Health
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Even without social media, phones have a subtle, damaging effect on our mental health | Devi Sridhar
When I first started teaching at Oxford in 2005, I would offer…
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Suicide-related callouts to fire services triple in England in a decade
Suicide-related callouts to fire and rescue services in England have tripled in…
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Weekly bread rolls and an Irish bender: six readers on gestures that made them feel less lonely
The rise of social media, disappearing third spaces, displeasure with dating apps:…
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Don’t knock small talk. It has the power to mend a world ripped apart by rage | Bidisha
Hi there, how’re you? How’s it going? You alright? All good? As…
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Diets and dieting, Drugs, Health, Life and style, Mental health, Science, Society, Weight-loss drugsIs a new weight-loss drug making people fall out of love?
A recent TikTok video shows a man in a black baseball cap,…
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The kindness of strangers: I was taken aback by a rude remark. Then it hit me – she was absolutely right
More than 30 years ago, I set out to build my dream…
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AI (artificial intelligence), Children’s health, Health, Mental health, Meta, Social media, Technology, Tobacco industry, US news, YouTube‘I always considered social media evil’: big tobacco whistleblower on tech’s addictive products
A key whistleblower in the tobacco industry’s landmark trials of the 1990s…
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family, Health, Health & wellbeing, Life and style, Mental health, obsessive compulsive disorder, SocietyMy teenage daughter’s OCD keeps getting worse. What can I do? | Ask Annalisa Barbieri
My daughter is 15 and has lived with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)…
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Overthinking is rarely an advantage | Letter
I was delighted to read Polly Hudson’s article on overthinkers like me…
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Unregulated chatbots are putting lives at risk | Letters
Your coverage of AI-associated delusions exposes a gap that training-level guardrails cannot…
