insert_link Lifestyle Romance isn’t always rosy, sometimes it’s sickening – lovesickness, erotomania and death by heartbreak explained Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock Natasha McKeever, University of Leeds and Luke Brunning, University of Leeds Hundreds of millions of people worldwide use dating apps. But only half of users say that they have had positive experiences. Indeed, a shocking 11% of female users under 50 have received threats of harm. Surely there’s a better way to build these apps. Dating sites and apps have made it easier to find sexual and romantic partners, […] todayFebruary 14, 2024 16
insert_link Lifestyle Romance isn’t always rosy, sometimes it’s sickening – lovesickness, erotomania and death by heartbreak explained Irina Marwan Dan Baumgardt, University of Bristol Absence makes the heart grow fonder. All you need is love. It’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. If cliches and pop songs are anything to go by, humans spend a substantial portion of waking and sleeping hours thinking and dreaming about the pursuit of love – in all its many forms. But is love all […] todayFebruary 14, 2024 13
insert_link Health / Medical This is how tobacco damages our cells file d qzfs. Shutterstock / Mr.Exen Guillermo López Lluch, Universidad Pablo de Olavide My father smoked a pipe for some time, and I vividly remember that sticky black substance – tar – which stuck to the device’s filter. Now imagine this stuff going into your lungs, and coating their walls. The picture is unpleasant, to say the least. With the countless studies available today on the effects of tobacco use, […] todayFebruary 14, 2024 12
insert_link Lifestyle Are you really in love? How expanding your love lexicon can change your relationships and how you see yourself Language can steer your heart in unexpected ways. VLADGRIN/Stock via Getty Images Plus Georgi Gardiner, University of Tennessee What is love? Could those feelings you label as love be something else? What about infatuation? Obsession? A passing fancy? Being smitten? Enthrallment? Beguilement? Lust? A crush? A squish? Platonic admiration? Why do people categorize some attachments as romantic love but not others? Suppose Holly meets someone on vacation. They quickly become […] todayFebruary 14, 2024 11
insert_link Lifestyle ‘Self-love’ might seem selfish. But done right, it’s the opposite of narcissism Bart Larue/Unsplash Ian Robertson, University of Wollongong “To love what you are, the thing that is yourself, is just as if you were embracing a glowing red-hot iron” said psychonalyst Carl Jung. Some may argue this social media generation does not seem to struggle with loving themselves. But is the look-at-me-ism so easily found on TikTok and Instagram the kind of self-love we need in order to flourish? The language […] todayFebruary 14, 2024 12
insert_link Lifestyle Migrating animals face collapsing numbers – major new UN report By Joseph Ogutu, University of Hohenheim The world’s travelling animals – marine turtles, whales, sharks, elephants, reptiles, wild cats, birds, and even insects – have entered a period of sharp decline, new research has found. The first ever State of the World’s Migratory Species report, released today by the United Nations Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals, showed that the conservation status of […] todayFebruary 13, 2024 27
insert_link Africa The San people of southern Africa: where ethics codes for researching indigenous people could fail them By Stasja Koot, Wageningen University There is a long and often complicated history of researchers studying Indigenous people. In 1999, the education scholar Linda Tuhiwai-Smith, in her book Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples, emphasised the colonial character of much research. She warned that it brings with it a new wave of exploration, discovery, exploitation and appropriation. Well into the 20th century, researchers depicted groups like the […] todayFebruary 13, 2024 11
insert_link Lifestyle University rankings are unscientific and bad for education: experts point out the flaws By Sharon Fonn, University of the Witwatersrand We rank almost everything. The top 10 restaurants in our vicinity, the best cities to visit, the best movies to watch. To understand whether the rankings were any good you’d want know who was doing the ranking. And what it was they were looking for. These are exactly the same questions that are worth asking when looking at the international ranking […] todayFebruary 13, 2024 14
insert_link Lifestyle Anger, sadness, boredom, anxiety – emotions that feel bad can be useful A bad feeling can trigger behavior that leads to something better. Rawpixel/iStock via Getty Images Plus Heather Lench, Texas A&M University Remember the sadness that came with the last time you failed miserably at something? Or the last time you were so anxious about an upcoming event that you couldn’t concentrate for days? These types of emotions are unpleasant to experience and can even feel overwhelming. People often try to […] todayFebruary 9, 2024 31
