Oliver Conway

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Also in this podcast... Becoming consciously aware of your feet, feeling your feet on the ground. It's extraordinarily effective considering how tiny and throwaway that sounds.

Also in this podcast... Becoming consciously aware of your feet, feeling your feet on the ground. It's extraordinarily effective considering how tiny and throwaway that sounds.

It just seems like there is so much going on, but also that it feels unignorable in a different way. It feels like it has no longer been possible to sort of sit on the sidelines and watch the news as an interesting spectator sport. And that's the real change, I think, that I find so sort of discombobulating.

It just seems like there is so much going on, but also that it feels unignorable in a different way. It feels like it has no longer been possible to sort of sit on the sidelines and watch the news as an interesting spectator sport. And that's the real change, I think, that I find so sort of discombobulating.

I think there is some potential here, right, to sort of not be living in a situation where your default assumption is that you just kind of live inside the news cycle and you sort of marinate in it all day long, but rather that it's something that you choose to visit, that you sort of...

I think there is some potential here, right, to sort of not be living in a situation where your default assumption is that you just kind of live inside the news cycle and you sort of marinate in it all day long, but rather that it's something that you choose to visit, that you sort of...

situate yourself in your real life, in your life of your friends and your family and your neighbourhood, and then you sometimes sort of pay a visit to the world of the news. It's obviously made incredibly difficult by the attention economy, all sorts of dynamics that make this not just an easy thing for a person to do on an individual level.

situate yourself in your real life, in your life of your friends and your family and your neighbourhood, and then you sometimes sort of pay a visit to the world of the news. It's obviously made incredibly difficult by the attention economy, all sorts of dynamics that make this not just an easy thing for a person to do on an individual level.

But I think there's something to be said for that idea that we can step outside of the news. We don't have to sort of live in it.

But I think there's something to be said for that idea that we can step outside of the news. We don't have to sort of live in it.

Two very quick, radically different things. One is an old mindfulness technique, which is very, very down to earth, literally, which is just the practice of becoming consciously aware of your feet, feeling your feet on the ground. It's extraordinarily effective, considering how tiny and throwaway that sounds.

Two very quick, radically different things. One is an old mindfulness technique, which is very, very down to earth, literally, which is just the practice of becoming consciously aware of your feet, feeling your feet on the ground. It's extraordinarily effective, considering how tiny and throwaway that sounds.

Secondly, I think it's worth remembering that we have lived perhaps through a period, as Libby was saying, of things feeling very relatively secure. But the norm for human beings throughout the whole of history has been that we live, on a precipice in the middle of complete uncertainty. It's not in itself that new. And I do actually find some comfort in that reflection.

Secondly, I think it's worth remembering that we have lived perhaps through a period, as Libby was saying, of things feeling very relatively secure. But the norm for human beings throughout the whole of history has been that we live, on a precipice in the middle of complete uncertainty. It's not in itself that new. And I do actually find some comfort in that reflection.

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. This edition is published in the early hours of Wednesday the 19th of February. We'll have more reaction to the dramatic reset in relations between the US and Russia, as they agree to press ahead with negotiations on the war in Ukraine, despite excluding Kiev from their talks. Israelis learn the fate of the youngest hostages in Gaza.

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. This edition is published in the early hours of Wednesday the 19th of February. We'll have more reaction to the dramatic reset in relations between the US and Russia, as they agree to press ahead with negotiations on the war in Ukraine, despite excluding Kiev from their talks. Israelis learn the fate of the youngest hostages in Gaza.

And a British couple arrested in Iran last month have been charged with spying. Also in the podcast.

And a British couple arrested in Iran last month have been charged with spying. Also in the podcast.

We have a special report from eastern Congo. And forget dentures, could we soon grow replacement teeth? But first, according to leaked intelligence from February 2022, Vladimir Putin believed his invasion forces could overthrow the Ukrainian government within three days. In the end, his troops were stopped at the gates of Kiev.