Do you regard somebody as heroic? If so why? I don’t mean what makes them heroic. I mean, why do you need to regard anybody as heroic in your life? I(...)

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As a new academic year looms, many will face it with hope and excitement. For others it may bring anxiety and a scary new world. Researchers from the(...)

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“Be yourself” is advice that has always puzzled me. I first read it back in the Stone Age when, like another half a million people or so, I read Angel(...)

Everybody worries, but I have met people who build great cathedrals of worry in their heads. They ponder, not only every angle of the issue that faces(...)

I used to live on the same road as a man who ran a greengrocery. It was a small operation but you could tell just by looking at him dashing around tha(...)