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    ‘When I make a sale, I’ll sing a high note’: a day in the life of an opera singing car salesman

    Andrew Hiers is trying to start his own opera company. Until then, he’s serenading the parking lot
  • Selection of fresh produce in a supermarket.

    People in the US: how much do you spend on food per month?

  • Angry face on a yellow kettlebell against an orange background

    Hogging weights, loud grunting and sweaty benches: 11 gym dos and don’ts from fitness experts

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    The men I see in therapy did everything right. So why do they feel so empty?

  • Collage of repeated smiling mouths crossed out around a central unsmiling mouth

    I’m 50 years old. Why do I still struggle with the need to be liked?

  • Silhouette celebrating atop credit cards, surrounded by floating social media likes

    Would you tell strangers how much debt you have? The people sharing how much money they owe online

  • A woman stretching next to an artwork depicting two people kissing.

    Call the doctor
    Can exercise really help improve my sex life?

  • A person's hands cut bok choy on a wooden table alongside some kale and other herbs and vegetables

    Iceberg, romaine, kale: which salad greens are healthiest?

  • person holding stomach overlayed with packets of allergy pills

    Can antihistamines really help with PMDD and menopausal symptoms?

Columns

  • Image of Earth against a blue-to-pink gradient background

    Deep dive
    Your worst fears about cultural collapse might be true – here’s what you can do about it

  • A collage of a woman in front of a Nasa sign and illustrations of rockets and planets.

    A day in the life
    ‘It’s not rocket science’: a day in the life of a Nasa behavioral health scientist

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    Call the doctor
    I’ve heard menopause hormone therapy fixes everything. Should I take it?

  • Composite illustration of man and woman outside storefront, smiling and holding stuffed alligators, and overlays of green and blue paper cutouts and pictures of alligators.

    A day in the life
    A day in the life of US alligator museum owners: ‘If it’s green, it sells’

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    ‘A rug helps anchor all the pieces’: how to start decorating your home

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    How to start volunteering: ‘There are roles to fit all interests and skill sets’

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    Improved performance, freedom of movement and less pain: how to start a mobility practice

  • illustration of hand putting credit card into guillotine, with icons of shopping bags, carts and locks

    ‘Overconsumption isolates us’: how to start shopping less

Health & wellbeing

  • A woman reading a book to two children in a bed

    ‘My ability to cope was unravelling’: how I navigated ADHD and childbirth – and seven things I learned

  • Emma Beddington

    🏆 ยอดนิยม: us/wellness - Kapook Update 2025Every year, humans speak less and less. That’s bad news, even if you hate mindless chit-chat

    Emma Beddington
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    ‘It was barbaric. I was crying my eyes out’: why are so many women left in agony by routine womb examinations?

  • Close-up of a mosquito with striped legs biting into human skin, purple flowers blurred behind

    Stop the bites! How to survive another summer of mosquitoes, midges and horseflies

Relationships

  • Illustration of two tiny people sliding joyfully between giant legs

    This is how we do it: ‘Since having cancer, I’m more open – before I was straight, now I’m queer’

  • Scott Westerfeld and Justine Larbalestier eloping on our wedding day, Mohonk Mountain House, upstate NY, 2001.

    The moment I knew: Days after September 11, we flew through turbulence – all I could say was ‘I love you’

  • A smiling woman in a blue tie-dye dress and a smiling man in a light coloured suit and shirt

    Blind date: ‘There was a mature, polite peck on departure at a busy Manchester Piccadilly station’

  • An illustration of two people sprawled under duvets, limbs hanging off the bed, one with an eye mask on

    You be the judge: should my partner stop hogging my side of the bed?

Food

  • Šárka Otevřel Camrdová's courgette kraut.

    Courgette kraut and fermented pepper sauce: Šárka Otevřel Camrdová’s Czech pickle recipes

  • Felicity Cloake's zaru soba. Overhead view of zaru soba noodles served with dipping sauce, seaweed, wasabi and spring onions

    How to make the perfect zaru soba, or cold soba noodles – recipe

  • Thomasina Miers' spiced lamb-stuffed aubergine with aleppo chilli butter. Plates and a baking dish show lamb-stuffed aubergines with meat sauce, herbs, yogurt, and couscous

    Thomasina Miers’ recipes for spiced lamb-stuffed aubergine with aleppo chilli butter, and berry ripple ice-cream

  • A cake with a red topping and blackberries on top, on a plaace with other plates and crockery nearby

    Meera Sodha’s recipe for blackberry and almond cake

  • A young woman with dark hair and a fair complexion holding a pencil and solving a crossword puzzle

    Crossword blog
    Crossword editor’s desk: what would be the point of an AI puzzle?

  • Cryptic crosswords
    Cryptic crossword No 30,093

  • Quick crosswords
    Quick crossword No 17,566

  • Sudoku
    Sudoku 7,428 easy

  • Prize crosswords
    Prize crossword No 30,092

  • Killer sudoku
    Killer sudoku 1,036

  • Red old-fashioned telephone with the words 'contact us' in the centre of the dialling pad, against a blue sky

    The Saturday quiz
    What is the pan-European emergency telephone number? The Saturday quiz

  • Cute smiling white, brown and black spotted pygmy goat standing side ways with closed mouth, looking straight at camera isolated on white backgroundWhite with black and brown spotted pygmy goat on white background

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? A new goat for puzzledom’s GOAT

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