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Why Design Matters

A designed object is one whose makers worked long and hard to get it just right. Most of the world has sadly not been well-designed. But good design does matter. Far from being a luxury or an add-on, it is central to a good society. We feel like and are, in a sense, quite different people depending on what’s in front of our eyes.

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The Wisdom of Liming

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The Wisdom of Liming

On the Caribbean islands of Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago, there’s a skill which is widely revered, which has been…

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Reasons Not to Give Up

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Reasons Not to Give Up

In one of the upper rooms of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford hangs a picture by a minor Danish nineteenth…

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The Pleasures of the Underground

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The Pleasures of the Underground

There are moods – of dissatisfaction and loneliness, panic and despair – when the very best counsel we might be…

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Why Small Pleasures Become a Bigger, Not a Smaller Deal, the More We Suffer and Age

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Why Small Pleasures Become a Bigger, Not a Smaller Deal, the More We Suffer and Age

There's an apparent paradox in the way that the longer we have lived, the more appreciation we tend to develop…

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What We Might Learn From The Dandies of The Congo

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What We Might Learn From The Dandies of The Congo

In most places on earth, it would be considered highly bizarre to meet a goat herder, living at the end…

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What Should A Good Therapist Do For Us?

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What Should A Good Therapist Do For Us?

We hear a lot of background noise about the benefits of psychotherapy. But it can be hard to get a…

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