Ten Things of Help and Humanity

A Tube thought for the day/Alice Evans

1. Tube passengers at Oval station in south London are provided with a daily dose of wisdom to inspire them for the day.
2. Benjamin Lay was an 18th Century Quaker and a militant vegetarian and feminist, who fought slavery and opposed the death penalty. He was also a hunchbacked dwarf.
3. US suicide rates spiked in the months after Hollywood actor and comedian Robin Williams killed himself in 2014, according to researchers.
4. Researchers have discovered meditation doesn't make you a better person, while monastic buddhists are afraid of death, despite their beliefs.
5. Researchers believe social media causes childhood depression.
6. People are developing technology that will allow you to send human surrogates to represent you at meetings, parties and untold other social occasions, described as "human ubers".
7. Supermarket self-checkout theft is so widespread that researchers have concluded the ease of theft is likely inspiring people who might not otherwise steal to do so.
8. Plastic waste is building up in the supposedly pristine wilderness of the Norwegian Arctic, scientists say. It will take hundreds of years to overcome a few reckless decades of using the sea as a dump.
9. Scandinavians have come up with a new lifestyle trend called "plogging" that sees people going for a jog, and at the same time picking up litter.
10. #Bathleisure is a rising Instagram trend where lounging around in your bathrobe is not only acceptable, but it is also very, very chic.

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