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by | 2024/07/21 · 9:33 pm

Tastebuds, meditation, prayer and our brain

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A mosquito, silhouetted against the moon, bites a human arm (Credit: LWA/Getty Images)
Why are people still dying from malaria?
Malaria still kills more than half a million people every year, despite major efforts to defeat it. Caroline Steel visits Malawi to learn more about the effect mosquitoes have on daily life there.
‘Insecticide resistance is a big problem’

 

A crowd of people praying (Credit: Digital Vision/Getty Images)
What effect does praying have on our brains?
Prayer and meditation are key features of religious and spiritual practices around the world, but what effect do they have on how our brains work? Caroline Steel gets a scientific view.
‘That’s part of where that feeling of connection begins’
Boxes of Wegovy and Ozempic (Credit: Hollie Adams/Reuters)
Diet drugs: Do they work, and what are the risks?
Ruth Alexander discovers how the much-hyped weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy work, and speaks to people who’ve had both positive and negative experiences.
‘These drugs are not for everyone’
Rachel Harper, Headteacher at St Patrick’s National School, Greystones (Credit: Beth McLeod/BBC)

The town that said no to phones for kids
In 2023, headteachers at schools in the Irish town of Greystones invited parents to sign a voluntary code, agreeing not to let their children own smartphones before they turned 12 years old. One year later, what has the effect been, and what difference do phones – and their absence – make to children’s lives?
‘They were growing up so quickly – childhood was getting shorter and shorter’
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Sebastião Salgado in Kuwait, 1991 (Credit: Peter Dejong)
‘My body suffered from what was inside my mind’
Sebastião Salgado is one of the world‘s most famous photographers, but capturing images of famine and genocide left psychological scars. Then he found a way to start healing.
‘A photographer is a lonesome cowboy’
'Tine Zekis (Credit: Noor Naseer) and Hira Ali (Credit: Sabiha Hudda-Khaku)
Why do we experience ‘imposter syndrome’?
The concept of imposter syndrome – a feeling that you have been elevated to a status you don’t merit, or put in a position you’re not qualified for – was first suggested in the late 1970s.
‘It’s an elevated sense of not living up to expectations’

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