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The Architecture of Happiness
What makes a house truly beautiful? Why are many new houses so ugly? Why do we argue so bitterly about sofas and pictures; and can differences of taste ever be satisfactorily resolved? Will minimalism make us happier than ornaments?
Alain de Botton, Penguin,
29 March 2007
Happy talk
While experts may have cracked what it is that makes us miserable, psychologists, politicians and scientists are now very much in pursuit of happiness. Phil Hogan tries to look on the bright side and investigates whether wellbeing can be taught
Phil Hogan,
Observer, 25 March 2007
Happy talk
Can happiness be taught? It can if you're a 'positive psychologist'
Phil Hogan,
Observer, 24 March 2007
Injecting morality back into the drugs debate
The obsession with measuring the physical effects of drugs means never championing the joys of reality over the black hole of drug-induced fantasy.
Josie Appleton,
spiked, 12 March 2007
Can ageing be stopped?
Gerontologists consider the maximum lifespan for humans to be about 120 years. But with rising evidence for a genetic "death programme," which in principle could be amended, some researchers are starting to believe the limit could be extended
Philip Hunter,
Prospect, 14 January 2007
Should Abortion Be Prevented?
The president of CFFC questions whether we should do more to prevent the need for abortion.
Frances Kissling ,
Conscience, 3 January 2007
The battle of the lunchbox
Parents are quite capable of feeding their children - despite what the government's School Food Trust would have us believe.
Jane Sandeman,
spiked, 12 December 2006
Four big, fat myths
'The obesity crusade presumes a nursery nation comprised of docile infant citizens'
Patrick Basham and John Luik,
Sunday Telegraph, 26 November 2006
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