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Living a good life in a complex world

Well Actually

  • A woman sleeps on a bed

    Sleep
    Trouble sleeping? This therapy can help with insomnia

  • An illustration of a person with four arms doing multiple tasks at once: dusting, typing on a laptop, looking at a cellphone, holding a pencil, and listening to music

    Productivity
    Help! It turns out breaks make you more productive

    After a week guided by Mithu Storoni’s new book Hyperefficient, I learned to work with the rhythm of my brain
  • An illustration of a woman slightly frowning. Her hair appears to be turning white and there are bolts of lightning over it

    Ask Ugly
    All of the ‘iffy’ comments about my gray hair bother me. Should I start dyeing it again?

    In her monthly column about beauty culture, our columnist talks about our desire for ‘outside approval’ and letting silver take over
  • An illustration of two people having coffee

    ‘I have a pretty carefree life’: four adults over 50 on being childfree

  • A color spectrum showing hues of blue, teal and green

    Do you see blue or green? This viral test plays with color perception

  • composite image of a greek statue's head hooked up to a bag of blood on a pink background

    Blood, sweat and testes: rich men have always wanted to live for ever

  • An illustration of a young child hugging her mother

    Halfway there: a column about midlife
    Oily skin, body parts misbehaving: how perimenopause feels like puberty

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Reclaim your brain

The toolkit

  • A sunscreen’s SPF, or sun protection factor, indicates how much protection a product offers.

    Sun season
    What is SPF and how much sunscreen do you really need? Experts answer

  • a person smokes cannabis

    California sober
    What does it mean and is it good for you?

  • Colourful flat lay view of different types of sliced fruits and vegetables on a pink background.

    The 30-plant challenge
    Experts say we need to eat 30 plants a week. This is how I fared

  • Black cup of coffee on the black and brown table among spilled roasted coffee beans.

    Coffee
    How much coffee is OK for me to drink in a day? I asked the experts

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Columns

  • illustration of woman shouting at toes

    Ask Ugly
    I hate my big, ugly feet. How can I come to terms with them?

  • illustration of woman holding two tubs of beauty product

    Halfway there: a column about midlife
    Menopause tests and anti-ageing face oils: welcome to midlife consumerism

  • illustration of a woman sitting at a table writing a letter

    Why am I like this?
    I want closure – but do I have a hope of ever getting it?

  • Illustration of a woman holding a scalpel to her face

    Ask Ugly
    My mother is pressuring me to get plastic surgery. How do I deal with imperfection?

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Health & wellbeing

  • A group of friends toasting pint glasses in a pub

    The power of the pint: is it time to retire one of the world’s biggest beer measures?

  • How to build a better life: Control PRINT

    Do you strive to be in control of your life? It might be holding you back ...

    • Wrinkles left, front, right

      For 61 years I’ve been too lazy to use sunscreen. How badly have I damaged my skin – and is it too late to change?

    • An illustration of a woman with a storage box under her arm facing a mountain of clutter, books, hairdriers, a lampshade, etc, etc

      The cult of storage: is tidying really the fast track to a happier, healthier life?

    • Adrian Chiles

      She’s not just ‘Mum’. She’s my mum – and she does have a name

      Adrian Chiles
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Relationships

  • A composite featuring couple sitting on outdoor chairs, looking happy; the background is the surface of an ice-skating rink.

    The moment I knew: on our second date he taught my son how to ice-skate – and my heart melted

  • Illustration of a male and female couple separated by a giant blue Viagra pill that is splitting in half.

    This is how we do it: ‘I felt betrayed when I found his Viagra. Were his issues my fault?

  • Illustration of floats shaped like dollar bills in a swimming pool, with a man in trunks and sunglasses lying back on one of them, and a woman wearing swimming goggles in the water nearby

    ‘I earn £2m – my partner £20k. It’s a bit ridiculous’: the truth about wealth-gap relationships

  • Sophie and Emily, photographed in London earlier this month. They are holding large daisy-like flowers up to their eyes

    ‘I think we inspired the knickerless couple’: the story of the Guardian Blind date duo who tied the knot, six years after that first kiss

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Food

  • Close up of a sponge cake filled with passionfruit cream, and drizzled with passionfruit icing, on a cake tray.

    Springy steps: Tivoli Road Bakery’s passionfruit and raspberry ripple sponge cakes – recipe

  • Rukmini Iyer's chicken, lime and coriander quesadillas.

    Rukmini Iyer’s quick and easy recipe for quesadillas with chicken, lime and coriander

  • Rachel Roddy's spaghetti carbonara.

    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for spaghetti alla carbonara like it’s 1979

  • ‘Pecorino feels appropriate for lamb but use whatever cheese you have’: lamb involtini.

    Joe Trivelli’s recipes for lamb involtini, gnocchi, peppers and aubergines and rice cake

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Puzzles

  • The Soup Dragon with Peter Firmin and Mother Clanger

    Crossword blog
    Crossword roundup: a flurry of Keir Starmer solutions – and some dragons

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    Cryptic crosswords
    Cryptic crossword No 29,496

    • Quick crosswords
      Quick crossword No 16,969

    • Sudoku
      Sudoku 6,631 medium

    • Prize crosswords
      Prize crossword No 29,494

    • Killer sudoku
      Observer killer sudoku

    • Thomas Eaton
      What links Robert Downey Jr, Ted Hughes and Black Sabbath? The Saturday quiz

    • Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
      Did you solve it? The poker puzzle that has everyone fooled

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