Nearly two months ago the Guild of Health Writers held a fascinating workshop run by the Psychedelic Research Group at Imperial College in London. I apologise for the delay in reporting on it but I have only just discovered that I had not, as I had feared, recycled my …
Mental Health
Urban farming
Next time you see a sad, abandoned bit of street with dead KFC bags piling up around the overflowing rubbish bin – why not install a grow bag or one those massive bags that builders use – fill it with soil and..... grow.... As you can see, this is what they have done at …
Smartphone fallout
No, for once I am not stressing over the electromagnetic repercussions of the overuse of a smart phone, although I did come across the article through the EMF Refugee site. But this is about the psychological damage that, according American psychologist Jean Twenge, is being done …
Random reading…
Why can't we put down our smart phones? A former Google product manager, Tristram Harris, dishes the dirt on how smart phones are specifically designed be habit forming. He compares smartphones to 'slot machines' because, he says, “Every time I check my phone, I’m playing …
The anxiety epidemic
It's not every week that you get to sit behind Prince William and his good lady and listen to him talk about his latest project but, thanks to my good friend Sarah Stacey and the Guild of Health Writers, that's what I got to do last week. The occasion was the Guild's seminar on …