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Listen 51 min A young woman sits alone by a window, peering outside. Photo by Pixabay. In the wake of the pandemic, there is much to be done to restore human connectivity, but loneliness is hardly a new phenomena. Long periods of isolated living in an increasingly virtual world is taking a toll on our health. Being lonely is especially prevalent in young adults and according to a 2019 survey from YouGov, one in five millennials reported that they didn’t have a single friend. KCRW speaks with Noreena Hertz, author of the book “The Lon...

Listen 31 min A young woman sits alone by a window, peering outside. Photo by Pixabay. Several years ago, British economist Noreena Hertz began to notice something different: An increasing number of her students said that they felt lonely. More disturbing was the discovery that students were losing the ability to interact together or even to read each other's facial expressions. Disconnection from the world also was more likely to make people hostile to others and more susceptible towards extremist politics.  The following interview exc...

Friend rentals and robots: How businesses are creating solutions for the loneliness epidemic Companionship and cuddles are on sale as 'the loneliness economy' takes off amidst a spike in the rate of isolation The phrase ‘the loneliness epidemic’ went viral long before lockdowns isolated us even further (Eric Gaillard/Reuters) In the fall of 2019—a time that’s beginning to acquire the sunlit aura that earlier generations ascribed to the spring months before the guns of August opened the First World War in 1914—British economist Noreena Hertz went out for the day in Manhattan with ...

Covid-19 will soon be over but the effects of the pandemic will not. Like it or loathe it, life has changed irrevocably for all of us.

John Maytham's Book Reviews: 19 February 2021 19 February 2021 5:02 PM books John's 3 book picks this week. 1. Thriller: Serpentine by Jonathan Kellerman, is the latest Alex Delaware thriller, he helps his friend Detective Milo Sturgis solve a cold case. 2. Novel: Outlawed by Anna North, fits within a genre termed the feminist western, is an alternative history of a town where fertility is an issue, and where a western outlaw gang is reimagined with barren women or non-binary people. 3. Non-Fiction: The Lonely Century: Coming Together in a World That's Pulling Apart by...