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Booker Prize Winner: A Look at Shehan Karunatilaka’s Novel, ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida’
Sri Lankan novelist Shehan Karunatilaka has won the 2022 Booker Prize for his second novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. The win couldn’t come at a better time for Sri Lanka, a country once more engaged in political and economic instability, as it suffers through one of the world’s worst economic crises, with soaring…
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How Your Home, Office or Uni Affects Your Mood and How You Think
Think of a time when you felt vulnerable. Perhaps you were in a hospital corridor, or an exam hall, about to be tested. Now, focus on the building you were in. What if, without you knowing, the design of that space was affecting you? We study environmental psychology, a growing field of research investigating the…
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How Young Iranian Women Have Long Led a Quiet Revolution
The “Women, Life, Freedom” movement that has taken hold in Iran in recent weeks is not new. Young Iranian women have been involved in small but consistent evolutionary actions during the entire 44 years of the Islamic Republic of Iran, particularly in the past two decades. The initial movement goes back to the Iranian Revolution…
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3 Ways to Avoid Getting Stuck in the Vicious Cycle of Social Media
We often hear about the negative impacts of social media on our wellbeing, but we don’t usually think of it the other way round – whereby how we feel may impact how we use social media. In a recent study, my colleagues and I investigated the relationship between social media use and wellbeing in more…