How to sing yourself happier: Don’t let isolation get you down

How you are feeling — your mood — is influenced more by your relationships with other people than by changes in the brain. That’s why in these challenging times, when most of us aren’t seeing other people on a regular basis, maintaining a positive outlook is more important than ever. We know that depression is … Read more

How to sing yourself happier: Don’t let isolation get you down

How you are feeling — your mood — is influenced more by your relationships with other people than by changes in the brain. That’s why in these challenging times, when most of us aren’t seeing other people on a regular basis, maintaining a positive outlook is more important than ever. We know that depression is … Read more

Can the moon can make us healthier, happier, even richer?

Many believe its powers can make us healthier, happier, even richer. Crazy? Or just what we need right now? YOU investigates   Have you ever woken up feeling overly emotional? Found yourself obsessing – out of nowhere – over certain areas of your life? Are there days when your gut feelings are so loud they can’t … Read more

How women got to the top! Despite warnings from men that they’d be happier sticking to housework 

HISTORY LADIES CAN’T CLIMB LADDERS  by Jane Robinson (Doubleday £20, 368 pp) The British Press reported in the early 1930s that, ‘after exhaustive research’, professors in the psychology department of a German university had concluded that ‘women cannot calculate, and when confronted with abstract mathematical problems the female intellect breaks down entirely’. Margaret Partridge (1891-1967) … Read more