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• ‘Adjustments must be made’: how to live well after mid-life

  01-02-2026 17:00
  We are living longer and longer, but many of us are unprepared for the challenges age brings, says the novelist and psychotherapist Frank TallisWe have never lived so long, so well, nor had more available advice on how to do so: don’t smoke, don’t drink, don’t eat ultraprocessed foods; lift weights, get outside, learn a language. Cosmetics – or surgery – have never been so available, so advanced, nor so widely used; we take for granted medical procedures that previo
  
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• NASA's Rover Completes First AI-Planned Drive on Mars 

  01-02-2026 15:57 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: NASA NewsApproximately 140 million miles from earth, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has completed the first drives on another world that were planned by artificial intelligence. Executed on December 8 and 10, and led by the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, the demonstration used generative AI vision-language models to create a driving path—a complex decision-making task typically performed manually by the NASA's human planners.
  
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• Living With Loss in Ukraine As the Death Toll Continues to Climb

  01-02-2026 15:57 via socialpsychology.org
  Source:Al JazeeraAt Lychakiv Cemetery in the Ukrainian city of Lviv, the surge in deaths from war with Russia has forced authorities to allocate additional space beyond the cemetery's walls and is now running out of room. The United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine says that in 2025 alone, conflict-related violence killed 2,514 civilians and injured 12,142. According to one expert, "pretty much everybody" in the country "has some mental health...
  
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• Why does a song sometimes get stuck in our heads – and what precisely makes an earworm?

  01-02-2026 15:00
  The series in which readers answer other readers’ questions explores an ancient, vexed musical conundrum• Readers reply: to shred or not to shred? Is it OK to throw out sensitive documents?I know a song that’ll get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves. I know a so … you get the gist! Why does a song sometimes get stuck in our heads? (And good luck stopping this one now!) Laura Ashton, Haslemere, SurreyPost your answers (and new questions) below or send t
  
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• Why you should embrace rejection

  01-02-2026 13:00
  From building resilience to boosting artistic creativity, there are unexpected benefits to being rebuffedRejection hurts. Whether in a professional, social or romantic setting, there is a particularly painful sting to the discovery that one has been judged undesirable in some way. If you have ever experienced proper rejection – and that would be most of us – it may stand out in your mind for a long time, like a boulder lodged in the landscape of memory.And it can hurt literally. The
  
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• Adolescence lasts into your 30s – so how should parents treat their adult children?

  01-02-2026 13:00
  There are lots of guidebooks for parents of young children – but what happens when your offspring hit adulthood? A psychotherapist shares her guiding principles for raising grownupsWhen one of my daughters turned 18, our relationship hit a crisis so painful it lasted longer than I knew how to bear. I was a psychotherapist, trained in child and adult development, yet I was utterly flummoxed. Decades have passed since then, but when I recently spoke to her about that time, a flood
  
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