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Is Human Evolution still Taking Place?
Humans have evolved: are we still doing so? Very slowly perhaps, but what’s really changing is how we are adapting to the natural environment. And he…
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LITERATURE - C. P. Cavafy
A film on the poem 'Ithaka' by the Greek-Egyptian poet Constantine Cavafy. We spend much of our lives trying to fulfill our distant ambitions: wantin…
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Why We're Always Feeling Ashamed and Guilty
There’s a strange law of psychology that reveals that small children who are treated badly by their parents will always — rather strangely — blame th…
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PLATO ON: The Universals
Plato’s theory of the forms is at the centre of his philosophy and teaches us the virtues of thinking about the ideal version of things. Enjoying o…
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In Praise of The Tranquil Life
Quiet lives feel nowadays like lives of failure and resignation, but they may be no such thing: true ambition can lie in learning how to minimise str…
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People Pleasers in Partnerships
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ART/ARCHITECTURE - Mark Rothko
The most unexpectedly uplifting and consoling artist of the 20th century was the abstract painter Mark Rothko, the high priest of grief and loss who …
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ART/ARCHITECTURE - Andrea Palladio
Andrea Palladio was one of the world's greatest architects - who launched the Classical style which influenced how we build to this day. Enjoying ou…
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The Functions of Envy
We’re used to thinking of envy in very negative terms. But it’s an emotion we should learn to accept and – in a calculated way – learn from. Enjoyin…
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