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6 votes
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Why do women fake orgasms – and is it anti-feminist? We asked five women
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Iceland's massive Laufskálarétt pony party is a wild and windswept ride
4 votes -
Kids? Just say no
8 votes -
I’ve opted out of homework for my young children. Here’s why, and how you can, too.
10 votes -
Why IVF has divided France: The country is forever caught between tradition and innovation, universalism and individual rights
7 votes -
Shame on those who defend the "loving smack": it's just plain violence against children
19 votes -
Ten years ago, Balloon Boy captivated the country. For the first time, we reveal the true story behind the hoax.
14 votes -
A walk in Hong Kong - HK protests from point of view of a tourist
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Jews and Muslims in Sweden outraged over call to ban male circumcision
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‘I am not my husband's handbag’ – Iceland's first lady, Eliza Reid speaks out about her incredibly weird job
4 votes -
Beard Board offers a rare avenue for constructive aesthetic feedback among men—minus the machismo that often accompanies it
4 votes -
With alternatives stretched and neighbors angry, Seattle police return to arresting sex workers
9 votes -
Journey into wokeness: A conversation between Sam Harris and Caitlin Flanagan
4 votes -
Inmates suffering heart attacks or brutalized in jail beatings have been released so sheriffs wouldn’t have to pay for their medical care. Some were rearrested once they had recovered.
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Meet Ari Eldjárn, Iceland's hottest comic – the former flight attendant started standup as a dare
4 votes -
Bike riding courses offer Finland's immigrants new freedom
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The unhappy millionaire
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Cancel culture isn't a thing, you snowflakes
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We are all potential victims of the con artist
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Inside the Ethics Committee
Inside the Ethics Committee is a BBC Radio 4 programme. They describe it like this: Joan Bakewell is joined by a panel of experts to wrestle with the ethics arising from a real-life medical case....
Inside the Ethics Committee is a BBC Radio 4 programme. They describe it like this:
Joan Bakewell is joined by a panel of experts to wrestle with the ethics arising from a real-life medical case.
Each episode is chaired by Bakewell, with a range of different experts (who all sit on hospital ethics committees), talking about the ethical difficulties faced by healthcare professionals (and the organisations they work for) in different real life cases.
Some of it hasn't aged very well - there's an episode about HIV testing an unconscious patient after a needle-stick injury. With advances in treatment and reductions in stigma I think would have made it a very different programme today.
But most of it is pretty good, and explains in detail how some decisions are made.
For example: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0643x61
Ashley is 14 years old when doctors discover a brain tumour. Tests reveal that it's highly treatable; there's a 95% chance of cure if he has a course of radiotherapy.
Ashley begins the treatment but he has to wear a mask which makes him very anxious and the radiotherapy itself makes him sick. He finds it increasingly difficult to bear and he starts to miss his sessions.
Despite patchy treatment Ashley's cancer goes into remission. He and his mother are thrilled but a routine follow-up scan a few months later shows that the cancer has returned.
Ashley is adamant that he will not have the chemotherapy that is recommended this time. He threatens that he will run away if treatment is forced on him. Although Ashley is only 15 he is 6'2" and restraining him would not be easy.
Should the medical team and his mother persuade him to have the chemotherapy? Or should they accept his decision, even though he is only 15?
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Norway's last coal miners fight for survival against climate policy
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'They actually stopped': Women buying sex to ensure safe experience
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As a disabled woman, my abortion wasn’t questioned—but my pregnancy was
10 votes -
When Oslo's first floating sauna was banned by port authorities, its owners took it on the run, sparking a public craze
7 votes -
Indonesia moving to ban sex outside marriage
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A second chance - Twelve years ago, forty-seven dogs were rescued from Michael Vick’s dogfighting operation and allowed to live
7 votes -
What would a climate crisis doomsday bunker need?
I have been thinking recently, if a climate crisis is almost inevitable at this point what actions could an individual take to stay safe? I'm thinking some kind of underground bunker able to to...
I have been thinking recently, if a climate crisis is almost inevitable at this point what actions could an individual take to stay safe? I'm thinking some kind of underground bunker able to to sustain life. The main things you would need is power, water and food. The power is fairly simple since you could set up solar and wind generation and probably use that to grow food underground but I'm wondering what you would do for water. How possible would it be to collect barrels from the sea and have a personal desalination plant.
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Iceland hosts first major international #metoo conference – three-day gathering will explore why movement gained traction and effect it has had
3 votes -
Why men love war (1984)
8 votes -
Why your inner circle should stay small, and how to shrink it
6 votes -
Teens explain the VSCO Girl-and why you never want to be one
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We are, all of us, Machines
10 votes -
From bullying and sexual assault to squalid living conditions and forced labour, working at sea can be a grim business – and one deep-sea fishing fleet is particularly notorious
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What college admissions offices really want - Elite schools say they’re looking for academic excellence and diversity. But their thirst for tuition revenue means that wealth trumps all
10 votes -
93% of British Columbians want to scrap changing clocks for daylight time, survey says
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“Free time” has been corrupted into “recovery time”: spells of lethargy between periods of work that merely prepare us for the resumption of labor
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'A human need': Australian disability groups say people on NDIS should have access to sex workers
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How a federal court ruling on Boise’s homeless camping ban has rippled across the West
10 votes -
Oregon woman turns school buses into tiny homes for working homeless families
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How do you achieve an efficient house move?
I'm getting my own place -- i.e. an apartment that I own, and not rent -- and I find myself needing to prepare for another house move (this'll be the 4th of such events for me), only this time...
I'm getting my own place -- i.e. an apartment that I own, and not rent -- and I find myself needing to prepare for another house move (this'll be the 4th of such events for me), only this time with a lot more stuff.
I'm in a situation where I have to plan how I proceed carefully, since the elevator isn't working yet at the new place, and I have to carry everything up 7 flights of stairs.Every single time I've done a house move in the past it's been a disaster; didn't plan at all, just stuffed things into my car and left for the new place when it was full; rinse and repeat. I'm positive I did at least double the number of trips I actually needed.
I want to think ahead on this one since the number of trips matter a lot.
What are your tips for house moving? Any weird but efficient way of packing/labeling/sorting/whatever?
Also interested in hearing the stories of your most horrible (or most enjoyable -- although I can't imagine this being the case) house moves.
PS: don't want to hire a moving company, I like doing things like this on my own.
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Low-paid American workers produce tear gas in potentially dangerous conditions. It's then shipped to Hong Kong where it's used against pro-democracy protesters.
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What personal goals are you working towards?
Inspired by similar topics such as "what are you reading" and "what creative project are you working on", and being obsessed with structured self-development, I thought I'd start this. As the...
Inspired by similar topics such as "what are you reading" and "what creative project are you working on", and being obsessed with structured self-development, I thought I'd start this.
As the title says. Share what your goal is, why you want to achieve it and how you will go about it (the steps/behaviors). You can include a timeline/target date which hopefully will instill a sense of accountability and increase motivation.
I'm also hoping to get some inspiration and/or tips for my own life goals.If this gains interest I might post this once a quarter for follow-ups and new goals.
I'll share mine in a comment below.
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Finland's 'Housing First' policy proves that homelessness is avoidable
6 votes -
For the formerly incarcerated, occupational licensing laws can be legal prisons
5 votes -
A very German idea of freedom: Nude ping-pong, nude sledding, nude just about anything
16 votes -
The process of arming teachers in one Ohio school district: ‘You understand that you might have to shoot a student?’
8 votes -
Polyamory in the Pacific Northwest
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The myth of the free speech crisis: How overblown fears of censorship have normalised hate speech and silenced minorities
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Greta Thunberg has spoken about her Asperger's syndrome diagnosis after she was criticised over the condition
11 votes