Hastily ticking the “I agree” button is something we all do, probably quite frequently. Perhaps we’re just keen to get to the good stuff, or maybe it’s because an online form feels less legal than a paper document. But as a recent legal case involving Disney in the US suggests, we may be signing away more than we bargain for when we tick that box.

The company, which has since U-turned, had planned to argue a man whose wife allegedly died after experiencing an allergic reaction at Disney World in Florida had to settle out of court because of terms he’d agreed to when signing up for the firm’s streaming service. As big tech and other firms become embedded in more and more aspects of our lives, there’s a chance the full scope of what we’re agreeing to is well beyond anything we’d imagine.

Management experts are increasingly looking to extreme environments for lessons to improve how we work. This was the thinking of two researchers who spent three years studying storm chasers in the US to understand how they coped in the long, dull hours waiting for a tornado. Even if your job is far removed from twisters, their findings could transform your relationship with it.

And new research has suggested that eating the seaweed Ecklonia cava could prevent or slow Parkinson’s by boosting the antioxidants that can protect our neurons. The plant is already part of some Asian diets, and with a cure for the neurodegenerative disease still frustratingly remote, these findings may open the door to new treatments.

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