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1 week ago |
thetimes.com | Rachel Campbell-Johnston |Giles Coren |Waldemar Januszczak |James Marriott
We all know the drill. If you’re feeling stressed or overwhelmed — go for a walk! Stop looking at screens! Eat more vegetables for a healthy microbiome that some scientists link to your mental health! This week researchers from the University of Cambridge have added another suggestion to this list of solutions: gaze at something beautiful. A new study suggests that taking time out to contemplate aesthetically pleasing art can boost abstract thinking and free us from everyday anxieties.
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2 weeks ago |
thetimes.com | James Marriott
The death of Pope Francis has filled the news with the resonant strangeness of faith: billowing censors, tolling bells, ancient chanting, scarlet-cloaked cardinals trooping up and down the marble steps of St Peter's. Such things appear exotic when they intrude on the awareness of secular society. Ever since Voltaire, the church has struck its enemies as an inexplicable edifice of superstition and waste; a sinister conspiracy of elderly men in frocks to foist unnatural beliefs on innocent humanity.
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1 month ago |
airmail.news | James Marriott
Having trashed the royal family, flopped on Netflix and been terminated by Spotify for the poor performance of her last podcast, Archetypes, Meghan Markle has reinvented herself as an entrepreneur (pronounced “entreprenoor”). Her new company, As Ever, sells jam and “flower sprinkles” — to morons, presumably. Undaunted by the seeming blank lack of audience interest in Archetypes, she has started a new podcast to go along with her business.
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1 month ago |
thetimes.com | James Marriott
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1 month ago |
thetimes.com | James Marriott
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Penguin have started printing books with instructions about how to read in the front
I didn’t have my own copy of Emma & the only one they had at the bookstore was one of those Penguin Deluxe editions. I should have just bought a copy off of Thriftbooks because what is this disclaimer at the front of the book for illiterate morons?? https://t.co/YE3fifFu63
RT @j_amesmarriott: I wrote this about this week's VE day celebrations. European liberal democracies were formed by two centuries of war an…
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Never really read Shelley properly before but suddenly finding him just breathtakingly good ... "The pleasure of believing what we see / Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be..." https://t.co/hyFmMmDay3