A Five-Minute Plank Workout to Challenge Your Core
These moves work every part of your core, boost spinal stability, and lower blood pressure.

https://www.outsideonline.com/health/training-performance/plank-core-workout/

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You Don’t Need Sit-Ups—Try This 5-Minute Core Workout Instead

These moves work every part of your core, boost spinal stability, and lower blood pressure.

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Is #time a figment of our imaginations?
Cosmologists and physicists come up empty handed when they attempt to pin down time. So what, exactly, is it?

More for the comments than the article.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/22/is-time-a-figment-of-our-imaginations

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Is time a figment of our imaginations?

Cosmologists and physicists come up empty handed when they attempt to pin down time. So what, exactly, is it?

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I lost my love of #cooking after 12 years as a chef. Moving to a pig farm restored it
#Hospitality can be anything but hospitable to workers. But in regional Victoria, I found a community – and rediscovered something I’d lost

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2026/mar/21/hospitality-love-of-cooking-chef-pig-farm

#142holdheap #food #FoodIndustry

I lost my love of cooking after 12 years as a chef. Moving to a pig farm restored it

Hospitality can be anything but hospitable to workers. But in regional Victoria, I found a community – and rediscovered something I’d lost

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How Pakistan’s people-led solar boom is easing impact of Middle East energy crisis

Falling costs and government incentives make solar an attractive option for many, reducing need for gas

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Mining made this US tribal area a toxic wasteland. This #Indigenous nation brought it back to life
The #Quapaw Nation is the only US Native community to carry out a cleanup of one of the country’s worst sites of environmental contamination
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/15/quapaw-nation-oklahoma-superfund-cleanup
#142holdheap #environment
Mining made this US tribal area a toxic wasteland. This Indigenous nation brought it back to life

The Quapaw Nation is the only US Native community to carry out a cleanup of one of the country’s worst sites of environmental contamination

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Too lazy to be a guide dog: how Marcus found his calling as a therapy animal

https://youtu.be/dt7MRUGhcKg

#142holdheap #dogs #dogsofmastodon

Too lazy to be a guide dog: how Marcus found his calling as a therapy animal

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9 Simple Balance Exercises You Can Do in Just a Few Minutes

Protecting your body’s balance systems is important, no matter your age—and these exercises are easy to incorporate into your weekly schedule.

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Canine carer: how guide #dog school dropout Marcus came to comfort cancer patients for a living
Once assessed as ‘a sloth with a low drive to work’, the polite and affectionate black labrador enjoys a successful new career as a therapy dog

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/mar/01/canine-carer-how-guide-dog-school-dropout-marcus-came-to-comfort-cancer-patients-for-a-living

#142holdheap #dogs #dogsofmastodon

Canine carer: how guide dog school dropout Marcus came to comfort cancer patients for a living

Once assessed as ‘a sloth with a low drive to work’, the polite and affectionate black labrador enjoys a successful new career as a therapy dog

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Researchers praise ‘stunning’ results of new prostate #cancer treatment
Early trials of the drug VIR-5500 showed it shrinking tumours in some patients

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/feb/28/researchers-praise-stunning-results-of-new-prostate-cancer-treatment

#142holdheap #immunotherapy #prostateCancer

Researchers praise ‘stunning’ results of new prostate cancer treatment

Early trials of the drug VIR-5500 showed it shrinking tumours in some patients

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‘Isolation isn’t the way forward’: readers on their unusual living arrangements
We spoke with five people from Atlanta to rural Germany and the UK whose #households range from grandparents to three couples who own a farmhouse

https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2026/jan/30/alternative-living-arrangements

#142holdheap #society #people #families

‘Isolation isn’t the way forward’: readers on their unusual living arrangements

We spoke with five people from Atlanta to rural Germany and the UK whose households include friends and grandparents

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