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Why Your Brain Loves Feeling Outraged and Punishing People’s Bad Behavior | Molly Crockett
Why Your Brain Loves Feeling Outraged and Punishing People’s Bad Behavior Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- Get mad when you read the news these days? It’s more than … Continue reading
A Satirical New Animation by Greenpeace Swamps Boris Johnson in a Gushing Sea of Plastic | Colossal
Greenpeace’s new campaign opens with a single bottle bouncing off Boris Johnson’s head mid-press conference before a waterfall of plastic overwhelms the prime minister and carries him out to the street. The satirical and pressing animation pours the equivalent of … Continue reading
Sleeping Rough in Victorian England (Penny ‘Sit-Ups’, Two-Penny ‘Hangovers’, Four Penny ‘Coffins’)
Horrifying to us today, but Penny ‘Sit-Ups’ and Twopenny ‘Hangovers’ did exist in Victorian England, and offered a solution ‘of sorts’ to the spiralling problem of homelessness, destitution and slums in the metropolis. Poverty in Victorian Britain was rife everywhere, … Continue reading
Colette: The French resistance fighter confronting fascism – Oscars 2021 Short Documentary Winner
Colette has won the Academy Award in the category of best documentary short. This has been made possible by people like you supporting The Guardian’s independent, audience-funded publishing – we and the filmmakers thank you. Help sustain our future by … Continue reading
BBC World Service – The Food Chain, The man taking on fast food
Carlo Petrini is leading a food revolution – one that fights to protect local, traditional ingredients and farming methods in the face of a standardised, industrialised food system. From a protest against a McDonald’s in the heart of Rome, to … Continue reading
UK supermarkets warn Brazil over Amazon land bill | BBC News
Almost 40 UK companies say proposed laws could accelerate deforestation in the Amazon region. An open letter from the group calls on Brazil’s legislature to reject a bill which could legalise the private occupation of public land. The letter said … Continue reading
Why a Nuclear Device Lost in the Himalayas Could Destroy India
Follow Thoughty2 Facebook: https://facebook.com/thoughty2 Instagram: https://instagram.com/thoughty2 Website: http://thoughty2.com About Thoughty2 Thoughty2 (Arran) is a British YouTuber and gatekeeper of useless facts. Thoughty2 creates mind-blowing factual videos about science, tech, history, opinion and just about everything else. #Thoughty2 Writing: Steven Rix … Continue reading
The Reality Prison – All The Things We Don’t Know
[…](This story is an adaptation of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave) In a distant future, on a distant planet, a group of prisoners find themselves deceived since birth, contained inside a dome-shaped simulated reality, many layers removed from truth. […]
