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A lot of you will be sitting down to work today after a lovely holiday. And many more of us will be landing back at our desks with a thud in the days ahead. Sometimes, within a couple of hours we've undone all the benefits of a break by allowing a full inbox and looming deadlines to send us into a stress tailspin.
According to Cary Cooper, a leading expert in organisational psychology, there are at least some simple ways to ease back into work mode without losing your holiday glow. Just eating lunch outside can preserve a bit of the summer vibe, for instance. And the best thing to do about all those emails? Leave them for another day.
For the two Nasa crew members stranded on the International Space Station, more downtime is possibly the last thing they want. The pair are stuck after the Boeing Starliner craft that was meant to bring them back to Earth malfunctioned. This means they could be facing several months on the ISS rather than the eight days they'd planned for. Researchers looking at the effects of extreme conditions on our perception of time reveal what life will be like as the days roll slowly by.
And meteorologists have found that the Stevenson screen, first devised 160 years ago to protect thermometers at weather stations from the elements, remains a remarkably effective tool that holds its own against modern technology.
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Sarah Reid
Senior Business Editor
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Cary Cooper, University of Manchester
All good things must come to an end, but being back at your desk after a holiday doesn’t have to be a trauma.
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Ruth Ogden, Liverpool John Moores University; Daniel Eduardo Vigo, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Argentina
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were supposed to stay around eight days on the space station.
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Giles Harrison, University of Reading
A white box designed by Robert Louis Stevenson’s dad revolutionised weather monitoring, and is still in use.
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Business + Economy
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Sreevas Sahasranamam, University of Glasgow
This is the story of a range of new technologies that are getting cheaper and being adopted at such speeds that society can barely keep up.
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Adi Imsirovic, University of Surrey
Whereas oil producers like Saudi and the UAE are spending heavily to diversify away from carbon, the same can’t be said of many other Opec members.
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Martin Powell, University of Birmingham
The new Labour government has cut winter fuel payments and dropped a cap on social care costs. What do these changes mean for pensioners?
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World
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Anatoli Colicev, University of Liverpool; Joep Konings, Nazarbayev University; Joris Hoste, KU Leuven
Kazakhstan’s abrupt currency devaluation in 2015 hit the poor hardest.
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Tyler Broome, University of Birmingham
Roman writers set out a playbook for rhetoric but also worried about morals and power.
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Arts + Culture
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Matthew Duncombe, University of Nottingham
Paradoxes point to conceptual glitches or bugs. How to fix the bugs, or whether they can be fixed, is rarely obvious.
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Science + Technology
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Diarmid Finnegan, Queen's University Belfast
Tyndall was an early supporter of the idea that matter can be conscious.
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Politics + Society
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Paolo Morini, King's College London
Young people, especially from minority ethnic and LGBTQ+ communities, did not feel like they were heard, taken seriously or treated fairly by the police.
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April Smith, University of Portsmouth
Incarcerated women need trauma-informed support and mental health services.
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Education
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Jonathan Glazzard, University of Hull
There is substantial evidence from across the world that youth mental health has substantially deteriorated.
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Health
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Sheena Cruickshank, University of Manchester
Being able to access a COVID booster on the NHS is important for protecting those who are most vulnerable from COVID.
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