Phil Cain's Blog, page 150
August 10, 2016
Reducing the harms of alcohol through weaker beer | Science Daily
“The idea is that a small reduction in alcohol — such as beer with four per cent ethanol content versus six per cent — would reduce alcohol intake per drinker even if the same overall amount of beverage is consumed,” says Dr. Jürgen Rehm, lead author and Director of the Institute for Mental Health Policy Research at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto, Canada.
Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160810223752.htm
August 9, 2016
[cutting] Camra wants the Government to tell us drinking in moderation can have health benefits | Independent
The Government is being urged to hold a new consultation on alcohol consumption, after a study showed that most people believe that drinking in moderation is part of a healthy lifestyle. A survey of more than 2,000 adults revealed that over half disagreed with official health guidelines, and that they should be the same for men and women.
Camra wants the Government to tell us drinking in moderation can have health benefits | Independent
The Government is being urged to hold a new consultation on alcohol consumption, after a study showed that most people believe that drinking in moderation is part of a healthy lifestyle. A survey of more than 2,000 adults revealed that over half disagreed with official health guidelines, and that they should be the same for men and women.
August 7, 2016
[cutting] Olympic sponsorship and alcohol don’t mix | Guardian, Letters
Team GB, as an organisation, has a responsibility to consider what messages it is sending to our children and young people
Source: www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/aug/07/olympic-sponsorship-and-alcohol-dont-mix
Olympic sponsorship and alcohol don’t mix | Guardian, Letters
Team GB, as an organisation, has a responsibility to consider what messages it is sending to our children and young people
Source: www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/aug/07/olympic-sponsorship-and-alcohol-dont-mix
August 5, 2016
Tempering online discourse
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is no coincidence simplistic movements are finding success when our worldviews and personal relations are being shaped by chaotic and often ill-tempered online interaction. Opportunistic rabble-rousers are only too happy to ride this wave of digital bombast. The answer is a ripple of online civility.
There is nothing new about it. Newspaper comment sections have long been dominated by malign provocateurs, practical jokers and truculent ranters. Twitter and Youtube also harbour bands of rov...
July 18, 2016
Mezica: The Balkan Lord’s
The cricket ground in Mezica, Slovenia. MEZICA, Slovenia, summer 2013—The distinctive thwack of leather on willow is not the first thing you might expect to hear in a remote alpine valley in the former-Yugoslav republic of Slovenia. But it is almost 40 years since cricket was first played in Mezica, in the far north of the country, making it the cradle of a growing regional cricket scene and enthusiastic host of international touring sides.
Visitors to the Mezica groundtalk of it—only half jo...
June 22, 2016
Alcohol, our faulty Facebook
There was a social media giant in startup tens of thousands of years before Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter started vying forour attention: alcohol.
Alcohol—the subject of my book, Alcohol Companion—has far higher spec in some ways. A pleasant taste, high-fidelity surround sound and 3D-graphics are standard, with feelivision optional.
To access our alcohol accounts we just need to find a few acquaintances and add a glass or two. As if by magic our responsibilities and hierarchies melt away. Ac...
June 2, 2016
Fuelling dedication
Ask a Brit who grew up in the 70s or 80s what is needed to “be the best” or “beat the rest” and they are likely tell you, without much hesitation: dedication.
Dedication’s high status comes thanks to the closing song of Record Breakers, a BBC children’s programme of the era, itself dedicated to witnessing world records. A weekly broadcast cataloguing bids for supremacy in every conceivable area must say something about the Britain’s flagging self-esteem at the time.
The show’s late host, the...
April 25, 2016
How to disable your Facebook feed
Turning off the tap Processing the jumbled deluge of content on the typical Facebook feed can causedistraction, cognitive overload and intermittent alarm from its cack-handed delivery of serious news. But this formidable mental challenge is made tricky to avoid.
Social media’s commercial goal is to gain and hold our attention for long periods rather than efficiently inform, a role it is unable to perform. The Facebook feed is the crowning achievement of the sector, being the most effective te...
