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Should I move home?

Am I Normal? with Mona Chalabi

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What Is a Bird Thwack?

People have been looking for meaning in bird behaviour since at least ancient greece. It was a practice called ornithomance, or augury. In ancient rome, augurs were consulted on all kinds of state matters. But we've lost most of those bird reading skills over the centuries. Many, if not most, of us embodyd different ways to make decisions about the world.

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