Counsellors and psychotherapists call for UK statutory regulation in ‘watershed moment’: It’s amazing and disturbing that this has gone on so long without serious regulation
Health
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2026-10-29: Some science behind a 'reading is good for your health' claim
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2026-10-27: Taking up smoking as an act of faith in AI is obviously stupid if it's real
2026-10-24: The UK's online safety laws have entirely failed to protect children from disgraceful social media content
2026-10-16
2026-10-15: Talks I attended from New Scientist Live 2026
2026-10-13
Women ‘more likely to be told autoimmune conditions are psychological’: A ‘stark gender divide in misdiagnosis, with women also waiting longer for treatment’.
2026-09-20
Thousands of pregnant women in England are reporting domestic abuse. Midwives are struggling to cope: An estimated 20,000 report per year.
2026-09-16
About 1,500 Britons a day quitting their jobs to become unpaid carers: ‘…they try to balance their vulnerable relatives’ growing care needs with declining access to state-funded social care services.’
2026-08-31: Staying in bed extra at the weekend turns out to be a healthy habit
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2026-08-15: Bad Blood tells the story of Theranos, one of the biggest Silicon Valley scams of all time
2026-07-15: Mysterious mushroom reliably induces lilliputian hallucinations
2026-07-13
June heatwave killed up to 440 people a day in England and Wales, data suggests: ‘…about 2,200 heat deaths occurred between 18 and 28 June, a period encompassing the peak 24-26 June period, the study indicated. About 38% were attributed to global heating, the result of the extra heat baked in by the climate crisis.’
2026-07-02: Nearly 300k more people in England may die over the next decade as a result of the US UK trade deal
2026-06-16: Explaining Social Deviance is a 10 part run-through of answers to 'what makes something deviant?'
2026-06-06: On the grimmer side of Wikipedia entries I see there’s now an official page for ‘Deaths …
2026-05-30: New genetic test reveals whether or not you'd benefit from chemotherapy
2026-05-16
Declare climate crisis a global public health emergency, experts tell WHO: ‘The international spread of vector-borne disease, such as dengue and chikungunya, as well as the health impacts of extreme weather events, global heating, food insecurity and air pollution make a Pheic necessary…’
2026-03-22
Lockdowns trigger dramatic fall in global carbon emissions: “Responses to coronavirus crisis cause sharpest drop in carbon output since records began”
2026-03-10: Noted 6 decades ago: '...extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people'