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Do you lose a whole day because you have one important appointment? It may be because of “waiting mode”, something that many neurodivergent people experience. You may feel unable to start anything else because of the appointment, or to fit any other events into your day. For some, it can be like a mental fog descending, causing disorientation or feelings of being overwhelmed.
Luckily, small adjustments can help. One of the most effective is scheduling important events earlier in the day, which reduces the amount of time spent in anticipation.
If, like me, you’re going to be glued to the men’s Fifa World Cup, you’ll probably find yourself waiting all day for late kick-offs. The tournament is a showcase for established and new talent from the 32 teams vying for the coveted golden trophy. But few people get to see how the next generation of Messis and Ronaldos are discovered.
Across elite football academies worldwide, GPS trackers, automated video analysis and AI are changing how promising players are identified and assessed. But can talent actually be reduced to numbers?
Attending this tournament will be more expensive than any previous one. And that’s not what fans were promised. With the most expensive tickets for the final reaching more than US$30,000, many fans have cried foul. The issues over pricing present a case study in why it’s not wise to take fan loyalty for granted.
Many people reading this may already be sick of football and want to escape to the comfort of a cinema. According to our expert reviewer, the new Supergirl film is a bold bet on a comic book hero who has long been stuck in the shadow of her Kryptonian cousin Kal-El (that’s Superman for those not in the know).
While Superman remains squeaky clean in the newly rebooted DC Universe, the new movie casts Supergirl as something of a party animal. It’s the latest evolution of a character that first appeared in comic pages all the way back in 1938.
Thirty years ago, five other party animals burst onto the pop scene, helping reshape discussions about gender, sexuality, power and pop culture. The Spice Girls arrived at a moment when “girl power” (a phrase they popularised) tapped into a growing appetite for female autonomy and visibility.
Finally, if your workout of choice is running, you might like to read an account of one author who ran the whole length of the Thames, starting at its source in Gloucestershire. At each mile, she paused to take a photograph in the direction of the river. This allowed her to build an archive of images and manage the task of running an average of 17 miles each day.
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