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When giving up teaches you more than persevering ever could

2026-10-29 18:00:00

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Grit is all well and good, but sometimes abandoning your goals can be crucial to discovering who you are

- by Mario I Juarez-Garcia

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The bookshelf builder

2026-10-28 18:00:00

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Ellah Wakatama is editor, agent, publisher and mentor, all rolled into one. Her mission: to put the work of gifted Black writers into the literary canon

- by Carey Baraka

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A plane crossing the Moon

2026-10-27 18:01:00

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How a harmless thought turned into one man’s 10-year odyssey: to film a plane silhouetted against the Moon

- Directed by Agustín Ferrando Trenchi

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On Japan’s Shinkansen trains, pork buns split reality in two

2026-10-27 18:00:00

Customers queueing at a 551 Horai food counter in a shopping mall with staff serving and red branding.

If eating on a public train gets seen as an act of terrorism, insights from olfactory genetics can pave the way for empathy

- by Yusuke Fujioka

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Everyone says they have anxiety. Clinical anxiety is different

2026-10-26 18:00:00

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Anxiety put me in hospital. I’ve learned you can’t eradicate what is part of you – but you can change how you relate to it

- by India Sturgis

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Can you ever really think what someone else is thinking?

2026-10-23 18:00:00

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To see how communication truly works, we should set aside the notion that different people can share the same thoughts

- by Víctor Verdejo

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