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Prosopagnosia

2025-08-14 18:01:00

Sketchbook pages with colourful abstract faces, featuring torn paper flaps over parts of the drawings, mixed media artwork.

Not being able to recognise faces can be an obstacle – but it has also given Steven the ability to see beyond the obvious

- Directed by Steven Fraser

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My husband, the gun nut

2025-08-14 18:00:00

A man looking through the scope of a rifle in a crowded exhibition with mounted deer heads in the background.

Three years into a blissful relationship, my partner picked up a hobby that sent me spiralling

- by Lindsey Harrington

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How to thrive as a highly sensitive person

2025-08-13 18:00:00

Black and white photo of a group of people dancing outdoors, with a man in a striped shirt in the foreground.

In this noisy world, being highly sensitive is a challenge. But learn to manage overwhelm and you can reap the upsides too

- by Jadzia Jagiellowicz

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The value of scribbling in the margins

2025-08-13 18:00:00

Page from a book with printed text about society and handwritten notes in the margin, including ’True but only in part‘.

Marginalia is far from inessential. It would be a shame if it died off in the digital age

- by Richard Fisher

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A ghost in limbo

2025-08-12 18:00:00

Black and white close-up photo of a person’s arm showing skin texture and pigment and shadows; protruding ribs are visible behind the arm.

Two decades of anorexia obscured who I was beneath my sickness. Then a stranger saw me

- by Miranda Gold

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How to spot a cult

2025-08-11 18:01:00

Digital artwork of a grey hand squeezing a yellow stress ball with a smiley face on a black background.

Most cults don’t make the headlines. Here’s how to identify, and avoid, control by psychologically coercive social groups

- Video by BBC Ideas

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