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Am I the Only One Who Thinks Estate Planning Is Deeply Terrifying?

Estate planning has this eerie ability to make even the most responsible adult suddenly want to crawl under a blanket and pretend the future isn’t happening. The moment someone mentions wills, executors, or power of attorney, your brain fires off alarms you didn’t even know you had. It’s like the…

The Free Financial Advisor · Dec 8, 2025

From stress to stroke: what can cause ‘holes’ and low-activity regions in the brain

If you watched Kim Kardashian’s latest health update and felt a jolt at the phrase “holes on the brain”, you were not alone. It is a term that sounds catastrophic. Yet on the type of scan she had, a hole does not mean missing tissue. It signals a region working…

The Conversation · Dec 8, 2025

Why can’t I wiggle my toes one at a time, like my fingers?

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected].

The Conversation · Dec 8, 2025

BBC Scotland’s Glenn Campbell celebrates brain tumour fundraising milestone

The BBC Scotland political editor was lauded for the ‘phenomenal’ work by his organisation Brain Power, set up following his diagnosis.

Evening Standard · Dec 7, 2025

Dining across the divide: ‘She’s not unwelcoming or racist but she thinks immigration is creating a brain drain elsewhere’

They had different opinions on social media, asylum seekers and ‘woke’ politics, but which Stewart Lee sketch got them both laughing?

The Guardian - UK · Dec 7, 2025

Five ways microplastics can harm your brain and fuel diseases

Study estimated humans consume 250g of microplastics, the size of a dinner plate, every year

The Independent UK · Dec 6, 2025

Five years on: rugby’s brain damaged players wait and wait for the help they need

In 2020 Steve Thompson revealed he could not remember winning the Rugby World Cup and since then his case and others have been caught up in a warren of legal argument

The Guardian - UK · Dec 6, 2025

7 Weird Psychological Things That Happen When You Get Ghosted

Everything seemed fine. You had great chemistry, and the texts were flowing. Then, suddenly, nothing happened. They vanished into thin air.

Budget and the Bees · Dec 5, 2025

Brainless goalkeeping is saving football – one 40 yard lob at a time

THE ADAM CLERY FOOTBALL COLUMN: The latest Adam Clery Football Column newsletter explains why football is now basically a “goalkeeper slapstick show,” from Vicario’s brain-freeze howler to Raya getting pinged from the halfway line

The Independent UK · Dec 5, 2025

Can entrepreneurship be taught? Here’s the neuroscience

Despite countless programmes and initiatives, rates of entrepreneurial intention — a marker of how willing people are to start new ventures — remains stagnant. But what if the secrets to entrepreneurial success lie not in textbooks but within the brain itself?

The Conversation · Dec 5, 2025