Running vs. Walking: Which Is Better for Lasting Health? | Who are the Houthis, the group attacking ships in the Red Sea? | The mysterious resignation of Goldman's Japan chief took insiders by surprise. Here's why.

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Running vs. Walking: Which Is Better for Lasting Health? -

They’re both beneficial physically and mentally, but there’s a clear winner.

Walking is among the world’s most popular forms of exercise, and far and away the most favored in the United States. And for good reason: It’s simple, accessible and effective. Taking regular walks lowers the risk of many health problems including anxiety, depression, diabetes and some cancers.

However, once your body becomes accustomed to walking, you might want to pick up the pace, said Alyssa Olenick, an exercise physiologist and postdoctoral research fellow in the energy metabolism lab at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

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Who are the Houthis, the group attacking ships in the Red Sea? - The Economist

THE WAR between Israel and Hamas has left ripples in the Red Sea. Since the bombardment of Gaza began, the Houthis, a Yemeni rebel group, have launched a series of attacks on cargo ships. The insurgents, who are backed by Iran, say they are acting in solidarity with Palestinians. They have threatened to attack any ship bound for or leaving Israel without delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza. On November 19th Houthi fighters hijacked a cargo ship with links to an Israeli company (see video below). On December 12th a missile launched from a Houthi-controlled area of Yemen damaged a Norwegian tanker, which its owner says was not bound for Israel. French warships have also been targeted. America is trying to drum up support for a naval task-force to deal with the problem. Who are the Houthis, and why are they getting involved in the war?

The Houthi movement emerged in northern Yemen, where most people follow Zaydism, a sub-sect of Shia Islam. Zaydi imams had jostled for control of the region for centuries, and in 1918 they established a sovereign state. The imams ruled until 1962, when a military coup sparked a civil war that led to the establishment of the Yemen Arab Republic. Zaydi areas became poorer than the predominantly Sunni midlands. In the 1980s the Saudi and (to a lesser extent) Yemeni governments began promoting radical Sunnism in the north. A relatively peaceful Zaydi resistance movement emerged in response. In the 1990s Hussein al-Houthi, a Zaydi cleric, helped to launch the Believing Youth, summer schools meant to counter the establishment of Saudi-funded Sunni seminaries. By 2001 his group had split; followers of his faction became known as the Houthis.

Growing support for the movement made it a threat to Yemen’s government; the country’s leaders had supported America’s invasion of Iraq in 2003, which many Yemenis decried. Capitalising on their outrage, Houthi called for mass protests. He referred to Iran’s Islamic Revolution and Lebanon’s Hizbullah as models of resistance. The group adopted a slogan calling for the extermination of America and Israel: Houthi is said to have first uttered it in 2000, after seeing footage of a Palestinian child killed by Israeli soldiers during the second intifada, the Palestinian uprising at the beginning of this century.

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The mysterious resignation of Goldman's Japan chief took insiders by surprise. Here's why. - Business Insider

On November 17, the Financial Times reported that one of the bank's longest-serving partners, and a fixture atop its Japan business for over 20 years, had resigned.

The exit of Masanori Mochida, at 68 years old already well past the typical retirement age, was unusual in a couple of ways.

Though many senior executives discuss their eventual retirement, as Mochida had, few act on it so quickly.

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Why Monday is the most misunderstood day - The Economist

WHEN THE Boomtown Rats, an Irish band, released “I Don’t Like Mondays” in 1979, the song became an instant hit. The inspiration behind it was the Cleveland Elementary School shooting in San Diego that year. The 16-year-old perpetrator listed “not liking Mondays” as her main reason for firing 36 shots, killing two adults and injuring eight children and a police officer. This is not, though, why the song resonated with millions of people around the world; most of them are in all likelihood unaware of its tragic origins. What many do recognise all too well is the difficulty of summoning the energy to get out of bed on Monday mornings in order to face the week ahead.

Many bosses argue that starting off the week in person in the office creates good energy. Plenty of employees beg to differ. A paper published in 2021 by the Journal of Applied Psychology, found that people tend to be more ill-mannered on Mondays, and grow more courteous as the week unfolds.

A paper from 2015 by Yun Tae Hwang and Amy Kang published in the Medical Journal of Australia goes so far as to diagnose a new condition, Mondayitis. The authors define it as “a systemic illness with a non-specific constellation of symptoms including fatigue, lethargy or asthenia, dysthymia, irritability, light-headedness, photophobia, dry mouth, myalgia and headache in the absence of another focal or systemic illness”.

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