Why anger is overrated | BBC Ideas
Introduction My name is Thomas Dixon and in my opinion, anger is not quite as healthy as some people think it is. When I think of anger I think of...
Introduction My name is Thomas Dixon and in my opinion, anger is not quite as healthy as some people think it is. When I think of anger I think of...
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Intro All of us, from a very early age, are told how to live our lives. We’re given stories about what the perfect life looks like and some of those...
Introduction In today’s world it can feel like there’s no space for silence. Like we’re always required to be responding to something, to be saying something new. Whether that’s answering...
Intro The world we experience isn’t just given to us. The brain is actively generating our experienced worlds every moment of every day. Perception If I’m sitting on the beach,...
I had a limited amount of suffering. OK, I was tortured and so on, many people suffered far worse than me. The Archbishop of Canterbury’s special envoy, Terry Waite, hasn’t...
Mary Anning, the woman who helped discover dinosaurs. Mary Anning was born into a poor family in Lyme Regis, on the south coast of England, in 1799. As a child,...
Introduction All my life, I’ve dreamed of getting out there into space. Now, that was a challenge for me because I went to 13 different schools and I have a...
Introduction In 1992, I was 12 years old, and I had the opportunity to speak to the United Nations plenary session of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. I...