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Universal basic income of £1,600 a month to be trialled in England
"Universal basic income usually covers people’s basic needs but we want to see what effect this unconditional lump sum has on people’s mental and physical health, whether they choose to work or not," says Will Stronge, the director of research at the thinktank Autonomy, which is backing the plan.
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Universal basic income of £1,600 a month to be trialled in England
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How We Whitewashed The Classical Era
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How We Whitewashed The Classical Era
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Holocaust survivor Ben Lesser does an Ask Me Anything
Via [@serge@babka.social](https://babka.social/@serge) Lesser was born in Poland in 1928. Most of his family were killed by Nazis. He moved to the United States, became a realtor, and has spent much of his life trying to "prevent the world from developing amnesia." > I named my foundation "Zachor" which is the Hebrew word for "remember" because every generation must re-learn the consequences of hatred and bigotry.
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Holocaust survivor Ben Lesser does an Ask Me Anything
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Andrew Battel: Pirate, Convict, Merchant, and Mercenary – Molten Sulfur Blog
Really interesting dude I really wasn't sure where to put this.
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Andrew Battel: Pirate, Convict, Merchant, and Mercenary – Molten Sulfur Blog
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The community radio station broadcasting from war-torn Kyiv
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The community radio station broadcasting from war-torn Kyiv
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For the Colonized Body, Tattoos Are Reclamation
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For the Colonized Body, Tattoos Are Reclamation
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Can a Wandering Mind Make You Neurotic?
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Can a Wandering Mind Make You Neurotic?
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Why Gen Z are so motivated by pay
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Why Gen Z are so motivated by pay
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This Nonprofit Health System Cuts Off Patients With Medical Debt
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This Nonprofit Health System Cuts Off Patients With Medical Debt
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Embracing Death as Community Care: The Indigenous Indian tribe once embraced voluntary and assisted euthanasia
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Embracing Death as Community Care: The Indigenous Indian tribe once embraced voluntary and assisted euthanasia
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Primitive Technology: New Brick Kiln Design
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Primitive Technology: New Brick Kiln Design
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Looking ahead 200 years: another age of epic growth
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Looking ahead 200 years: another age of epic growth
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Why our news consumption might be more worrisome than misinformation
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Misinformation and echo chambers are often used to explain polarization and political divides between people. New research, however, finds there is another factor we should worry about, namely our online consumption of quality news, or exactly the lack of it.
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Why our news consumption might be more worrisome than misinformation
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With Kelp, a First Nations Fisher Builds Community on the Clayoquot Sound
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With Kelp, a First Nations Fisher Builds Community on the Clayoquot Sound
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On class and the perils of the new norms of intimacy: The sexual revolution promised new norms of intimacy based on egalitarianism. So far, only the rich have cashed in
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On class and the perils of the new norms of intimacy: The sexual revolution promised new norms of intimacy based on egalitarianism. So far, only the rich have cashed in
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#AudioMo 2023 - Is anyone else here getting involved?
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For those who are unaware, #AudioMo is an annual event, where every June, people try to publish a piece of audio every day. The audio could be some bird song they enjoyed hearing, or an hour long conversation with someone else about a topic that's important to them. It doesn't really matter. What's nice is filtering the hashtag, then scrolling down through, listening to voices from all walks of life, talking about a vast range of subjects that you might never have given any thought to.
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#AudioMo 2023 - Is anyone else here getting involved?
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‘Unjust on almost every possible count’: Philosopher Cécile Fabre on moral criteria for war and whether Russia’s assault on Ukraine is comparable to the U.S. invasion of Iraq
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‘Unjust on almost every possible count’: Philosopher Cécile Fabre on moral criteria for war and whether Russia’s assault on Ukraine is comparable to the U.S. invasion of Iraq
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AI Deepfakes of True-Crime Victims Are a Waking Nightmare
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AI Deepfakes of True-Crime Victims Are a Waking Nightmare
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Who’s Afraid of Bugs?
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subheading: Though insects are a part of our daily lives, they provoke strong and often negative emotions. And yet, they are precious allies of biodiversity. What if we learned to get to know them, so as to better appreciate them?
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Who’s Afraid of Bugs?
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Can Americans really make a free choice about dying?
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Can Americans really make a free choice about dying?
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I.R.S. Acknowledges Black Americans Face More Audit Scrutiny
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I.R.S. Acknowledges Black Americans Face More Audit Scrutiny
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While Ukrainian artists continue to work tirelessly against all odds at home, the war sparks a new wave of interest in Ukrainian culture abroad
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Since Russia's invasion, Ukrainian artists and cultural workers swiftly has been shifting their focus to contributing to war efforts, including on the front lines. But they are also working to maintain and promote Ukraine's unique artistic and cultural heritage.
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While Ukrainian artists continue to work tirelessly against all odds at home, the war sparks a new wave of interest in Ukrainian culture abroad
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Help Putin find Ukraine: A historian explains the Russian government’s obession with the past
Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin once again reiterated his favourite sentiment: “It was only after the October Revolution that various quasi-states appeared and the Soviet government created Soviet Ukraine. It is a well-known fact.” To historian Alexander Orlov such statements are not only incorrect, but they show the Russian government's "passeism", the hostility towards the present and future.
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Help Putin find Ukraine: A historian explains the Russian government’s obession with the past
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How Should We Feel about Barnes and Noble Now?
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How Should We Feel about Barnes and Noble Now?
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Reckoning with compassion: After an abuse scandal destroyed my Buddhist community, I had to reconsider what it means to live an ethically attuned life
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Reckoning with compassion: After an abuse scandal destroyed my Buddhist community, I had to reconsider what it means to live an ethically attuned life
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New Russian history textbook includes chapter on war in Ukraine and Russia’s ‘struggle against collective West’
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The textbook (without giving context) quotes Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov’s statement regarding Germany’s attack on the Soviet Union: “Our cause is just! The enemy will be defeated! Victory will be ours!” It is supposed to become a part of the school curriculum starting September 1, 2023. However, the publication Podyom (“Rise”) writes that the textbook will not be mandatory, citing the Russian Word publishing house.
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New Russian history textbook includes chapter on war in Ukraine and Russia’s ‘struggle against collective West’
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“My Fear of Dying Was Erased”—the Call for End-of-Life Psilocybin Care
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“My Fear of Dying Was Erased”—the Call for End-of-Life Psilocybin Care
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Canada’s ‘True’ Queen Romana Didulo, is a QAnon Influencer
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Canada’s ‘True’ Queen Romana Didulo, is a QAnon Influencer
Helpline workers for the National Eating Disorder Association say they are being replaced by AI
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Helpline workers for the National Eating Disorder Association say they are being replaced by AI
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The secretive prisons where Russia hides and tortures Ukrainian civilians
Over the last 14 months, Russia has abducted thousands of Ukrainian civilians, from volunteers and journalists to former soldiers and officials, and locked them in Russian prisons. Most of them are not allowed to communicate with their lawyers or loved ones and without knowing reasons for their incarceration. Now Ukrainians who have been released from the facilities, as well as with their relatives and lawyers, talk about how this clandestine prison system works.
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The secretive prisons where Russia hides and tortures Ukrainian civilians
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Weaponizing the law to silence journalists
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Press freedom advocates have increasingly been criticising “lawfare”, the misuse of the law to silence critical voices. It typically involves charges not directly related to journalism and is more and more a common tool among corrupt and authoritarian regimes keen to fight freedom of expression. Instead of being targeted for the words published or spoken, journalists, publishers and editors are pursued on supposedly unrelated charges.
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Weaponizing the law to silence journalists
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‘The World Talks’: Meet a stranger from a totally different country, context and mindset for a 1:1 communication online on June 25, 2023
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Imagine if every person in the world could have a conversation with another person, across all borders. A Chinese woman from Shanghai and an American woman from the Rust Belt would exchange stories about their lives. A coal miner from Germany and a small farmer from Madagascar could share their experience of climate change. A cleaning woman from Greece could debate a teacher from Hungary about migration and LGBTQ rights. What would such conversations change?
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‘The World Talks’: Meet a stranger from a totally different country, context and mindset for a 1:1 communication online on June 25, 2023
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“We need to stop disguising military threats as ‘political compromises’”: Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk warns of Russian imperialism
The Ukrainian laywer and human rights activist says that Putin does not fear Nato but democracy and claims that Russia "has to be stopped in Ukraine" to not go further in its imperialistic expansion. "The imprisoned peoples of Belarus, Chechnya, Dagestan, Tatarstan, Yakutiia, and others endure forced russification, the expropriation of natural resources, and prohibitions on their own language and culture." [Speech transcript in English and German, or watch the recording in English.]
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“We need to stop disguising military threats as ‘political compromises’”: Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk warns of Russian imperialism
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Book Publishers Are Trying to Destroy Public E-Book Access in Order to Increase Profits
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Book Publishers Are Trying to Destroy Public E-Book Access in Order to Increase Profits
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Nadia Murad: Yazidi woman who escaped Daesh: Nobel Peace Prize lecture 2018 (English subtitles)
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Nadia Murad: Yazidi woman who escaped Daesh: Nobel Peace Prize lecture 2018 (English subtitles)
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One year without Iryna: The father of one of 2,000 Ukrainian civilians in Russian captivity refuses to lose hope
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Iryna Gorobtsova was abducted by Russian forces from the home where she grew up in Kherson. She has now spent a year in a Crimean prison, with virtually no contact with the outside world.
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One year without Iryna: The father of one of 2,000 Ukrainian civilians in Russian captivity refuses to lose hope
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NGO offers database with programmes aiming to help Ukrainians affected by the war and Russians who fled the country
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True Russia, a non-profit organisation founded by Russian artists and economists who oppose the war, have created a constantly growing database of social, cultural and scientific initiatives of communities around the world - from distance jobs for academics to remote IT assignments, and from housing initiatives to psychological help.
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NGO offers database with programmes aiming to help Ukrainians affected by the war and Russians who fled the country
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The Future of The Nib: After ten years of publishing, The Nib is going to close down this summer.
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The Future of The Nib: After ten years of publishing, The Nib is going to close down this summer.
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How we’re supposed to sit in chair when using computers apparently
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How we’re supposed to sit in chair when using computers apparently
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Restitution of Cultural Property and Human Rights
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Restitution of Cultural Property and Human Rights
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