Rethink the 10,000 a day step goal, study suggests

Front_Page, Health

Walking 7000 steps a day can lower the risk of an early death by up to 47 percent. by Professor Melody Ding from the School of Public Health, the study was published in The Lancet Public Health and analysed data from 57 studies from 2014 to 2025 that were conducted in...

Benefits of Learning and Playing Mahjong

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Here’s why you might want to learn the game today. In a May 2021 Time magazine interview, Annelise Heinz, the author of Mahjong: A Chinese Game and th e Making of Modern American Culture, talks about how the game became a timeless hobby for an intercultural...

The Medicinal Plants You’ll Have in Your Backyard:

Front_Page, Health

Chicory – The Painkilling Plant You Should Grow in Your Backyard This is the wild plant that Native Americans used to look for more than any other. They’d harvest and use chicory to make a natural painkilling extract for a wide range of physical discomforts,...

The truth about plants – Seven fun, fascinating (and frightening) facts

Articles, Environment, Front_Page

How many of us have unthinkingly bought apples wrapped in plastic? Don’t worry, this isn’t another diatribe about plastic (we’re saving that for later). It’s a rant about plants. Wrapping a layer of superfluous plastic around food items that come with their own...

Global Ocean Treaty: how people power helped protect the oceans

Environment, Front_Page

Governments have finally agreed a Global Ocean Treaty at the United Nations, after almost two decades of negotiations. It sets the rules and tools for protecting ocean life over nearly half of our planet. Most importantly, it provides a pathway to creating marine...

When running away is bad

Articles, Awareness, Front_Page, Social

So what’s wrong with being an escapist? Therapist Lyn Reed cites its precariousness. “I would argue (this) escapism is an unhealthy way of coping with the challenges in our lives. With the stresses of modern life, escapism is pervasive. It comes in many forms and...