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#1 The sense of identity can be a source of strength and confidence, but it can also be a source of exclusion and even violence. It can help us warmly welcome others, but it can also lead to the exclusion of others.
#2 The world is full of examples of how identity conflicts can lead to violence. For example, the Sudanese Islamic identity combined with exploitation of...
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#1 Fred Hampton, the chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party, spoke at a church in Chicago in August 1969. He said, I'm free. I went down to the prison in Menard, thinking we were the vanguard, but down there I got down on my knees and listened and learned from the people. I went down to the valley and picked up the beat of the people.
#2 I was eventually asked...
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Courage after the Battle covers the unseen areas, from leaving the battlefield to leaving the armed forces, how these areas struggled for acknowledgement in the early years before WW1 and how they are still struggling today: the slippery slope to Drugs, Alcohol abuse, Homelessness, PTSD as well as other mental and physical injuries affecting the family unit. Courage after the Battle contains details of charities and organisations that can give much-needed...
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#1 For almost half a century during the Cold War, the world was focused on the global espionage battle between the United States and the Soviet Union. The duel between the CIA and the KGB, portrayed in countless books, films, and news stories, captured the public imagination.
#2 China and America are in an uneasy embrace, and they constantly spy on each other....
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Get the Summary of Joseph Henrich's The WEIRDest People in the World in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. If so, you're rather psychologically peculiar.
Unlike much of the world today, and most people who have ever lived, WEIRD people are highly individualistic, self-obsessed, control-oriented, nonconformist,...
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#1 The biggest distributor of election disinformation in the 2020 U. S. presidential election was not a group of Russian hackers, but President Donald Trump. He spread the Big Lie that he had won an election he had actually lost decisively to Joe Biden, and this led to the January 6, 2021, invasion of the U. Capitol and violent insurrection by Trump supporters.
#2 Trump's...
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Testigo de la Guerra Fra y su desenlace, como todos los de su generacin; de la llegada a la luna, de la transicin demogrfica y la globalizacin econmica; de la igualdad de gnero y las revoluciones digital y biomdica, ms lo que se acumule esta semana, el socilogo y politlogo mexicano Gabriel Romeu publica sus reflexiones sobre el elusivo tema de la familia y la autoridad en los hogares; tema que inverosmilmente permanece pendiente en este contexto....
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Get the Summary of Tamika D. Mallory's State of Emergency in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: From Minneapolis to Louisville, to Portland, Kenosha, and Washington, DC, America's reckoning with its unmet promises on race and class is at a boiling point not seen since the 1960s. While conversations around pathways to progress take place on social media and cable TV, history tells us that...
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#1 Fritz Croner was a German Jew who had grown up in a small German town. He was the richest young man in town, and he loved nothing more than to gun the motorcycle over the rutted roads of the tiny villages.
#2 Fritz's German identity was not simply based on his birthright, but on historical fact. Deutsch-Krone, his birthplace, was in the northeast corner of Germany, not far from...
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#1 China has long understood the importance of understanding America, as the Chinese Communist Party believes their survival depends on it. However, America has rarely felt the need to understand China, as their geopolitical footprint is so large.
#2 China's history is one of periodic incursions by foreign invaders. Chinese official culture has long taken pride in its ability to Sinify...
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#1 The Cold War has been followed by a transatlantic class war between elites based in the corporate, financial, government, media, and educational sectors and disproportionately native working-class populists.
#2 Following the abandonment of communism, the global norm has been a mixed economy dominated by bureaucratic corporations, bureaucratic government, and bureaucratic...
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Book Preview: #1 Ben was 14 when he attacked and killed a boy who was 11. He called 999 and said he'd killed a boy, but didn't explain why. He was sentenced to an indefinite term at Her Majesty's pleasure. In prison, they treated him as if he was worthless. He attempted escapes and tried to starve himself to death.
#2 By 2010, Ben had been in prison for thirty years, three times longer...
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#1 The third daughter is the embodiment of the inner world, and she will take us on a journey to the inner world. She is as much of the mythic kingdom as she is of the earthly kingdom.
#2 The goddess Aphrodite is the origin of the two feminine principles. She is the principle of mirroring every experience back into our own consciousness. She is the goddess of oceanic...
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#1 The first day of Grid Week is in Washington, D. C. The keynote address is given by Stephen Chu, a Nobel Prize—winning physicist and also for a time the U. S. secretary of energy. He tells the executives and engineers about the importance of integrating more renewable power generation.
#2 When there is too much solar, it can cause a blackout. When there is not enough...
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Get the Summary of Eli Saslow's Voices from the Pandemic in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The Covid-19 pandemic was a world-shattering event, affecting everyone in the nation. From its first ominous stirrings, renowned journalist Eli Saslow began interviewing a cross-section of Americans, capturing their experiences in real time: An exhausted and anguished EMT risking his life in New...
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Las ideas, críticas, esperanzas y angustias transhumanistas son culturalmente omnipresentes. La noción central de mejoramiento/aumento de las capacidades humanas no es nueva, lo nuevo en el trasegar del transhumanismo es que de la medicina a la robótica, de las biotecnologías a las ciencias cognitivas, de las nanotecnociencias a la astronáutica, se conocen cada vez más esbozos de concreción.
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#1 On December 25, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev delivered his last speech as president of the Soviet Union. He signed the papers that would formally dissolve the Soviet Union, and began to speak. His voice was soft and forced at first, but it became more controlled as he went on.
#2 The country that had come into existence after the Bolshevik revolution in 1917 had...
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#1 Statements and propositions are the most basic building blocks of logical arguments. They can only be true or false, and they can't be both true and false in the same sense under the same circumstances.
#2 A good critical thinker must learn to identify claims that are true, or most likely seem true, while avoiding claims that are best judged false. A good critical...
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#1 My source told me that Western intelligence agencies had concluded that Putin had ordered and directed the poisoning of the former KGB agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in Salisbury, England. The attempted murder with the powerful Russian-made nerve agent Novichok had shocked the UK and Europe.
#2 The poisoning of Sergei Skripal was similar to the assassination...
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