The kindness of strangers: The Ashes heat was unbearable. Then a Barmy Army member offered his seats in the shade | Australian lifestyle

We’re great enemies in cricket, England and Australia. So when the Ashes returned this past summer, my son and I travelled from Ballarat to Adelaide to see the showdown in the third Test. It’s a long drive but we made it a boys’ trip, stopping in at pubs and all that nonsense on the way….

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Socialising, work, exercise: what makes a good day and is there a ‘formula’ for making it better? | Life and style

What edges a day over the threshold from being humdrum to something better? Something good? It is a question that occurred to Dunigan Folk, a researcher from the University of Pennsylvania, when he encountered the vast data treasure trove of the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) in which tens of thousands of Americans record what…

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