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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. The Hello. Hello, that was of course, Duke Ellington. It's a long time now since together with the

second year sociology student Simon Madison, I used to skip my own lectures so as to be able to

follow Duke's concerts around the UK. But at least I was in good company. As I

listened to Johnny Hodges at Alto or Sam Woodyard's drumming, I had the consolation of knowing

that my passion for Ellington was shared by a fellow academic.

By the late distinguished historian of capitalism, socialism and nationalism, Eric Hobbsbaum.

Professor Hobbsbaum was however not the only academic who ventured so unexpectedly from his professional domain.

There was also the distinguished Harvard mathematician, who in what must still be a singular

endeavor was able to effect a delicious synthesis between his academic discipline and his extramural

talents. There's an animony arsenic aluminum selenium and hydrogen and nitrogen and

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indium and gallium and iodine thorium and thallium.

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rubidium, gourdium, borin gadolinium,

nyobium, eridium, estronium, and silicon and silver and samarium,

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