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13 votes
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People don't want to hear about it – how the pandemic shaped Sweden's politics and left many feeling hopeless and disenfranchised
5 votes -
Failure to cope "under capitalism"
14 votes -
Scotland to become first country in world to provide free period products
16 votes -
Arcades, churches and laundromats: A trucker’s haven on the precipice of change
5 votes -
Adolescents in the US are chronically sleep-deprived, in part because most schools start too early. This summer, California will become the first state in the nation to require later start times.
24 votes -
The reinvention of a ‘real man’: In cowboy country, a father and husband troubled by suicide reimagines American masculinity, one conversation at a time
7 votes -
Too many kids show worrying signs of fragility from a very young age. Here’s what we can do about it | Parenting kids with anxiety
23 votes -
Bullying can make children's lives a misery and cause lifelong health problems – but scientists are discovering powerful ways to fight it
17 votes -
The data are clear: The boys are not all right
13 votes -
IKEA has cut sick pay for unvaccinated workers, without mitigating circumstances, required to self isolate – retail giant acknowledged it was an emotive topic
23 votes -
The fetishization of male vulnerability
16 votes -
Prison guards, but not mother, get counselling after baby dies in cell
19 votes -
Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show
16 votes -
Robert Frost’s tragic personal life teaches us that life goes on
2 votes -
At 15, he shot and killed his parents, two classmates at his school, and wounded twenty-five others. He’s been used as the reason to lock kids up for life ever since.
18 votes -
Our miserable 21st century
8 votes -
Miscarriage bereavement leave bill passes unanimously in New Zealand Parliament
15 votes -
Bring back the nervous breakdown
14 votes -
Norway arrests highlight impact of pandemic on sex workers – governments should include sex workers in public health and financial support responses
6 votes -
No game days. No bars. The pandemic is forcing some men to realize they need deeper friendships.
30 votes -
Online, no one gets to be young
17 votes -
How not to lose the lockdown generation
9 votes -
An app lets you de-stress by screaming at the Icelandic wilderness from afar
9 votes -
You've been through a lot this year and it looks like you need the perfect place to let your frustrations out – record your scream and we'll release it in Iceland
7 votes -
End of the office: The quiet, grinding loneliness of working from home
11 votes -
Families of children with disabilities face acute challenges under COVID-19
8 votes -
Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing – first major study of scheme comes as economic toll of coronavirus prompts fresh interest in idea
13 votes -
That discomfort you’re feeling is grief
8 votes -
Icelandic farming union has been surprised by the enthusiastic response to its appeal for volunteers to help sick farmers out during the Covid-19 outbreak
7 votes -
How the working-class life is killing Americans, in charts
26 votes -
Greenland has the world's highest suicide rate, and teenage boys are especially vulnerable
9 votes -
Confessions of a slaughterhouse worker
23 votes -
The new breed of sex addicts - who don't have sex
10 votes -
Why Finland leads the field when it comes to winter cycling – progressive policies help get people on their bike, even in below-freezing conditions
8 votes -
What I learned about life at a company that deals in dead bodies
5 votes -
I worry for my teenage boys – the beauty standards for young men are out of control
28 votes -
Use this, not that: Positive swaps for the New Year
This is a bit of a sibling topic to the one about changing habits for 2020. Rather than looking at habits specifically, I want to look at "swaps" that people can make. What's something someone...
This is a bit of a sibling topic to the one about changing habits for 2020. Rather than looking at habits specifically, I want to look at "swaps" that people can make.
What's something someone could change out for a better alternative?
A swap should be recommended if it is,
- more ethical,
- more sustainable,
- heathier,
- or just overall better in an individual or collective way.
Importantly: the swap should be both feasible and sensical, and should be something that is relatively easy to do. This isn't about making huge lifestyle changes but about taking what we're already doing and making it better.
Please give your reasoning for your swap, as well as any important caveats. Mentioning specific brands/companies is fine if that's an important part of the swap. Also, swaps can be for anything so don't feel limited to consumer products. Feel free to give good food/service/app/software/store swaps as well!
See my post below for an example, if the setup I've given here is unclear!
54 votes -
Air filters create educational gains
14 votes -
For the eleventh year in a row, Iceland is the country ranking first in the World Economic Forum's Geneva Equality List
7 votes -
Burning Out: Search and rescue teams train for the worst conditions. But the worst conditions are getting worse. Are they ready for the next big disaster?
5 votes -
A test with no answer: No procedure exists that can prove virginity, yet dangerously unscientific virginity tests occur regularly—even in the United States
14 votes -
On finding the freedom to rage against our fathers
8 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.
6 votes -
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?
5 votes -
Men
41 votes -
Anxiety looks different in men and often appears as anger, muscle aches or alcohol use
7 votes -
Is it time for asleep divorce?
11 votes -
Where disease stopped and my brother began: Coming to terms with a sibling's suicide
3 votes -
Horns are growing on young people’s skulls. Phone use is to blame, research suggests.
15 votes