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Alain de Botton

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Name: Alain de Botton

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Infrastructure enthusiasts take note

Now that the Johnson Street Bridge is finally being torn apart to make way for the new one, we can spend the next several years planning for its official opening. This is the most exciting part of any infrastructure project. Forget about the money and ... [Published Victoria News - May 23 2013]

Entities: Infrastructure, Pylon, Alain de Botton

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

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Let's talk about TED

Are you wondering who Ted is? There has been an awful lot of talk about Ted at dinner parties around the globe. The truth is you only have to go online to meet the entity in question.TED originally stood for Technology, Entertainment, Design and started ... [Published Brisbane Times - May 17 2013]

Entities: Jill Bolte Taylor, Alain de Botton, YouTube LLC, Nigel Brennan

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Travel + Leisure: World's Most Beautiful City Parks (PHOTOS)

A well-designed park is more than green space in the midst of a concrete jungle--it makes a city lovable and livable.The most beautiful city parks combine meadows, woodlands, ponds, lakes, and streams with museums and other man-made attractions. At San ... [Published Huffington Post - May 15 2013]

Entities: Alain de Botton, Architecture, San Francisco (United States)

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

The rise of alternative learning in laneways, pubs and new 'schools'

MELBOURNE — At The School of Life there are no exams or homework, no draconian attendance records or debilitating entrance fees. The teachings from the school take shape as a form of breakfast talk, workshop or “secular sermon” held in a repurposed warehouse ... [Published SmartPlanet - May 15 2013]

Entities: Melbourne, Alain de Botton, Education, Teaching

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Africa: Two Cheers for (Development) Anarchism

I went on holiday last week and it rained, a lot, so I had plenty of time to read. One of the books I read was 'Two Cheers for Anarchism', James Scott's latest book, and it really got me thinking. First, it resonates strongly with the work the Power, ... [Published AllAfrica.com - May 14 2013]

Entities: anarchism, protest, Alain de Botton

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Care for the soul

For centuries in the West, there was a figure in society who fulfilled a function that is likely to sound very odd to modern secular ears. He (for there were no shes in the role) was there to take care of that part of you called rather unusually ‘the ... [Published Therapy Today - May 13 2013]

Entities: Psychotherapy, Alain de Botton, Anxiety

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

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House of Your (Vivid) Dreams

Desire is a reliably unreliable guide to happiness, as Alain de Botton notes in The Architecture of Happiness, the fifth or sixth book from the prolific professional intellectual who has tackled everything from status anxiety to sex. In it, the author ... [Published New York Times - May 08 2013]

Entities: Richard Sharp, Frederic Edwin Church, Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy LLP, Alain de Botton, River School

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

UK’s best known foodies to revamp Heathrow’s food offerings

John Torode and Gregg Wallace appointed official taste buds of HeathrowTwo of UK’s best-known foodies have been appointed as the official taste buds of Heathrow. BBC’s Masterchef show star chefs John Torode and Gregg Wallace were tasked with eating their ... [Published Skift - May 08 2013]

Entities: John Torode, Gregg Wallace, United Kingdom

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

Alain de Botton ‘working hard in Seoul’

Alain de Botton posing with Korean female fans (De Botton`s Twitter account)A picture of philosopher and author Alain de Botton posing with several Korean female fans went viral on social media on Friday.The Swiss author himself uploaded the picture with ... [Published Korea Herald - May 03 2013]

Entities: Alain de Botton, Seoul, Simon Rogers, Twitter, Architecture

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

What makes us human?

Introducing a new series on the most fundamental question of all, in partnership with BBC Radio 2’s Jeremy Vine show.When I was 16 my comprehensive school went head-to-head in debate against the local public school. We relished the chance to do battle; ... [Published New Statesman - May 02 2013]

Entities: Jeremy Vine, Sunflower, David Puttnam, Jonathan Sacks

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

April 2013: most read on newstatesman.com

What you've been reading in the last month.March was yet another record month on newstatesman.com - 1,542,174 of you viewed 3,568,142 pages over the course of the month.The ten most popular pieces were:Hungary is no longer a democracy by Benjamin Abtan ... [Published New Statesman - May 01 2013]

Entities: Atheism, Richard Holloway, Jim Al-Khalili

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 1 reports

We're building new homes that are just too small, say architects

Thursday 25th April 2013Britain is building the smallest and most cramped new homes in Western Europe the architectural equivalent of a turkey twizzler, it has been claimed.The Royal Institute of British Architects says that at 46 sq metres, the average ... [Published New Homes Today - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Riba, Architect, Policy Exchange

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Infrastructure enthusiasts take note [Published Victoria News - May 23 2013]
Heavy holiday reading \| My travels with Proust [Published Civilian - May 20 2013]
Yolande Gabai Harmer: Israel’s Secret Heroine [Published Jewish Press - May 18 2013]
A life more ordinary [Published Otago Daily Times - May 18 2013]
Let's talk about TED [Published Brisbane Times - May 17 2013]
Travel + Leisure: World's Most Beautiful City P... [Published Huffington Post - May 15 2013]
The rise of alternative learning in laneways, p... [Published SmartPlanet - May 15 2013]
Africa: Two Cheers for (Development) Anarchism [Published AllAfrica.com - May 14 2013]
Mumble, self-help, mumble [Published Psychology Today - May 14 2013]
Care for the soul [Published Therapy Today - May 13 2013]
A life more ordinary [Published New Zealand Herald - May 10 2013]
House of Your (Vivid) Dreams [Published New York Times - May 08 2013]
UK’s best known foodies to revamp Heathrow’s fo... [Published Skift - May 08 2013]
Alain de Botton ‘working hard in Seoul’ [Published Korea Herald - May 03 2013]
What makes us human? [Published New Statesman - May 02 2013]
April 2013: most read on newstatesman.com [Published New Statesman - May 01 2013]
10 beautifully illustrated indie zines [Published Creative Bloq - Apr 30 2013]
Suffolk's Balancing Barn [Published Homes and Property - Apr 29 2013]
Come back, Richard Dawkins, all is forgiven [Published Catholic Herald - Apr 25 2013]
How Britons became suckers for self-help [Published Management Today Magazine - Apr 25 2013]
Contentment quotient [Published The Hindu - Apr 25 2013]
We're building new homes that are just too smal... [Published New Homes Today - Apr 25 2013]
Why there’s no place like home [Published Globe and Mail - Apr 24 2013]
A Kinder, Gentler Atheism [Published Atlantic Monthly - Apr 21 2013]
A Kinder, Gentler Atheism [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - Apr 21 2013]
Church: The happiest place on earth [Published Macleans Online - Apr 21 2013]
Industrial railroads reborn as tourist attraction [Published Korea Herald - Apr 19 2013]
Dear Richard Dawkins, can you hear me? [Published Spectator - Apr 19 2013]
Burning Couches, Turquoise Wisdom ... LA's Podc... [Published City Watch - Apr 19 2013]
To communicate better, I'm going to keep my mou... [Published State Journal - Apr 19 2013]

Blogs

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A Kinder, Gentler Atheism [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - Apr 21 2013] Theo Hobson profiles the “new new atheists,” who he claims are more nuanced, diplomatic, and “admirably refuse to lapse into a comfortably sweeping ideology that claims the moral high ground for unbelief”: Crucially, atheism’s younger advocates are ...
My Year of TED: How 54 talks changed a life [Published TED Blog - Mar 27 2013] <img class="size-full wp-image-73747" alt="Kylie Dunn embarked on a mission to change her life by emulating TED Talks. Here, illustrations of her "30 days of fashion" and "30 days of drive" activities. Illustrations: Matthew Dunn" src="http://tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/year-of-ted-1-redo.jpg?w=900"/><p ...
Hacked Off Donors: #6 Billionaire Labour Lord S... [Published Guy Fawkes' blog - Mar 18 2013] Last but not least of the cabal of millionaires who have donated to Hacked Off is Lord Sainsbury. A life peer with a net worth of £1.3 billion, Sainsbury has been a major financial backer of the Labour Party, forking out many millions to Blair. He acted ...
Hacked Off Donors: #5 Millionaire Ex-Journalist... [Published Guy Fawkes' blog - Mar 18 2013] Next on the list of super rich celebs who have bunged cash to Hacked Off is philosopher of love Alain de Botton. He is another ex-journalist donor, having penned a column for the Sindy in the late nineties. The son of Swiss financier Gilbert de Botton, ...
The Weekly Wrap [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - Mar 16 2013] Friday on the Dish, Andrew cheered Portman’s reversal on marriage equality as change accelerated , assessed the accuracy of House of Cards, and was wowed by Francis’ humility, which reflected the best of Catholicism. In political coverage, Portman ...