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What happens to your body when temperatures suddenly hit 30C – and how to manage it

What happens to your body when temperatures suddenly hit 30C – and how to manage it

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the Well Enough newsletter with Harry Bullmore for tips on living a healthier, happier and longer life Get the Well Enough email with Harry Bullmore Get the Well Enough email with Harry Bullmore After a week marked by persistent rain, thunderstorms, and generally unsettled conditions, the Met Office has issued a forecast predicting a significant surge in temperatures across the UK this weekend. Dan Stroud, a meteorologist at the Met Office, informed the Press Association that he anticipates much warmer weather, with temperatures expected to be widely above average, particularly in southern regions on both Saturday and Sunday. Forecasts indicate that highs could reach or even exceed 30°C, though the precise peak temperature remains uncertain. Ahead of this potential heatwave, Dr Olivia Buckley, a GP at Nuffield Health, offered crucial insights into how sudden temperature increases can impact the human body and provided essential advice on staying safe in hot weather. Cardiovascular Strain “The body has a really clever thermostat in the brain called the hypothalamus which detects blood temperature regularly,” explains Dr Buckley. …

The British food scene was booming. Why has it suddenly gone bust? | Restaurants

The British food scene was booming. Why has it suddenly gone bust? | Restaurants

Published by Sam Flores

It’s 9am on a weekday morning and although I’ve just finished my porridge, the chef Richard Wilkins is making my mouth water. “My signature dish is soft Scottish langoustines wrapped in very thin, crispy pastry, served with Japanese sushi rice and a langoustine bisque.” His other specialities include turbot in a spinach and champagne sauce, buttery wagyu steak with English peas, and raspberry millefeuille. Sadly, I won’t be able to sample any of them and neither will anyone else. At the end of April, Wilkins took the painful decision to close his west London Michelin-listed Restaurant 104 after seven years. “The financial pressures became brutal,” says Wilkins, who previously worked with Gordon Ramsay at Pétrus. “We were very small, with only 12 covers. So when things like business rates or VAT rates change, it’s the smallest people who are hit the hardest.” At the end of last year, Wilkins was determined to fight back. “I did a five-figure refurb. I upped my marketing, leafleting and talking to hotel concierges to ask them to recommend us. …

Loneliness influencers: why are people suddenly boasting about having no friends? | Loneliness

Loneliness influencers: why are people suddenly boasting about having no friends? | Loneliness

Published by Sam Flores

Name: Loneliness influencers. Age: A few months old. Appearance: A solitary woman, eating a pizza at home. That sounds depressing. It really isn’t! It’s “introvert heaven”! Loneliness is aspirational now – or, at the very least, it’s authentic. Talk me through it. There’s a growing microtrend on social media where people who live alone chronicle their routines to their followers, often making a point about how they “have no friends”. The pizza one is called Paulina Cee. And what does she do? She comes home from work, gets in a lift, leaves the lift, strokes her cat, makes some food, obsessively tidies up (“no clutter ever”) and goes to bed. Wait, who’s filming her coming out of the lift? Apparently she is. Presumably she doesn’t upload the bits where she has to race down several flights of stairs to retrieve her phone. Seems … unusual. Cee is far from alone. There are many similar content creators, each espousing the quality of being completely alone all of the time. What is that quality, exactly? The videos …

‘Mogging’ is suddenly everywhere. Is that a problem? | Language

‘Mogging’ is suddenly everywhere. Is that a problem? | Language

Published by Sam Flores

Until recently, if someone had said “mog” to me, I probably would have assumed they were talking about the children’s book cat created by the late great Judith Kerr. If asked about “mogging” or being “mogged,” I would have been completely baffled. But for many members of gen Z and gen Alpha (or anyone who is just a bit too online), the slang term, which means to outdo or outshine others, is everywhere. Mogging’s origins are in the manosphere, where it began as a verb derived from the acronym “Amog” (alpha male of the group). In misogynistic forums in the 2010s, to “mog” came to mean to outdo someone in terms of sexual desirability. Mogging has been adopted by “looksmaxxing” influencers such as Braden Peters, known online as Clavicular, who encourage men to try to alter their looks – sometimes in extreme ways – to increase their “sexual market value”. Such an influencer might talk of “frame mogging” another person in a photo or video – a variation on mogging that specifically refers to being …

Why Trump Is Suddenly Asking Americans to Look Away

Why Trump Is Suddenly Asking Americans to Look Away

Published by Daniella Wilson

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. For once in his life, Donald Trump wishes he was getting less attention. “Iran really wants to make a deal, and it will be a good one for the U.S.A. and those that are with us,” the president posted this morning at 1:02. “But don’t the Dumocrats, and various seemingly unpatriotic Republicans, understand that it is MUCH tougher for me to properly do my job and negotiate, when political hacks keep negatively ‘chirping,’ at levels never seen before, over and over again, that I should move faster, or move slower, or go to war, or not go to war, or whatever.” The first part of the post is wrong. Weeks of stalled negotiations indicate that the Iranian regime is in no rush to reach an agreement—and this morning, Tehran said it was pulling out of talks and would completely …

I 3D printed cable organizers and my messy desk suddenly looked like I knew what I was doing

I 3D printed cable organizers and my messy desk suddenly looked like I knew what I was doing

Published by skeptic

If your desk is anything like mine, you’ve got a ton of cables twisting this way and that, in various states of coiled, making for a visual and functional mess. I’ve tried Velcro straps (annoying and lint-trapping), little adhesive clips (they don’t last too long), and even a dedicated box for my cables (too bulky to keep on the desk). None of it stuck, literally or figuratively. I went looking for some great 3D cable organizers on MakerWorld, and I wasn’t disappointed. There are a ton of them. I picked a couple of solutions that I think will stay on my desk for a long time, and found a couple more I’m planning on printing here soon. Now my desk doesn’t look like a bachelor pad gone wrong anymore, as if I made actual decisions about cable storage and organization. Every model here is free on MakerWorld and prints without support. If you have a Bambu Lab printer like my P1S or A1 Mini, these are a quick print to get your own cables under …

Glaciers in the ‘roof of the world’ have suddenly started melting

Glaciers in the ‘roof of the world’ have suddenly started melting

Published by skeptic

The Kongur Shan mountains in China, part of the Pamir range Mark Andrews/Alamy One of the world’s last stable glacier regions may have finally begun to succumb to global warming, with researchers recording an unprecedented loss of ice across the Pamir mountains of Asia. For decades, glaciers all over the world have been retreating due to rising temperatures, but in central Asia, a region dubbed “the roof of the world” has bucked this trend. From the 1970s to the early 21st century, glaciers in the western Kunlun mountains, the Karakoram mountains and the eastern Pamir mountains have remained stable or grown slightly. Fan Yu at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and his colleagues have been monitoring the 3-kilometre-long Kangxiwa glacier in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. The glacier is within the eastern Pamir range and is 5350 metres above sea level at its highest point. Before 2022, the ice mass of the glacier exhibited some fluctuations but remained in a stable pattern of moderate mass loss, with occasional years showing slight growth. But since then, …

In 2010, Earth’s molten core suddenly reversed direction and scientists don’t know why

In 2010, Earth’s molten core suddenly reversed direction and scientists don’t know why

Published by Jenni Sidey

A river of molten iron, more than 2,000 kilometers below the surface, appears to have pulled off something Earth scientists did not expect. Around 2010, a broad patch of fluid in the outer core beneath the equatorial Pacific stopped drifting west and began moving sharply east. This reversed a pattern long treated as one of the deep planet’s more stable habits. That change did not happen where people can see it, or feel it, and it poses no direct danger. However, it matters because the churning outer core generates Earth’s magnetic field. The field is the shield that helps protect the atmosphere and modern technology from charged particles streaming from the Sun. The new analysis, published in the Journal of Studies of Earth’s Deep Interior, draws on ground observatories and satellite measurements from 1997 to 2025. The team combined data from the Ørsted, CHAMP, CryoSat-2 and Swarm missions to reconstruct how flow at the top of the core evolved through the years. This includes the period around the reversal. “The large-scale flow reversal beneath the …

Why are broccoli crowns suddenly wearing luxury price tags?

Why are broccoli crowns suddenly wearing luxury price tags?

Published by Sam Flores

Step into your local supermarket, and you may find that those ordinarily humble broccoli bunches or cauliflower heads now carry higher price tags. Cruciferous vegetables have been hit hard by supply disruptions, leading to widespread shortages, quality decline and, yes, higher costs. In an April 29 press release, Markon Cooperative, a farm-to-table produce cooperative, noted that cauliflower supplies from the Salinas Valley and Santa Maria, CA, are extremely limited. Freezing temperatures and heavy rain in California — the dominant supplier of cauliflower in the United States — heavily impacted production and fresh harvests, driving up prices. By how much, you ask? In 2025, prices for cauliflower “fluctuated by roughly 230%, the largest shift of any ingredient tracked,” Food & Wine reported, citing data from MarginEdge, a restaurant management software company. Same for broccoli. While supplies from Mexico are reportedly meeting demand, California supplies are limited due to cold temperatures. California broccoli quality ranges from fair to good, Markon specified. The quality of broccoli grown in Mexico is described as good.     Such high costs …

Why are drones suddenly terrifying Europe? – POLITICO

Why are drones suddenly terrifying Europe? – POLITICO

Published by Sam Flores

With drone alerts, emergency shelters and fighter jets over the Baltics, Europe’s security fears suddenly feel much less theoretical at the GLOBSEC forum in Prague. On the ground in Czechia for the Brussels Playbook Podcast, Zoya Sheftalovich and Nick Vinocur unpack the growing wave of drone incursions linked to Russia’s war in Ukraine. They also discuss why Baltic leaders are sounding the alarm and how the crisis in Latvia became serious enough to bring down the government. Then: Germany is growing impatient with the EU’s enlargement drift. Chancellor Friedrich Merz is pushing a new concept called “associate membership” that would pull countries like Ukraine and Moldova closer to EU institutions — even before full accession. And finally: Brussels’ next big institutional power struggle is already underway. António Costa looks increasingly safe as European Council president, while the European People’s Party scrambles to keep its grip on the EU’s top jobs and protect Roberta Metsola’s position as European Parliament president. Do you live in Baltic country? Have the recent drone incursions affected your everyday life? We’re …