Why it’s healthy to take a break from your online persona

Oliver Burkeman says we retain some choice when it comes to how far we identify with our public selves

FGM campaigner Fahma Mohamed to receive honorary doctorate

Nineteen-year-old who led Guardian-backed campaign against the practice to be awarded doctor of law by Bristol University

Sadiq Khan moves to ban body-shaming ads from London transport

London mayor wants to stop running ads that promote unrealistic body expectations and demean women

Take it with a pinch of salt – the food marketing myths we’ve swallowed whole

Who says breakfast is the most important meal of the day? And why does spinach make you strong? It sounds like conventional wisdom, but most of it was cooked up by ad men

Exhausted? It’s time to focus

We act as if our attentional capacities are infinite. It turns out they aren’t

Five apps to help social media addicts fight Fomo

Some teens are glued to social media feeds, and research suggests it’s causing anxiety and sleeplessness, but there are ways of taking back control

Sally Brampton obituary

Women’s magazine editor and author whose memoir Shoot the Damn Dog recounted her experience of depression

Guardian-inspired anti-FGM film wins festival award

Needlecraft, a three-minute animation based on survivors’ testimonies, triumphs at the New York festivals

Time 100: FGM campaigner Jaha Dukureh makes prestigious list

US campaigner made Obama take action on female genital mutilation, and got practice banned in the Gambia

The Sleep Revolution by Arianna Huffington – digested read

John Crace stays awake long enough to reduce the Huffington Post founder’s advice on how to nod off to 850 words