Lifestyle topics
Little white lies have a tendency to snowball. The more we lie, the more our brains seem to become desensitised to deception. Tali Sharot at University College London and her team ran an experiment that encouraged volunteers to lie. They were shown jars of pennies, full to varying degrees, and asked to send estimates of …
A fake generational war over the climate crisis has distorted public thinking and political strategy, when in fact older generations are just as worried about the issue as younger people, according to research. In fact, the study found older people were actually more likely than the young to feel that acting in environmentally conscious ways …
“If things were simple, word would have gotten around”. Jacques Derrida, quoted in TheBrowser.com
To The Economist Europe and America have been shipping their collected plastic waste en masse to Asia and wrongly assuming that it is recycled there. Nothing could be further from the truth: it is dumped. After China halted imports of Western plastic waste in 2017, it seems that Malaysia is following – in 2020 Malaysia …
Did you know that the latest figures show that 875,000 people use cocaine in Britain every year at a cost of up to £100 pounds ($130} per gram? Did you know that in Mexico in 2017 there were 29,000 drug- related murders, with civilians caught in the crossfire, and the demand fueled by Westerners with …
