All posts tagged: type

News Anxiety? Stop Listening to One Type of Story

News Anxiety? Stop Listening to One Type of Story

Published by Jenni Sidey

When consuming news makes us anxious, we’re often told to stop following the news. But that is not the answer. The answer is to choose the type of news you consume. Rural Areas Can Be Cell Phone Deserts I am in the midst of a three week camping trip – visiting family, tramping on beaches, and playing the banjo. We have moved from backpacking to “tiny teardrop” – a trailer with two doors opening on a mattress and an outside kitchen you access through the trunk. I do love power and water though – and nowhere we’ve camped so far has either. Our solar panels keep this iPad, our phones, and my husband’s hearing aids charged and the sink and fan running. But cell service is thin on the ground and my portable satellite link requires more power than I want to risk after three days of clouds and rain. So I’m feeling great! And my husband is feeling even better. Why? No news. Three Types of News Like many folks, the constant torrent of …

Caroline Frost: ‘We can’t get enough of this type of mystery, but what exactly is cosy crime?’

Caroline Frost: ‘We can’t get enough of this type of mystery, but what exactly is cosy crime?’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Add The Marlow Murder Club to your watchlist Death in Paradise mastermind Robert Thorogood has some words of advice for any actor who gets the call for a role in the drama: “If you want to have a good time on the show, be the corpse. Fly to the Caribbean, lie down for a couple of hours, then go scuba diving for a week.” To the naked viewing eye, it doesn’t look as though his job as show creator and writer was much harder: a body discovered in some glamorous villa or a beach club; wives, lovers and sulky assistants suspected then dismissed; sleuth has a Eureka! moment, murderer revealed, all in time for drinks down at Catherine’s Bar. Easy peasy? Do not be deceived, Thorogood warns us. “I’d put money on it being the hardest TV to write,” he says. “You have one hour to kill someone at the start, catch the murderer at the end, reel off the denouement, so that’s 20 pages of script spoken for before you get to the fun …

The best cleansers in the UK for every skin type and budget – tested | Skincare

The best cleansers in the UK for every skin type and budget – tested | Skincare

Published by Sam Flores

Choosing a cleanser can feel like Goldilocks’ task of searching for the perfect bowl of porridge – finding one that’s just right is rarely straightforward. Add in that our skin is constantly changing, due to hormones, the seasons and environmental stressors, and it’s easy to see why finding the ideal formula can be challenging. The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. Cleansers are often overlooked, but the right one is the basis of a good skincare routine. To understand what we should be looking for, I spoke with Dr Ahmed El Muntasar, GP and founder of the Aesthetics Doctor, who explained that the ideal formula depends entirely on skin type. “If someone is acne-prone or oily, I would usually recommend something more gel-based, because it helps break through excess oil more effectively,” he says. “Ingredients such as salicylic acid and niacinamide can also be helpful for those skin types.” For very dry or sensitive skin types, he advises cream, milk or balm cleansers, …

Best Apps for Reading Books for Every Type of Reader

Best Apps for Reading Books for Every Type of Reader

Published by Jenni Sidey

Readers now move between print, ebooks, digital summaries, and audiobooks, depending on the day. Print still reached more readers than either ebooks or audiobooks, so digital formats have expanded the available choices without displacing paper. The best apps for reading books are tailored to different reading habits. Some sell full ebooks, and some connect to public libraries. Others can track reading or condense nonfiction. For example, if you are trying to find ways to catalog what you finish or care more about reviews and book discussions, you may also want to explore dedicated Goodreads alternatives. There is no single app that solves every reader’s needs, so finding your match means looking at how you actually spend your time. Let’s now compare the options below to find one that fits your preferred format and available reading time! 1. Headway App: Learning Key Ideas During Short Breaks Headway suits readers who want the main ideas from nonfiction books before committing to a full edition. Its library contains more than 2,500+ text and audio summaries, with most taking …

Gut microbes linked to type 2 diabetes years before diagnosis

Gut microbes linked to type 2 diabetes years before diagnosis

Published by Jenni Sidey

Type 2 diabetes may begin leaving clues in the gut long before a diagnosis arrives. In a large Swedish study, people who later developed the disease shared a pattern of bacterial changes years earlier, including one surprise that could reshape how doctors think about risk. The work followed 4,685 Swedish adults whose stool samples were analyzed with whole-genome shotgun sequencing, a detailed way to map the gut microbiome. Over a median follow-up of 5.3 years, 383 of them developed type 2 diabetes. That gave researchers a chance to ask a difficult question that shorter, cross-sectional studies often cannot answer: were the microbial changes appearing after diabetes took hold, or before it? Their answer was not simple, but it was striking. Several bacterial species and metabolic functions in the gut were tied to future diabetes risk, even after the team accounted for a long list of other factors, including diet, lifestyle and baseline fasting glucose in sensitivity analyses. Graphical abstract of study that aims to identify taxonomic and functional features associated with future T2D risk. (CREDIT: …

Researchers in Switzerland invent a new type of pixel

Researchers in Switzerland invent a new type of pixel

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. You may unsubscribe at any time. Every single day, we’re constantly looking at pixels. The tiny elements make up the displays on our phone screens and televisions, and allow us to capture images on digital cameras. Generally, a pixel works by either controlling light (think a computer) or analyzing it (like a camera sensor). Now, researchers writing in the journal Nature say they’ve created a pixel that can do both.  Called a Fourier pixel, the new pixel tech is based on a fundamental principle of physics: interference. When light is scattered by a surface, the waves can overlap with each other, even if they originated from different points. When two or more light waves overlap, they reinforce each other. If the light waves are out of step, they cancel …

A type of fibre that stimulates GLP-1 release approved for use in food

A type of fibre that stimulates GLP-1 release approved for use in food

Published by skeptic

Products like breads and smoothies that are fortified with the fibre could soon be on sale Panther Media Global / Alamy Breads, smoothies and cereals that contain a “supercharged” form of fibre could go on sale in Europe within the next year. The fibre stimulates the release of hunger-reducing hormones such as GLP-1, which can prevent weight gain, and has now been approved as safe to eat by the European Food Safety Authority, allowing it to be added to foods. “We showed in a randomised-controlled trial in middle-aged people that when it’s consumed daily, it prevents weight gain,” says Gary Frost at Imperial College London. “In young people, although you don’t see the impact on body weight, you see a change in body composition. These young people ended up with a higher lean body mass.” Dietary fibre consists of molecules that our bodies can’t digest but that some bacteria in the large intestine can. The breakdown of fibre by these bacteria produces short-chain fatty acids. If you eat a lot of fibre and your gut …

Think You Don’t Have a Type? Science Says You Probably Do

Think You Don’t Have a Type? Science Says You Probably Do

Published by Jenni Sidey

Think about your exes for a moment. Do they all seem completely different to you, or do you notice that they share certain traits? The idea that people have a romantic “type” is deeply embedded in popular culture, but just how much commonality exists in the partners we select? In this post, we’ll explore what the research says. Do We Choose Partners With Similar Personalities? In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers at the University of Toronto analyzed data from a nine-year longitudinal study that involved a nationally representative sample of Germans. However, they only focused on the responses of 332 adults (159 men and 173 women) who had two different romantic partners to participate in this study at different points in time over that nine-year term. Each individual—and each of their partners—were asked to complete the Big Five personality inventory, which assessed their standing on the traits of openness to experience, conscientiousness, agreeableness, extraversion, and neuroticism. Researchers then looked to see whether the responses of people’s partners …

Amazon just dropped laptops of every type to clearance prices during the Prime Day sale

Amazon just dropped laptops of every type to clearance prices during the Prime Day sale

Published by Jenni Sidey

We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Sign Up For Goods 🛍️ Product news, reviews, and must-have deals. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. You may unsubscribe at any time. Laptop list prices are mostly fiction, which makes a sale like this Prime Day a pain to navigate. A machine “marked down” 60 percent often wasn’t worth the original number anyway. Amazon’s Prime Day sale runs June 23 to 26, and nearly everything here needs a Prime membership or a free 30-day Prime trial. So I sorted the laptop and PC deals by their actual all-time-low price and ignored the fake percentages, featured picks first, then dozens more by type. Apple MacBook Air 13-inch (M5, 16GB, 512GB) $949.00 (was $1,099.00) The current-gen MacBook at its best price right now See It The Apple MacBook Air with the M5 chip …

Scientists discover ‘explosive’ new immune cell type

Scientists discover ‘explosive’ new immune cell type

Published by Jenni Sidey

Full-body defense does not always look the way textbooks say it should. In planarian flatworms, a newly identified cell type appears to protect the body by bursting apart, releasing a lethal chemical blast that can kill nearby bacteria and damaged cells in minutes. The cells, called ruptoblasts, do not fit the usual picture of immune cells drawn from the classic white-blood-cell lineage. Instead, the work points to a very different branch of biology, one in which gland-like cells take on a fast, sacrificial defense role. What makes the finding stand out is not just the violence of the response, but the trigger. The cells react to activin, a hormone that helps regulate regeneration, reproduction, and normal tissue balance in the flatworm Schmidtea mediterranea. When activin rises too high, ruptoblasts answer with what the authors call “ruptosis,” a rapid, explosive death that destroys nearby targets in a tightly limited zone. A chimera planarian worm fused from two different strains of planarians. (CREDIT: Wang Lab) When a hormone becomes an alarm The team began with a puzzle. …