Hope brings happiness, builds grit and gives life meaning. Here’s how to cultivate it: What is hope? In its simplest form, hope is about the future. There are three necessary elements to hope: having a desire or a wish for something that is valuable, and the belief that it is possible to attain this wish, …
Queer life in Africa is also full of joy – remembering the carnival in Mozambique: In late colonial Mozambique, in the city of Lourenço Marques (today’s Maputo), a carnival festival was held almost every year. From the 1950s to the 1970s, the event was more than just a street parade. It also became a space …
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Seti: how we’re searching for alien life at previously unexplored frequencies: Nasa Is there life beyond Earth? The question has turned out to be one of the hardest to answer in science. Despite the seemingly boundless expanse of the universe, which implies there’s potential for abundant life, the vast distances between stars render the search …
Having a single parent doesn’t determine your life chances – the data shows poverty is far more important: Valery Zotev/Shutterstock Numerous research studies have suggested that children from a single-parent family are worse off than those who have two parents at home. These findings chime with decades of stigma that have painted coming from a …
UK’s new back to work plan will make life even harder for disabled people: The UK chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, has unveiled new rules for welfare benefit claimants. Under the government’s back to work plan, £2.5 billion of funding is to be allocated to employment support schemes with the aim of getting over 1 million people …
Embracing Ubuntu: LG’s mission to redefine the good life in South Africa: LG unveiled an updated brand philosophy, inspiring optimism in the face of uncertainty Embracing the spirit of Ubuntu, LG Electronics in South Africa is on a mission to redefine what it means for life to be good and aims to inspire and uplift …
William Ruto’s first year: he promised to make life easier for Kenyans, but things got worse: It’s more than a year since President William Ruto was sworn into office as Kenya’s fifth president. He assumed power at a time when Kenya was beset by rising food and fuel prices, high unemployment and a worrying debt …
Turkana stone beads tell a story of herder life in a drying east Africa 5,000 years ago: On the shores of Lake Turkana in east Africa, about 5,000 to 4,000 years ago, pastoralists buried their dead in communal cemeteries that were marked by stone circles and pillars. The north-west Kenya “pillar sites” were built around …
Understanding all kinds of English accent can improve empathy and learning – and even be a matter of life and death: In a 2019 sketch from the US late-night comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL), the actor James McAvoy plays a Scottish air traffic controller attempting to help a US brand integration manager (Mikey Day) …
Life on Our Planet: evolution experts review this ‘hugely entertaining’ Netflix docuseries: Netflix’s beautifully realised historical biography of life certainly has ambition. Perhaps 4 billion species have existed in as many years of Earth’s history: an embarrassment of riches for eight 50-minute episodes. To make sense of this, Life on Our Planet focuses on some …
Physics has long failed to explain life – but we’re testing a groundbreaking new theory in the lab: Daniel X D/Shutterstock Modern physics can explain everything from the spin of the tiniest particle to the behaviour of entire galaxy clusters. But it can’t explain life. There’s simply no formula to explain the difference between a …
Carl Sagan detected life on Earth 30 years ago – here’s how his experiment is helping us search for alien species today: Earth and Moon as seen by the Galileo spacecraft from a distance of 6 million km away. NASA It’s been 30 years since a group of scientists led by Carl Sagan found evidence …
Sony Unveils INZONE Buds – Truly Wireless Gaming Earbuds with the Industry’s Longest Battery Life , Advised by Fnatic: Sony Unveils INZONE Buds – Truly Wireless Gaming Earbuds with the Industry’s Longest Battery Life[i], Advised by Fnatic INZONE Buds join the acclaimed INZONE range as its first truly wireless gaming earbuds, bringing the industry’s longest …
Terence Davies: four films that reveal the pain and poetry of the director’s own life: Terence Davies, who has died at the age of 77, was a key figure in British and European cinema. The Liverpool-born director extended the formal possibilities of film, and had a unique capacity for depicting memory and personal history. Much …
Debating the ‘success’ of multiculturalism misses the point – it’s simply part of life in Britain today: Diwali in Trafalgar Square: a celebration of multicultural Britain. Lara Ra/Shutterstock Suella Braverman – the home secretary in one of the UK’s most ethnically diverse cabinets in history – has declared that multiculturalism has failed. Speaking to an …
Sycamore Gap: what the long life of a single tree can tell us about centuries of change: Joe Rey Photography / shutterstock Only a few individual trees could be rightly labelled as world famous, but the tree at Sycamore Gap along Hadrian’s Wall in northern England was one of them. No wonder its recent felling …
Strange Way of Life review: Pedro Almodóvar’s 30-minute queer western is a tender miniature: Warning: this article contains spoilers for Strange Way of Life. Every genre film is engaged – as self-aware genre pastiches like the Scary Movie (2000) and Scream (1996) franchises cannily acknowledge – in a conversation with its predecessors. The western, the …