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Standing at your desk is an excellent way to feel virtuous while towering over colleagues lounging on their backsides. But don’t get too high and mighty.
Our latest Well Informed column
finds that evidence for the health benefits of standing desks doesn’t really stand up. (This article is free to read even if you don’t subscribe to The Economist.)
North Korea has learned all sorts of war-fighting skills from helping Vladimir Putin try to conquer Ukraine. So you’d expect the annual joint exercises of American and South Korean troops to be especially important this year. But at the last moment Donald Trump decided to “substantially reduce” them. We analyse
what the president might have been thinking
and what the consequences could be. |