All Group Work articles
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LessonWalking 42 miles in one day: tackling North Yorkshire’s Lyke Wake route on its 70th anniversary
Read about the Lyke Wake walking route across the North Yorkshire Moors in England and its significance to some people.
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LessonGiven up on reading? Elif Shafak on why we still need novels
Explore why people have fallen out of love with reading, and why novels are still needed today.
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LessonA chiweenie with an overbite and 1.9m followers: how Tuna and Instagram’s other top dogs rake in thousands per post
Find out what ‘dogfluencers’ are and how they make money for their owners from social media content.
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LessonBusiness News Lessons: Increased use of influencers in advertising
Learn why big companies are using social media influencers more and more to market their products.
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LessonDitch the balloons and swap the plastic toys for cake: how to have a waste-free birthday party
Read about what we can do to make parties more sustainable.
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Lesson‘The only thing you need is your own mind’: how to start meditating
Read about the different techniques of meditation and their benefits.
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Lesson‘It brings you in and shelters you’: NHS creates ‘recovery gardens’ for staff and patients
Explore the benefits that wellbeing gardens bring to patients and staff in hospitals in the UK.
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LessonBusiness News Lessons: Brain Overload: How Multitasking Hijacks Your Focus and Increases Anxiety
Learn why multitasking is not an effective solution to work pressure.
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LessonAustralian women are doing 50% more housework than men. It’s creating ‘volcanic levels of resentment’
Read about how women in Australia do the majority of unpaid domestic work and the possible ways to address the problem.
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LessonWho is ‘working class’ and why does it matter in the arts?
Read about why working-class representation in the arts is important.
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LessonWhat can we learn from the clothes we buy but never wear?
Read about insights into why we buy certain clothes but don’t wear them and what to do about it.
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LessonAre noise-cancelling headphones impairing our hearing skills? Some audiologists are beginning to worry
Explore the possible effects of overusing noise-cancelling headphones and whether they can cause hearing problems.
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LessonBusiness News Lessons: Fewer people = lower living standards
What is the impact of declining birth rates on the world’s most prosperous economies?
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LessonIn the most untouched, pristine parts of the Amazon, birds are dying. Scientists may finally know why
Read about how experts have spent two decades trying to understand the bird population decline in the Amazon.
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Lesson‘Dear, did you say pastry?’: meet the ‘AI granny’ driving scammers up the wall
Read about how an AI bot impersonating a grandma has successfully stopped scammers.
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LessonThe big idea: can what you eat change your mind?
Explore the relationship between gut health and general and mental well-being.
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LessonBusiness News Lessons: Legal aid for businesses using AI
Read about how law firms are adding departments that help companies with issues caused by their use of AI.
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LessonThey say a name like mine can hold you back in life, but I will never change it
What is the impact of having an unusual name on person’s employment prospects?
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LessonOne Hundred Years of Solitude review – Gabriel García Márquez’s classic makes for startling TV beauty
Revisit Gabriel García Márquez’s classic magical realism novel which has been adapted into a TV series.
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Lesson‘You have to find your own recipe’: Dutch suburb where residents must grow food on at least half of their property
Read about the suburb of Oosterwold, a creative urban agriculture project in the Netherlands.