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Halloween: What’s the devil got to do with it?
History & The Arts

Halloween: What’s the devil got to do with it?

...world and we should be respectful and careful in our relations with all life. Perhaps this recognition of living in an edgy world lurks behind the dressing up in costumes (even ones with devilish horns and a tail) and pretending to be spooky. So, Halloween has nothing to do with devil worship and everything to do with having fun while honouring our deceased loved-ones and...
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Eco-art, Sustainable Art, art as activism
History & The Arts

Eco-art, Sustainable Art, art as activism

...world became aware of environmental problems, when plastic debris in the oceans was first observed. Hand in hand with activism, artists such as Joseph Beuys (1962), Hans Haacke (1965), Nicolas Uriburu (1968), artists started to raise awareness for water pollution. In 1969-1970 Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison collaborated in mapping endangered species around the...
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Deplaning: Why is the 747 coming to the end of the runway?
Science, Maths & Technology

Deplaning: Why is the 747 coming to the end of the runway?

...world’s first wide-body airliner, the Boeing 747 went on to change not only aviation but the entire tourism industry. Its economic design did much to move international travel within reach of middle-class holiday goers rather than just the privileged few. [A cargo-carrying 747] However, the venerable Boeing 747 may be nearing the end of its production life – its...
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Helen Cammock and the art of storytelling
Languages

Helen Cammock and the art of storytelling

...world into clear-cut struggles between good and evil, right and wrong, us and them. Over the last decade, this idea somehow began to get picked up as much by the political right as those on the left. In the late 2010s, it became a mantra for populist agitators, with the Alt-Right commentator Mike Cernovich once explaining to an interviewer, ‘Look, I read postmodernist...
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How does online intergroup contact compare with face-to-face?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How does online intergroup contact compare with face-to-face?

...world at large. A series of studies investigated this and concluded that while indeed negative contact existed and did increase prejudice, there was considerably more positive than negative contact, and so, overall, contact was beneficial. [A phone on a desk showing the Facebook logo.] Fifty years after The Nature of Prejudice was published, Facebook launched to everyone...
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International Jazz Day
Miscellaneous

International Jazz Day

...world but with a particular focus on a host city; previously Istanbul, Turkey and Osaka, Japan and this year Paris, France. Broadly speaking, a similar extension towards the global has occurred amongst enthusiasts for jazz; with increasing awareness of the work of musicians from outside the USA, and recognition of the history of the music in different locations. The...
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On the death of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
Society, Politics & Law

On the death of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

...world war, the movement for black freedom waxed and waned but as clash followed clash, the ANC emerged as the leader of a mass liberation movement in the 1950s. The ANC Youth League which Mandela had joined in 1944 radicalised the organisation and advocated civil disobedience and mass action. When the ANC Freedom Charter which said that South Africa belonged to the...
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The psychology of conspiracy theories
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of conspiracy theories

...world. Overall, this quest for the psychological profile of conspiracy theorists has yielded modest results. Conspiracy theorists have been shown to be quite similar to sceptics in terms of cognitive functioning or personality. In fact, the only consistent finding is that believers tend to be disenchanted with authority and cynical about the mainstream of politics. But...
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