11 Minutes of Exercise a Day May Help Counter the Effects of Sitting

Tracing Putin’s 22-year slide from statesman to tyrant.

We’re in a golden age of progress in artificial intelligence. It’s time to start taking its potential and risks seriously.

A very strange conversation with the chatbot built into Microsoft’s search engine left me deeply unsettled. Even frightened.

Procrastination is a self-reinforcing cycle. The more you stall important work, the more you’ll continue to do so. Yet procrastination doesn’t result from a dearth of motivation or productivity; it manifests from a failure to regulate negative emotions. If you are mired in a chronic procrastination cycle, journalist Charlotte Lieberman helps you dig your way out. She interviewed an array of psychologists, authors and professors to figure out how best to end the self-destructive cycle. Lieberman provides a range of tips to guide procrastinators into a more positive frame of mind.

«“Procrastination is an emotion regulation problem, not a time management problem,” said Dr. Tim Pychyl, professor of psychology and member of the Procrastination Research Group at Carleton University in Ottawa.»

A recent study that looked at walking to improve brain health found that logging this many steps per day boosts memory and cognitive function.

«“It’s advised to try to walk at least 30 minutes a day, but remember that 10 minutes is better than nothing,”»

Walking is good for you, obviously. But can it whip you into shape?

«the reason we rarely hear about walking as a major fitness tool—in the same conversations as stuff like yoga or expensive spinning bikes—is that people aren’t emotionally prepared for fitness to be easy.»

Ageing doesn’t have to mean slowing down. In fact, you’re more likely to win an ultramarathon in midlife, not to mention get happier, wiser and more body confident

Walking briskly is beneficial for all health outcomes including dementia, heart disease, cancer and death