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11 podcasts that will help you to understand your mind

About one in seven people around the world have some kind of mental health problem, according to the World Health Organisation, and this means that many are looking for help and advice. But people who don’t have anything especially wrong can...

Stop gatekeeping books: on audiobooks, ebooks and what makes reading “real”

Why is somebody only considered to have truly read a book if they’ve read it with their eyes, on paper? This is an argument that you’d think would have run its course by now, but apparently it has not. If you listen to a book, or read it on a...

SEE: Something Special #108 – Emma Barnett on blood in art

Every Monday on Global Comment, we share Something Special you don't want to miss. To fit with the six core pillars of the magazine, these will alternate between the themes of watch / listen / read / see / taste / place. It will be something...

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