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Living a good life in a complex world

Well Actually

  • A graphic illustration that appears to show a woman's legs, overlaid on a separate image of larger legs.

    Puffy legs, heavy aches, rippled skin: what is lipedema?

    This underdiagnosed condition, which causes leg pain and swelling, affects one in 10 women, yet most doctors haven’t heard of it
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    Wellness culture is trying to sell you products your vagina doesn’t need

  • Illustration of a woman complaining about her insecurities to a friend

    Ask Ugly
    How do I respond to my friends when they criticize their own weight and looks?

  • an illustration of journal pages with the profile of a head across the pages and abstract shapes

    How to start
    ‘Subtle but powerful form of self-validation’: how to start journaling

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    ‘I felt like I’d stumbled on a cheat code’: what is the burned haystack dating method?

  • Two women embrace, smiling, as another watches on happily.

    Weekly bread rolls and an Irish bender: six readers on gestures that made them feel less lonely

  • Close-up of a bald head with different emojis appearing gradually

    Going bald? There’s a subreddit for that – and it’s weirdly wonderful

  • A person's body is covered in a rash, measles.

    How contagious is measles and what are the symptoms?

  • A photograph of a woman sleeping next to a blue cutout of a profile of a person

    The snuggle is real: what happens when you can’t fall asleep without your partner?

Columns

  • An illustration of a woman with her hand over her lips so as to signal keeping quiet

    Why am I like this?
    Feeling off? Your secrets could be making you stressed

  • a cadaver in a syringe

    Ask Ugly
    Would you use cadaver fat for a boob job or butt lift? Some people already do

  • Person looking out of a yellow-framed window in an illustration.

    Why am I like this?
    Try small steps and set the bar low: how to find the meaning of life

  • ‘For the time being, consider covering your spots with pimple patches or Band-Aids before you pick.’

    Ask Ugly
    I can’t stop picking at my pimples. How do I break this habit?

  • veggies

    Start small, grow what you like and be realistic: how to start a vegetable garden

  • four images showing lips speaking, a person's ear, desks and a disco ball alongside various languages

    Don’t stop at Duolingo, set realistic goals, balance skills: how to start learning a new language

  • HOW TO START - STYLE holasoyka

    ‘Dress for who you are’: how to start finding your personal style

  • a colorful graphic of people in various yoga poses

    ‘Truly accessible to everyone’: how to start yoga

Health & wellbeing

  • A man wearing a blue shirt, blue jeans and a khaki T-shirt, and a woman wearing a light khaki shirt and dark khaki trousers. They are standing between pillars, with a wall behind them

    A moment that changed me: I cried about my cleft lip for the first time in my 60s

  • An illustration with geometrical shapes, barbells and a woman doing lunges

    All the right moves! 17 personal trainers on the exercise they always recommend – from planks to face pulls

  • kimberly nixon-16

    ‘This is so taboo’: Kimberley Nixon on the hell of perinatal OCD – and how she survived it

  • Emma Beddington

    There are two kinds of people: those who enjoyed school PE lessons – and the rest of us

    Emma Beddington

Relationships

  • Open book showing a split portrait of three women’s faces, framed by flowers and chains

    ‘Making the scarlet letter into my career’: my life as a sex writer

  • Orgasmic illustration on yellow background

    This is how we do it: ‘Testosterone restored my orgasms – I’m climaxing six to 10 times a session’

  • The couple sit on a patio

    The moment I knew: The banana bread was terrible but seeing him baking made me fall for him

  • A young woman in a black polo neck and a young man in a khaki shirt

    Blind date: ‘Most awkward moment? When he nearly set the menu alight’

Food

  • Vivien's mid-spring moment.

    Cocktail of the week: Vivien’s mid-spring moment – recipe

  • Helen Goh's A cake for spring, AKA spinach cake 096

    Helen Goh’s springtime spinach sponge cake with cream cheese icing – recipe

  • Rachel Roddy's crab linguine

    Rachel Roddy’s recipe for spaghetti with crab, chilli, herbs and lemon

  • Minestrone from Lucy Tweed's new cookbook, Tender

    Lucy Tweed’s Mediterranean soup recipes: minestrone, avgolemono and Greek white bean soup

  • April Fools Day text and funny glasses and pair of shoes with the laces tied together.2J0NRHN April Fools Day text and funny glasses and pair of shoes with the laces tied together.

    Crossword blog
    Crossword editor’s desk: April fooling is alive and well in crosswords

  • Cryptic crosswords
    Cryptic crossword No 29,995

  • Quick crosswords
    Quick crossword No 17,468

  • Sudoku
    Sudoku 7,296 hard

  • Prize crosswords
    Prize crossword No 29,990

  • Killer sudoku
    Killer sudoku 1,019

  • Meg White and Jack White of the White Stripes performing at Madison Square Garden in 2007, both wearing red with a red drumkit, and with the face of the bass drum designed to look like a button, with stitching going through four button holes

    The Saturday quiz
    What links Royal Blood and the White Stripes? The Saturday quiz

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    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Are you as s-s-smart as a snake?

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