britain and the Commonwealth for 63 years and 217 days. She will not get a gold clock, but she will be the longest reigning monarch in British history after taking the title from Victoria at 17.30 BST on Wednesday. In an age when most people can’t be certain if they will have a job next year, and...
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Why we should remember the Armenians
Society, Politics & Law

Why we should remember the Armenians

...manage in the 16th century. The Poet Lord Byron was suddenly gripped by his acquaintance with the historical sufferings of the Armenians. He got to know the Mekhitarist Monks on a tiny island named St. Lazar, off Venice. He even wrote an Armenian grammar (to teach the Brits Armenian), forcing his London publisher John Murray to publish it. His eventual later attachment to...
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