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Wellbeing: six ways to put a smile back on your face in 2020

The best ways to improve your happiness and inner worth, from expressive writing to self-affirmation“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbours, and let each new year find you a better man,” wrote Benjamin Franklin, a lifelong advocate of self-improvement, in 1755.As 2020 kicks off, many of us will be taking a leaf out of Franklin’s book. Unfortunately, many new year’s...

How I learned to love the real Neil Armstrong and embrace the space race | Maggie Aderin Pocock

The Apollo 11 commander taught me to look beyond the stereotype of astronauts as simply white, male daredevils• Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock is a space scientist and presenter of the Sky at NightThroughout 2019, many of us indulged in a sort of moon madness as we relived the historic moment, on 20 July 1969, when Neil Armstrong stepped out on to the lunar surface and uttered the now immortal words:...