Greyscale and prune your algorithm: ‘digital nutritionist’ offers advice on cutting down screen time

found 2025 › May › 03 (Sat) @ 05:45 UTC

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Kaitlyn Regehr says parents worrying about their children need first to look at their own usage

Switching off the colours on your phone and spending half an hour a week pruning your algorithm can help…

University Challenge fans rage 'it's annoying me already' just minutes into show after spotting contestant's 'insufferable' habit

found 2025 › Apr › 08 (Tue) @ 10:10 UTC

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Monday's episode of the BBC Two quiz show saw host Amol Rajan welcomed Warwick University and University College London as they played in the quarter finals.

Boys jumped 'massively' ahead of girls in maths and science during the pandemic, research reveals

found 2025 › Mar › 11 (Tue) @ 09:40 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

While previously the two sexes were previously neck-and-neck in the subjects, a report from University College London (UCL) found that boys have now taken a large lead.

Plants, animals and insects come to Britain from all over the world. It would be a mistake to welcome them all | Tim Blackburn

found 2025 › Mar › 10 (Mon) @ 22:02 UTC

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Biodiversity is great in theory, but there are reasons to fend off invasive species and the knock-on effect of their presence

Britain would be a wasteland if it weren’t for immigration. Fifteen thousa…

Immigration’s a hot topic – and it applies to non-native plants, animals and insects, all over the world | Tim Blackburn

found 2025 › Mar › 10 (Mon) @ 12:54 UTC

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Biodiversity is great in theory, but there are reasons to fend off invasive alien species and the knock-on effect of their presence

Britain would be a wasteland if it weren’t for immigration. Fifteen …

Chinese PhD student is unmasked as one of Britain's worst rapists: Predator who drugged and raped 10 women is revealed to have up to 60 victims after police found twisted videos he filmed of his attacks

found 2025 › Mar › 05 (Wed) @ 15:17 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Zhenhao Zou, 28, drugged and raped three women in London and seven in China between 2019 and 2023, while he was studying at University College London.

Only 5% of UK medical school entrants are working class, data shows

found 2025 › Feb › 27 (Thu) @ 06:25 UTC

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Sutton Trust says underrepresentation of poorer students is ‘outrageous’ but number has doubled in 10 years to 2022

Students from working class backgrounds still only make up 5% of entrants to medical…

The one change that worked: I found an escape from online life by swapping my home office for the library

found 2025 › Feb › 24 (Mon) @ 18:42 UTC

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I can find essential and unusual facts for my arts journalism in the dusty old tomes – information not readily available on Google. And, as I did as a child, I lose myself in a world of books ...

Last…

Chinese PhD student who drugged and raped 10 women while videoing victims told one who was begging him to stop 'the sound insulation here is very good', trial hears

found 2025 › Jan › 29 (Wed) @ 20:45 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Zhenhao Zou, 27, was studying at University College London when he was accused of carrying out 11 rapes on unconscious women stupefied with a cocktail of drugs.

Psychedelic drug DMT to be trialled on UK volunteers to tackle alcohol misuse

found 2025 › Jan › 17 (Fri) @ 20:54 UTC

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Exclusive: Scientists at UCL hope one-off dose of powerful hallucinogenic could help drinkers reduce intake

A powerful psychedelic that is used in healing ceremonies by Indigenous groups in the Amazon…