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This is an excellent and very clever fictional short-story about "life after death".
(But maybe it's not fictional)

The Egg
By: Andy Weir

You were on your way home when you died.

It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two...
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Memento mori

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori
Memento mori (Latin for 'remember that you [have to] die'[2]) is an artistic or symbolic reminder of the inevitability of death.[2] The concept has its roots in the philosophers of classical antiquity, and appeared in funeral art and architecture...
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Witold Pilecki

Poland's Chief Rabbi, Michael Schudrich, writes in the foreword to a 2012 English translation of Pilecki's report:
"When God created the human being, God had in mind that we should all be like Captain Witold Pilecki, of blessed memory."

Historian Norman Davies writes in the...
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Kids in school were learning about the Salem Witch Trials, and their teacher told them they were going to play a game.

"I'm going to come around and whisper to each of you whether you're a witch or a regular person. Your goal is to build the largest group possible that does NOT have a witch in it...
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How Finland Found A Solution To Homelessness
by Explained with Dom

https://youtu.be/DPh4PN8e0ds?si=dMv56eG5j7CkFi5K...
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Richard Wrangham: Violence, Sex, and Fire in Human Evolution | Lex Fridman Podcast #229

Richard Wrangham is a biological anthropologist at Harvard, specializing in the study of primates and the evolution of violence, sex, cooking, culture, and other aspects of ape and human behavior. In this interview...
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Does Finland have the best education system?

In 2016, the Finnish Education System was ranked #1 in the world. Finnish education is famous for its autonomy, shorter school days, little homework, and above all, satisfied students, teachers, and parents.

About the Finnish Education System
Schooling...
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Finland’s the world’s happiest country. Here’s how we do it.

CNN — According to the latest World Happiness Report, my country of Finland has the happiest people on Earth, a designation it has held for six consecutive years. I imagine that news might rankle some Americans, some of whom are...
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Vietnam War from the North Vietnamese Perspective | Animated History

The Vietnam War is a highly controversial topic at the best of times. But during their many debates on the subject, Western historians rarely pause to consider how the conflict was seen through the eyes of the Vietnamese people...
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What if i told you that a single joint was was responsible for the peaceful collapse of the Soviet Union? Ok, sure, the USSR was going down one way or another, but it could have easily ended in a blood-bath.

This is a story of how a Marijuana-inspired movement of magical creatures from Polish...
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Shavarsh Vladimiri Karapetyan is a Merited Master of Sports of the USSR and a ten-time World Record-breaker in finswimming. He became well known in the former USSR for his heroic actions of saving peoples' lives. On September 16, 1976 while jogging alongside Yerevan Lake with his brother Kamo, also a...
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Many of us use words like “moron”, “imbecile”, “idiot”, and “cretin” quite carelessly. But do we bother to know the history of these insults?

Let’s find out!

The Incredibly Dark Origins of the Terms “Idiot”, “Imbecile”, and “Moron”
https://youtu.be/O9SasmwFPVk...
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You think your life is hard?

5 Of The Most Dangerous Jobs In The World
Documentary by Business Insider

At the center of many billion-dollar industries are workers that risk their lives making, mining, and moving our products. From scaling palm trees for acai to mining sulfur in an active...
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‘No one will remember us’:
India’s hero ‘rat hole miners’ who helped rescue 41 men from the Himalayan tunnel

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/06/india/india-uttarakhand-rat-miners-rescue-intl-hnk/index.html...
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The Birds I Never Met | North America's Extinct Birds
by Atlas Pro

This is not just a story about bird species going extinct due to human activity. This is also about how the loss of these species can affect us very significantly, often in ways that we can never imagine... until it's too...
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Work.
by Historia Civilis

One of capitalism's most durable myths is that it has reduced human toil.
– Juliet B. Shor
The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure (1991)

"We work too much. This is a pretty recent phenomenon, and so this fact makes us unusual historically. It...
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This is a story about the beauty of collective action where disempowered people stand up together to exact justice. It is also a story of how powerful women can be when they fully connect with their feminine identity – just because femininity is stereotypically patient, nurturing, and yielding, it...
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My toddler son and i almost died today.

It was a beautiful, sunny, autumn day, and the two of us were waiting in the park for Mama to finish a visit to the dentist. I was laying on the grass while talking on the phone with a long lost friend, making plans for our kids to play together. My son was...
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Corporations have found a more insidious way to exploit intellectual monopoly laws to control our lives and increase their profits.

Watch
“How John Deere Robs Farmers Of $4 Billion A Year”
by More Perfect Union.

https://youtu.be/jaOS6bGta7M?si=Hvx6nRAwlAjkKfuI...