Stress

Peer-to-peer lending companies such as Liquiloans, Lendbox, and Faircent are putting the brakes on their instant withdrawal products. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.Also in this letter:■ SC stay on fact-checking unit hailed■ Flipkart’s new payout policy■ Laptop import management to be reviewedP2P lending platforms to stop ‘liquid funds’ as RBI peers into business Peer-to-peer lending startups are bringing one of their most attractive products to a halt from March 31 — a fallout of the increased…

Atari If you asked me to make a list of the most stressful video games of all time, Lunar Lander would be pretty high up there. The Atari classic is a masterclass in minimalist tension, asking players to land spaceships on rocky planets very gingerly. Those who experienced that game when it launched could probably regale you with war stories about their space-faring escapades, but Atari is about to give players a new panic attack. Lunar Lander Beyond is a new reimagining of the classic Atari game from developer…

Sea surface temperature anomalies off the coast of eastern Australia on March 4, 2024, based on data from the Multi-scale Ultra-high Resolution Sea Surface Temperature) project.Weeks of warmer-than-average ocean temperatures caused extensive bleaching in the world’s largest coral reef system.Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has been hit by widespread coral bleaching caused by heat stress, government officials confirmed on March 8, 2024. This is the fifth mass bleaching of the reef since 2016.Aerial surveys of over 300 reefs…

Global distributions of seasonal mean dimensionless wave-induced stress. (a)–(d) represent spring, summer, autumn and winter, respectively. Credit: Science China Press Recently, a study by Ph.D. student Jing Ren from Ocean University of China and Associate Prof. Sheng Chen and Prof. Fangli Qiao from First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources was published in Science China Earth Sciences.…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study of how high school students respond to a program designed to increase the frequency and quality of conversations about race in school finds that the anti-racist intervention did not cause stress or feelings of alienation among study participants. The finding rebuts concerns that anti-racist programs are harmful to children and teens. …

For the ninth straight month, Earth has obliterated global heat records — with February, the winter as a whole and the world's oceans setting new high-temperature marks, according to the European Union climate agency Copernicus.The latest record-breaking in this climate change-fuelled global hot streak includes sea surface temperatures that weren't just the hottest for February, but eclipsed any month on record, soaring past August 2023's mark and still rising at the end of the month.And February, as well the previous two…

There’s a moment in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth — one I won’t spoil but will say it’s not That Moment — where I could hardly breathe. The story had taken a slight detour away from the events of the original’s continuity but not so much to be wholly different. Characters were in the same places and had the same attitudes as they did before but were remixed just so. I had no idea how everything was going to shake out, which stressed me out because up to that point, I was deeply invested in predicting how Rebirth would depart…

With the exponential growth of food delivery apps like Zomato and Swiggy, quick service restaurant operators are finding the going tough with both their revenue and margin coming under severe stress while road to recovery is longer than estimated, says a report. The report by French brokerage BNP Paribas stated that the rising popularity of food aggregators has hurt dine-in sales of quick service restaurants (QSR) and has also fragmented delivery sales. Also, with more restaurants partnering with food delivery platforms,…

New research reveals that stress promotes cancer metastasis by causing neutrophils to form structures that facilitate the disease’s spread. This finding highlights the importance of incorporating stress reduction into cancer treatment and suggests new avenues for preventing cancer metastasis through targeted therapies.Stress is an unavoidable aspect of life. However, excessive stress can have detrimental effects on our health. Prolonged stress elevates the risk of developing heart disease and experiencing strokes. It may…

Wordle today: Happy Saturday! Hope you're having a chill weekend. Wordle this week was a breeze with easy words like PRICE, MATCH, BUILD, and HEAVY. These words are pretty common and show up in everyday chats, making the puzzle a walk in the park for most people. Today, you have a good chance of figuring out the 5-letter Wordle word on your own. Just be careful, as you only have a few attempts to get it right, and you don't want to break your winning streak. With only six tries, it's not the time to take risks. If you're…