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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)

Allegra McEvedy on Gluttony
14 March 2010
Gluttony is to food what drunk is to booze: over-indulgence, to be sure, but nothing for which one should be hung out to dry. Join celebrity chef, Allegra McEvedy for a passionate polemic on the pleasures of good food.
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How To Think About Death
15 March 2010
We might be a death-denying culture, if the way that we cloth death and keep it out of sight is anything to go by. So how can we think about it, what should we make of it, what resources are there to help us deal with it?
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How To Find A Job You Love
16 March 2010

We all know what the perfect job is. It's highly-paid, well-respected, high-profile, intellectually stimulating and emotionally rewarding. We also know that isn't our job.
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How To Be A Good Friend
17 March 2010
Whether you count your friends in triple figures on Facebook or only as those few individuals you can confide in when you know you are probably at fault, most of us agree friendship is pretty important to a happy life.
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How To Make Love Last
18 March 2010
Is love something we’re destined to fall in and out of, or can it be sustained over time?  Is sexual desire the essential lubricant, a stairway to spiritual union, or a pale companion compared with friendship and trust?
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On Being Happy
Robert Rowland Smith
For centuries, the pursuit of happiness has been paralleled by the pursuit of the definition of happiness. From Aristotle through Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Stuart Mill and right up to Gretchen Ruben’s recent Happiness Project in America, brains have been switched on to track and trap it. They ask what is happiness exactly? A vague set of positive feelings? A scientifically observable balance of chemicals in the brain? A form of liberty? Or just the absence of unhappiness?
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On Mutuality
Mark Earls
You and I have almost certainly never met, but what happens to you matters to me – your health, your happiness and your wealth – and vice versa. Mutuality rather than independence is the chief characteristic of human life, whatever we'd like to believe.
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On Perspective
Charles Leadbeater
Modern life is an amazing deal. If you make it to this time tomorrow you'll have gained, for free, another five hours, by just turning up for life. Yet this huge achievement, the ever-increasing life expectancy, comes with scary, unintended consequences: loneliness, dementia, and more years with chronic health conditions.
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