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Sunset over a lake with serene waters, wooded shoreline, and a sky filled with clouds; the sun peeks through the trees.

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Thoreau’s economics: the truly precious costs precious little

As Henry David Thoreau learned from living at Walden Pond, the paramount economic skill is knowing how to make a house a home

by John Kaag & Jonathan van Belle

Photo of a woman in a nursery next to a crib with colourful blankets and a chair by a window with white curtains.

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Pregnant women ‘nest’. But there’s nothing biological about it

The ‘nesting mother’ stereotype is as common as it is unscientific: there is no hormonal drive for doing housework

by Arianne Shahvisi

A tiled room with a white freestanding sink, brass taps, a black shelf attached to a white pillar, and a dark cabinet in the background.

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The sink in the hall: how pandemics transform architecture

From the sink in the hall to the UV light in the bus depot: how pandemics past and present can transform architecture

by Theodora Philcox

Black-and-white photo of young children dancing in a studio, with one girl in the foreground, mouth open and hair swinging.

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How war destroys the childhood sense-scape we call ‘home’

What we grow up with determines the gestures, textures, spaces, sights, smells, sounds and thoughts we call ‘home’

by Julia F Christensen