Article: Why You Should Take Your Kids Out of School

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Article: Why You Should Take Your Kids Out of School

The long read: School is not the best option if you want to raise smart, creative, happy kids. A growing movement of unschoolers believes that life itself is the best

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Article: We need to stop sanitizing everything

Our culture is obsessed with cleanliness and fears the most natural things such as “dirt”, thinking it would make them sick. Well, new research suggests that it is exactly this

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Article: The Deep, Mystical Sleep of our Ancestors

It seems like any primitive person is much more advanced in terms of mindfulness than modern man and has the possibility to gain deep spiritual inside every single night –

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Article: The Scientists Who Make Apps Addictive

The long read: We are increasingly being enslaved in a quite serious fashion by the very machines designed (or at least intended) to help us. We are powerless, it is

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A comment on Elon Musk’s future phantasy (+Video)

I thought no one believes megalomaniac Elon Musk anyway, but it turns out that he really reaches people with his crazy babble. After I saw a friend writing about this

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Article: How the Super Rich Prepare for Collapse

The long read: As the inevitable collapse of globalized civilization makes its way into the mainstream, those who are privileged enough to have had a decent education and now work

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Quote: On domestication

The destruction of the inner life is the penalty man has to pay for having no respect for any life other than his own Max Horkheimer, 1972

Trailer: Zero Days (Documentary)

Zero Days is a documentary about the so-called STUXnet virus, a kind of sophisticated malware fabricated by the US and Israeli government to sabotage the Iranian nuclear program. The STUXnet

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Article: How the Village Feast Helped Building Civilization (+Audio)

Village feasts did a lot to transform early sedentary farming communities from egalitarian bands to a complex, hierarchically structured society, and therefore play an important role in how our global

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Article: Why are white people expats when the rest of us are immigrants?

Interesting insight into the racism that is still woven into our everyday language. It really makes utterly no sense to call white people who live abroad ‘expats‘ and the rest

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