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23 stories for“seasonal routine”
For ten weeks the Gulf empties. In the last fortnight of August it refills, all at once, and the version of the city you got used to disappears in about four days.
Aug 16, 2026
People start things at the beginning of a week, a month or a school year far more often than at any other moment. Behavioural scientists call it the fresh start effect, and it is worth using deliberately.
Aug 17, 2026
A three thousand year old medical system with real insights about routine, diet and constitution also has a documented contamination problem. Two studies published in JAMA found heavy metals in about a fifth of the Ayurvedic products they tested.
Sep 4, 2026
The Ayurvedic daily routine and modern circadian science reach several of the same conclusions from completely different premises. Where they converge is worth taking seriously, and where they part company is worth being honest about.
Sep 4, 2026
The Ayurvedic instruction to wake around ninety minutes before sunrise is good advice for some people and a recipe for chronic sleep debt for others. Chronotype is substantially heritable, and willpower does not move it far.
Sep 4, 2026
Ajman government employees are working seven-hour summer days without reducing public-service expectations. The initiative offers a useful test of output, wellbeing and heat-aware work design.
Aug 1, 2026
Weaker dividend income, higher operating costs and a bigger tax line pushed the Saudi investment house lower in the first half. Each of those pressures applies well beyond one company.
Aug 7, 2026
Ten cones rising to eighty eight metres, thirty galleries and twenty three thousand square metres of outdoor exhibition space. The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi is the last and biggest building by the architect who made a museum into an economic strategy.
Aug 22, 2026
Circle becomes the first crypto financial services firm to take a Premier League club's front of shirt. Two months ago the Financial Conduct Authority warned clubs about exactly this kind of deal. The difference is that Circle is authorised.
Aug 29, 2026
The seven-cities-in-nine-days itinerary is losing its grip. More travelers are choosing one place, more time, and fewer photographs to prove it.
May 14, 2024
Points are getting devalued faster and fares are climbing. Here is how frugal travelers are still booking business class and cheap trips in 2026.
May 19, 2026
Firms spend heavily on stands and almost nothing on follow-up, then conclude that exhibitions do not work. The floor is the cheap part of the exercise and the least important.
Aug 14, 2026
Kibbeh is defined by bulgur, which is cracked wheat, so the gluten-free version has to be rebuilt rather than substituted. The good news is that the rebuild already exists in the region's own repertoire.
Aug 11, 2026
Global climate change may be the most significant problem ever faced by humankind. Global climate change, also called global warming or the greenhouse effect can convey mild or gentle warming, however, a rise of just a few degrees in the average temperature of the earth can result in large-scale regional weather patterns. Global warming is
Aug 19, 2023
Falling asleep requires your core temperature to drop, which is difficult when the night does not cool. The fixes that work target body temperature rather than room temperature, and cost very little.
Aug 13, 2026
New homes emit around 2.5 times their design estimates on average. Non-domestic buildings run to 3.8 times. The studies that established this looked at buildings that had been published as exemplars.
Aug 19, 2026
Menswear has spent two years moving from ultra-slim to relaxed but refined, and the shift is harder than it sounds. A narrow suit hides its faults on the hanger. A generous one does not.
Aug 21, 2026
A physiologist went looking for the origin of the rule in 2002 and came back empty. What the reference intakes actually say, why food and coffee count, how much the number varies between people, and when in a Gulf summer it genuinely matters.
Sep 6, 2026
Submersion triggers an ancient reflex that slows the heart, redirects blood, and quietly reshapes what a trained freediver's body can survive underwater.
Sep 18, 2024
Dahab's Blue Hole draws freedivers year round for a reason: shore access to real depth, warm water, forgiving conditions and an established training community.
Nov 14, 2025
The Gulf coast rarely gets mentioned in dive travel guides, but Fujairah and the Musandam peninsula quietly deliver some of the region's best reefs.
Nov 3, 2024
CWT, CNF, FIM, STA, DYN: a plain guide to how competitive freediving is actually judged, discipline by discipline, and why the letters matter more than the depth alone.
Feb 14, 2024
Shark bites made headlines again in 2025. The numbers behind those headlines tell a very different story for the people actually diving with sharks.
Mar 5, 2026
