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Importance of the random: keep brushing up against people, books, experiences we don't yet know what to do with.

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Our feelings of anxiety are genuine but confused signals that something is amiss, and so need to be listened to and patiently interpreted -- processes...more

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Once a partner has begun to lose interest, there is apparently little the other can do to arrest the process. Like seduction, withdrawal suffers under...more

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It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to information has come at the price of our capacity to conce...more

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To grow interested in any piece of information, we need somewhere to 'put' it, which means some way of connecting it to an issue we already now how to...more

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But the answer isn't just to intimidate people into consuming more 'serious' news; it is to push so-called serious outlets into learning to present im...more