Reading recommendations to herald the New Year on a positive note

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• What went right in 2024: the top 25 good news stories of the year
• Interactive: What Earth’s 4.54 billion-year history would look like in a single year

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• Here’s what I learned in medical school – beyond the curriculum
• Tetanus vaccine delivered by skin cream instead of needle

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• From mindfulness to learning something new: seven simple strategies for wellbeing
• Making friends with your past and future selves
• There’s a link between walking speed and ageing well. Here’s how you can improve your?pace

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• 5 tips to improve your work-from-home space and be more productive
• 4 reasons why I think knowledge management tools are overrated
• Forget greatness. Manage your time like a lazy genius
• Every year, I vow to be less productive

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• Most ‘words of the year’ don’t actually tell us about the state of the world – here’s what I’d pick instead
• How To: Identify what you enjoy

2025 - A “mathemagical” year

Once in a while, Whatsapp forwards can be interesting. Here’s one:

Our next calendar year is a mathematical wonder.

• 2025, itself is a square?- 45 x 45
• It's a product of two squares, Viz. 92 x 52 = 2025
• It is the sum of 3-squares, viz. 402+ 202+52= 2025
• It's the first square after 1936
• It's the sum of cubes, of all the single digits, from 1 to 9, viz. 13+23+33+43+53+63+73+83+93= 2025.
• It is also the only square year our generation may see. The next square year 2116 is another 92 years away.

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