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Anna Rogers, Вулиця Лаврська, 27, Київ, Kyiv (2026)

05/06/2026

The trade-offs Americans are making to afford summer travel

Summer 2026 was supposed to be the year many Americans travelled big again. Instead, higher fuel costs, long-haul uncertainty and a shakier economic mood are changing the trips they feel able – or willing – to take. We spoke to US travellers about what they're doing instead.

This upcoming travel season is shaping up to be unusually complicated, from disrupted flight paths across the Middle East to higher gas and jet fuel prices – not to mention Spirit Airlines ceasing operations and the hantavirus striking a cruise ship.

According to a new survey by US News and World Report, 65% of Americans have already altered summer travel plans because of rising prices, with 31% changing destinations or cancelling vacations entirely. While two-thirds of Americans are still planning to travel this summer, an Ibotta Summer Outlook survey found a third expect to take fewer trips.

"Summer 2026 is shaping up around three clear priorities: confidence, ease and reassurance," said Alison Zacher, global managing director at luxury tour operator Scott Dunn. "Since March, we've seen guests gravitating towards destinations that feel secure, are straightforward to reach and offer strong support on the ground."

This has led to some hard decisions, and smart swaps: Disney for the Smokies, cross-country flights for closer-to-home baseball weekends, ambitious road trips for shorter breaks and complicated international itineraries for routes that feel safer and easier.

01/06/2026

'It was poignant, knowing that these were the last images she did': The intimate final photos of Marilyn Monroe

On the 100th anniversary of her birth, images from the Hollywood icon's final photoshoot reveal a carefree joyfulness that's far removed from the shocking tragedy of her death.

July, 1962. A woman poses on Santa Monica beach, her unmistakeable "blonde bombshell" features somehow softened, hair ruffled by the sea breeze. She appears radiant and playful, draping her body in a green towel or cosy knitwear. In the final photo of the shoot, she is snuggled on the sand, hands clasped, seeming to blow an affectionate kiss towards the camera.

These photographs, taken by George Barris, were the last portraits of legendary actress and model Marilyn Monroe in her lifetime. A few weeks later, in the early hours of 5 August, Monroe would be found dead at her LA home, aged 36.

Through her journey her image develops and evolves, and she became the person she was aiming to be, which is the big star, Marilyn Monroe – Rosie Broadley
Monroe embodied the Golden Age of Hollywood: her stunning looks and enchanting screen presence powered hits such as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Some Like It Hot. She also evoked something beyond cinema: the glimmer of deeper, even disquieting qualities within the glitzy artifice of the star system.

Across time, she has remained suspended in the spotlight; her beauty and style still inspire generations of pop performers and fashion designers; her likeness is still used in advertisements; her life and death are continually reconstructed on page, stage and screen.

29/05/2026

A neuroscientist's guide to future-proofing your brain and thinking smarter in the 21st Century

In her new book, The 21st Century Brain, scientist Hannah Critchlow explores the overlooked skills that will be necessary to flourish in the age of AI – and how we can cultivate them.

With the world around us evolving at an ever-greater pace, you may fantasise about upgrading your brain to make sense of it all.

At face value, this would seem impossible: our grey-and-white matter has largely the same structure as that of our ancestors living in the Stone Age. If anything, our brains are a bit smaller: archaeological remains suggest they have significantly shrunk in the past 10,000 years.

Hannah Critchlow, a neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge, UK, offers many reasons to be optimistic, however. In her new book The 21st Century Brain she describes how we can all cultivate the mental flexibility that will be necessary to navigate the challenges ahead.

"I basically wrote it for myself, so that I can make better decisions and improve my own life, especially as I go through middle age," she tells me. "But also for my parents, so that they can maintain a healthy brain into older age, and for my son, who's 10 now. What can I do to help his brain to flourish?"

Read on to discover her secrets for future-proofing your mind.

18/05/2026

These breathing techniques could reduce your stress in minutes

Rooted in ancient practices, the modern science of breathwork is revealing how a few minutes spent focusing on your breathing can not only bring an instant dose of stress relief, but also benefit your health in the long term.

Breathing is the first and the last thing we do in life. It's a largely subconscious activity which our body carries out many times per minute in order to keep us alive and thriving. Yet an emerging realm of science is demonstrating that sometimes our bodies benefit from a little help to do it optimally.

This is the field of breathwork, an ancient art that has been practiced by different cultures for millennia. It ranges from techniques such as Indian pranayama, which looks to connect the mind and body by methods such as breathing through one nostril at a time, to Chinese qigong.

The overriding theme is that a more mindful approach to breath control, even if carried out for just a few minutes per day, can help calm and relax the body, with both immediate and long-term benefits.

"I like to describe breathwork as an ancient practice that is resurging in the modern day as the new mindfulness hack," says Abbie Little, a researcher in theoretical psychology and medicine at Griffith University in Australia.

Pregnant women or people with respiratory illnesses such as asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, should use caution before trying breathwork and consult with a medical professional. Both these groups have been excluded from previous breathwork or breathing exercise trials. However, there are thought to be many people who can potentially benefit.

A few small changes can help lower stress hormones in healthy people, while for those living with chronic health conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease, breathwork can improve symptoms and lower inflammation. For most of us, small tweaks to the rate, rhythm and regularity of breathing can make an immediate difference.

So how can you begin to reap the benefits? The BBC takes a closer look at the fast-developing science of breathwork – and breaks down five different breathwork techniques you can try yourself.

15/05/2026

Trillions of miles of data: Your car is spying on you, and it's only just the beginning

From your weight and facial expressions to your destination, cars collect a startling amount of data about you. Some of it may even raise your insurance costs. But you can take some simple steps to limit what they know about you.

Cars used to mean freedom. When I first got the keys to the old family Toyota it was a rite of passage, a sign I was old enough to step away from the watchful eyes of my parents and enter a world where time and decisions were mine alone. Things change.

Modern cars are computers on wheels, and giant corporations are using them to suck up intimate details about your life and make more money. If you think driving today is a chance for solitude and independence, think again. And it looks like it's about to get a lot worse.

Car companies will tell you themselves if you wade through their privacy policies. The information they harvest can include precise location data about everywhere you go, who's in the car with you, what's on the radio and whether you buckle your seatbelt, drive too fast or brake too hard. Some can gather details you might not expect like your weight, age, race and facial expressions. Do you pick your nose? Some cars have cameras on the inside pointed at the driver's seat. And most come with internet connections that can ship off that data as you drive in blissful ignorance.

This is a privacy problem that can cost you money. Among the biggest customers for car data are insurance companies, and they're using it to charge some people higher prices. But there's no telling where your information is going. Some car companies admit they sell your data, but they don't have to say who's buying. That's to say nothing of the fact that you might find it a little creepy. Most consumers, experts say, have no idea it's even happening.

"People would be shocked at the number of data points that their car collects and transmits to other people, either the manufacturer or third-party applications," says Darrell West, a senior fellow in the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institute in Washington DC. "It basically means your life can be recreated almost on a second-by-second basis."

Feeling uncomfortable yet? A federal law is about to increase the amount of data your car can gather about you. It will soon require American car companies to install infrared biometric cameras and other systems to scan your body language, track your eyes or other aspects of your behavoiur to detect whether you're too drunk or tired to drive. But it will also open up a whole new trove of data about your health and your habits. There are no rules limiting what the car companies can do with that information.

07/05/2026

From ego-ridden team to complete package - why PSG pose ultimate test

Luis Enrique's expertise at rebuilding a culture as well as a football team means Arsenal will confront the complete package when they meet Paris St-Germain in the Champions League final.

"Shoot us into the final" was the slogan emblazoned on a giant banner unfurled by Bayern Munich's fans in an electric atmosphere on Wednesday, as their side tried to overturn a 5-4 deficit from the classic first leg in Paris.

But it was PSG who obeyed the message, delivering a third-minute hammer blow when Georgian genius Khvicha Kvaratskhelia raced down the wing before setting up Ousmane Dembele to lash a finish high past Manuel Neuer.

Harry Kane's late equaliser on the night could not even be described as a consolation, coming only seconds from the end.

Moments later PSG were able to celebrate reaching a second successive final - and the chance to retain the crown they won so brilliantly by beating Inter Milan 5-0 last season.

Luis Enrique danced on the Allianz Arena turf, as he did after the 2025 final, with PSG delivering the latest compelling evidence they must be counted among the great sides of recent memory.

Arsenal will be confident in their first Champions League final for 20 years, but there is no escaping the fact they face a mammoth task on 30 May in Hungary.

And that is because Gunners boss Mikel Arteta must overcome a master strategist and inspirational footballing architect in his PSG counterpart Luis Enrique.

04/05/2026

Nature vs nurture: How much of our personalities are determined at birth?

Laurie Clarke delves into the devilishly complex forces that shape our personalities – and the new research revealing ever more about how our genes do, and don't, make us who we are.

In 2009, Abdelmalek Bayout faced a nine-year prison sentence in Trieste, Italy, for stabbing and killing a man who had mocked him in the street. Aiming to reduce the sentence, his lawyer made an unusual legal argument.

His client's DNA, he said, indicated the presence of the "warrior gene", a mutation that decades of scientific research had tied to aggressive behaviour. Because of this, the argument went, he couldn't be held fully accountable for his actions. The appeal was successful: a year was sheared off Bayout's sentence.

From the 1990s, evidence had accumulated of some kind of link between violent behaviour and a variant of a gene called monoamine oxidase A, or MAOA. By 2004, it had earned the media-friendly moniker of the "warrior" gene.

Since then, however, our understanding of how genes influence traits and behaviours has deepened significantly. "Initially, people thought that behaviours were influenced by a few genes with very large effects," says Aysu Okbay, assistant professor of psychiatry and complex trait genetics at Amsterdam UMC in the Netherlands. "That has been completely debunked."

13/04/2026

The blue light from your phone isn't ruining your sleep

For a decade, we've been told our screens are wrecking our sleep. The real culprit is far bigger than the glow from your phone.

I have spent the last few weeks strapping on a pair of special orange safety goggles three hours before bed. They're made of thick, uncomfortable plastic that casts the world in a dull amber glow, making it hard to see anything blue. But I don't stop there. I cover the windows with blackout curtains and switch off all my lamps, one by one. In their place, I exclusively light my apartment with candles. My sleep routine is deranged, but it's for an experiment. I found out what happens when you banish blue light.

The world has grown increasingly panicked about this photochromatic fiend over the past 10 years. We're told that our phones, TVs, computers, tablets and LED light bulbs expose us to a perverse amount of blue light. Supposedly, this ruins our sleep by disrupting the natural rhythms of daylight that influence our internal body clock. There's science to back some of this up, but recent studies and analysis suggests that things are a lot more complicated. In fact, chances are good that you've fallen for some serious misconceptions on this subject. Experts tell me it's unlikely that light from your phone is ruining your sleep.

The research is mixed. Those features designed to dial down blue light on your phone at bedtime, for example, are probably doing very little to improve your sleep. But the lighting of modern life really can have a huge effect on your sleep. What would it take to make a change?

I wanted the truth. So, I called the experts and dove into the science.

10/04/2026

'Complex, dangerous, sexual beings': The centuries-old origins of current fairy fiction

The fairies in faerie romantasy – or erotic "fae" fiction – are not the glittery, do-gooding sprites of children's stories. They are dangerous, shape-shifting spirits – just as they were in centuries-old folklore, according to a new book about fairy history. From the ancient Nordic forest fairies and the 15th-Century Mélusine legend to Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, faerie folklore is full of deception and seduction.

Two new novels were announced in the romantasy series A Court of Thorns and Roses recently – and immediately the share price of the books' publishing house soared by an astonishing 20%. The series' author Sarah J Maas is a very big deal in publishing, with her books translated into 40 languages and global sales of more than 70 million. Her success is part of a wider surge of fairy romantasy – also jokingly referred to as "faerie s**t".

The genre typically sees a female heroine facing challenging quests in an elaborate fantasy world, usually the world of the fae, an Old French word for fairies. She becomes romantically involved with a complicated, unpredictable and otherworldly figure. There is typically an erotic element – fans refer to the level of "spiciness", which can range from relatively chaste kissing scenes to explicit descriptions of sexual encounters.

08/04/2026

Want to improve your memory? The right type of exercise can give it a boost

A brief bout of physical exercise can create "ripples" of activity in your brain that help you store and retrieve memories.

Memory can be such a fickle thing. Whether trying to remember people's names, recall a list of items you need from the shop or preparing for an important exam or job interview, information that was in your head one minute can flutter out the next.

But there's an easy way you can give your memory an instant boost when trying to learn new information – jump on an exercise bike for a few minutes or take a brisk walk.

Research shows that we can improve our memory by doing aerobic exercise, or cardio.

It's long been known that exercise boosts cognition – as I covered in my newsletter course Live Well for Longer. Physical activity improves how well we perform on tasks and strengthens brain areas vulnerable to ageing, potentially slowing down cognitive decline.

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