Category: Life
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Advertising: the great justifier for all that’s stupid on the Internet
Why do people write fake news? And why do people keep trying to get attention via doing outrageous things on the Internet? While some people really are just nuts, for others, they do it for the lure of advertising revenue.
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How school helped us get to a post-truth world
As students, we are told to build a theory, an argument, or a philosophy—and then, once we have an idea, to go find the facts to legitimise it. Is this a good idea?
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Does the Nobel Peace Prize even mean anything anymore? (Hint: it doesn’t.)
This year, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons won the Nobel Peace Prize. But given the state of nuclear tension between the U.S. and North Korea, is it even reasonable to award them the prize?
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The real reason we have school
Does anybody remember how to do quadratics? Me neither, and I’m doing it right now. If school isn’t about learning subjects to use in our future careers, what is is for?
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Music: a private thing or a communal one?
These days, music is a private thing, a thing you do with headphones on by yourself. But is it always that way?
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How doing nothing, really, is actually doing something
Many people have heard the (re)phrase, “don’t just do something, stand there!” But isn’t “standing there” doing something?
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Coloured Lights
Besides Christmas lights and disco balls, lights are almost always yellow. Why?
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How the Internet is making us all extremists
Let’s be clear: extremism doesn’t begin with a pulled trigger. It ends there. And the Internet, despite all the wonders it has done for the world, has probably been one of the best incubators for extremist thought.
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Are handcrafted items really better than machine-made ones?
For the most part, while people love and adore handmade goods, their enthusiasm for machine made goods (save phones, perhaps) is far less. Why is that so? And is there really the difference between the two?
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Here’s ten major sports—described in one sentence
Everyone has probably watched a sport, and everyone has their personal favourite. Here are ten of the most popular sports, described in one sentence (sorry cricket).
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