Take some time for yourself with soothing classical music from the mindful mix, the Science of

Happiness Podcast.

For the last 20 years I've dedicated my career to exploring the science of living a happier more meaningful life and I want

to share that science with you.

And just one thing, deep calm with Michael Mosley.

I want to help you tap in to your hidden relaxation response system and open the door to that

calmer place within. Listen on BBC Sounds.

Fancy building a more equal in United Society? Eric Kleinenburg is here to help.

Hello.

A couple of weeks ago after watching David Bud trying to defuse his own suicide vests with a length of parcel tape and a pair of blunt

scissors for what seemed like the best part of a fortnight, I felt an urgent need to go channel hopping

in the hope of finding some brisk comic relief. I'd seen all the

phrases and Seinfelds that were an offer but almost my chance I came across a site

advertising I think it was two pounds in episode, something even more humorously comforting.

You want to be where you can see our troubles are all the same.

I'm of course perfectly aware as Sam and Coach and Norman and Cliff begin to go about their comic

business that this is a sentimental picture of community but it's nevertheless a

picture against which we can measure our own degrees of community involvement, the possibility

say of leaving our own home and finding someone anyone who knows our name, let alone a local

person, shopkeeper, postman, who be ready to learn about our troubles.

Perhaps no research has more tellingly chronicled the drastic effects of social isolation

than a book called Heatwave, An ethnographic account are two quite similar areas of Chicago

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