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Sit-to-stand: The simple test that reveals how you're #ageing

The test takes just 30 seconds to complete, but its results can provide profound insights into your health.

Getting out of a chair may seem a trivial task but your ability to do so actually reveals a great deal about your health. To assess this, doctors use the sit-to-stand test (STS), which measures how many times you can rise to a standing position from seated within 30 seconds.

bbc.com/future/article/2025040

A grandfather playing a game with his grandson (Credit: Getty Images)
BBC · Sit-to-stand: The simple test that reveals how you're ageingBy Jasmin Fox-Skelly

Biologist whose innovation saved the life of British teenager wins Breakthrough prize
Prof David Liu is among the winners of 2025’s ‘Oscars of #Science'

Liu was chosen for inventing two exceptionally precise gene editing tools, namely base editing and prime editing.

theguardian.com/science/2025/a

The Guardian · Biologist whose innovation saved the life of British teenager wins $3m Breakthrough prizeBy Ian Sample

The stunning $667m verdict against Greenpeace last week is a direct attack on the #climate movement, #Indigenous peoples and the first amendment.

#Greenpeace lost – not because it did something wrong but because it was denied a fair trial

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · I was an independent observer in the Greenpeace trial. What I saw was shockingBy Steven Donziger

Australian man survives 100 days with artificial heart in world-first success
Sydney surgeons ‘enormously proud’ after patient in his 40s receives the Australian-designed implant designed as a bridge before donor heart

theguardian.com/australia-news

The Guardian · Australian man survives 100 days with artificial heart in world-first successBy Natasha May

The number of people with chronic conditions is soaring. Are we less healthy than we used to be – or overdiagnosing illness?

Are ordinary life experiences, bodily imperfections and normal differences being unnecessarily pathologised? One doctor argues just that

theguardian.com/society/2025/m

The Guardian · The number of people with chronic conditions is soaring. Are we less healthy than we used to be – or overdiagnosing illness?By Suzanne O'Sullivan

pluralistic.net/2020/03/14/mas

contains a link to a free audio version of Corey Doctorow's Masque of the Red Death. A story about #plutocrats holing up in a #bunker in the event of civilizational collapse.

Spoiler alert:

It does not end well for them, and that did not even require mobs with pitchforks.

pluralistic.netPluralistic: 14 Mar 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

‘Everyone thought it would cause gridlock’: the highway that Seoul turned into a stream

#Cheonggyecheon stream in the South Korean capital has become an attraction – and helps with #flood management, fighting air #pollution and cooling the city

theguardian.com/world/2025/jan

The Guardian · ‘Everyone thought it would cause gridlock’: the highway that Seoul turned into a streamBy Raphael Rashid