Hiking and mountaineering deaths, and why Everest got safer
Hiking deaths: falls, first-day cardiac arrests, national park causes, and why Everest’s death rate halved to 0.7% even as crowds grew.
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Golf injuries, golf carts and the lightning myth
Golf injuries to backs and elbows, child club accidents, golf cart risks, and why only 3% of US lightning deaths happen on golf courses.
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Tennis injuries, tennis elbow and the injection that backfired
Tennis injuries by body part, the tennis elbow injection trial where 54% saw pain return, and how to play carefully when training time rises.
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Dietary fat food sources and the limit that stayed at 10%
Dietary fat by the spoonful: butter and tallow against the 10% saturated fat limit kept in 2026, why most Americans exceed it, and what trials found.
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Carbohydrate food sources and the 10-gram meal
Carbohydrate food sources by the spoonful, the 130-gram brain floor, the 2026 rule of 10 grams of added sugar per meal, and what diet trials found.
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Protein food sources and the new target above the RDA
Protein food sources by the spoonful, why gelatin’s tryptophan is zero, the 2026 guideline target above the RDA, and what 49 trials found about muscle.
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Coercive Control: What the Evidence Shows
Coercive control is a pattern of domination, not a single incident. What research shows about how common it is, its link to homicide, the laws that criminalise it, and the warning signs.
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What Reduces Loneliness? What the Evidence Shows
A 2026 meta-analysis of 280 studies found loneliness interventions work on average, but not always the ones people expect. What helps, how much, and for whom.
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Cookie Consent Banners: What the Evidence Shows
Only 11.8% of banners on top UK sites met minimal legal requirements in one study. How banner design steers choices, what the law requires and how to protect your privacy.
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Do Protests Work? What the Evidence Shows
Nonviolent campaigns succeeded about twice as often as violent ones in the 20th century, but success rates have fallen. What the research shows about protest, violence and personal risk.
