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What To Do When Bad Stuff Happens
It’s the kind of thing that sets you up for paranoia. Just as you’ve hulked out your old shield and sword for one battle, something else bares its teeth and dares you to feel terrible about yourself. Before you know it, you feel like the world’s a domino race and its your life that’s toppling.…
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Hard-Won Millennial Advice for Young Women of the Future
I’ve always wanted to be a fairy godmother! Honestly, I don’t get nearly enough opportunities to fulfil this role. But. Like any coincidence, like any sentence AKA je ne sais quoi porquoi, it just kind of – happens. And usually in the most unexpected way. Social meida definitely makes that happen. Social media is, at…
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ADAM CURTIS: The BBC Q + A session – at Sheff Doc Fest
IN THE BELLY OF the spectacular Lyceum Theatre, just a few paces away from Sheffield train station, Adam Curtis and Janice Hadlow began a conversation – and a thoroughly challenging debate for both parties (which is how it should be: when you feel that little bit of awkwardness and wonder if they are genuinely arguing)…
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MARTIN AMIS – “DEATH IS ALREADY INTRIGUED BY YOU”
CLIVE JAMES AND MARTIN AMIS joined John McAuliffe in the Martin Harris Centre for a discussion about literature and ageing last week. The two authors considered both how age affects writing, and the idea of age and ageing as subjects for prose and poetry. Amis impressed the 100-strong audience with pithy aphorisms and anecdotes taken…
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THE FIVE BOSSES YOU THOUGHT YOU’D ONLY MEET IN HELL
THE BIG brained, grown-up and not necessarily ginger Dexters in their Harvard Medical School laboratories have completed a scientific survey, which shows that frustration in the workplace improves career prospects. The Harvard research pack apparently did not die or get bored whilst spending 44 years following 824 people in the workplace. Team leader with a…
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Stop Hating The Alpha Female
THE DEFINITION: ALPHA FEMALE, presumes two things. One is wrong: The definition somehow mimics that of the alpha male. The second is right: Alpha means ‘first’ or ‘predominant.’ The two presumptions compound together to imply that the male is predominant – that the alpha female is somehow an odd construction of character and a…
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