lifestyle
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Lake Baikal is 600km long and freezes solid in winter. So, what else would you choose to do but run its entire length?
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It is hard work to look after your elderly relatives. Ailments are not health problems if you’re over 70 – they’re a social problem that we must all pay for
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A fully equipped touring bike designed for cycle camping holidays at a surprisingly affordable price, says Martin Love
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Racing, marathon training or parkrunning - as always, come and share your weekend exploits below the line. Guaranteed Guardian pick for anyone who ran in a penguin costume ...
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A new study says gym-goers are indeed fitter and healthier than non-members. But there are other ways to stay fit, and some of them may be even more beneficial
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He sleeps in a separate room and isn’t even interested in cuddles
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Male anxiety about fashion rules means they associate fortysomethings in biker jackets with Jeremy Clarkson. Plus, what is Trump’s definition of ‘female members of staff dressing like women’?
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Ever needed to make a cheap international call without the internet, or been worried about security as you move between wifi hotspots? These apps make travel safer, easier and cheaper
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Los Loosers restaurant and delivery service is a product of its owner’s passion for vegan food (and cycling), offering animal-free versions of some classic dishes
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Is it possible to have a great time in a winter sports resort without actually strapping on the kit and going skiing or snowboarding? Our writer goes to Austria – to take it easy
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Costa Rica is famous for its national parks, but has only recently turned attention to supporting the people who live in them. Johnny Langenheim joins a community-led tour of its jungly Osa peninsula
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The modern cook: Potatoes are magical in all their forms, but there’s nothing like a baked spud, full of flavour and comfort, to lift your spirits – here are my favourite ways to fill them
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People can be picky about their bananas, but ripeness doesn’t matter when it comes to this sumptuous cake, says Nigel Slater
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The longer you leave chicken to cook, the deeper and more intense its flavour will be
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Baking: This southern belle hides a delicate, pale crumb and layers of figgy filling beneath a frilly bonnet of marshmallow-like icing
technology
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Archivist Jason Scott has made it his mission to record digital culture for future generations. But why are we so keen to relive the days of Geocities websites and 56k modems?
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Turn up the heat, dim the lights and cue the music, all with the touch of a button or a voice command. Here’s the latest kit to connect your world
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The unique shame of the video game critic
Simon ParkinWith real lives and real rights under threat, what’s the point of writing about virtual worlds?
regulars
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ExperienceExperienceExperience: I regret transitioningI saw that it wasn’t being female that was stopping me from being myself; it was society’s perpetual oppression of women
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This column will change your lifeThis column will change your lifeWhy words bend can the truth: the disturbing fact about memoryIf you witness a mugging, then scribble a record of what you’d seen, you’d be more prone to misremember than if you’d written nothing
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The crushThe crushWhy I love Emma StoneI first saw Stone Superbad. The film has many flaws, but she is not one of them
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StylewatchStylewatchGlamour Girls: behind the cast's trouserless look – stylewatchLena Dunham’s show Girls continues to make a statement, this time stamping a Marc Jacobs-styled feminist manifesto on the cover of glamour magazine
advice
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Dear MariellaDear MariellaI want to leave my partner of 15 years. Am I being selfish?A woman who married her longtime partner two years ago now wants to separate. Mariella Frostrup wonders why it’s taken so long to address the issues in their relationship
people
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Problem solved My estranged father wants to get in touch, but I don’t want to see him
Annalisa BarbieriMy parents separated when I was young, and I stopped visiting him when I was 10: he made me feel unwanted. Later, I was told he abused my mum. Annalisa Barbieri advises a reader -
When Margaret Esiri and Andrew Evans’s mother died, they read her diary and unravelled a lifelong mystery
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Sales of power bars and powders and supplements are surging – but does anyone really need them?
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The outspoken actress wants to break open a conspiracy of silence about ageing
the big picture
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From the fabled northern lights to the meteor shower that inspired one of John Denver’s most famous songs, stunning celestial wonders can be seen beyond the UK’s street lights
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