Life and style
My mother’s best advice: learn to raise one eyebrow at the world
When I was about 10, my mother mentioned something to me about the advantage of being able to raise one...
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Is it true that … if you pluck a grey hair, two will grow in its place?
‘I wish that by plucking a single hair you would get more to grow back,” says Desmond Tobin, professor of...
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I expect friends to let me down and then I play the victim. How can I stop? | Annalisa Barbieri
I am a 38-year-old woman with three kids and a husband. I often find myself expecting people to disappoint me,...
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With the advance of AI, I feel my work as an artist is no longer respected. Should I just give up? | Leading questions
I’m an artist in my 30s without any major success. Before the pandemic I had quite a lot of opportunities....
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‘Chinamaxxing’ your health: America’s obsession with Chinese medicine is taking over TikTok
Did you drink ice water today? If you did, that was “not very Chinese of you”, according to Sherry Zhu,...
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The Dutch method: could this improve your sleep – and social life?
Name: The Dutch method.Age: Possibly in place since the Reformation, making it about 500 years old.Appearance: Extremely open.The Dutch method?...
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My rookie era: in a period of heartbreak, learning to pole dance gave me structure
When my friend Bea took up pole dancing she enthusiastically tried to convert everyone she knew to it – a...
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Canine carer: how guide dog school dropout Marcus came to comfort cancer patients for a living
Marcus is a very good boy.He’s a four-year-old, 32kg labrador with lustrous black hair, soulful brown eyes and a bodacious...
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My best friend’s ex is turning my partner against her. How can we heal our friendship group? | Annalisa Barbieri
I’ve been best friends with Ellie for more than half my life. She’s truly one...
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‘I’d hoped to capture the graphic chaos in the window. What I found was an even more tangled scene’: Michael Krupka’s best phone picture
Michael Krupka had passed Philadelphia’s Via Bicycle repair shop for years before he ventured inside. As a photographer rather than a...
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