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Hello podcast listeners!I'm Peg Fong, writer and creator of "Alone Together."We are continuing our journey exploring loneliness...in Spanish: "Juntos en soledad."Listen to this new adaptation presented by business professor and producer Guiller
Hello podcast listeners!I'm Peg Fong, writer and creator of "Alone Together."We are continuing our journey exploring loneliness...in Spanish: "Juntos en soledad."Listen to this new adaptation presented by business professor and producer Guiller
We are living in lonely times, but the human conditions make us wonder, are we alone in our loneliness? And that answer is clear. Somewhere, someone else is taking off for the unknown, moving to small towns or hitting the road to start a new li
Benches are places in public spaces where people can sit by themselves. They are special because they’re not just a place to sit, they’re spots available to anyone and that availability turns benches into opportunities for connections.Benches a
The first multiple blind dates in the world are believed to have taken place in April 1827. The story goes that Thomas Swain, a 52 year old bachelor, had vowed to take the first woman to step ashore the world’s most remote island. Her name was
We Don’t Talk About Bruno, the number 1 hit song, written by Lin-Manual Miranda for the Disney movie Encanto, is all about a member of the Madrigal family who no one talks about, Bruno. Encanto is a movie about family, but it’s also about traum
Sleep is often viewed as something that takes us away from social interactions. We have to give up sleep in order to be social. Sometimes, it’s very tempting to stay home and sleep rather than be with others. But when you think about it, sleep
Imagine forgetting John Lennon.It isn’t hard to do when collective memory fades. We remember things because they have meaning for us and we forget things because other things become more important.Seeing people and hearing songs that aren’t par
The Saddest Day of the Year will apparently be on Monday, January 17, 2022. It’s called Blue Monday by some, and there’s even a formulation for how the date was decided. It’s a combination of weather, the due date of our credit card bills from
A lone wolf named Takaya was spotted living on an island by himself and stayed there in isolation for eight years. Despite all the odds, on an island where there was no natural food source, Takaya survived.A lone wolf doesn’t fit in with the pa
The key to the song of silence is personal and internal.In troubled times, people have endured silence as a way to learn to live in solitude. Silence makes us lonelier, some say, and others say it’s just silence and it’s the only way we can lea
Imagine waking up one morning to discover you are entirely alone. Everyone else in your home has disappeared.You look out the window and the streets are empty. No cars on the road, no planes overhead. Shops are abandoned. Schools are deserted.
Late one night when he couldn’t sleep, John Koenig wrote up a definition that hadn’t existed before. It was the word SONDER.It’s the awareness that everyone around you is the main character of their own story and he posted this word on his webs
To make a comic book, it takes people working on their own and getting together. Many professional comic artists today work on bigger projects that involve multiple talents-- writers, colourists, and letterers. All specialists who contribute se
When you’re on the road, the world is suddenly rich with possibility. The act of leaving, wrote Jack Kerouac in the stream of consciousness that would become his book On the Road, is surprisingly easy. With this publication in 1956, Kerouac fou
Are there inventions that can end our loneliness? Through the centuries, inventors have found new ways to innovate and design devices that are meant to advance our lives. But sometimes these inventions, in moving us forward actually end up maki
Once upon a time there was a way to use fairy tales to tell stories about loneliness and the endings weren’t always happy. Fairy tales are stories that matter to those alone and those wanting an escape. Because they are all about isolation--the
How did you mark November 11th this year? If you were in Canada you may have spent a moment of silence remembering the men and women who fought in wars to protect our freedoms. But if you are listening from other places in the world, in Asia, N
Animals are mostly social, but a research study found something unusual in an animal that doesn’t normally socialize with others. Terrestrial hermit crabs have a social agenda that’s more self-serving: they get together to kick another crab out
Literature is a good kind of contagion. Reading the imagined scenario, the fictional character dealing with the same things we are, helps us process as a community even if we don’t know each other, we can read the same stories. We are in the co
A dog’s nose is an estimated 100 times more sensitive than human noses. Humans have five million sensory receptors in our brain, dogs have 300 million receptors and compared to them, our own olfactory receptors are puny.Human scent is something
The loneliest movie characters are recognizable right away on screen. Male characters will talk to themselves in a mirror or work the night shift or drive a taxi. They may be pursued by shadowy figures and don’t know why. Or the life they thoug
Brazil’s football team Sports Club Recife has some of the world’s most devoted fans so when the team asked its fans to give their organs after they died by signing organ cards, the response was overwhelming. The Immortal Fans campaign promised
We are all new arrivals someplace and we all know the loneliness of what it’s like to be from somewhere else and have to find our community. In TV series from Green Acres to Schitt’s Creek, that discovery of life away from big cities is played
The whale known as 52 has captured the attention of celebrities from Leo DiCaprio to BTS, the South Korean boy band who recorded a popular song about what it's like to be the only whale of its kind in the ocean. The lone whale’s song was first
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