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The Numbers That Try to Tell Us How to Eat and Move

The Numbers That Try to Tell Us How to Eat and Move

Published by Jenni Sidey

At 44, I’m old enough to remember a time before numbers were everywhere. I remember when no one knew how many calories there were in anything they ate, or what their resting heart rate was, or how many paces they’d done today, or how long they spent in REM sleep last night. The everyday human activities—eating, walking, sleeping, shopping—have remained, but they’ve been superimposed by a layer of arithmetic. It’s happened gradually, this insertion into our lives of numbers that we’re meant to live by: kilocalories, grams of macros, heart-rate zones, heart-rate variability, steps, elevation gains, litres, hours of direct sun exposure… The progressive numerical infiltration has taken two forms: normalizing tracking and supplementing the tracking with targets and limits. Not very long ago, mainstream health advice amounted to innocuous platitudes such as, “don’t eat too much”, “get plenty of fresh air”, “stay active”. Now, what counts as enough or too much has been converted into numbers: 10,000 steps a day, 150 minutes of moderate exercise a week, 5 portions of fruit and veg a …

The quickest way to find blocked numbers on your iPhone – it’s easy

The quickest way to find blocked numbers on your iPhone – it’s easy

Published by skeptic

What happens when I block someone? When a phone number or contact is blocked, that person can still call and leave a voicemail, but there won’t be a notification. Messages they send also won’t be delivered. Will blocked callers know I blocked them? No. Apple doesn’t send them a notification or anything to tell them they were blocked. Can I search to find blocked contacts? Yes. From the iPhone home screen, tap Search (or swipe down to open Search), type Blocked Contacts, and tap the result. This will directly open the Blocked Contacts screen described in steps one and two above. Source link

Secondary pupil numbers fall for first time in a decade

Secondary pupil numbers fall for first time in a decade

Published by skeptic

The number of secondary school pupils has begun to fall for the first time in a decade, as a population bulge caused by a baby boom in the 2000s makes its way out of the school system. Overall pupil numbers first started falling last year following several years of drops at primary level. The total number of pupils across all schools declined by almost double the amount this year. The DfE initially expected secondary school numbers to peak in 2027 and then gradually fall. But statistics from last July suggested that the secondary school population “is likely to have plateaued between 2024 and 2025” instead. The latest figures show that there were 3,659,508 secondary pupils in state schools in January 2026, down by almost 12,000. The data was published as part of the DfE’s annual schools, pupils and their characteristics dataset. Here are more of the key findings. 1. Primary pupil numbers keep falling The number of primary school pupils has been on a downward trend since 2019, as the demographic shift moved through the …

AEKE’s “Strength In Numbers” Event Showed How AI Fitness Is Becoming More Personalized, Data-Driven, and Surprisingly Human

AEKE’s “Strength In Numbers” Event Showed How AI Fitness Is Becoming More Personalized, Data-Driven, and Surprisingly Human

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The next phase of connected fitness may not be about streaming another workout class onto a screen. After spending an afternoon at AEKE’s “Strength In Numbers” influencer experience event in New York City, it became clear that the category is shifting toward something much more adaptive and personal: intelligent systems that analyze movement, assess the body in real time, and tailor workouts dynamically around the individual using them. Hosted in Manhattan near Times Square, New York City, the event brought together creators from the tech, fitness, wellness, and lifestyle spaces to experience the AEKE S1 Pro AI Home Gym firsthand. The atmosphere felt like an interactive testing lab for the future of strength training. Music filled the room while influencers rotated through assessments, mobility work, strength exercises, recovery features, and live demonstrations of the machine’s AI-powered capabilities. The focus of the event, of course, was the AEKE S1 Pro itself, a compact AI-driven home fitness system designed around digital resistance, real-time feedback, personalized programming, and full-body movement training. But what surprised many attendees wasn’t simply …

Podcast: Tesla Robotaxi numbers, Ferrari’s controversial Luce launches, Waymo Ojai, and more

Podcast: Tesla Robotaxi numbers, Ferrari’s controversial Luce launches, Waymo Ojai, and more

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In the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss Tesla’s alarming Robotaxi numbers, Ferrari’s controversial Luce, Waymo Ojai, and more. Today’s episode is sponsored by GM Energy. If you want to experience more resilience and control over your home energy, the GM Energy Home System adds stationary battery power for always-ready backup energy for your home, and the GM Energy PowerBank takes in energy from the grid and stores it for when you need it most. Learn more at gmenergy.gm.com The show is live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on Electrek’s YouTube channel. Special: This week, the podcast will start at 3 p.m. ET because Fred is still in Italy after the launch of the Luce. Advertisement – scroll for more content As a reminder, we’ll have an accompanying post, like this one, on the site with an embedded link to the live stream. Head to the YouTube channel to get your questions and comments in. After the show ends at around 5 p.m. ET, the …

NEET numbers could hit 1.25m in five years, Milburn warns

NEET numbers could hit 1.25m in five years, Milburn warns

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The number of young people shut out of education and work could surge to 1.25 million within five years unless ministers overhaul “broken” systems meant to support them, a landmark independent review will warn. Former Labour health minister Alan Milburn’s review will say the number of young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) could rise from one in eight to one in six if nothing changes. Milburn will launch his interim diagnostic report tomorrow, with final recommendations expected later this year. He will warn that Britain faces a “generational fault line” unless it confronts “whole system failure” that has left almost one million young people NEET. Milburn is expected to say: “Six in ten have never had a job. Twenty years ago, that figure was closer to four in ten. “Detachment is no longer temporary. For too many young people, it is becoming permanent. We are at risk of a lost generation.” The review will argue that systems built to support young people from childhood to adult life – including schools – are …

A Look at the SpaceX IPO by the Numbers

A Look at the SpaceX IPO by the Numbers

Published by Sam Flores

Elon Musk is all about big numbers — billions, trillions – and you can find them sprinkled throughout an extraordinary document he just filed to take his rocket maker public. Running more than 250 pages, the prospectus for his SpaceX stock debut shows spending at a massive scale — greater than the economic output of some countries — and about to grow much larger as he races to make good on his promise to hurl men to distant planets. Money raised in the initial public offering — reportedly $75 billion or so — will help finance those futuristic, fantastical plans. Assuming the IPO goes off without a hitch, it will rank as the largest ever. It will also likely make Musk, a major SpaceX owner and already the world’s richest man, the first trillionaire. The document in part reads like a script for a Hollywood sci-fi movie as he details how he hopes to use his rockets to save the human race from extinction by making it an interplanetary species. First, he will send men …

Migratory bird numbers fall in Britain despite last year’s warm spring | Birds

Migratory bird numbers fall in Britain despite last year’s warm spring | Birds

Published by Jenni Sidey

After a mild, wet and stormy winter in the UK, spring 2025 was one of the warmest and driest ever, while the summer was the hottest since records began, most particularly in England and Wales. Good news, you might think, for migratory birds – especially for eight species of warblers that travel here from their winter quarters in Africa. Yet according to data from bird ringers, collated by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), last year’s breeding season was pretty disastrous. Four species – willow warbler, blackcap, garden warbler and common whitethroat – showed significant falls. Three others – sedge and reed warblers and lesser whitethroat – also declined, though less seriously. Only the chiffchaff, which winters closer to home in north Africa and Iberia, with some staying put in southern Britain, showed a rise in numbers. The BTO’s other major annual study, the breeding bird survey, revealed similarly mixed fortunes, notably for pigeons and doves. While woodpigeon and stock dove numbers continued to rise, the two smaller species, collared and turtle doves, continued their …