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How New Zealand Seeks to Right Its Colonial Wrongs
New Zealand’s indigenous people, the Maori, were guaranteed equality when they signed a treaty with the British Crown in 1840, but through the brutal nature of colonization they would lose about 97% of their land through trickery and violence. That … Continue reading
The Economics of IKEA: Why Does Labor Lead to Love? | WSJ
Counterintuitive though it may seem, part of furniture giant IKEA’s success stems from its policy requiring its customers to build its products. In this video, WSJ explains the behavioral psychology behind the “IKEA effect.”
Close-Up Portraits of Bees Capture Each of Their Unique Faces
By Jessica Stewart on May 25, 2021 Being stuck in quarantine encouraged this photographer to point his lens at his own garden, and he wound up with incredible bee portraits. Documentary camera and drone operator Josh Forwood specializes in capturing … Continue reading
Humans Influence on Earth For 12000 Years Was Surprisingly Positive
[…] Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about an interesting discovery that contradicts the common perception that humans are destroying nature. Study: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/17/e… Interactive map: https://anthroecology.org/anthromes/1… Older paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158… Story used: https://www.theguardian.com/environme… … Continue reading
“Our Power is our Pain”
Palestinian Bassam Aramin and Israeli Robi Damelin are unlikely allies. But they share a powerful bond – the loss of a child to the ongoing conflict. Today the joint spokespeople for the Parents Circle Family Forum travel the world sharing … Continue reading
A Map of the Internet 2021 | Kottke
Translating sites, search engines, social networks, browsers, ISPs, and other internet entities into geographic features, Martin Vargic has created a map of the internet circa 2021. It includes several thousand of some of the most popular websites, represented as distinct … Continue reading
The Next-Gen Space Stations That Could Replace The ISS | Answers With Joe
The end of the ISS is less than 10 years away. Here’s what’s coming next. From the luxury space hotels of Axiom Space to the inflatable super habitats of Bigelow Aerospace to future international efforts, these are the places where … Continue reading
5 Strange Creatures Found Frozen in Ice
When an animal becomes frozen in ice, it’s body can last for thousands of years, giving us an incredible view of what the world was like when the animal was alive. Prehistoric mammoths, woolly rhinos, and even humans have been … Continue reading
World Longest Power Submarine Cable To Connect $25BN Wind Solar Complex in Morocco To The UK Grid
British company Xlinks, has announced plans to build 10.5 Giga Watts of wind and solar parks in Morocco and sell the generated power in the UK. According to the company’s CEO, Simon Morrish, in an interview with PV magazine, this … Continue reading
Homochirality: Why Nature Never Makes Mirror Molecules
[…] Molecules of biological origin always have a fixed handedness or chirality. For example you only ever see right handed sugars and left handed amino acids in nature. But why? Credits: Meteorite image – Art Bromage – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi… RNA and … Continue reading
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