Why You Feel Overwhelmed All The Time (and how to fix it) - David Epstein - #1121

It started with a mix · Jul 10, 2026 Arts

Harry Hill's adult children dressed as characters from his live show and appeared on stage at Shepherd's Bush. When his daughter took his hand inside a Gary costume, he knew it was her just by the feel — a moment he describes as 'really affecting and sweet'. Expand

It started with a mix · Jul 10, 2026 Arts

Tom Davis's stand-up tour is called Spudgun — a nickname he got on building sites, named after the bumbling character from the sitcom Bottom. But a colleague then informed him the term actually means something rather different about watery sperm, which Tom says he covers at length in the show. Expand

It started with a mix · Jul 10, 2026 Arts

Lauren Laverne had planned to be a historian like her academic father. Instead she fell into TV via Never Mind the Buzzcocks, then into radio because it was 'showing off in private'. She now has the office full of books and records she always wanted — just arrived by a very different route. Expand

NPR News: 07-09-2026 11PM EDT · Jul 10, 2026 Arts

Bonnie Tyler, the British singer behind 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' and 'Holding Out for a Hero,' died at 75. Her fifty-year career peaked in the 1980s with producer Jim Steinman, whose maximalist sound turned Tyler's gravelly, over-the-top belting into an era-defining signature. Expand

Why You Feel Overwhelmed All The Time (and how to fix it) -… · Jul 9, 2026 Arts

Isabel Allende has started every new book on January 8th since age 40. When she gave herself an artificially short deadline and finished a novel months early, she emailed her biographer in distress: 'I have total freedom. This freedom is lethal.' Eighty million copies sold is the product of ruthless self-constraint, not inspiration. Expand

Why You Feel Overwhelmed All The Time (and how to fix it) -… · Jul 9, 2026 Arts

Atlas Comics' entire business model was volume — a fire hose of titles. When rival DC became their distributor and limited them to 8 titles a month, Stan Lee had no choice but to invent characters people would follow long-term. Superheroes with anger problems and teen angst weren't a creative vision — they were a response to a constraint. Expand

Why You Feel Overwhelmed All The Time (and how to fix it) -… · Jul 9, 2026 Arts

Frost's famous poem is not about zigging when others zag. It's a gentle mockery of his walking partner Edward Thomas, who would agonise at every fork in the road and then say they'd taken the wrong path regardless of which one they chose. The real lesson: regret about the path not taken is the problem, not the solution. Expand

IL-KAVALLIERI KELLHOM EGO KBIR | Tonio Mallia · Jul 6, 2026 Arts

When Tonio Mallia arrived at St John's Co-Cathedral, he privately called it a 'garage.' The institution lacked direction, the museum was barely known, and its world-class artworks were underappreciated. His mission became transforming it into one of Europe's premier cultural destinations. Expand