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😡 The fear mongering news media is ruining our society with anger and sadness
Sorry about the angry headline, but I'm just following the trend. Over the last 20 years headlines in news media have turned more and more negative and angry.
😨 Anders Bolling: External threats are the bane of modern man
Terrorist crisis - refugee crisis - financial crisis - euro crisis - metoo crisis - pandemic crisis - Ukraine crisis - energy crisis. Should any gaps arise, the ever-luring climate crisis pops up.
🧠 Science on the way to unfold the mysteries of the mind
Through new technologies allowing researchers to "observe" inside the brain, science is discovering new patterns and formulating effective theories on how the mind works: between epochal discoveries, open questions and new treatments to heal the mind.
⚔️ Do you participate in the media's constructed war of opinions?
The news purports to inform, but it does not. Their made-up conflicts make us less actionable and less informed. Their contrived wars of opinion are fought by volunteers. It is possible to opt-out.
🏳️🌈 Many political setbacks are an illusion
Something is about to break, it is often claimed. But is that true? For decades, immigration has increased, without xenophobia increasing. The view of equality, homosexual rights, violence, and causes of crime has shifted sharply in the direction of human rights.
😟 Hey, kids – drop the climate anxiety
"A millennial couple recounting how they wrestled for a decade (!) with the “ethical quandary” of whether to bring “another human onto an already crowded planet.” (she wanted to raise a “climate ally,” he feared for the child’s future)," writes Ulrika G. Gerth
💕 Quantum physics and love
In the same way that we feel a bond with a person we love on the other side of the world, the capacity of one particle can affect another particle, regardless of distance.
🤝 Who inspires you to do good?
Why should we take for granted that evil is an obvious feature of the world? Why not at least dream of, and strive for, a better world?