Valley of the Dawn members celebrate ‘Day of the Indoctrinator’ at their temple complex in Brazil on May 1. This year’s event is postponed due to coronavirus.
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Brazil’s Valley of the Dawn faith is often dismissed as a cult. But many of the group’s fantastical rituals are a recognizable reaction to this harsh world of inequality, loneliness and pandemics.
Campus shutdowns mean researchers must be classified as essential personnel to tend collections, like these fungus-colonized plants.
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From fungi and flies to spiders and fish, living collections need care and feeding even when their human keepers are dealing with a pandemic and its resultant social distancing.
Look familiar?
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Stress, and more chronic exhaustion such as burnout, is commonplace within the modern workplace.
President Trump with children at the annual Easter Egg Roll at the White House, April 22, 2019.
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Children think about politics. And based on surveys from 1950 to today, it seems children hold far less favorable views of the president’s personal characteristics now than they did 70 years ago.
Two women, one poet: Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper.
Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper were aunt and niece as well as lovers who published under a male pseudonym.
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When you play ‘devil’s advocate’, you minimise the problem.
African Americans take on greater debt than whites to earn an advanced degree. Does the payoff make it worth it?
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African American students are taking on significantly more debt than white students to earn advanced degrees. Is it worth it?
Lake Jialong in the Central Himalaya is a new lake created by glacial meltwater.
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Meltwater lakes forming at the head of glaciers are causing them to shrink faster, which will affect the flow of big rivers that supply millions of people downstream in Asia.
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CO₂ will need to be removed from the atmosphere to avoid catastrophic heating. Can the process be incentivised?
Charlotte Solamon’s expansive work told a story over 784 paintings that saw words intermingling with pages of beautifully painted pictures.
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Charlotte Salomon’s dizzying work of hope and creativity amid destruction and despair, is a moving early example of the contemporary graphic novel
Veganism: not just that you are what you eat, but how you live.
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Ethical veganism is now protected as a ‘philosophical belief’. But it’s about more than just a plant-based diet.
Single-family houses on former farmland west of Des Moines, Iowa.
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Cities and states are considering limits on single-family zoning, which experts say promotes sprawl and separation. But Americans aren’t all headed for duplexes yet.
‘Ecotherapy’ might be one promising form of mental health treatment.
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Proponents of ecotherapy say getting back to nature can improve our mental health, wellbeing, and self-esteem.
‘The rapist is you’ sung next to Tower Bridge on December 7.
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A Chilean feminist anthem is being sung across the world in protest at violence against women.
A long history of gifting of printed books at Christmas remains strong despite increases in e-book sales.
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Books have always made great Christmas gifts. But what makes them so special, aside from their being so easy to wrap?
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“It is worse, much worse, than you think.”
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Work should not be our primary focus.
Protesters of climate activist group Ende Gelaende at the Hambach opencast coal mine in Germany.
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To get ‘system change not climate change’, we need to start making specific demands. Here’s where to start.
Don’t let the green naysayers drown you out.
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How to identify and understand different types of denial: scientific, economic, humanitarian, political and crisis.
With the ubiquity and availability of devices connected to the internet, access to pornography is easier than it has ever been.
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Cognitive neuroscience finds that regular consumption of pornography affects the centres of the brain responsible for will power, impulse control and morality.