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...research shows that over three-quarters of people in the UK have heard of Veganuary. But its rapid expansion may be surprising. The brainchild of its founders Jane Land and Matthew Glover, Veganuary began with just 3,300 sign-ups in 2014. Since then, it’s mushroomed (no pun intended!) to 1.8 million people being directly supported by Veganuary in 2024, and an estimated...

...children did: swim, bike, roller skate and run. As it happens, we did all of that, sometimes in difficult circumstances, but we pushed through. As Muslims we are told to look after both our spiritual side as well as our physical side, demonstrated by the month of Ramadan, in which Muslims fast for 30 days to increase their nearness to Allah as well as improve overall...

...researchers have also found that reminders of death increase our desire for fame and for children, both of which are commonly associated with symbolic immortality. It turns out that we do want to be immortalised through our work and our DNA. When asked, we do not seem, perhaps not even to ourselves, to fear death. Nor would we guess that thinking about death has such...