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Pinterest, the online pin-board with more than 478 million users, has taken a bold step in becoming the first major social media network to ban weight loss adverts. While the company said the decision was to promote body acceptance, it reflects a wider trend of the changing, more socially-conscious relationship between advertising platforms, brands and consumers.
Being highly visual, social media can be pernicious for body image because it exacerbates social comparisons, especially regarding attractiveness and fitness. Imagery of so-called “perfect” bodies is pervasive on social media, and encourages people to over-scrutinise their bodies and faces. The more time people spend “living” in social media, the more likely they are to believe that it represents reality.
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The Havoc Caused by Shipworms Remains a Mystery After Thousands of Years
19 JULY 2021
Shipworms are voracious munchers of wood. For thousands of years, these termites of the sea have been sinking ships and collapsing wharves with their insatiable appetites.
Today, we still don t know how they devour so much woody plant material as fast as they do.
It s unbelievable, says microbiologist Reuben Shipway from the University of Portsmouth in the UK. The ancient Greeks wrote about them, Christopher Columbus lost his fleet due to what he called the havoc which the worm had wrought, and, today, shipworms cause billions of dollars of damage a year.
The scourge of scammers is now so widespread I wonder if anyone can have escaped it.
Are there really people who have not been targeted, or have they been scammed and just don t realise it?
A scam for everyone!: So relentless is the bombardment from scammers that it is almost inevitable all of us will receive a scam at some point that rings true
We used to think of scams as amateur, shoddy and easy to spot: the realm of emails promising untold wealth, purporting to be from billionaires in Nigeria and littered with spelling mistakes.
But today, there is a scam out there for everyone.
Here s What We Must Do to Stop More Plastic Polluting Our Oceans, Says New Report
18 JULY 2021
Even as awareness around plastic pollution grows, very little is being done to solve the problem. At this rate, by 2050, some experts predict the world s oceans will contain more plastic than fish.
A think piece from the United Nations, commissioned by the G20, has now detailed everything the world should do to stop that from becoming our reality because we re not doing enough.
Today, roughly 11 million tonnes of plastic end up in our oceans each year, and according to a 2020 model from SYSTEMIQ and The Pew Trusts, by 2040, the amount of plastic waste that leaks into our oceans could nearly triple.
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