Mental health: new study finds simply believing you can do something to improve it is linked with higher wellbeing: If you want to improve your mental health, start by believing you can. VectorMine/ Shutterstock The number of people struggling with poor mental health and mental disorders has been rising around the world over the past …
How to dissuade parents from believing in anti-vaxxer conspiracy theories: Studio Romantic/Shutterstock Older people may be more vulnerable to COVID, but in the UK it’s the young that are now driving the pandemic. Last month, school-age children in Britain were 15 times more likely than people over 80 to have the coronavirus. Leaving young people …
Coronavirus: believing in conspiracies goes hand in hand with vaccine hesitancy: While developing an effective vaccine probably won’t bring an immediate end to the pandemic, it’s clear that things can’t begin to return to normal without one. Anything that reduces a future vaccine’s effectiveness will be a problem. This includes vaccine hesitancy – when people …
Neoliberalism has tricked us into believing a fairytale about where money comes from: Alex Coan/MD_Photography/Ti_ser, Shutterstock.com There is nothing natural about money. There is no link to some scarce essential form of money that sets a limit to its creation. It can be composed of base metal, paper or electronic data – none of which …
South Africa in the news: Springboks coach: Believing we can beat the All Blacks this weekend is a ‘fool’s paradise’: “Isn’t it a beautiful way to psych his own team up?,” the All Blacks coach said after touching down in South Africa overnight. “It’s reverse psychology. You guys believe it if you want to, but …