Photo credit: iprogressman – Getty Images From Cosmopolitan Podcasts are the new black. Fact. But as with anything good, they come with their difficulties; the pain of coming to the end of a series only to find it was the final one, or the struggle of trying to find a […]
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Patronising ‘Listen to Nan’ campaign sums up society’s poor attitude to the elderly
It is bootless to expect politicians – still less the people who devise their public messaging – to entertain a lively sense of irony. So I suppose it hasn’t struck the “weirdos and misfits” tasked by government to hatch a “Listen to Nan” campaign that there is anything even the […]
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Listen to Jeff Bezos: 7 ‘Hyperinnovative’ Stocks to Buy Now
“Invention is the root of our success.” So said Jeff Bezos, who – among other things – founded Amazon.com 27 years ago, grew it into a trillion-dollar company and, along the way, became the world’s second-richest person. Source: lev radin / Shutterstock.com Bezos is stepping down as CEO of Amazon and […]
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How to really listen to what someone you care about is saying
The Covid pandemic has been like a pressure cooker for all kinds of issues that can really affect our mental wellbeing. Isolation and loneliness, family and relationship issues, mental and physical health or illness, employment and money worries… as if these weren’t already hard enough to cope with, they have […]
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Louis Kahn: Listen to the Bricks
Louis Kahn (1901-1974) was indisputably one of the greatest architects of the 20th century. When Kahn showed Philip Johnson, the founder of the Museum of Modern Art’s architecture and design department, the drawings for his breakthrough Richards Medical Research Laboratories at the University of Pennsylvania, Johnson responded: “When this building […]
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We should listen to the scientists who were also wisdom keepers
“As Nature continues its game of biological mutation and selection of ideas and as Man plays his own games of biological mutation and selection and of cultural innovations, Nature will have the last word.” —Jonas Salk “Mankind has reached a crossroads, and is confronted by two road signs […]