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Can comedy change your life?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can comedy change your life?

...courses Maeve Higgins once set herself a task. The Irish-born comedian wanted to see what life would be like if she stopped laughing at things that weren’t funny. Turns out it wasn’t as easy as she thought. “It was so effing hard,” she says. “Laughter is a lubricant and is expected, and it’s really hard not to do it.” It’s coming up for 11pm on a...
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Stonehenge before the First World War
History & The Arts

Stonehenge before the First World War

...course, only appeared in autumn and spring when migrating, and passed over at a vast height above the earth. These birds, he said, were so big and had such great wings that if they came down on the flat earth they would be incapable of rising, hence they only alighted on the tops of high mountains, and as there was nothing for them to eat in such places, it being naked...
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The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies
Health, Sports & Psychology

The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies

...course called Memory of the Holocaust: Psychological aspects. Taught by Professor Hadas Wiseman, it outlines how the traumatic experiences of Holocaust survivors have been passed down to their children and grandchildren, a phenomenon known as ‘intergenerational transmission of trauma’. Much research has been published on the subject. In 1980, a husband-and-wife team,...
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Julian Hector - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Julian Hector - Earth in Vision

...course we are, about the loss of biodiversity and the absolute apparent competition that the human race are with the natural world, the natural world on which they depend, so we cannot escape this kind of almost sort of war on nature and we’re right on it now, it’s inescapable. So there is going to be the richest seam of content, of storytelling, of ideas, that work...
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Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change

...course, but it’s around $50, US a dollars a ton of coal. If you take into account the cost of carbon dioxide at around $35 a ton, that’s the number that the US government standardly uses and I’m in print with a very powerful argument explaining that’s far too low. But if you did take $35 a ton CO2 – RH: As the cost to the climate of emitting a ton of CO2? NS:...
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Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?

...course it hurts, but this is a small price for what I get.” [Sketch of a cyborg] A sketch of the future? Joker cyborg by portismedia Michael, who studies electrotechnics in Cologne, looks like a pretty normal guy, sporting a black T-shirt with a red alien on the front. And that’s the point: once the realm of piercers and body modifiers, tech implantation is fast...
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‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury
Education & Development

‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury

...courses. What makes asking people from Black and minority ethnic communities about their origin so offensive? In recent years this basic expression of interest seems to have been behind a host of conflict, upset and tumultuous argument. Some say the question is simply a harmless expression of curiosity, a basic demonstration of interest borne of good social etiquette. On...
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Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision

...to grab people very early. I think the main point is that yes, films online are generally shorter, but if you can convince people that your hour epic, because an hour is an epic, is a good use of your time then of course people will still watch it, they’ll sit down and eat their dinner and watch it, but most films need to be short… it’s possible. ...
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