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Many people strive to eat healthily in order to live long and stay physically fit. Some even go on diets to lose weight by cutting out entire food groups. But we rarely consider what impact our diet has on our brains. And it turns out our brains want a healthy and balanced mix of many different foods – with people who eat such a diet scoring higher on cognitive tests and having better brain health than others.
A new study has shown that people who eat a balanced diet – including fruit, fish, meat, cheese, cereal, bread and even moderate amounts of alcohol – have better brain health than people who follow vegetarian, low-carb or high protein/low fibre diets.
Maya Angelou is most famous for her poetry and memoirs. But new research has uncovered a different side to her, represented in forgotten radical political journalism in which she linked the struggle for civil rights in the US to global campaigns against racism and imperialism.
And do you ever find it hard not to take criticism of your work personally? This philosophical theory might be able to help.
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Miriam Frankel
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Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian, University of Cambridge; Christelle Langley, University of Cambridge; Jianfeng Feng, Fudan University; Wei Cheng, Fudan University
Vegetarian and low-carb diets aren’t ideal for our brains.
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Maya Angelou’s political journalism, written in the 1960s, was radical and anti-colonial.
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Alex White, University of Cambridge
Angelou’s 1960s political journalism in Africa demonstrates her desire to link the struggle for civil rights in the US to global campaigns against racism.
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Don’t take it personally.
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Samantha Fazekas, Trinity College Dublin
The political thought of Hannah Arendt reminds us that we are more than our successes and failures.
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World
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Gulcin Ozkan, King's College London
Turkey’s central bank has raised interest rates in a much-needed reversal from years of unorthodox economic policy.
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Politics + Society
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Shabnam Holliday, University of Plymouth
Over nearly five decades of enmity, Tehran and Washington have found common ground when they needed to.
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Arts + Culture
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Lydia Merrett, Manchester Metropolitan University
This new pocket-sized book is an excellent place to begin an education about the women who have contributed to the history of western art.
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Kate Cotter, University of the West of Scotland
This show has lots to say about the confusing time of life in your 30s, when some friends are settling down while others have just booked tickets for a pagan festival.
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Business + Economy
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Ylva Baeckstrom, King's College London
Are you secure, anxious or avoidant when it comes to finances?
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Environment
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Anniek Kortleve, Leiden University; Helen Harwatt, Harvard University; José Manuel Mogollón, Leiden University; Paul Behrens, Leiden University
Meat is cheaper than it should be – and alternatives are more expensive.
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Marcus Rhodes, University of Exeter
Some butterflies are expanding their ranges as the climate changes, others are dwindling.
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Thomas O'Shea-Wheller, University of Exeter; Peter Kennedy, University of Exeter
New AI tech could identify Asian hornets and help scientists eradicate invading colonies.
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Health
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Rebecca Rhead, King's College London
Our research reveals why discrimination in the NHS should be seen as a public health issue
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Colin Michie, University of Central Lancashire
Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome is a rare but deadly condition triggered by the same bacteria that cause strep throat and tonsillitis.
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Science + Technology
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Tony Milligan, King's College London
We have joined a game which has been going on before our arrival, and the strategy that everyone has learned is to hide.
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Dee Ninis, Monash University
We can’t rule out the possibility today’s earthquake was not even the biggest event in this sequence, although as time passes the likelihood of a larger associated event decreases.
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