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How to love better

2025-12-01 19:01:00

Painting of a man with a dark beard and cloth headwear aiding an injured man wearing a toga in a pastoral landscape with horses and a rider in the background.

What would it mean to love a stranger just as you love your closest friends? A philosopher makes a case for ‘love ethics’

- Video by The Well

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How to be the archivist of your own family

2025-12-01 19:00:00

A person’s left hand holds an old family photo near documents and letters on a table; their right hand holds a pen that is positioned to write on a yellow strip of paper.

By curating your family’s stories, rituals and relics, you’ll feel anchored – and create a bridge between the generations

- by Samantha Ellis

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Reality shifting opens portals to the weirdness of our world

2025-11-28 19:00:00

Black and white photo of a person walking on a wavy striped surface creating an optical illusion.

It’s easy to denounce ‘reality shifting’ as a shared delusion. But there is value in making the world feel unfamiliar

- by Ed Simon

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A psalm for lost spaces

2025-11-27 19:00:00

A road below a railway line with a brick wall and red garage doors, graffiti that reads ‘MICK DARNALDS NO PARKING’ behind a table with a can of coke on it and four red chairs.

You have to sit down somewhere, unhurried and unbothered, to really hear yourself. But where?

- by Atar Hadari

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The dark art of marketing

2025-11-26 19:01:00

Photo of doughnuts with white icing and colourful sprinkles on a pink background.

Why does a soda can make that distinctive ‘pop’? A philosophy professor explains how food marketing manipulates our senses

- Video by the Institute of Art and Ideas

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How to stop your life playing on repeat

2025-11-26 19:00:00

A man in silhouette standing against a reflective surface in an empty room with cityscape visible through large windows.

Those frustrating patterns you keep experiencing might be because of your schemas – and there’s a therapy that can help

- by Gemma Gladstone

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