Hatty Willmoth
Writer at Freelance
Journalist @ion_nutrition with mild synaesthesia and deep loathing of swans 🦢
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1 week ago |
sciencefocus.com | Hatty Willmoth
Ah, the circle of life! Your parents have sex, and nine months later, you arrive into the world (apologies for that image). But did you know that the temperature around the time of your parents’ hanky-panky might impact your metabolism for the rest of your life? At least, that’s according to a recent study by researchers at the University of Tokyo, Japan.
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2 weeks ago |
sciencefocus.com | Hatty Willmoth
A warm bowl of pasta, a fluffy white bread roll, or a bag of generously salted chips – these starchy delights are the stuff of dreams. It’s no wonder many of us couldn’t fathom giving up carbs for good. However, a new study by the University of Surrey has found that spending just one day without carbs has similar effects on the body to eating very little food, as what happens when following intermittent fasting.
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2 weeks ago |
sciencefocus.com | Hatty Willmoth
As anyone who's seen a photo of Dwayne Johnson with curly hair can attest — some people were simply meant to be bald. But for the millions of people who have baldness thrust upon them – by genes, ageing, hormones or a medical condition – a new discovery may have just brought them a little bit closer to a lusciously hairy scalp. That’s thanks to a new study published in the journal Nature Communications.
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2 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Hatty Willmoth
NowConsciousness Formed Before Life Itself, Scientists Say—And the Evidence Could Be in This Asteroid SampleTantalizing clues in the 4-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu samples could indicate the molecular formations that some scientists say support the workings of consciousness. Every six years, an asteroid by the name of Bennu passes by Earth.
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2 weeks ago |
sciencefocus.com | Hatty Willmoth
If you’re reading this, you are probably fairly certain that you’re conscious. You likely assume that your loved ones, your less-loved ones and even your weird neighbour are all conscious too. They look and act like you – a fellow human – so it is reasonable to think they experience the world in a similar way. But what about tiny little babies who don’t understand the world and can’t talk to you about it? None of us remember what it was like to be that young; so, are they conscious?
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I won a prize today! It was the early career prize in the Freelance Journalism Awards 2024, for my article on the Bruderhof community that I wrote for the Independent 🎉 So grateful to the judges for picking my piece, and happy and proud 🥰 Yay!!
So pleased to be published in the Independent!🥰 Read about my stay with the Bruderhof here 👇
Inside a secret Home Counties commune that preaches celibacy and hard labour to Gen Z https://t.co/abFfMO9k9x https://t.co/qUpS1jTyyZ
