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Medicine
What is it like to be a paramedic, navigating human emergency?
17 minutes
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Life stages
An unvarnished, poetic account of a new mother’s struggle to breastfeed
3 minutes
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Mood and emotion
‘Let me dream you into my reality’: memories illuminate an unthinkable isolation
12 minutes
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Personality
Wesley wants to solve the rooftop mystery – but does he have what it takes?
14 minutes
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History of ideas
Reasons to be cheerful
A cheery mood, you might think, is a terribly self-absorbed response to serious times. But history tells us otherwise
Timothy Hampton
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Meaning and the good life
You’re astonishing!
Life can be better appreciated when you remember how wonderfully and frighteningly unlikely it is that you exist at all
Timm Triplett
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Mood and emotion
A century of letters captures the emotions of life in a new city, far from home
21 minutes
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History
The smile: a history
How our toothy modern smile was invented by a confluence of French dentistry and Parisian portrait-painting in the 1780s
Colin Jones
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Mood and emotion
When hope gets in the way
Hope is usually seen as a positive agent of change that spares us from pain. But it can also undermine healing and growth
Santiago Delboy
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Wellbeing
Wry animations expose the gap between anxious aspiration and real life
5 minutes
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Mood and emotion
Alone on a small island in Belgrade, a father grieves his daughter in quiet solitude
12 minutes
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Mood and emotion
Close-ups on the night of anticipation in the 2020 US presidential elections
6 minutes
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Neurodiversity
Autistic children and adults sketch out the look and feel of their sensory world
11 minutes
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Mood and emotion
Hope is not optimism
Even when you know that prospects are grim, hope can help. It’s not just a feeling, but a way to step into the future
David B Feldman & Benjamin W Corn
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Mood and emotion
The meaning of anger
Is anger like energy, forever changing form but never dissipating, or part of our repertoire of desires, the cry of a need unmet?
Josh Cohen
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Film and visual culture
Fear not
You might think that horror movies are a delicious, trashy pleasure. But watching them has surprisingly wholesome effects
Mathias Clasen
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Mood and emotion
Feeling, in situ
What if emotions are not universal and hardwired but exquisite acts of meaning-making specific to context and culture?
Elitsa Dermendzhiyska
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Psychiatry and psychotherapy
Chairwork
It is a powerful, liberating therapy that lets you (literally) shift perspective on who you are, and who you could become
Scott Kellogg & Amanda Garcia Torres
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Life stages
The fog of grief
The five stages of grief can’t begin to explain it: grief affects the body, brain and sense of self, and patience is the key
April Reese
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Mood and emotion
Radical acceptance
The painful feelings you avoid grow twisted in the dark. By facing your sorrows and struggles you can take back your life
Joshua Coleman
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Family life
The walls come down on guarded emotions and secrets in an intimate family portrait
16 minutes
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Love and friendship
Can you find ‘home’ in another person? What it’s like to follow love across borders
5 minutes
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History of ideas
From imbalanced humours to brain chemistry – on the evolution of melancholy
5 minutes
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Mood and emotion
Grieving Kobe Bryant, Conor wonders: why do untimely celebrity deaths hit so hard?
6 minutes