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Mae Martin is an award-winning Canadian comedian, writer and presenter of podcast GrownUp Land. In these two collected BBC Radio 4 series, she explores her generation's views on addiction and sexuality. Mae Martin’s Guide to 21st Century Addiction Mae draws connections between her obsessive...

Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would build a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse, and almshouse. Stacy Horn has crafted a compelling and chilling narrative told through the stories of the poor souls sent to Blackwell's, as well as the period's city officials, reformers, and journalists (including the famous Nellie Bly). Damnation Island re-creates what daily life was like on the island....

Vivemos em uma sociedade de excessos. Somos bombardeados por informações que, na maior parte das vezes, não conseguimos absorver. Somos cobrados, pressionados, nos tornamos reféns da nossa mente. Essa situação alterou algo que deveria ser inviolável ? o ritmo de construção de pensamentos ?, gerando consequências seríssimas para a saúde emocional, o prazer de viver, a inteligência, a criatividade. Pensar é bom, pensar com consciência crítica é melhor ainda, mas pensar excessivamente é uma bomba contra a qualidade de vida e um intelecto criativo e produtivo.