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50% of British 13- to 19-year-olds have never written a thank-you letter; 26% have never written a birthday or Christmas card. 58% think writing by hand is too slow to bother with. 9% say they don’t own a pen; by contrast, 74% have a tablet and 89% a smartphone. (Bic/Daily Mail) It is the “never having written a thank you letter” that is disappointing. …
Even in death, there’s no break from social media. Almost a third of British people plan to name a “social media manager” in their will. This manager will be responsible for updating their Facebook accounts in accordance with their instructions. More than 10% of people would want a custodian to post items at least once …
We are losing soil at a rate of 30 soccer fields a minute. If we don’t slow the decline, all farmable soil could be gone in 60 years. Soil grows 95 per cent of our food and sustains human life in other more surprising ways, so this is a huge problem. “Many would argue soil …
Your voice is distinctive , depending on your physical makeup and the language you speak. The latest machines can tease apart the most minute differences, although changes in a voice owing to a cold or a stressful situation can confuse the listening machine. The latest version of Apple’s operating system learns what your voice sounds …
Earlier in the year a review confirmed a link between antidepressants and suicidal behaviour in children. The researchers looked at 70 studies involving more than 18,500 people, and found that under-18s taking either of two classes of drugs – selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs) – were more than twice as …
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