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[Link] What toxic men can learn from masculine women
Read: 7/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Turn on the TV, watch kids’ cartoons or most films, and you won’t have to look hard for the message that nice guys finish last, while tough guys get the girl, and, more importantly, gain the respect of other men.
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[Link] Ancient Gold Burial Mask Found to Be Painted With Human Blood
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
In the 1990s, archaeologists uncovered an ancient and mysterious burial ritual in Peru: in the center of the chamber was a man, seated with his upside-down skeleton painted red along with the gold mask that adorned his detached skull.
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[Link] Speaker ‘Stun Gun’ Aims To Combat China’s Dancing Grannies
Read: 28/10/2021 hackaday.com
One of the more popular social activities in China is group dancing in public squares. Often the pastime of many middle-aged and older women, participants are colloquially referred to as “dancing grannies.
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[Link] ⚠️ Caution! ⚠️ These emoji mean different things in different countries
Read: 27/10/2021 restofworld.org
Emoji are practically a universal part of language now, with chat conversations liberally sprinkled with little pictograms.
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[Link] For These Buddhist Monks, Sex Ed Starts With Safe Masturbation
Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com
Sunshine pours in through the monastery classroom window as monks in crimson robes lock their gaze in rapt attention at the chalkboard. Their instructor smiles warmly and asks them what they know about the use of a condom.
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[Link] Federation 'ill-equipped' to deal with 21st-century challenges as Australia grows 'vulnerable'
Read: 21/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
More than 250 stakeholders are behind a report, as part of the National Resilience Project (NRP), that makes recommendations on topics including energy security, climate change responses, global and regional security risks, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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[Link] The missing decades: the 20th century black hole in Europeana
Read: 17/10/2021 pro.europeana.eu
For the last couple of years librarians have talked about a 20th century black hole when trying to describe the effect that copyright has on making cultural heritage available online (it appears that the concept was first used publicly by Prof. James Boyle in a 2009 column for the Financial Times).
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[Link] How These Young Activists Are Uniting Middle Easterners
Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com
The youth-run organization is based in the US but has created an international community that lives online with the sole purpose of bringing to light human right violations and current events happening in the Middle East.
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[Link] Why the French Don’t Show Excitement
Read: 8/8/2021 getpocket.com
Not only is ‘Je suis excité’ not the appropriate way to convey excitement in French, but there seems to be no real way to express it at all.
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