The wrong man: The Facebook friend request that led to three years in jail
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When I went on Newstart I knew it would be hard but I wasn’t prepared for the mental load
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‘Vehicle ranching’ in Seattle: Inside the underground market of renting RVs to homeless people
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Living off grid? Can you share your living situation?
I've written about my living situation previously but am curious as to whether there are any other tilderinos living off grid. What sort of accommodation do you live in? What do you do for a...
I've written about my living situation previously but am curious as to whether there are any other tilderinos living off grid. What sort of accommodation do you live in? What do you do for a living (if anything)? Are you self sufficient to done extent? How do you use technology to improve your lifestyle?
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The feminist movement in Saudi Arabia
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Is it possible to stop a mass shooting before it happens?: Somewhere in America, an investigator known as the Savant is infiltrating online hate groups to take down the most violent men in the country
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Why Finland leads the world in flexible work – Nordic nation has embraced agile hours for decades
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Ferguson, five years later: The killing of Michael Brown sparked protests against police brutality, but the city faces new, insidious problems
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What do we do about the violence of lonely young men?
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Over-tourism and photo-seekers have been damaging the world's most beautiful places, and even causing some to close to visitors entirely
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'If we don’t kill these people they will kill you': Policing Africa's largest slum
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50% rise in suspected human trafficking victims in Finland – most are related to forced labour and forced marriages
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Suburb in the sky: How Jakartans built an entire village on top of a mall
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What explains US mass shootings? International comparisons suggest an answer
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It's been a year since Denmark's contentious so-called Burka Ban came into force – since then 22 women have been fined
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Eskilstuna in Sweden launches controversial £21 begging permit
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Where disability rights and animal rights meet: A conversation with Sunaura Taylor
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The tyranny of lawns and landlords: Renting culture puts dreams of cultivating wildness out of reach
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The El Paso shooting and the gamification of terror
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Women at war: Why do we still struggle with the idea of female soldiers?
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Do you know who your ‘friends’ are?: Making digital conversations humane will require defining our online relationships
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Is it time for asleep divorce?
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A ticket out of town: when cities buy homeless people one-way bus tickets out of town, should they count that as a success?
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Eight signs that you're a good parent - even if you think you're not
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One day, one city, no relief - twenty-four hours inside San Francisco’s homelessness crisis
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Cities: Skylines | Power, Politics, & Planning: Episode 6: Public Housing Part 2
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How to answer tricky personal questions at a new job
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Iceland cuts teen drinking with curfews and youth centers
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The "Prairie Generation": There’s a new generation of rural entrepreneur returning to the Great Plains
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Murder in the Moroccan mountains: The fragility of the adventure travel economy and what happens when a small tourist hub is shocked by violence
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Slender Man for Boomers: The offshoots of the QAnon conspiracy theory have gone to even darker places.
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Enslaved on a British cannabis farm: Minh was 16 when he was kidnapped, raped and trafficked to the UK. When the police found him, he was treated like a criminal rather than a victim
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“NEOM” may be our future
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Busting the myths surrounding the four day workweek
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What advice or wisdom would you give to someone 10 years younger than you?
It can be specific or broad, and it can be aimed at a particular type of person based on your experiences (e.g. people in my city, people with fibromyalgia, etc.) or just people at large. Also,...
It can be specific or broad, and it can be aimed at a particular type of person based on your experiences (e.g. people in my city, people with fibromyalgia, etc.) or just people at large.
Also, given that age is a very identifying piece of information, feel free to give a range if you're not comfortable sharing your exact age (e.g. "I'm in my 40s" rather than "I'm 42").
- What advice or wisdom would you give to someone 10 years younger than you?
- What would you have wanted to know 10 years ago that someone older could have shared with you?
- If you'd heard the kind of advice you're giving, would you have listened to it 10 years ago?
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Fatal distraction: Forgetting a child in the backseat of a car is a horrifying mistake. Is it a crime?
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Alaska defunds scholarships for thousands of university students ahead of fall semester
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Small problem: An encounter with refugees and the legal system of Greece
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How societies turn cruel featuring Sargon of Akkad
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Men. Abuse. Trauma
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The 101 people, ideas and things changing how we work today
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More people need to talk about having fewer children
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Practical ways to improve your confidence (and why you should)
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How Jamaican dancehall queens twerk for a living
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Finland looks to Iceland to encourage youth to swap booze for hobbies
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Hasina Shirzad – After leaving Afghanistan I was unprepared for life in a country where tasks are not strictly divided between the sexes
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Forever 21 under fire for including Atkins Diet bars with orders
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Underworld: How the Sinaloa drug cartel digs its tunnels
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The Crane Wife - Ten days after calling off her engagement, CJ Hauser travels to the Gulf Coast to live among scientists and whooping cranes
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How Finland is coping with an ageing population – online lunch clubs are the start of a remote care revolution
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