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Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris - On Birds, Wonder, and Loss
A great thinning of the skies is underway. Dusk and dawn are growing quiet as birdlife faces a rapid decline across the world. It does not have to be…
1 month ago
Jessamy Hibberd – How to Free Your Mind From Overthinking
Thinking about your life is a normal part of being human. Often, it is helpful to analyse a situation or revisit a problem in your mind, but if you …
1 month, 1 week ago
Phil Tinline - Iron Mountain and the Birth of American Conspiracy Culture
How did a 1960s spoof of Cold War technocracy become a bible for far-right militias in the present? Political journalist Phil Tinline traces the stra…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Tom Holland Meets Armando Iannucci — What The Lives of the Caesars Can Teach Us About Politics
Tom Holland is a storyteller whose range and erudition seem to be as unbounded as history himself. Already a wildly acclaimed bestselling author, his…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Freya India - The Commodification of Girls and How to Fight Back
Coming of age has always been a time of angst and inner turmoil, especially for girls. But today, those worries exist in a world of AR filters, TikTo…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Holistic Psychologist Nicole LePera – Reparenting the Inner Child
We all carry the imprint of our earliest years. Childhood is brief, yet its impact is lifelong. Some parts of us were met with love while other parts…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Nina Allan - The Many Worlds of JG Ballard
Born into an upper-middle class family and raised in colonial Shanghai, JG Ballard's worldview was profoundly shaped by his internment by the occupyi…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Antony Beevor – Rasputin and the Downfall of the Romanovs
When Russia's Dowager Empress was pregnant with the future Tsar, she dreamed that a peasant would one day kill her son. The idea terrified her, and f…
2 months ago
Ecologist Suzanne Simard - Lessons of the Forest
Dr Suzanne Simard transformed our understanding of forests, her groundbreaking research for the Mother Tree Project revealing how the forest is a liv…
2 months ago
James Muldoon - Love Rewired in the Age of AI
From friendship, to romance, to even therapy, AI companions are on the rise, and AI companion apps alone have now been downloaded more than 220 milli…
2 months, 1 week ago