Rich Monday Paper, World Edition 125

What a Great Time to Be Alive: Every Child Is Born a Genius

Navi Pillay's Nobel Peace Prize and the International Day of the Girl ask the same question: who decides what you are capable of? Dr Marina Nani on self-awareness and human potential.

Dr Marina Nani

Me vs AI: The Seven-Year-Old, Arrow Travnick Singing About AI

The Sydney singer recorded Gen Alpha (Me vs AI) in Bali at six, through a night of nerves and a power cut. Her message to children and adults alike is that AI can be clever, but people still have to think for themselves.

Dr Marina Nani

In Conversation with Dame Neslyn: How Can We Build Prosperity Within the Planet's Limits?

Seven of the nine systems that keep Earth habitable are now outside safe limits. Dame Neslyn Watson-Druée explains why growth and the planet do not have to be enemies, and what you can do about it from the boardroom this year.

Dr Marina Nani

AI in Schools: Has Anyone Tested It on Children?

A new medicine for children must pass years of trials and is watched for side effects after launch. Generative AI arrived in classrooms with a handful of short studies, and governments are now splitting over what to do about it.

Dr Marina Nani

International Day of the Girl: End child marriage and invest in girls' rights

More than 12 million girls are still married before 18 every year, and UN agencies point to a marriage age of 18 with no exceptions, girls kept in school and steady funding for girls' programmes as the way to end the practice.

Dr Marina Nani

Brexit Has Countless Victims and Nobody Has Been Held Responsible

Ten years after the referendum, Britain is poorer, its smallest firms have paid the heaviest price and the official Leave campaign was fined for breaking electoral law. Not one person who sold Brexit to the country has been held responsible.

Dr Marina Nani

53 Days to a New Year: 8 Small Hinges That Swing Big Doors

You do not need a January resolution to feel better. Eight small daily routines, started this week, change how you feel before the year turns.

Dr Marina Nani

The Good Mood Formula: How Much Sleep You Need to Start Tomorrow Happy

Most adults need seven to nine hours, but for your mood the last 90 minutes matter most. Here is what the science says about sleeping your way into a better morning as the nights draw in.

Dr Marina Nani

The New Science of Humour: How You Can Use Laughter to Lead Your Team

Across eight studies, cortisol was 31.9 per cent lower after laughter than in comparison groups, yet a 2024 study found that the more often a manager jokes, the more staff fake their laughter and the more exhausted they become.

Dr Marina Nani

Sleep Hygiene: How Much Sleep Do You Need to Wake Up Fresh

Sleep has become a coveted commodity, often sacrificed at the altar of productivity and a hectic lifestyle. The consequences of poor sleep quality are staggering. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an estimated 35% of adults in the United States report getting less than the recommended 7 hours of sleep per […]

Dr Marina Nani

How to Cash In on the Crash: 8 Ways to Find Property Deals This Autumn in the UK

UK house prices are 1.2% lower than a year ago and London flats have lost 5%. Here is where the discounts are this autumn and how you get them.

Dr Marina Nani

Follow the Money: 8 Small Money Moves to Make Before the Year Turns

Interest rates have gone up, energy bills are forecast to rise in January and inflation sits at 3.5%. Eight small money moves for the 53 days left of 2026.

Dr Marina Nani

The AI Gold Rush: Billions Pour Into AI, but Agents Booked Just Four Uber Rides in October's Busiest Week

Investors are still paying record prices for AI companies, while everyday use of AI agents barely registers. What that gap means for you, and five habits for using AI well.

Dr Marina Nani

8 Ways to Build Professional Relationships That Last Beyond Retirement

Most work friendships end with the leaving drinks. These eight steps turn the people you work with now into relationships that stay with you after your final day.

Dr Marina Nani

London Calling: The Week Starting 9th November 2026

Christmas lights switch on across the West End, the Lord Mayor's Show returns to the river, the London Jazz Festival opens and Kew lights up. Eight things to do in London this week.

Dr Marina Nani

London Calling: Business and Networking Events for the Week Starting 9th November 2026

The Business Show fills ExCeL, a people-first leadership summit comes to London for the first time and the City celebrates its own new year. Eight business and networking events in London this week.

Dr Marina Nani

8 A-ha Moments for Your Garden This Week

Mid-November rewards small jobs done at the right time. Eight things to do in your garden this week, from lifting pots off the ground to pruning your apple tree.

8 Everyday Home Routines for the Last Seven Weeks of the Year

A calmer home by New Year's Eve does not need a weekend blitz. Eight small daily routines that take minutes and change how your home feels.

Dr Marina Nani

Happy Table: 8 Things You Need to Know About Healthy Ageing

Your body needs different things from food as the years pass. Eight changes to make at the table for strength, sharp thinking and energy in later life.

The Real Cost of Getting There: Home for Christmas Costs Less If You Book This Week

Cheap advance fares for Christmas are on sale now and will not last. Eight ways to cut the cost of getting home for the holidays by train, coach, car or plane.

Dr Marina Nani

What Are You Wearing: 8 Small Wardrobe Habits That Make Winter Mornings Easier

The darkest weeks of the year start with what you put on. Eight small wardrobe habits that save time, lift your mood and carry you to the new year looking your best.

Dr Marina Nani

Authors "evicted" from Big Brother Amazon reach out to Local Bookstores

When Amazon shuts a self-published author's account, every title leaves the store overnight. More than a thousand independent bookshops, new ebook routes and Rich Books Magazine offer another way to readers.

Dr Marina Nani

Karl Deisseroth Still Sees His Patients: The Nobel Psychiatrist Who Turned Light Into a Switch for the Brain

The 2026 Nobel laureate in medicine runs a laboratory, teaches, raises a house full of children and still treats people with mental illness. What his work teaches you about the mind and empathy.

Dr Marina Nani

Peter Hegemann Asked How a Tiny Alga Finds the Light, and His Curiosity Won a Nobel Prize

A question first asked in 1866 about green algae in the river Neva led to one of neuroscience's greatest tools. Why the 2026 Nobel laureate tells young scientists to work on something new.

Dr Marina Nani

Georg Nagel Kept Going Until the Signal Came: The Persistence Behind a Nobel Prize

The 2026 Nobel laureate in medicine heard the news on a sunny terrace in Italy, surrounded by olive trees. Behind that moment lie years of patient work, one lucky mistake and a generous spirit.

Dr Marina Nani

Francis Halzen Bet on Antarctic Ice, and Surprise, Not Pride, Kept Him Going

In 1988 a Belgian-born physicist proposed catching ghostly particles from deep space in the ice of the South Pole. What the 2026 Nobel laureate in physics teaches you about chasing a vision that seems impossible.

Dr Marina Nani

Henri Kagan Questioned What Every Chemist Assumed, and Won the Nobel Prize at 95

In 1986 a Paris chemist stopped to think about something everyone took for granted. Forty years later, his discovery has earned the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. What his story teaches you about thinking for yourself.

Dr Marina Nani

Kenso Soai Spent Eight More Years on One Reaction: The Patience Behind a Nobel Prize

A chemist from Hiroshima turned a two per cent head start into a reaction that only life itself had managed before. What the 2026 Nobel laureate teaches you about patience and small advantages.

Dr Marina Nani

Anne Carson Turned Ancient Fragments Into New Forms: What Her Nobel Prize Says About Your Own Voice

The Canadian poet and classicist took broken lines of Greek poetry and made something no one had seen before. What the 2026 Nobel laureate in literature teaches you about inheritance, imagination and finding your own form.

Dr Marina Nani

Navi Pillay Opened Her Own Door: The Courage Behind the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize

No law firm would give her a place, so in 1967 she founded her own. Fifty-nine years later, the judge from Durban has won the Nobel Peace Prize. What her life teaches you about courage and self-belief.

Dr Marina Nani

Robert Hall Turned the Question Upside Down: How a Stanford Economist Won the Nobel Prize

Economists searched for years for a way to predict how much households would spend. Robert E. Hall asked the opposite question, and changed economics. What the 2026 Nobel laureate teaches you about reframing a problem.

Dr Marina Nani

Michael Woodford Still Gave His Exam the Morning He Won the Nobel Prize

Woken at 4.30am with news of his Nobel Prize, the Columbia economist went to collect his students' exam papers. What the 2026 laureate teaches you about steady habits, and why your expectations shape what happens next.

Dr Marina Nani

The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Judge Navi Pillay: Lasting Peace and the Rule of Law

"Navi Pillay, the 85-year-old South African who defended Nelson Mandela under apartheid and now sits on the genocide case against Myanmar at the world court, was chosen at a time when, the Norwegian Nobel Committee says, judges are sanctioned and their institutions attacked."

Dr Marina Nani

Anne Carson Wins the Nobel Prize in Literature : Always Trying To Do Something Else

The Canadian poet and classicist took the call over tea in her Reykjavík kitchen, calls her own career "inadvertent" and is already working out how to give the prize money away.

Dr Marina Nani

A Physicist Who Bet on Antarctic Ice to Catch Neutrinos from Space Wins the Nobel Prize in Physics

Francis Halzen of the University of Wisconsin-Madison proposed the idea in 1988, and the IceCube observatory that came of it, finished 23 years later under the South Pole, recorded the first high-energy neutrinos known to come from far beyond the solar system.

Dr Marina Nani

Tagore Won the 1913 Nobel Prize for Poems He Had Translated Into English Himself

The first non-European laureate was chosen for his own English versions of Gitanjali, and the story of how those poems reached Stockholm explains both his fame in the West and how fast it faded.

Dr Marina Nani

Bob Dylan Skipped His Own Nobel Ceremony Ten Years Ago, and No Songwriter Has Won the Prize Since

The Swedish Academy's 2016 choice of a songwriter drew praise from Salman Rushdie and scorn from Irvine Welsh. A decade on, with the poet Anne Carson about to collect the prize, Dylan's win looks like a one-off.

Dr Marina Nani

3 Books on Leadership That Changed Lives, and What They Can Change in Yours

An emperor's private notebook, a salesman's handbook and a psychiatrist's account of surviving Auschwitz. Three books that shaped leaders for generations, and the lessons you can use before the year is out.

Dr Marina Nani

Your Wellbeing Horoscope for 9th to 15th November 2026: A New Moon in Scorpio and Two Planets Turning Direct

A new moon opens the week, Mercury and Venus turn direct by Saturday, and Mars and Jupiter draw together before dawn. Your sign-by-sign guide to feeling better within.