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Modern burnout comes with a familiar list of cures: mindfulness, digital detoxes and plenty of sleep. But the Victorians prescribed something far more glamorous: months on the French Riviera doing absolutely nothing. Doctors recommended at least three winter seasons spent indulging in “legitimate idleness” and basking in the sun “like an ‘invalided’ lizard on his wall”. Sign me up.
As teams across the globe gear up for the start of the Fifa World Cup next week, an expert explains how migration has become key to success at the tournament – and the role it played in Morocco’s 2022 win.
Vaccines are a critical tool for tackling Ebola, as the latest episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast explores. But history shows they can’t stop outbreaks on their own. We’ve taken a closer look at what else is needed.
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The Beach at Trouville by Claude Monet (1870).
The National Gallery, London
Sally Shuttleworth, University of Oxford
Victorians were acutely aware of the health problems which could come from devotion to the ‘gospel of work’.
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Morocco had more foreign-born players than any other nation at the 2022 Fifa World Cup.
Abdelrahman Emam / Shutterstock
Ben Brindle, University of Oxford
There is some evidence to suggest that national teams with more migrant players perform better on the pitch.
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Ebola treatment centre, Goma, DRC.
Xinhua/Alamy
Charlie Firth, University of Oxford
Events in eastern DRC are a reminder that Ebola outbreaks are rarely controlled by vaccines alone.
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Politics + Society
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Oli Buckley, Loughborough University
Leading algorithms now achieve a mean absolute error of less than three years across all ages.
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Ceri Fowler, University of Oxford; Louise Luxton, University of Strathclyde
The findings could have serious consequences for Labour.
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Arts + Culture
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Christina Hennemann, University of Limerick
No poetry collection on the subject of abortion has come out of Ireland.
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Business + Economy
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David Cook, Nottingham Trent University
How recent expansion could dilute football’s most powerful brand.
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Environment
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Marina Requena-i-Mora, University of Sheffield; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Dan Brockington, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Real efforts have been made, and recent lines on the chart do go in the right direction. But what if they are wobbles, not turns.
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Katie Parsons, Loughborough University
As the UK gets hotter, children will seek water to cool down. The real question is why so many have so few places to go.
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Health
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David C. Gaze, University of Westminster
Researchers are investigating whether blood tests and heart scans can detect hidden heart damage during breast cancer chemotherapy.
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Shafqat Ahrar Jaigirdar, Sheffield Hallam University
Between 2.3% and 5% of all cases of anaphylaxis globally are triggered by exercise.
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Sahanika Ratnayake, University of Manchester
Why the NHS keeps offering you the same therapy. And why the science behind that decision is shakier than you think.
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Science + Technology
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Sarah Papworth, Royal Holloway, University of London
Introducing white storks to England could help more people engage with nature.
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Peter Vickers, Durham University
Only 6.6% of surveyed astrobiologists agreed that scientists had probably found extraterrestrial life on exoplanet K2-18b.
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