Official PlayStation Magazine - UK Edition

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Eight years have passed since the last true mainline Ratchet & Clank, but Rift Apart starts as it means to go on with instant dimensional jumps and bigger, badder, goofier weaponry than ever before. “You can look forward to some new developments that

People Magazine South Africa

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THE title of the competition in The Mind’s Eye refers to famous photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson photo essay of the same name in which he says, “To take photographs means to recognise – simultaneously and within a fraction of a second – both the fa

NPR

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We all know the downsides of being poor. But what about the downsides of being rich? This week, we explore the psychology of scarcity...and excess.

Pick Me Up

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1 Test your recall. Make a list - grocery items, things to do, or anything else that comes to mind and memorise it. An hour or so later, see how many items you can still recall. 2 Do maths in your head. Figure out problems without the aid of a pencil

Good Health Choices Magazine NZ

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One of the frustrations of not sleeping is feeling that you are the only person awake, particularly if your partner is sleeping soundly next to you. In this practice you connect with the sense that you’re never alone, and there will always be at leas

Money Magazine

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• Take a step back and be present. Look at the long game and don’t lose focus on your end goal. Temporary setbacks are just that – temporary. No one succeeds in life without a few speed bumps along the way. • Reframe. Often loss is also a hit to your

Muse

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Q: In a lot of movies and books, everything moves slower and is louder to anyone who has shrunk. Is this actually what would happen? —Samuel F., age 12, Virginia A: Maybe—but not because anything about your ear has changed, says Madeline Huberth, wh

Nautilus

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It is a good question, but I was a little surprised to see it as the title of a research paper in a medical journal: “How Happy Is Too Happy?” Yet there it was in a publication from 2012. The article was written by two Germans and an American, and th

The Guardian

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Recent studies suggest traits often seen as negatives could actually signify high brain power. Truth or merely self-affirmation?

Marie Claire Australia

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Conflict is part and parcel of any workplace, and while most of us do everything in our power to avoid it, learning how to quickly and painlessly resolve problems is the only way to prevent bigger ones later on. Here are my top tips for dealing with

Your Pregnancy

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PLAY DOUGH This develops eye-hand coordination with both large and small muscle groups; is soothing and relaxing and allows for tension release (when she pounds on the dough); helps your child learn how to manipulate tools like scissors, knife and fo

Girlfriend Australia

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What qualities make a good intern? As classic as this may sound, being a good intern means being prepared to put in the work. I always say this, and it’s because it’s true: you have to work for the job you want, not the job you have. As an intern you

Womankind

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Harvard academics Jennifer Drake and Ellen Winner recruited 80 undergraduate students and sat them in front of a traumatic movie involving torture and murder. Later, the undergraduates were handed a set of colouring pencils and a white sheet of paper

Horses and People

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Improving your understanding of the inbuilt instinct for survival in the horse, how it is triggered and what it looks like, will improve your training methods, reduce the instances of injury to both, you and other people around the fearful horse and

Film Comment

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Director: Qiu Sheng Country/Distributor: China/Taiwan, Cinema Guild Opening: April 5 In Qiu Sheng’s tale of urbanization in western China, governmental mechanisms behave like cosmic forces of nature. While a group of surveyors investigates complaints

Clay Shooting

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Everyone gets feedback, whether you’re an athlete or a coach. It can range from more technical feedback such as gun mount, all the way through to something more conversational, like how to improve clarity when communicating with one another. There is

Popular Science

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Kinda Al Sayed and Joao Pinelo Silva A map of Manhattan showing a metric called "closeness centrality" that describes how connected a street is to the whole larger network of streets, with red indicating more connections and blue the opposite. Naviga

True Love

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Knowing how to communicate with your boss can help reduce friction. If you’re new to working with them, consider asking these questions upfront. However, keep in mind that their responses are not fixed; they may be circumstantial. For a longer-term w

220 Triathlon

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Brain health’s often associated with physical health thanks to myriad reasons, including increased cerebral bloodflow. But recent research by health researcher Matthieu Boisgontier suggests a potential role reversal as we age – that cognitive health

that's life

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A US research team has found a small area of the brain in mice that can turn off pain. Professor of neurobiology and senior author of the study at Duke University in the US, Fan Wang said that most research had focused on the regions in the brain whe

Tes

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Much of the cognitive science research quoted in education tends to have been done with adolescents and adults. But that is not because research with younger age groups does not exist, according to Victoria Simms, a developmental psychologist at Ulst

Amateur Photographer

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Mindfulness is the art of paying attention. It sounds simple, but the reality is quite different. Let's take reading this week's issue of AP, for example. Having secured your copy from a newsagent, supermarket, dog's jaws – you sit down for a quiet r

Popular Science

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Sharing is good. altanaka/Shuttestock From crying in the toilet to leaving the house in a rage, many parents and carers don’t want their children to see them getting emotional. But is this the right thing to do, or should you come clean about your fe

The Ideal Home and Garden

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Anpu’s work ranges within a large demographic - initially beginning with doing oil paintings on canvases and then transitioning to making large scale public art projects throughout India. She repeatedly tries to rearrange her ideologies of art within

Futurity

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This unusual—and painful—holiday season may fade from our collective memory, say researchers. That’s actually the best case scenario, they explain. “…we think collective memory for the pandemic itself is likely to fade quickly for most people.” Henry

Tes

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In 2013, academics looking at the psychology of dread carried out a seemingly cruel experiment. After attaching electrodes to the backs of 35 participants’ hands, they offered each person the choice between receiving a sharp electric shock immediatel

Science Illustrated

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Look at the cube above and think about the colours. What colours are the middle squares on the underside and the right side of the cube. Note down your answers, then go to page 81. Look at the image above without focusing on anything in particular. A

Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly

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THIS ISSUE’S COVER is from a project called “Venus Mansion” by Lee Sol, in which he uses 3-D rendering to juxtapose classical images with modern culture motifs, often in eye-popping pink. He attributes his fascination with color to an interest in gen

Artists & Illustrators

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In this demo, I wanted to show you a rhythm of drawing that I’ve found promotes good drawing habits and parallels with Kelly’s process. To put it into practice yourself, take simple still life objects and draw them one at a time, or in small groups,

Homebuilding & Renovating

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Making decisions is one of the most rewarding and challenging aspects of renovating or building a home. Sometimes making these decisions will come easily; on other occasions, even the most seemingly minor selection will keep you awake in the early ho