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How to enter a state of flow

2026-08-05 18:00:00

Hands shaping clay on a spinning pottery wheel, with a tool used for carving.

That moment of sweet immersion in the task at hand: that’s flow. With some strategy, you can experience it more often

- by Susan A Jackson

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Free-range fraud

2026-08-04 18:00:00

A drive-thru window with a hand passing a paper bag to a car by a purple wall.

An animal rights group offered a rare job opportunity. How hard could it be to play along?

- by Evan E Lambert

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Teddy

2026-08-03 18:01:00

Photo of a man in a black cap holding a baby in white, with a blue cap, sitting on a grey couch against a blue wall.

As a security guard and childbirth doula, Teddy challenges stereotypes of masculinity with knowledge, calm and care

- Directed by Lauren Santucci

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Why we should learn to embrace the middlebrow

2026-08-03 18:00:00

An elderly man in a blue jumper seated in a red armchair, surrounded by bookshelves and a window with curtains.

Stranded between ‘low’ and ‘high’ art, the middlebrow is unfairly condemned. It’s a ‘both/and’ mode capable of greatness

- by Aaron Meskin & Jonathan Weinberg

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Hoarding: how it impacted my life

2026-07-31 18:01:00

Illustration of a person sitting cross-legged among tall stacks of paper on a pink background.

‘All this stuff is my trauma’: one woman’s experience of hoarding disorder, a much misunderstood and stigmatised condition

- Video by BBC Ideas, The Open University

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In praise of not-quite-friends

2026-07-31 18:00:00

Photo of person skipping in training shoes indoors, with two others resting in the background near a window.

Learning about the Korean concept of ‘jeong’ helped me understand the importance of my not-quite-friends at the gym

- by Christian Jarrett

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