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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

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I'm Laurie Tamer and this is a podcast for BBC Radio 4's Thinking Loud.

It's a long time now since the relative silence of urban night time was disrupted by the fateful cacophony of wailing sirens and falling bombs.

But how was war in the air first conceived as a military strategy?

What are its strengths, its limitations? Find out.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead trying to kill me.

They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual,

nor I against them.

Most of them I have no doubt a kind-hearted law-abiding men who

would never dream of committing murder in private life. On the other hand, if one of

them succeeds in blowing me to pieces with a well-placed bomb, he will never sleep any the worse for it.

I don't talk much to friends about the war about the bombing partly because all I seem to remember is my Mickey Mouse gas mask and I remember crouching with mother underneath the dining room table when there was no time to run down the garden to the

Anderson shelter and I remember collecting shrapnel on the way to school, all that, and the vague sense

I had at the time that it was somehow, somehow all my fault. Well these memories remained

well indistinct until I came across a quotation in a new book about the history of

aerial bombing a quotation dealing with the impact of

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