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Science journalist. Big fan of icy moons. Previously @BBCNews. She/her. Queer 🏳️‍🌈 #LongCOVID ☁️@maryhalton.bsky.social

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How to raise a child who's free from gender norms

How to raise a child who's free from gender norms

"When we find out that someone is having a baby, what is the very first question we ask? 'Boy or girl?'" says…

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We need to talk about the orgasm gap - and how to fix it

We need to talk about the orgasm gap - and how to fix it

The world is supposed to be improving for women. Incrementally, work is being done to combat sexual harassmen…

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Oddballs with high-level intelligence: a Q & A with Roger Hanlon about the amazing octopus

Oddballs with high-level intelligence: a Q & A with Roger Hanlon about the amazing octopus

Have you ever stumbled upon a subject so intriguing that it fired your imagination and made your brain clamor…

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The life of a shark scientist

The life of a shark scientist

What do marine biologists do all day? It's not all about time in the ocean, though Melissa Marquez often wish…

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Yes, Antarctica has a fire department

Yes, Antarctica has a fire department

Fire prevention in one of the coldest places on Earth might not sound like the most likely job, but every yea…

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When flying to Mars is your day job

When flying to Mars is your day job

Sending missions to Mars for a living sounds like a dream job. But not every day can be launch day - so what …

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What are tangible user interfaces (TUIs), and how do they enhance UX?

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By Aesha Panchal, Mary Halton
| UX Collective
From waking up to an alarm on our smartphones, reading news on tablets, working on our laptops to watching series on our TVs, we do many things with technological interaction in our everyday lives. The joy of doing all kinds of activities with different interactive mediums is replaced and confined to a static frame that is displayed in front of us throughout the day.
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How you can support someone who is in an abusive relationship

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By Mary Halton
| TED Ideas Blog
This post is part of TED's "How to Be a Better Human" series, each of which contains a piece of helpful advice from people in the TED community; browse through all the posts here. Most of us are taught that other people's relationships are not our business and that they are private and personal. So when you see one going very, very wrong, it can be incredibly difficult to know how to intervene. You might even feel like you shouldn't.
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2 words that can help check your assumptions about people

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By Mary Halton
| TED
Asking "so what?" can bring out your hidden beliefs and ideas, says career strategist Gail Tolstoi-Miller. Six seconds. That's how long the typical recruiter is said to spend reviewing a resume. In order to whiz through a dashboard full of applicants, recruiters rely not only on their years in the workplace but also on something not so admirable: their unconscious biases. We all have biases, and without them, we might not function so effectively in the world.
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